Without Quotes: Embracing Life's Moments of Absence (Page 21)

"The work of a psychotherapist involves being empathic and insightful with one's patients without getting too lost in their painful stories to be helpful"

Pamela Stephenson, Actress

"You can't be as old as I am without waking up with a surprised look on your face every morning: 'Holy Christ, whaddya know - I'm still around!' It's absolutely amazing that I survived all the booze and smoking and the cars and the career"

Paul Newman, Actor

"When a machine begins to run without human aid, it is time to scrap it - whether it be a factory or a government"

Alexander Chase, Author

"Our fathers had their dreams; we have ours; the generation that follows will have its own. Without dreams and phantoms man cannot exist"

Olive Schreiner, Writer

"To eat bread without hope is still slowly to starve to death"

Pearl S. Buck, Novelist

"Truth is always exciting. Speak it, then; life is dull without it"

Pearl S. Buck, Novelist

"I and life: The case was settled chivalrously. The opponents parted without having made up"

Karl Kraus, Writer

"If it is nothingness that awaits us, let us make an injustice of it; let us fight against destiny, even though without hope of victory"

Miguel de Unamuno, Educator

"Chinese are wise in comprehending without many words what is inevitable and inescapable and therefore only to be borne"

Pearl S. Buck, Novelist

"He who does without the praise of the crowd will not deny himself an opportunity to be his own adherent"

Karl Kraus, Writer

"What is a hero without love for mankind"

Doris Lessing, Writer

"Trust no friend without faults, and love a woman, but no angel"

Doris Lessing, Writer

"Astronomers ought to be able to ask fundamental questions without accelerators"

Saul Perlmutter, Scientist

"I don't think that there are very many good writers who don't live without a sense of tension. If they haven't got one immediately available to them, then they usually manage to manufacture it in their private lives"

John Le Carre, Author

"There is no such thing as perpetual tranquillity of mind while we live here; because life itself is but motion, and can never be without desire, nor without fear, no more than without sense"

Thomas Hobbes, Philosopher

"No emancipation without that of society"

Theodor Adorno, Philosopher

"Love you will find only where you may show yourself weak without provoking strength"

Theodor Adorno, Philosopher

"It is better to debate a question without settling it than to settle a question without debating it"

Joseph Joubert, Writer

"He who has imagination without learning has wings but no feet"

Joseph Joubert, Writer

"True love makes the thought of death frequent, easy, without terrors; it merely becomes the standard of comparison, the price one would pay for many things"

Stendhal, Writer

"Never talk for half a minute without pausing and giving others a chance to join in"

Sydney Smith, Clergyman

"People who have been made to suffer by certain things cannot be reminded of them without a horror which paralyses every other pleasure, even that to be found in reading a story"

Stendhal, Writer

"Without the spiritual world the material world is a disheartening enigma"

Joseph Joubert, Writer

"One who has imagination without learning has wings without feet"

Joseph Joubert, Writer

"During the time men live without a common power to keep them all in awe, they are in that conditions called war; and such a war, as if of every man, against every man"

Thomas Hobbes, Philosopher

"Awareness without action is worthless"

Phil McGraw, Psychologist

"Here, on the river's verge, I could be busy for months without changing my place, simply leaning a little more to right or left"

Paul Cezanne, Artist

"There are some faults so nearly allied to excellence that we can scarce weed out the vice without eradicating the virtue"

Oliver Goldsmith, Poet

"If it had been possible to build the Tower of Babel without climbing it, it would have been permitted"

Franz Kafka, Novelist

"In order to excel, you must be completely dedicated to your chosen sport. You must also be prepared to work hard and be willing to accept constructive criticism. Without one-hundred percent dedication, you won't be able to do this"

Willie Mays, Athlete

"Let no man in the world live in delusion. Without a Guru none can cross over to the other shore"

Guru Nanak, Philosopher

"Primitive societies without religion have never been found"

William Dean Howells, Author

"It only takes 20 years for a liberal to become a conservative without changing a single idea"

Robert Anton Wilson, Writer

"One can't live mindfully without being enmeshed in psychological processes that are around us"

Philip Zimbardo, Psychologist

"The very essence of literature is the war between emotion and intellect, between life and death. When literature becomes too intellectual - when it begins to ignore the passions, the emotions - it becomes sterile, silly, and actually without substance"

Isaac Bashevis Singer, Novelist

"Without the funding Amtrak needs to keep operating, we will soon see people that rely on Amtrak to get them to work each day, waiting for a train that isn't coming"

Corrine Brown, Politician

"I could paint for a hundred years, a thousand years without stopping and I would still feel as though I knew nothing"

Paul Cezanne, Artist

"It's hard to see your own face without a mirror"

Phil McGraw, Psychologist

"You say a new era in art is preparing; you sensed it coming; continue your studies without weakening. God will do the rest"

Paul Cezanne, Artist

"It is strange how one feels drawn forward without knowing at first where one is going"

Gustav Mahler, Composer

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