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

"Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit"

"Better a diamond with a flaw than a pebble without"

"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

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

Margaret Thatcher, Leader

"All great and beautiful work has come of first gazing without shrinking into the darkness"

John Ruskin, Writer

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

Isaac Newton, Mathematician

"Metaphysics is a dark ocean without shores or lighthouse, strewn with many a philosophic wreck"

Immanuel Kant, Philosopher

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

Horace, Poet

"Scientific discovery and scientific knowledge have been achieved only by those who have gone in pursuit of it without any practical purpose whatsoever in view"

Max Planck, Scientist

"Anytime four New Yorkers get into a cab together without arguing, a bank robbery has just taken place"

Johnny Carson, Comedian

"We are linked by blood, and blood is memory without language"

Joyce Carol Oates, Novelist

"The Law is but words and paper without the hands of swords of men"

James Harrington, Philosopher

"To live without risk for me would be tantamount to death"

Jacqueline Cochran, Aviator

"The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out... without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost inevitably he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane, intolerable"

H. L. Mencken, Writer

"To live without Hope is to Cease to live"

Fyodor Dostoevsky, Novelist

"Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm"

Ralph Waldo Emerson, Philosopher

"Without a sense of caring, there can be no sense of community"

Anthony J. D'Angelo, Author

"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

"Ability without honor is useless"

Cicero, Philosopher

"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

"Every existing thing is born without reason, prolongs itself out of weakness, and dies by chance"

Jean-Paul Sartre, Philosopher

"True happiness is... to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future"

Seneca the Younger, Statesman

"Neither the life of an individual nor the history of a society can be understood without understanding both"

C. Wright Mills, Sociologist

"Science has proof without any certainty. Creationists have certainty without any proof"

Ashley Montagu, Scientist

"Friendship is Love without his wings!"

Lord Byron, Poet

"There is no coming to consciousness without pain"

Carl Jung, Psychologist

"He who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it as he who helps to perpetrate it. He who accepts evil without protesting against it is really cooperating with it"

Martin Luther King Jr., Minister

"If we do not provide education for every single American, we are consigning those without an education to second-class status"

Patrick J. Kennedy, Politician

"He who lives without folly isn't so wise as he thinks"

Francois de La Rochefoucauld, Writer

"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

"We should develop anti-satellite weapons because we could not have prevailed without them in 'Red Storm Rising'"

Dan Quayle, Vice President

"Eating without conversation is only stoking"

Marcelene Cox, Writer

"Without losers, where would the winners be?"

Casey Stengel, Athlete

"No baseball pitcher would be worth a darn without a catcher who could handle the hot fastball"

Casey Stengel, Athlete

"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

"The bow cannot always stand bent, nor can human frailty subsist without some lawful recreation"

Miguel de Cervantes, Novelist

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