Without Quotes: Embracing Life's Moments of Absence (Page 2)

"Truth is beautiful, without doubt; but so are lies"

Ralph Waldo Emerson, Philosopher

"Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm"

Ralph Waldo Emerson, Philosopher

"Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything"

George Bernard Shaw, Dramatist

"Initiative is doing the right thing without being told"

Victor Hugo, Author

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

Elizabeth I, Royalty

"It is our duty still to endeavor to avoid war; but if it shall actually take place, no matter by whom brought on, we must defend ourselves. If our house be on fire, without inquiring whether it was fired from within or without, we must try to extinguish it"

Thomas Jefferson, President

"Money is like a sixth sense without which you cannot make a complete use of the other five"

W. Somerset Maugham, Playwright

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

Jean-Paul Sartre, Philosopher

"Friendship is Love without his wings!"

Lord Byron, Poet

"There is no coming to consciousness without pain"

Carl Jung, Psychologist

"A world without nuclear weapons would be less stable and more dangerous for all of us"

Margaret Thatcher, Leader

"Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy"

Isaac Newton, Mathematician

"The safest road to hell is the gradual one - the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts"

C. S. Lewis, Author

"An engaged woman is always more agreeable than a disengaged. She is satisfied with herself. Her cares are over, and she feels that she may exert all her powers of pleasing without suspicion. All is safe with a lady engaged; no harm can be done"

Jane Austen, Writer

"The divine right of husbands, like the divine right of kings, may, it is hoped, in this enlightened age, be contested without danger"

Mary Wollstonecraft, Writer

"It is paradoxical that many educators and parents still differentiate between a time for learning and a time for play without seeing the vital connection between them"

Leo Buscaglia, Author

"Cowardice and courage are never without a measure of affectation. Nor is love. Feelings are never true. They play with their mirrors"

Jean Baudrillard, Sociologist

"Eating without conversation is only stoking"

Marcelene Cox, Writer

"It's a naive domestic Burgundy without any breeding, but I think you'll be amused by its presumption"

James Thurber, Comedian

"All, all is theft, all is unceasing and rigorous competition in nature; the desire to make off with the substance of others is the foremost - the most legitimate - passion nature has bred into us and, without doubt, the most agreeable one"

Marquis de Sade, Novelist

"Death is really a great blessing for humanity, without it there could be no real progress. People who lived for ever would not only hamper and discourage the young, but they would themselves lack sufficient stimulus to be creative"

Alfred Adler, Psychologist

"Protect your health. Without it you face a serious handicap for success and happiness"

Harry F. Banks, Producer

"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

"People assume I'm out there having this great life, but money doesn't erase the pain. When you're young you barrel through life, making choices without thinking of repercussions. A few years down the line, you wake up in a certain place and wonder how the hell you got there"

Jennifer Lopez, Musician

"A desert is a place without expectation"

Nadine Gordimer, Novelist

"Always rise from the table with an appetite, and you will never sit down without one"

Horace Greeley, Editor

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

Twyla Tharp, Dancer

"Nuclear power will help provide the electricity that our growing economy needs without increasing emissions. This is truly an environmentally responsible source of energy"

Michael Burgess, Congressman

"When you see a woman who can go nowhere without a staff of admirers, it is not so much because they think she is beautiful, it is because she has told them they are handsome"

Jean Giraudoux, Dramatist

"There must be a positive and negative in everything in the universe in order to complete a circuit or circle, without which there would be no activity, no motion"

John McDonald, Leader

"Peace without justice is tyranny"

William Allen White, Editor

"If few can stand a long war without deterioration of soul, none can stand a long peace"

Oswald Spengler, Philosopher

"In the police force, two, three, five traitors are detected who are really working for someone else. When we cleanse the police of them, the problem will be simplified a lot. Terrorists will have no one to contact - they will be left without informers"

Akhmad Kadyrov, Statesman

"On the one hand, the guns were there to help capture the imagination of the people. But more important, since we knew that you couldn't observe the police without guns, we took our guns with us to let the police know that we have an equalizer"

Bobby Seale, Activist

"Food is your body's fuel. Without fuel, your body wants to shut down"

Ken Hill, Playwright

"Fear is excitement without breath"

Robert Heller, Businessman

"There is no art without Eros"

Max Frisch, Novelist

"No man not inspired can make a good speech without preparation"

Daniel Webster, Statesman

"There is pleasure when a sore is scratched, But to be without sores is more pleasurable still. Just so, there are pleasures in worldly desires, But to be without desires is more pleasurable still"

Nagarjuna, Philosopher

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

Friedrich Nietzsche, Philosopher

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