Without Quotes

"From a drop of water a logician could infer the possibility of an Atlantic or a Niagara without having seen or heard of one or the other"

Arthur Conan Doyle, Writer

"The Americans combine the notions of religion and liberty so intimately in their minds, that it is impossible to make them conceive of one without the other"

Alexis de Tocqueville, Historian

"What is comedy? Comedy is the art of making people laugh without making them puke"

Steve Martin, Comedian

"I live for my sons. I would be lost without them"

Princess Diana, Royalty

"Inflation is the one form of taxation that can be imposed without legislation"

Milton Friedman, Economist

"Inflation is taxation without legislation"

Milton Friedman, Economist

"Time is not a thing, thus nothing which is, and yet it remains constant in its passing away without being something temporal like the beings in time"

Martin Heidegger, Philosopher

"It is astonishing how foolish humans can be in groups, especially when they follow their leader without question"

Brian Herbert, Author

"People need motivation to do anything. I don't think human beings learn anything without desperation"

Jim Carrey, Comedian

"Actors need bricks to play with, and in fact we rejected all the improvised fragments we had made without a plan. Improvisation without a plan is like tennis without tennis balls"

Lars von Trier, Director

"It became clear to me in an instant that living a gay life without publicly acknowledging it is simply not enough to make any significant contribution to the immense work that lies ahead on the road to complete equality"

Zachary Quinto, Actor

"A man endures misfortune without complaint"

Franz Schubert, Composer

"Without any assistance whatever, I founded a school in Weimar in 10 years. Only I could perform certain works with the scanty means that I dared not ask anyone else to work with"

Franz Liszt, Composer

"The character of instrumental music... lets the emotions radiate and shine in their own character without presuming to display them as real or imaginary representations"

Franz Liszt, Composer

"In the best days of our republic Americans were fiercely proud of the fact that rich and poor met on such equal terms in so many ways, and without the slightest trace of hostility"

Robert Welch

"For in the first place the American people could not have been swept too fast and too far in this movement without enough alarms being sounded to be heard and heeded"

Robert Welch

"Once my heart was captured, reason was shown the door, deliberately and with a sort of frantic joy. I accepted everything, I believed everything, without struggle, without suffering, without regret, without false shame. How can one blush for what one adores?"

George Sand, Novelist

"Okay, when you start to fight for equality, like Anand did in 1995, you could end up losing game 10, like he did, without putting up any kind of fight"

Vladimir Kramnik, Celebrity

"Do you think it's possible to discuss politics without preaching?"

Steven Brust, Author

"We don't have a prayer of defeating the Red Threat of our generation without a long boom of almost unprecedented duration"

Mitch Daniels, Politician

"Glamour is something you can't bear to be without once you're used to it"

Loretta Young, Actress

"Music embodies feeling without forcing it to contend and combine with thought, as it is forced in most arts and especially in the art of words"

Franz Liszt, Composer

"So basically the understanding on these so-called reissues is that they were done behind my back, without my permission, and the band informed me that I would no longer be paid on them at all"

Jello Biafra, Musician

"Literature is my calling To hold up the mirror to my countrymen comes natural to me; and in the open field of invention I am not without hopes of giving them pleasure"

Thomas Edward Brown, Poet

"Without any formal orders to retreat, what was left of the several organizations yielded to a general impulse to abandon the field. Officers and men became controlled by the one thought of getting as far as possible from the enemy"

Henry Villard, Journalist

"Beauty must appeal to the senses, must provide us with immediate enjoyment, must impress us or insinuate itself into us without any effort on our part"

Claude Debussy, Composer

"You can only govern men by serving them. The rule is without exception"

Victor Kiam, Businessman

"The grace of God means something like: Here is your life. You might never have been, but you are because the party wouldn't have been complete without you"

Frederick Buechner, Clergyman

"We had a showing of Battlestar in LA last week. I walked out the door and there were 50 people. I signed a ton of autographs. Other actors walked away without signing. These are the fans. I guess it depends. on who you are"

Noah Hathaway, Actor

"The spirit in which the offer was made must of necessity contribute to improving and alleviating the situation of the Jewish people without our renouncing one iota of the great principles upon which our movement is based"

Theodor Herzl, Journalist

"There are people who can start having very powerful experiences without taking psychedelics. It can happen against their will. This is a universal phenomenon"

Stanislav Grof, Psychologist

"A resignation is a grave act; never performed by a right minded man without forethought or with reserve"

Salmon P. Chase, Politician

"Nobody travels on the road to success without a puncture or two"

Navjot Singh Sidhu, Entertainer

"I could care less about what people think. I'm a Devil Without A Cause"

Kid Rock, Musician

"Without Arthur's voice, I never would have enjoyed that success"

Paul Simon, Musician

"Everybody blames the culture without taking responsibility"

James Levine, Musician

"Positive feelings come from being honest about yourself and accepting your personality, and physical characteristics, warts and all; and, from belonging to a family that accepts you without question"

Willard Scott, Entertainer

"L.A. I could live without"

Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Actress

"I cannot live with someone who can't live without me"

Nadine Gordimer, Novelist

"The movie adaptations of stage musicals that I've seen, without exception, in my opinion don't work. A lot of people would disagree with me"

Stephen Sondheim, Composer

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