Without Quotes: Embracing Life's Moments of Absence (Page 3)

"It is far better to foresee even without certainty than not to foresee at all"

"People assume I'm out there having this great life, but money doesn't erase the pain. When you're young you barrel through life, making choices without thinking of repercussions. A few years down the line, you wake up in a certain place and wonder how the hell you got there"

Jennifer Lopez, Musician

"Act happy, feel happy, be happy, without a reason in the world. Then you can love, and do what you will"

Dan Millman, Author

"Cowardice and courage are never without a measure of affectation. Nor is love. Feelings are never true. They play with their mirrors"

Jean Baudrillard, Sociologist

"All, all is theft, all is unceasing and rigorous competition in nature; the desire to make off with the substance of others is the foremost - the most legitimate - passion nature has bred into us and, without doubt, the most agreeable one"

Marquis de Sade, Novelist

"It's a naive domestic Burgundy without any breeding, but I think you'll be amused by its presumption"

James Thurber, Comedian

"Death is really a great blessing for humanity, without it there could be no real progress. People who lived for ever would not only hamper and discourage the young, but they would themselves lack sufficient stimulus to be creative"

Alfred Adler, Psychologist

"Protect your health. Without it you face a serious handicap for success and happiness"

Harry F. Banks, Producer

"Always rise from the table with an appetite, and you will never sit down without one"

Horace Greeley, Editor

"A desert is a place without expectation"

Nadine Gordimer, Novelist

"Food is your body's fuel. Without fuel, your body wants to shut down"

Ken Hill, Playwright

"There must be a positive and negative in everything in the universe in order to complete a circuit or circle, without which there would be no activity, no motion"

John McDonald, Leader

"No man not inspired can make a good speech without preparation"

Daniel Webster, Statesman

"Nothing great in the world has ever been accomplished without passion"

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Philosopher

"Dreams are free. Goals have a cost. While you can daydream for free, goals don't come without a price. Time, effort, sacrifice, and sweat. How will you pay for your goals?"

Usain Bolt, Athlete

"In the police force, two, three, five traitors are detected who are really working for someone else. When we cleanse the police of them, the problem will be simplified a lot. Terrorists will have no one to contact - they will be left without informers"

Akhmad Kadyrov, Statesman

"Nuclear power will help provide the electricity that our growing economy needs without increasing emissions. This is truly an environmentally responsible source of energy"

Michael Burgess, Congressman

"Cats don't like change without their consent"

Roger Caras, Photographer

"When you see a woman who can go nowhere without a staff of admirers, it is not so much because they think she is beautiful, it is because she has told them they are handsome"

Jean Giraudoux, Dramatist

"Peace without justice is tyranny"

William Allen White, Editor

"If few can stand a long war without deterioration of soul, none can stand a long peace"

Oswald Spengler, Philosopher

"Health care comprises nearly 20 percent of our national economy, but outdated bureaucracy and red tape have stifled competition and raised costs. As a result, today more than 45 million are without any health coverage"

John Shadegg, Politician

"On the one hand, the guns were there to help capture the imagination of the people. But more important, since we knew that you couldn't observe the police without guns, we took our guns with us to let the police know that we have an equalizer"

Bobby Seale, Activist

"Facts are the air of scientists. Without them you can never fly"

Linus Pauling, Scientist

"Democracy cannot survive without the guidance of a creative minority"

Harlan Stone, Lawyer

"Faith without works is like a bird without wings; though she may hop with her companions on earth, yet she will never fly with them to heaven"

Francis Beaumont, Playwright

"Fear is excitement without breath"

Robert Heller, Businessman

"There is no art without Eros"

Max Frisch, Novelist

"Without question, no hesitation, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar was the best player I ever played against"

Bill Walton, Athlete

"Grief is perhaps an unknown territory for you. You might feel both helpless and hopeless without a sense of a "map" for the journey. Confusion is the hallmark of a transition. To rebuild both your inner and outer world is a major project"

Anne Grant, Poet

"There is pleasure when a sore is scratched, But to be without sores is more pleasurable still. Just so, there are pleasures in worldly desires, But to be without desires is more pleasurable still"

Nagarjuna, Philosopher