Without Quotes: Embracing Life's Moments of Absence

"It is not possible to eat me without insisting that I sing praises of my devourer?"

"We cannot hold a torch to light another's path without brightening our own"

"It is a useless life that is not consecrated to a great ideal. It is like a stone wasted on the field without becoming a part of any edifice"

Jose Rizal, Writer

"America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between"

Oscar Wilde, Dramatist

"Fraternity without absorption, union without fusion"

Wilfrid Laurier, Statesman

"Women, can't live with them, can't live without them"

Desiderius Erasmus, Philosopher

"One man with a head on his shoulders is worth a dozen without"

Elizabeth I, Royalty

"Science never solves a problem without creating ten more"

George Bernard Shaw, Dramatist

"Change is not made without inconvenience, even from worse to better"

Richard Hooker, Priest

"Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action"

Benjamin Disraeli, Statesman

"A lawyer without history or literature is a mechanic, a mere working mason; if he possesses some knowledge of these, he may venture to call himself an architect"

Walter Scott, Novelist

"It is impossible to suffer without making someone pay for it; every complaint already contains revenge"

Friedrich Nietzsche, Philosopher

"There are no gains without pains"

Adlai Stevenson, Politician

"Without stirring abroad, One can know the whole world; Without looking out of the window One can see the way of heaven. The further one goes The less one knows"

Lao Tzu, Author

"Health is the soul that animates all the enjoyments of life, which fade and are tasteless without it"

Seneca the Younger, Statesman

"Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead"

Oscar Wilde, Dramatist

"Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods"

Aristotle, Philosopher

"Without culture, and the relative freedom it implies, society, even when perfect, is but a jungle. This is why any authentic creation is a gift to the future"

Albert Camus, Philosopher

"A man without a goal is like a ship without a rudder"

Thomas Carlyle, Writer

"If you have a job without any aggravations, you don't have a job"

Malcolm Forbes, Publisher

"Art is the only way to run away without leaving home"

Twyla Tharp, Dancer

"The formula 'Two and two make five' is not without its attractions"

Fyodor Dostoevsky, Novelist

"Genius without education is like silver in the mine"

Benjamin Franklin, Politician

"No finite point has meaning without an infinite reference point"

Jean-Paul Sartre, Philosopher

"Learning without thought is labor lost; thought without learning is perilous"

Confucius, Philosopher

"Law, without force, is impotent"

Blaise Pascal, Philosopher

"To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness"

Bertrand Russell, Philosopher

"Even if I don't finish, we need others to continue. It's got to keep going without me"

Terry Fox, Athlete

"Martyrdom: The only way a man can become famous without ability"

George Bernard Shaw, Dramatist

"The mother art is architecture. Without an architecture of our own we have no soul of our own civilization"

Frank Lloyd Wright, Architect

"There was never a genius without a tincture of madness"

Aristotle, Philosopher

"Be able to blow out a dinner candle without sending wax flying across the table"

Marilyn vos Savant, Author

"God preordained, for his own glory and the display of His attributes of mercy and justice, a part of the human race, without any merit of their own, to eternal salvation, and another part, in just punishment of their sin, to eternal damnation"

John Calvin, Theologian