Without Quotes: Embracing Life's Moments of Absence (Page 18)

"Any newspaper, from the first line to the last, is nothing but a web of horrors, I cannot understand how an innocent hand can touch a newspaper without convulsing in disgust"

Charles Baudelaire, Poet

"Take without forgetting, and give without remembering"

Bryant H. McGill, Author

"It goes without saying that you should never have more children than you have car windows"

Erma Bombeck, Journalist

"There is no love without forgiveness, and there is no forgiveness without love"

Bryant H. McGill, Author

"Any healthy man can go without food for two days - but not without poetry"

Charles Baudelaire, Poet

"One hour of life, crowded to the full with glorious action, and filled with noble risks, is worth whole years of those mean observances of paltry decorum, in which men steal through existence, like sluggish waters through a marsh, without either honor or observation"

Walter Scott, Novelist

"One crowded hour of glorious life is worth an age without a name"

Walter Scott, Novelist

"Although I do wrong, I do not the wrongs that I am charged with doing; the wrong that I do is through the frailty of human nature, like other men. No man lives without fault"

Joseph Smith, Jr., Clergyman

"The Christian religion not only was at first attended with miracles, but even at this day cannot be believed by any reasonable person without one"

David Hume, Philosopher

"Evil is done without effort, naturally, it is the working of fate; good is always the product of an art"

Charles Baudelaire, Poet

"He who is silent must be agreed with, for what shall the wings of opposition thresh upon, without the winds of conversation to shoulder them"

Bryant H. McGill, Author

"Ambition is not what a man would do, but what a man does, for ambition without action is fantasy"

Bryant H. McGill, Author

"Those men get along best with women who can get along best without them"

Charles Baudelaire, Poet

"I am unable to understand how a man of honor could take a newspaper in his hands without a shudder of disgust"

Charles Baudelaire, Poet

"Sleeplessness is a desert without vegetation or inhabitants"

Jessamyn West, Author

"Without forgiveness, there's no future"

Desmond Tutu, Leader

"It is possible to provide security against other ills, but as far as death is concerned, we men live in a city without walls"

Epicurus, Philosopher

"It is impossible to live a pleasant life without living wisely and well and justly. And it is impossible to live wisely and well and justly without living a pleasant life"

Epicurus, Philosopher

"A free life cannot acquire many possessions, because this is not easy to do without servility to mobs or monarchs"

Epicurus, Philosopher

"I never leaf through a copy of National Geographic without realizing how lucky we are to live in a society where it is traditional to wear clothes"

Erma Bombeck, Journalist

"No government ought to be without censors; and where the press is free, no one ever will. Chance is the pseudonym of God when he did not want to sign"

Anatole France, Novelist

"God tolerates even our stammering, and pardons our ignorance whenever something inadvertently escapes us - as, indeed, without this mercy there would be no freedom to pray"

John Calvin, Theologian

"It might be said that it is the ideal of the employer to have production without employees and the ideal of the employee is to have income without work"

E. F. Schumacher, Economist

"Few can contemplate without a sense of exhilaration the splendid achievements of practical energy and technical skill, which, from the latter part of the seventeenth century, were transforming the face of material civilization, and of which England was the daring, if not too scrupulous, pioneer"

E. F. Schumacher, Economist

"Education is that whole system of human training within and without the school house walls, which molds and develops men"

W. E. B. Du Bois, Writer

"My friends are people who like building cool stuff. We always have this joke about people who want to just start companies without making something valuable. There's a lot of that in Silicon Valley"

Mark Zuckerberg, Businessman

"Power without a nation's confidence is nothing"

Catherine the Great, Royalty

"Liberty, as well as honor, man ought to preserve at the hazard of his life, for without it life is insupportable"

Miguel de Cervantes, Novelist

"My father had retained an emotional affection for the ceremonial of his parental home, without allowing it to influence his intellectual freedom"

Franz Boas, Scientist

"In 1973, a woman could not get a credit card without her husband or father or a male signing off on it"

Billie Jean King, Athlete

"As a painter today you have to work without that essential platform. But if one does not deceive oneself and accepts this lack of certainty, other things may come into play"

Bridget Riley, Artist

"Never relinquish clothing to a hotel valet without first specifically telling him that you want it back"

Fran Lebowitz, Journalist

"And whoever walks a furlong without sympathy walks to his own funeral drest in his shroud"

Walt Whitman, Poet

"Spread love everywhere you go. Let no one ever come to you without leaving happier"

Mother Teresa, Leader

"The absent are never without fault. Nor the present without excuse"

Michael Caine, Actor

"The desire is thy prayers; and if thy desire is without ceasing, thy prayer will also be without ceasing. The continuance of your longing is the continuance of your prayer"

Saint Augustine, Saint

"I found thee not, O Lord, without, because I erred in seeking thee without that wert within"

Saint Augustine, Saint

"A day without laughter is a day wasted"

Charlie Chaplin, Actor

"The telephone is a good way to talk to people without having to offer them a drink"

Fran Lebowitz, Journalist

"The company without a strategy is willing to try anything"

Michael Porter, Educator

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