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Report on the Investigation into the Deaths and Burials at the Former Arthur G. Dozier School for Boys in Marianna, Florida.
~ Colson Whitehead
In my former life I was spoiled and did not take spiritual accomplishments seriously.
~ Viktor E. Frankl
He sat in the same place as the day died, looking at the dull houses opposite, and thinking, if the disembodied spirits of former inhabitants were ever conscious of them, how they must pity themselves for their old places of imprisonment.
~ Charles Dickens
I've taken the liberty of sending your work to America. One of our former colonies across the water. They've handled their independence rather well, I always think.
~ Guy Bellamy
Even in the former Soviet Union, they have good copies of my movies.
~ Dario Argento
Threatening a current or former partner isn't passion, or love, or heartache. It's violence, it's abuse and it's a crime.
~ Miya Yamanouchi
Campaigning and governing are two very different activities, and there is no reason to assume that how Trump conducted the former will dictate how he approaches the latter.
~ Richard N. Haass
Man's gift of seeing resemblances is nothing other than a rudiment of the powerful compulsion in former times to become and behave like something else.
~ WALTER BENJAMIN
We've been able to access deals that under our former relationship with Disney - with tax advantages and strategic partners - that we just weren't able to do.
~ Harvey Weinstein
My former identity was lying around, somewhere, fragmented and buried, like shards from an earlier civilization.
~ Laurie Nadel
We have entered the era of the 'imperial' former presidency with lavish libraries, special staffs and benefits, around-the-clock Secret Service protection for life and other badges of privilege.
~ Lawton Chiles
had been taking much pains to seek the acquaintance, and proclaim the value of the connection, as he had formerly taken pains to shew neglect.
~ Jane Austen
She's a former professional erectile engineer
~ Janet Evanovich
Children of the future age, Reading this indignant page, Know that in a former time Love, sweet love, was thought a crime
~ William Blake
I always find pacing aids the detecting process. Well, that and gin. But as our host hadn't offered the latter, the former had to suffice.
~ Chris Dolley
Nothing is more powerful than hearing from former members of the group that ISIS is not creating an Islamist utopia in the areas it controls, but a hell on earth.
~ Peter Bergen
Let me start by saying, I'm utterly disgusted with the former members of the Dead Kennedys.
~ Jello Biafra
The prose," Robespierre said. "It's so clean, no conceits, no show, no wit. He means every word. Formerly, you see, he meant every other word. That was his style.
~ Hilary Mantel
The former ruling class kept the community of actors in ignorance by means of various lies.
~ Bela Lugosi
Being a former theater student, of course, there is a part of me that is fascinated with stage crafts and what you can do with illusions and working within the confines of the studio.
~ Francis Ford Coppola
I think that former leaders are best seen occasionally and not too often heard - particularly on the subject of their successors!
~ Charles Kennedy
Please, I'm a transgender former boy-bander. You think I don't know how to defend myself?
~ Libba Bray, Beauty Queens
Is that a birthday? 'tis, alas! too clear; 'Tis but the funeral of the former year.
~ Alexander Pope
this former director of the FBI whom we all hated until someone we hated even more fired him.
~ David Sedaris