Erstwhile Quotes

#1. It is far easier for the proverbial camel to pass through the needle's eye, hump and all, than for an erstwhile colonial administration to give sound and honest counsel of a political nature to its liberated territory.

Kwame Nkrumah

#2. All backups take their cue from Elrod Hendricks, the patron saint of erstwhile catchers.

Stephen Rodrick

#3. Miss Erstwhile: "It is such a relief, Mr. Nobley, to already know that you find this exercise vulgar and your partner unworthy. It saves us the idle chitchat."
Mr. Nobley: "And yet you chat away.

Shannon Hale

#4. Nothing in our time is more interesting than the erstwhile capitalist corporation and the erstwhile Communist firm should, under the imperatives of organization, come together as oligarchies of their own members.

John Kenneth Galbraith

#5. Was born into a middle-class Tamil family in the island town of Rameswaram in the erstwhile Madras state.

A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

#6. The future of the world lies with the yellow man and the brown man now that our erstwhile master, the white-skinned man, has wasted himself through buggery, cell phone usage, and drug abuse

Aravind Adiga

#7. Mr Nobley: Ah here you are. Miss Erstwhile. You are infuriating and irritating, and yet I find myself looking for you. I would be grateful if you would send me away and make me swear to never return.

Shannon Hale

#8. As I came down the stairs, all attention turned from the girls, and everyone looked to me as though this were some sort of drama taking place on a stage, and I was the scorned lover come to confront my erstwhile beloved.
I was not. I was just a whore, nothing else. Nothing more.

Aislinn Kerry

#9. When Russia started to regain some of its strength as an economy and as a state, the West's reaction - perhaps a subconscious one, based on erstwhile fears - was panic.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

#10. Thus, the removal of the Jewish people to Babylonia laid the groundwork for the Christian faith. Simply put, the Gentiles who followed Jesus had some familiarity with the Jews' monotheism because of their erstwhile proliferation throughout the Mediterranean realm.

James Mikolajczyk

#11. So it has been, again and again throughout my life, as I form connections with people and then lose them to distance and time. I mourn those losses, even when I know my erstwhile friends are safe and happy among their own kin.

Marie Brennan

#12. After all my erstwhile dear, my no longer cherished;
Need we say it was not love, just because it perished?

Edna St. Vincent Millay

#13. This is all based on a true story, gentlemen. Hollywood big shots lined up all the way to the Hills to have a diet soda with me, but I wasn't gonna let them fuck me! No, sir!" Graham flashed his middle finger to the erstwhile line of big shots. "Feel free to fuck yourselves, you bunch of Weinsteins!

Aleksandar Hemon

#14. It's always gratifying to share a hobby with a friend, and pining for erstwhile suitors falls into that category. In the months to come, Libby and I would analyze our respective exes with the gusto and intellectual rigor of Jesuits.

Patricia Marx

#15. To be more specific, the evangelical, right-wing, oogedy-boogedy branch of the GOP is what ails the erstwhile conservative party and will continue to afflict and marginalize its constituents if reckoning doesn't soon cometh.

Kathleen Parker

#16. Of course, tax revenues have ended up being substantially higher than they were at the time these dire projections were made, and we are very close now to having a balanced budget. All that has been very helpful.

Charles Vest

#17. What is the purpose of these dolls?"

"To play with, of course."

"Do they look Ukrainian, with their plastic eyes and muddy features blended from every race on earth?

Paul Christensen

#18. the key to going faster is to learn "to be comfortable being uncomfortable.

Adam Hodges

#19. Composition can't really be taught, it is a lifelong learning.

Ellen Taaffe Zwilich

#20. The poor man, whom the law does not allow to take ... a pair of shoes for his freezing feet, is allowed to put his hand into the pocket of the rich, and say, You shall educate me ...

Marsilio Ficino

#21. I'd like to see more stand-up routines venture into depicting tragedy. It's conventional to give people a humorous cathartic release; now I'd love to hear stand-up tragedy that would reduce the audience to exhausted tears.

Chuck Palahniuk

#22. My butterfly dress was visible on the washroom floor, bent and shredded wings and all. Cheeks hot, I remember what he'd suggested before someone shot him.
His eyes found the dress too. I was teasing about that. Unless you were looking forward to it. Then I meant every word.

Jodi Meadows

#23. People say it's hard at the top, but it's even harder at the bottom.

Ozzy Osbourne

#24. One should never confuse fashionable with beautiful

Beth Fantaskey

#25. I've never been a fan of sociopaths who have no conscience. That scares me because they're capable of anything.

Laurie Holden

#26. If ordinary means I have suddenly got to produce a household of kids and iron Peter's shirts, I'm sorry, I'm not interested.

Helen Clark

#27. Many fear mistakes. In TV and films you just re-shoot the scene. In life do the same and just shoot a re-take.

Ian Dobson

#28. Anyone, without exception, can know God if they really want to simply by praying, by honestly telling Him that they want to know Him. He always responds to honest seekers. Jesus promised, 'All who seek, find.'

Peter Kreeft