Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
A new and valid idea is worth more than a regiment and fewer men can furnish the former than command the latter.
You know the press and the TV. There are those who are favourites and those who are not. I was one of the latter.
Some marriages break up, and some do not, and in our world you can usually explain the former better than the latter.
Some books inspire one to read, and some inspire one to write; for selfish reasons, I'm always looking for the latter.
In a country that doesn't discriminate between fame and infamy, the latter presents itself as plainly more achievable.
There never was a woman who did not prefer an oblique compliment to a straight truth - if the latter were unflattering.
There must always be some who are brighter and some who are stupider, the latter make up for it by being better workers.
It gets to whether we're a teacher-education model or a movement for social justice. I would say we're about the latter.
There are people one knows and people one doesn't. One shouldn't cheapen the former by feigning intimacy with the latter.
On the scale of someone who's really laid-back about stuff and someone who worries a lot, I fall more towards the latter.
There are two kinds of worries - those you can do something about and those you can't. Don't spend any time on the latter.
When it comes to privacy and accountability, people always demand the former for themselves and the latter for everyone else.
Some people are born to trains, and some have trains thrust upon them. Fortunately, I can be included in this latter category.
The key, I suppose, has less to do with insight than with willingness, the former being relatively useless without the latter.
The world needs many more humanitarians than it needs warriors, but there can be none of the former without enough of the latter.
I make this chief distinction between religion and superstition, that the latter is founded on ignorance, the former on knowledge.
Jails and prisons are the complement of schools; so many less as you have of the latter, so many more must you have of the former.
The latter part of a wise person's life is occupied with curing the follies, prejudices and false opinions they contracted earlier.
Conservatism accomplished a lot of its goals in the latter part of the 20th century. What does 21st-century conservatism look like?
Governing is one thing, campaigning is another - and the latter becomes far more pronounced in an election-year State of the Union.
What a thing is and what it means are not separate, the former being physical and the latter mental as we are accustomed to believe.
America has two clear tiers of workers: contractors and employees. The former have few regulatory protections; the latter have many.
If I had to choose between government without newspapers, and newspapers without government, I wouldn't hesitate to choose the latter
No power on earth, no power beneath the earth, will ever prevent you or me or any Latter-day Saint from being saved, except ourselves
The difference in the education of men and women must give the former great advantages over the latter, even where geniuses are equal.
The unformed is not worse than the over-formed. The former is nothing; the latter is mere appearance. Real form presupposes real life.
There are two ways of attaining an important end, force and perseverance; the silent power of the latter grows irresistible with time.
You can shoot a film in New York without seeing the Empire State Building. Or Starbucks... although the latter is much less realistic.
I took mechanical drawing, geometry and typing at high school, the latter because that is what they did with smart girls in those days!
There are people who want to live and then the people who want to hold them down. I've tried to not be one of the latter my entire life.
When you work at 'The Wall Street Journal,' the coins of the realm are truth and trust - the latter flowing exclusively from the former.
When we hide our failings from others, we seek to hide them from ourselves, and it is in the latter attempt that we are most successful.
I’m no good for anything except taking the world apart and putting it together again (and I manage the latter less and less frequently).
When I was willing to let go of what I wanted, I received what was truly mine. I’ve realized that the latter is always the greater gift.
As a lover of both hip-hop and jazz, I feel like much of the latter community still doesn't truly embrace hip-hop as a musical extension.
When women are stressed, they either eat too much and get fat, or they eat not so much and get thin, and the latter is what happens to me.
As a matter of self-preservation, a man needs good friends or ardent enemies, for the former instruct him and the latter take him to task.
We can compare classical chess and rapid chess with theatre and cinema - some actors don't like the latter and prefer to work in the theatre.
Between a dead-hero and a living-no one, always prefer the latter, always prefer the life! Being no one is infinitely better than being dead!
I've coached in Holland, Portugal and Spain and not only won trophies each time, but taken sides to the latter stages of the Champions League.
The poor man wishes to conceal his poverty, and the rich man his wealth: the former fears lest he be despised, the latter lest he be plundered.
I always marked up a piece of paper before taking a job, looking at the pluses and minuses. If the latter outnumbered the former, I would pass.
You either trust someone day one until they prove you wrong, or you say, 'I don't trust you until you show me I can trust you.' I'm the latter.
Our society can only become one of two things, it can be become what we let it become or it can become what we make it, and I choose the latter.
Each new generation is reared by its predecessor; the latter must therefore improve in order to improve its successor. The movement is circular.
Empiricism in the sciences is a method; naturalism in philosophy is a metaphysics; and the latter neither follows from nor underlies the former.
Is my body a temple, or is my life a temple? I'm definitely in the latter category, and I think my life has been better since thinking that way.
Some people believe that you should die, and some people think dying is a nuisance. I'm one of the latter. So I think we should get rid of death.
If we have a better understanding of knowledge than we do of such justification or competence, then we can explain the latter through the former.
Let us contemplate our forefathers, and posterity, and resolve to maintain the rights bequeathed to us from the former, for the sake of the latter.