Without Quotes

"Rain is grace; rain is the sky descending to the earth; without rain, there would be no life"

"Adam and Eve are like imaginary numbers, like the square root of minus one... If you include it in your equation, you can calculate all manners of things, which cannot be imagined without it"

Philip Pullman, Writer

"I confess freely to you, I could never look long upon a monkey, without very mortifying reflections"

William Congreve, Poet

"A day without an argument is like an egg without salt"

Angela Carter, Novelist

"In a person who is open to experience each stimulus is freely relayed through the nervous system, without being distorted by any process of defensiveness"

Carl Rogers, Psychologist

"Dreams come true; without that possibility, nature would not incite us to have them"

John Updike, Novelist

"We are no longer going to ask for the land, but we are going to take it without negotiating"

Robert Mugabe, Statesman

"There's no way in hell I could have achieved what I have without being a good student and listening to the wisdom of others"

Phil Heath, Athlete

"I don't believe in fear – I live my life without regrets"

Puff Daddy, Musician

"Without winners, there wouldn't even be any civilization"

Woody Hayes, Coach

"Vietnam was the first war ever fought without any censorship. Without censorship, things can get terribly confused in the public mind"

William Westmoreland, Soldier

"It's hard enough doing something bold without jumping into your bad reviews"

Kenny Loggins, Musician

"That neither our thoughts, nor passions, nor ideas formed by the imagination, exist without the mind, is what every body will allow"

George Berkeley, Philosopher

"I distrust camels, and anyone else who can go a week without a drink"

Joe E. Lewis, Comedian

"It is my hope and my belief that you will be able to report that I died with dignity, without animal fear and without bravado. I owe that much to myself"

Caryl Chessman, Criminal

"If I can't have too many truffles, I'll do without truffles"

Sidonie Gabrielle Colette, Novelist

"We cannot build foundations of a state without rule of law"

Mahmoud Abbas, Statesman

"The novelist must look on humanity without partiality or prejudice. His sympathy, like that of the historian, must be unbounded, and untainted by sect or party"

Goldwin Smith, Historian

"If you don't think every day is a great day try going without one"

Jim Evans, Athlete

"Those who tell you that the territorial question is an abstraction, that you can never colonize another territory without the African slavetrade, are both deaf and blind to the history of the last sixty years"

Robert Toombs, Politician

"All still lifes are actually paintings of the world on the sixth day of creation, when God and the world were alone together, without man!"

Robert Musil, Writer

"Quicksilver is used for many purposes; without it, neither silver nor brass can be properly gilt"

Marcus V. Pollio, Architect

"I want to keep my dreams, even bad ones, because without them, I might have nothing all night long"

Joseph Heller, Novelist

"If all the world hated you, and believed you wicked, while your own conscience approved you, and absolved you from guilt, you would not be without friends"

Charlotte Bronte, Novelist

"Better to be without logic than without feeling"

Charlotte Bronte, Novelist

"One of the advantages of being a captain is being able to ask for advice without necessarily having to take it"

William Shatner, Actor

"Technology without hatred can be a blessing. Technology with hatred is always a disaster"

Simon Wiesenthal, Activist

"Seven days without laughter makes one weak"

Mort Walker, Artist

"Hungry Joe collected lists of fatal diseases and arranged them in alphabetical order so that he could put his finger without delay on any one he wanted to worry about"

Joseph Heller, Novelist

"Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill"

Barbara Tuchman, Historian

"It is now conventional wisdom that Americans do not care why we went to war in Iraq, that it is enough that the world is better off without Saddam Hussein"

Adam Schiff, Politician

"In the laws of the land, she has no rights; in government she has no voice. And in spite of another principle recognized in this Republic, namely, that 'taxation without representation is tyranny,' she is taxed without being represented"

Ernestine Rose, Activist

"Much ingenuity with a little money is vastly more profitable and amusing than much money without ingenuity"

Arnold Bennett, Novelist

"Without Police Woman I wouldn't have had a career. The show started about the same time the women's movement was taking off. Ours was the first prime-time one-hour show featuring a strong, professional woman. It paved the way for other series to follow"

Angie Dickinson, Actress

"Most photographers would feel a certain embarrassment in admitting publicly that they carried within them a sense of wonder, yet without it they would not produce the work they do, whatever their particular field"

Bill Brandt, Photographer

"I do what I do, and write what I write, without calculating what is worth what and so on. Fortunately, I am not a banker or an accountant. I feel that there is a time when a political statement needs to be made and I make it"

Arundhati Roy, Novelist

"Well, you can't be trying to achieve success of any kind in this business without accepting that there's going to be a flip side to it"

Jennifer Garner, Actress

"We must agree to live in this world, with all that is unfair about it, without knowing why, if we wish to have a God in our lives"

Fred Melamed, Actor

"It probably goes without saying that I enjoy the potato pancakes, delicious hams and so forth that maddeningly turn up at this time of year"

Fred Melamed, Actor

"We can do without butter, but, despite all our love of peace, not without arms. One cannot shoot with butter, but with guns"

Joseph Goebbels, Criminal

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