Without Quotes

"A life without adventure is likely to be unsatisfying, but a life in which adventure is allowed to take whatever form it will is sure to be short"

Bertrand Russell, Philosopher

"The sure mark of one born with noble qualities is being born without envy"

Francois de La Rochefoucauld, Writer

"I never read the life of any important person without discovering that he knew more and could do more than I could ever hope to know or do in half a dozen lifetimes"

J.B. Priestley, Writer

"Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it"

C. S. Lewis, Author

"Intuition and concepts constitute... the elements of all our knowledge, so that neither concepts without an intuition in some way corresponding to them, nor intuition without concepts, can yield knowledge"

Immanuel Kant, Philosopher

"Once I knew only darkness and stillness... my life was without past or future... but a little word from the fingers of another fell into my hand that clutched at emptiness, and my heart leaped to the rapture of living"

Helen Keller, Author

"Without revolutionary theory there can be no revolutionary movement"

Vladimir Lenin, Leader

"Life is not an easy matter... You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above weakness, above all kinds of perfidy and baseness"

Leon Trotsky, Revolutionary

"Imaginary pains are by far the most real we suffer, since we feel a constant need for them and invent them because there is no way of doing without them"

Emile M. Cioran, Philosopher

"Adventure without risk is Disneyland"

Doug Coupland, Author

"No one can enjoy freedom without trembling"

Emile M. Cioran, Philosopher

"He is armed without who is innocent within, be this thy screen, and this thy wall of brass"

Horace, Poet

"It is a very delicate job to forgive a man, without lowering him in his own estimation, and yours too"

Josh Billings, Comedian

"The tongue like a sharp knife... Kills without drawing blood"

Buddha, Leader

"Peace comes from within. Do not seek it without"

Buddha, Leader

"Happiness in this world, when it comes, comes incidentally. Make it the object of pursuit, and it leads us a wild-goose chase, and is never attained. Follow some other object, and very possibly we may find that we have caught happiness without dreaming of it"

Nathaniel Hawthorne, Novelist

"No man for any considerable period can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be the true"

Nathaniel Hawthorne, Novelist

"Advertising is a racket, like the movies and the brokerage business. You cannot be honest without admitting that its constructive contribution to humanity is exactly minus zero"

F. Scott Fitzgerald, Author

"Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious"

Thomas Aquinas, Theologian

"This idea was also brought out very clearly by Wallace, who emphasized that apparently reasonable activities of man might very well have developed without an actual application of reasoning"

Franz Boas, Scientist

"It is change, continuing change, inevitable change, that is the dominant factor in society today. No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be"

Isaac Asimov, Scientist

"The man who has begun to live more seriously within begins to live more simply without"

Ernest Hemingway, Novelist

"Words, without power, is mere philosophy"

Muhammad Iqbal, Poet

"Love is always bestowed as a gift - freely, willingly and without expectation. We don't love to be loved; we love to love"

Leo Buscaglia, Author

"You could not receive a young man in your room; you might be permitted to have him to tea in one of the public reception rooms, but you could accept no invitation from young men to tea or other entertainment without a chaperone from the College"

Dora Russell, Celebrity

"With reference to other religions, the Church sees a great difference between them and herself. The other religions are expressions of the human soul seeking God, with some beautiful spiritual insights, but also not without errors. Christianity is rather God seeking humanity"

Francis Arinze, Clergyman

"Power without abuse loses its charm"

Paul Valery, Poet

"God had one son on earth without sin, but never one without suffering"

Saint Augustine, Saint

"Life without idealism is empty indeed. We just hope or starve to death"

Pearl S. Buck, Novelist

"Without some goals and some efforts to reach it, no man can live"

John Dewey, Philosopher

"Speeches are not magic and there is no great speech without great policy"

Peggy Noonan, Writer

"I like fruit baskets because it gives you the ability to mail someone a piece of fruit without appearing insane. Like, if someone just mailed you an apple you'd be like, 'huh? What the hell is this?' But if it's in a fruit basket you're like, 'this is nice!'"

Demetri Martin, Comedian

"Guantanamo allows us to secure dangerous detainees without the risk of escape, while at the same time providing us with valuable intelligence information on how best to proceed in the war against terror and prevent future attacks"

Jim Ryun, Athlete

"Affirmation without discipline is the beginning of delusion"

Jim Rohn, Businessman

"The face is the mirror of the mind, and eyes without speaking confess the secrets of the heart"

St. Jerome, Saint

"In an expanding universe, time is on the side of the outcast. Those who once inhabited the suburbs of human contempt find that without changing their address they eventually live in the metropolis"

Quentin Crisp, Writer

"How can you sing of amazing grace and all God's wonders without using your hands?"

Mahalia Jackson, Musician

"The very concept of history implies the scholar and the reader. Without a generation of civilized people to study history, to preserve its records, to absorb its lessons and relate them to its own problems, history, too, would lose its meaning"

George F. Kennan, Historian

"For the first time in 15 years, Georgia this winter has its electric power guaranteed without deficit. This is a historic achievement"

Mikhail Saakashvili, Statesman

"It almost hurts me to walk down a road and have people grab my hand and ask for my autograph and not sit and talk. When I'm finished I'm not going to be on the front page, but I'm going to be just as happy without the publicity"

Terry Fox, Athlete

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