Quotation Explorer - 'Previous'

I cannot imagine how much I must’ve suffered in my previous lives to be fortunate enough to have parents like you in this life. - Kamand Kojouri
Writing in English is the most ingenious torture ever devised for sins commited in previous lives. - James Joyce
...Material goods have gained an increasing and finally inexorable power over the lives of men as at no previous period in history. - Max Weber
Utopias bore me. I'm interested in constructing messy, complicated societies that are full of flaws and then saying, ooh, this is interesting, let's see what happens if I poke it here. And concurrently with this and the previous point, I'm interested in making up cultures that are different - Marie Brennan
The reason people blame things on previous generations is that there's only one other choice. - Doug Larson
When you think you can't revisit a previous triumph. - Jack Canfield
Early impressions are hard to eradicate from the mind. When once wool has been dyed purple, who can restore it to its previous whiteness? - Jerome
Books make it possible for every person born into the world to begin where the previous generation left off. - Orison Swett Marden
It should surprise no one that modern soldiers return home just as conflicted and detached as previous generations. The difference is that in the age of vapid American decadence, their simpler fundamental values are largely irrelevant to we civilians. - Tiffany Madison
The day science begins to study non-physical phenomena, it will make more progress in one decade than in all the previous centuries of its existence. - Nikola Tesla
A well cultivated mind is made up of all the minds of preceding ages; it is only the one single mind educated by all previous time. - Fontenelle
Mature adults gravitate toward new values and understandings, not just rehashing and blind acceptance of past patterns and previous learning. This is an ongoing process and maturity demands lifelong learners. - David W. Earle
Until work has reached its previous stage nympharium privileges are denied to all. - Jack Vance
Every day I beat my own previous record for the number of consecutive days I've stayed alive. - George Carlin
It was mentioned on CNN that the new prime number discovered recently is four times bigger then the previous record.
I will write one book that will change entire humankind if only you have enough guts to read my previous ones. - Santosh Kalwar
Maturity is when you stop complaining and making excuses in your life; you realize everything that happens in life is a result of the previous choice you’ve made and start making new choices to change your life. - Roy T. Bennett
You strive hard to become a better version of your previous self. Never make the fallacy of thinking that you know everything. - Avijeet 'Musafir' Das
The most important scientific revolutions all include, as their only common feature, the dethronement of human arrogance from one pedestal after another of previous convictions about our centrality in the cosmos. - Stephen Jay Gould
If human life were long enough to find the ultimate theory, everything would have been solved by previous generations. Nothing would be left to be discovered. - Stephen Hawking
I was in for 10 hours and had 40 pints - beating my previous record by 20 minutes. - George Best
Writing in English is the most ingenious torture ever devised for sins committed in previous lives. The English reading public explains the reason why. - James Joyce
The next 15 years are more important than the previous 15. The past is done; learn from it and move on. - Adam Smith
As chemists, we must rename [our] scheme and insert the symbols Ba, La, Ce in place of Ra, Ac, Th. As nuclear chemists closely associated with physics, we cannot yet convince ourselves to make this leap, which contradicts all previous experience in nuclear physics. - Otto Hahn
i think that i was a rat in rat wheel in my previous life... can not forget the habit - Hiroko Sakai
The biggest mistake is not to forgive someone who broke your trust but to return him the previous version of you who trusted blindly. - Himmilicious
The language of intrinsic human rights represented a significant advance beyond the previous language of world religions in terms of its universal applicability and its thiswordliness. - Immanuel Wallerstein
The condition you're in at this moment is the product of your previous thoughts, to change your condition, change your thoughts. - Debasish Mridha
When we all are already Traveling In Meridian of Earth \↑/ .... then how it could be possible for us, going back to the previous Meridian without stopping next Meridians !! ... - \↑/ - Tanveer Hossain Mullick
Success depends upon previous preparation. - Confucius
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