Formerly Quotes

See also Core English Vocabulary (F) Quotes

And the big question for the West, of course, and to the Europeans is, what other countries, which were formerly part of the Soviet bloc, should be incorporated into western institutions?

- Samuel P. Huntington

I was formerly so stuck into plans. I can now live more spontaneously. This I want not yet to give away.

- Gabriella Sabatini

(The skeptic community overwhelmingly embraced what they formerly dismissed as) New Age claptrap ... We give up! The nuts were right.

- Nostradamus

The properties being contemplated are the gas station on the corner, the surplus property being used for Able Construction and the property formerly owned by Charles Jackson. Basically, everything to the left of Balsam.

- David Thompson

By recollecting the pleasures I have had formerly, I renew them, I enjoy them a second time, while I laugh at the remembrance of troubles now past, and which I no longer feel.

- Giacomo Casanova

As I know more of mankind I expect less of them, and am ready now to call a man a good man upon easier terms than I was formerly.

- Samuel Johnson

One of this year`s biggest losses is Studio Lodo (formerly on Jackson Street near Bank One Ballpark),

- Steve Weiss

Home computers are being called upon to perform many new functions, including the consumption of homework formerly eaten by the dog.

- Ab Stevels

Surrealism: An archaic term. Formerly an art movement. No longer distinguishable from everyday life.

- Alain Couder

Human life is held in much higher esteem, and the taking of it, whether in private quarrel or by judicial procedure, is looked upon much more seriously than it was formerly.

- Alberto Madrigal

Formerly government was the responsibility of people; now people were the responsibility of government.

- Alex Halavais

I see little alteration at Lyons since I formerly passed through it. Its manufactories are, nevertheless, flourishing, though less improvement than could be expected is visible in the external aspect of the place.

- Alysia Waters

In fact, in 2002, the Secretary of Defense authorized such support on a reimbursable basis to organizations formerly components of the Department of Justice and Department of the Treasury and currently components of the Department of Homeland Security.

- Andrea Vinyard

Mediocrity is now, as formerly, dangerous, commonly fatal, to the poet; but among even the successful writers of prose, those who rise sensibly above it are the very rarest exceptions.

- Andrew Moran

After that his Majesty was beheaded, the Parliament for some years effected nothing either for the publick peace or tranquillity of the nation, or settling religion as they had formerly promised.

- Andrew Poulson

No nation can now shut itself up from the surrounding world, and trot round in the same old path of its fathers without interference. The time was when such could be done. Long established customs of hurtful character could formerly fence themselves in, and do their evil work with social impunity. Knowledge was then confined and enjoyed by the privileged few, and the multitude walked on in mental darkness. But a change has now come over the affairs of mankind. Walled cities and empires have become unfashionable. ... Intelligence is penetrating the darkest corners of the globe. Oceans no longer divide, but link nations together. ... What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?

- Andy Greenberg

(But Bird had a couple of factors working in his favor. First and foremost, he was a businessman with a businessman`s head governing his restaurateur`s heart. He knew exactly what he was getting into when he picked up this Hampden Avenue space -- formerly a buck-a-scoop Chinese buffet of no renown, but with good street visibility and a big parking lot -- and chose it over properties he`d been scouting in Boulder, L.A. and the Bay Area.) I figured I could mitigate my chance of failure to 50 percent here, ... Seriously, I didn`t go into this thinking I had an 80, 90 percent chance of success. I`m not deluded.

- Barbara W. Tuchman

I laugh every day, ... Him having a daughter? Three daughters? Him actually being (formerly) married? He cracks me up. He always has something to say. He has that attitude where he feels that even though he`s a short person, he has a big ego. And he`s always doing stuff, getting people fined, eating other people`s food ...

- Barry Corradetti

I have lately been surveying the Walden woods so extensively and minutely that I now see it mapped in my mind's eye - as, indeed, on paper - as so many men's wood-lots, and am aware when I walk there that I am at a given moment passing from such a one's wood-lot to such another's. I fear this particular dry knowledge may affect my imagination and fancy, that it will not be easy to see so much wildness and native vigor there as formerly.

- Henry David Thoreau

Formerly, when religion was strong and science weak, men mistook magic for medicine; now, when science is strong and religion weak, men mistake medicine for magic.

- Todd Etherington

Unquestionably, there is progress. The average American now pays out twice as much in taxes as he formerly got in wages.

- Bill Lovejoy

Literature was formerly an art and finance a trade; today it is the reverse

- Joseph Roux

Home computers are being called upon to perform many new functions, including the consumption of homework formerly eaten by the dog.

- Doug Larson