Without Quotes

"I have lost my seven best friends, which is to say God has had mercy on me seven times without realizing it. He lent a friendship, took it from me, sent me another"

Jean Cocteau, Director

"I think one probably absorbs things like a sponge and things emerge without your always being aware of it"

Jeremy Northam, Actor

"I would have loved to have met some former spies, but they don't readily advertise themselves unless they're not living in Moscow, and even then. I'm sure I've met some without realizing it"

Jeremy Northam, Actor

"All the great novels, all the great films, all the great dramas are fictions that actually tell us the truth about us or about human nature or about human situations without being tied into the minutia of documentary events. Otherwise we might as well just make documentaries"

Jeremy Northam, Actor

"The sin of slavery is one of which it may be said that without the shedding of blood there is no remission"

James A. Garfield, President

"A law is not a law without coercion behind it"

James A. Garfield, President

"The best job goes to the person who can get it done without passing the buck or coming back with excuses"

G. M. Trevelyan, Historian

"Next in importance to freedom and justice is popular education, without which neither freedom nor justice can be permanently maintained"

James A. Garfield, President

"Don't get up from the feast of life without paying for your share of it"

Dean Inge, Philosopher

"Newspapers always excite curiosity. No one ever puts one down without the feeling of disappointment"

Charles Lamb, Critic

"We may disagree on some things, but we can do so without being disagreeable"

Christine Gregoire, Politician

"I have no private life at all. I am a hunted woman. I can't take a step without being questioned and surrounded"

Brigitte Bardot, Actress

"Thanks to the Interstate Highway System, it is now possible to travel across the country from coast to coast without seeing anything"

Charles Kuralt, Journalist

"No sex, age, or condition is above or below the absolute necessity of modesty; but without it one vastly beneath the rank of man"

Bruce Barton, Author

"The ideal, without doubt, varies, but its enemies, alas, are always the same"

Jean Rostand, Scientist

"Without a family, man, alone in the world, trembles with the cold"

Andre Maurois, Writer

"The tourist may complain of other tourists, but he would be lost without them"

Agnes Repplier, Writer

"There is some self-interest behind every friendship. There is no friendship without self-interests. This is a bitter truth"

Chanakya, Politician

"I don't think human beings learn anything without desperation. Desperation is a necessary ingredient to learning anything or creating anything. Period. If you ain't desperate at some point, you ain't interesting"

Jim Carrey, Comedian

"A physician without a knowledge of Astrology has no right to call himself a physician"

Hippocrates, Scientist

"A President needs political understanding to run the government, but he may be elected without it"

Harry S. Truman, President

"The only thing I know is that I paint because I need to, and I paint whatever passes through my head without any other consideration"

Frida Kahlo, Painter

"I paint my own reality. The only thing I know is that I paint because I need to, and I paint whatever passes through my head without any other consideration"

Frida Kahlo, Painter

"All growth depends upon activity. There is no development physically or intellectually without effort, and effort means work"

Calvin Coolidge, President

"There are many things that are essential to arriving at true peace of mind, and one of the most important is faith, which cannot be acquired without prayer"

John Wooden, Coach

"I never rush myself. See, they can't start the game without me"

Satchel Paige, Athlete

"Let there be nothing within thee that is not very beautiful and very gentle, and there will be nothing without thee that is not beautiful and softened by the spell of thy presence"

James Allen, Author

"The law of nations is naturally founded on this principle, that different nations ought in time of peace to do one another all the good they can, and in time of war as little injury as possible, without prejudicing their real interests"

Charles de Secondat, Philosopher

"It is a most extraordinary thing, but I never read a patent medicine advertisement without being impelled to the conclusion that I am suffering from the particular disease therein dealt with in its most virulent form"

Jerome K. Jerome, Author

"Money is the root of all evil, and yet it is such a useful root that we cannot get on without it any more than we can without potatoes"

Louisa May Alcott, Novelist

"Literature delivers tidings of the world within and the world without"

George Henry Lewes, Philosopher

"A coach is someone who can give correction without causing resentment"

John Wooden, Coach

"A marriage without conflicts is almost as inconceivable as a nation without crises"

Andre Maurois, Writer

"Political Freedom without economic equality is a pretense, a fraud, a lie; and the workers want no lying"

Mikhail Bakunin, Revolutionary

"Even the most wretched individual of our present society could not exist and develop without the cumulative social efforts of countless generations"

Mikhail Bakunin, Revolutionary

"A country cannot subsist well without liberty, nor liberty without virtue"

Daniel Webster, Statesman

"Certainly there are things in life that money can't buy, but it's very funny - Did you ever try buying then without money?"

Ogden Nash, Poet

"The Greeks possessed a knowledge of human nature we seem hardly able to attain to without passing through the strengthening hibernation of a new barbarism"

Georg C. Lichtenberg, Scientist

"Prejudices are so to speak the mechanical instincts of men: through their prejudices they do without any effort many things they would find too difficult to think through to the point of resolving to do them"

Georg C. Lichtenberg, Scientist

"Erudition can produce foliage without bearing fruit"

Georg C. Lichtenberg, Scientist

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