Without Quotes: Embracing Life's Moments of Absence (Page 20)

"The god can no more exist without his people than the nation without its god"

"I was a very poor young black boy in New Orleans, just a face without a name, swimming in a sea of poverty trying to survive"

Tyler Perry, Actor

"Love is seeing without eyes, hearing without ears; hatred is nothing"

Douglas Horton, Clergyman

"Mathematicians are like managers - they want improvement without change"

Edsger Dijkstra, Scientist

"Without the element of uncertainty, the bringing off of even, the greatest business triumph would be dull, routine, and eminently unsatisfying"

J. Paul Getty, Businessman

"To give without any reward, or any notice, has a special quality of its own"

Anne Morrow Lindbergh, Writer

"Without alienation, there can be no politics"

Arthur Miller, Playwright

"I try to find different ways of expressing myself. Without that I will die"

Eric Cantona, Athlete

"Remarkable is the greater openness of the Catholic Church towards people of other religious traditions and persuasions. The development has not been without problems, since some people have resisted it and others have pushed openness beyond the desirable point"

Francis Arinze, Clergyman

"We knew that you don't get to be world champions without a struggle"

Eric Cantona, Athlete

"May God in his mercy enable us without obstinacy to perceive our errors"

Michael Servetus, Scientist

"A plague on eminence! I hardly dare cross the street anymore without a convoy, and I am stared at wherever I go like an idiot member of a royal family or an animal in a zoo; and zoo animals have been known to die from stares"

Igor Stravinsky, Composer

"Mr. Chairman, on September 11, we were attacked by terrorists who took advantage of weaknesses in our border security. After infiltrating our country, the terrorists were able to conceal their real identities, and thereby plot their attacks without fear of being apprehended"

Jim Ryun, Athlete

"Every man who has shown the world the way to beauty, to true culture, has been a rebel, a 'universal' without patriotism, without home, who has found his people everywhere"

Chaim Potok, Author

"Too often the great decisions are originated and given form in bodies made up wholly of men, or so completely dominated by them that whatever of special value women have to offer is shunted aside without expression"

Eleanor Roosevelt, First Lady

"They declaim against the passions without bothering to think that it is from their flame philosophy lights its torch"

Marquis de Sade, Novelist

"The only things one can admire at length are those one admires without knowing why"

Eleanor Roosevelt, First Lady

"I decided, very early on, just to accept life unconditionally; I never expected it to do anything special for me, yet I seemed to accomplish far more than I had ever hoped. Most of the time it just happened to me without my ever seeking it"

Audrey Hepburn, Actress

"Talent is a gift which God has given us secretly, and which we reveal without perceiving it"

Charles de Montesquieu, Philosopher

"The first duty of a leader is to make himself be loved without courting love. To be loved without 'playing up' to anyone - even to himself"

Andre Malraux, Author

"An art book is a museum without walls"

Andre Malraux, Author

"Men who do things without being told draw the most wages"

Rodney Dangerfield, Comedian

"Hate and force cannot be in just a part of the world without having an effect on the rest of it"

Eleanor Roosevelt, First Lady

"Friendship with ones self is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world"

Eleanor Roosevelt, First Lady

"No great art has ever been made without the artist having known danger"

Rainer Maria Rilke, Poet

"Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant day into your answers"

Rainer Maria Rilke, Poet

"The human mind is capable of excitement without the application of gross and violent stimulants; and he must have a very faint perception of its beauty and dignity who does not know this"

William Wordsworth, Poet

"I'm not suggesting that the play is without fault; all of my plays are imperfect, I'm rather happy to say-it leaves me something to do"

Edward Albee, Dramatist

"Don't be seduced into thinking that that which does not make a profit is without value"

Arthur Miller, Playwright

"I've got personal views on the '60s. You can't have freedom without paying the price for it"

James Lovelock, Scientist

"Climatologists are all agreed that we'd be lucky to see the end of this century without the world being a totally different place, and being 8 or 9 degrees hotter on average"

James Lovelock, Scientist

"Without wonder and insight, acting is just a trade. With it, it becomes creation"

Bette Davis, Actress

"Not without hope we suffer and we mourn"

William Wordsworth, Poet

"A people without the knowledge of their past history, origin and culture is like a tree without roots"

Marcus Garvey, Publisher

"Art evokes the mystery without which the world would not exist"

Rene Magritte, Artist

"Life is doubt, and faith without doubt is nothing but death"

Miguel de Unamuno, Educator

"Next to power without honor, the most dangerous thing in the world is power without humor"

Eric Sevareid, Journalist

"Journalist: a person without any ideas but with an ability to express them; a writer whose skill is improved by a deadline: the more time he has, the worse he writes"

Karl Kraus, Writer

"This new understanding of processes on Europa would not have been possible without the foundation of the last 20 years of observations over Earth's ice sheets and floating ice shelves"

Saul Perlmutter, Scientist

"Every day of the year where the water is 76, day and night, and the waves roll high, I take my sled, without runners, and coast down the face of the big waves that roll in at Waikiki"

Duke Kahanamoku, Athlete

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