Without Quotes: Embracing Life's Moments of Absence (Page 13)

"I do not know anyone who has got to the top without hard work. That is the recipe. It will not always get you to the top, but should get you pretty near"

Margaret Thatcher, Leader

"The problem in defense is how far you can go without destroying from within what you are trying to defend from without"

Dwight D. Eisenhower, President

"The only obligation to which in advance we may hold a novel, without incurring the accusation of being arbitrary, is that it be interesting"

Henry James, Writer

"Theories are patterns without value. What counts is action"

Constantin Brancusi, Sculptor

"The battle of life is, in most cases, fought uphill; and to win it without a struggle were perhaps to win it without honor. If there were no difficulties there would be no success; if there were nothing to struggle for, there would be nothing to be achieved"

Samuel Smiles, Author

"Practical wisdom is only to be learned in the school of experience. Precepts and instruction are useful so far as they go, but, without the discipline of real life, they remain of the nature of theory only"

Samuel Smiles, Author

"The fame and reputation part came later, and never was much of a motivator, although it did enable me to work without feeling guilty about neglecting my studies"

Linus Torvalds, Businessman

"Too often we... enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought"

John F. Kennedy, President

"I'm an idealist without illusions"

John F. Kennedy, President

"Efforts and courage are not enough without purpose and direction"

John F. Kennedy, President

"I think Picasso was, without doubt, the greatest portraitist of the 20th century, if not any other century"

David Hockney, Artist

"Perfect valour consists in doing without witnesses that which we would be capable of doing before everyone"

Francois de La Rochefoucauld, Writer

"Love can no more continue without a constant motion than fire can; and when once you take hope and fear away, you take from it its very life and being"

Francois de La Rochefoucauld, Writer

"Isn't it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too?"

Douglas Adams, Writer

"A God without dominion, providence, and final causes, is nothing else but fate and nature"

Alexander Pope, Poet

"We come altogether fresh and raw into the several stages of life, and often find ourselves without experience, despite our years"

Francois de La Rochefoucauld, Writer

"No man deserves to be praised for his goodness, who has it not in his power to be wicked. Goodness without that power is generally nothing more than sloth, or an impotence of will"

Francois de La Rochefoucauld, Writer

"Genius creates, and taste preserves. Taste is the good sense of genius; without taste, genius is only sublime folly"

Alexander Pope, Poet

"There is something feeble and a little contemptible about a man who cannot face the perils of life without the help of comfortable myths"

Bertrand Russell, Philosopher

"To teach how to live without certainty and yet without being paralysed by hesitation is perhaps the chief thing that philosophy, in our age, can do for those who study it"

Bertrand Russell, Philosopher

"I am quite prepared, if we can do it without any disrespect to the Crown of England, to bring our titles to the marketplace and make a bonfire of them"

Wilfrid Laurier, Statesman

"Fondue sets, martini shakers and juicing machines: three things the world could live completely without"

Doug Coupland, Author

"Tofu hot dogs are actually scarier than real hot dogs. It's like wanting the worst possible meat product without even the thrill of it actually being meat"

Doug Coupland, Author

"True love is eternal, infinite, and always like itself. It is equal and pure, without violent demonstrations: it is seen with white hairs and is always young in the heart"

Honore de Balzac, Novelist

"Better the rudest work that tells a story or records a fact, than the richest without meaning"

John Ruskin, Writer

"A great thing can only be done by a great person; and they do it without effort"

John Ruskin, Writer

"Thought is a key to all treasures; the miser's gains are ours without his cares. Thus I have soared above this world, where my enjoyment have been intellectual joys"

Honore de Balzac, Novelist

"There is no such thing as a great talent without great will power"

Honore de Balzac, Novelist

"Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion, history, romance and art would be useless"

Honore de Balzac, Novelist

"The 1928 Republican Convention opened with a prayer. If the Lord can see His way clear to bless the Republican Party the way it's been carrying on, then the rest of us ought to get it without even asking"

Will Rogers, Actor

"Women are tenacious, and all of them should be tenacious of respect; without esteem they cannot exist; esteem is the first demand that they make of love"

Honore de Balzac, Novelist

"All humanity is passion; without passion, religion, history, novels, art would be ineffectual"

Honore de Balzac, Novelist

"Thousands have lived without love, not one without water"

W. H. Auden, Poet

"A school without football is in danger of deteriorating into a medieval study hall"

Vince Lombardi, Coach

"The first precept was never to accept a thing as true until I knew it as such without a single doubt"

Rene Descartes, Mathematician

"A room is like a stage. If you see it without lighting, it can be the coldest place in the world"

Paul Lynde, Comedian

"I'm Liberace without a piano"

Paul Lynde, Comedian

"Martyrdom is the only way a man can become famous without ability"

Arthur Schopenhauer, Philosopher

"Nothing leads so straight to futility as literary ambitions without systematic knowledge"

H.G. Wells, Author

"Honesty is the cornerstone of all success, without which confidence and ability to perform shall cease to exist"

Mary Kay Ash, Businesswoman

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