Without Quotes

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

"Security depends not so much upon how much you have, as upon how much you can do without"

"Few people have ever seriously wished to be exclusively rational. The good life which most desire is a life warmed by passions and touched with that ceremonial grace which is impossible without some affectionate loyalty to traditional form and ceremonies"

Joseph Wood Krutch, Environmentalist

"Both the cockroach and the bird would get along very well without us, although the cockroach would miss us most"

Joseph Wood Krutch, Environmentalist

"On my job I end up jumping out of planes. Last week I got in an 18-wheeler and drove down a runway onto a skid track. The week before that they put me in a car and sunk me to the bottom of a lake to see if I could escape without an oxygen tank"

Rick Mercer, Comedian

"We have a sense that we should be like the mythical cowboy... able to take on and conquer anything and live in the world without the need for other people"

Morrie Schwartz, Educator

"Distrust all those who love you extremely upon a very slight acquaintance and without any visible reason"

Lord Chesterfield, Statesman

"My own time is passing fast enough without some national game to help it along"

Andy Rooney, Journalist

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

William Congreve, Poet

"Thinking has become a superfluous exercise... purely internal, without compelling force, more or less a game"

Jacques Ellul, Philosopher

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

John Updike, Novelist

"Any time three New Yorkers get into a cab without an argument, a bank has just been robbed"

Phyllis Diller, Comedian

"I can only be so long without work before I start getting antsy"

Morgan Freeman, Actor

"Ability is of little account without opportunity"

Lucille Ball, Comedian

"In general, costumes are the first thing in life that let other people know who we are. They indicate who the person is without saying anything"

Molly Parker, Actress

"Liberty without virtue would be no blessing to us"

Benjamin Rush, Scientist

"I've been to a lot of places and done a lot of things, but writing was always first. It's a kind of pain I can't do without"

Robert Penn Warren, Novelist

"My father, who died a few years ago, was a good, simple, very honest man. His faith and affection for his family was just unassailable, without question"

David Ogden Stiers, Actor

"I think my type of personality has all music inside of it, so I am full of music, without even knowing it, without even learning it, without even hearing it"

Ziggy Marley, Musician

"People from a planet without flowers would think we must be mad with joy the whole time to have such things about us"

Iris Murdoch, Author

"Experience, already reduced to a group of impressions, is ringed round for each one of us by that thick wall of personality through which no real voice has ever pierced on its way to us, or from us to that which we can only conjecture to be without"

Walter Pater, Critic

"The world gets older, without getting either better or worse and so does literature. But I do think that the drab current phenomenon that passes for literary studies in the university will finally provide its own corrective"

Harold Bloom, Critic

"I think the voice does that perfectly adequately without being imitated by other instruments"

Evan Parker, Musician

"You can't climb up to the second floor without a ladder. When you set your aim too high and don't fulfill it, then your enthusiasm turns to bitterness. Try for a goal that's reasonable, and then gradually raise it"

Emil Zatopek, Athlete

"Republicans have offered dozens of comprehensive healthcare plans many of which achieve comprehensive healthcare reform without breaking what's working in healthcare. We want to fix what's broken in healthcare"

Paul Ryan, Politician

"I felt like I was flying without a net. But once I realized that the audience was my partner, I was flying a jet, because the people would allow me to develop the character on stage"

Loretta Swit, Actress

"You can have music and it will stand alone by itself, but you can't have a movie without it"

Jerry Reed, Musician

"One of the things about acting is it allows you to live other people's lives without having to pay the price"

Robert De Niro, Actor

"I think the NBA will certainly survive without Michael Jordan"

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Athlete

"While the struggle for religious liberty had proceeded without large-scale bloodshed in New England and elsewhere in the United States, the struggle for political liberty had not fared so well"

Paul Harris, Entertainer

"By philosophy the mind of man comes to itself, and from henceforth rests on itself without foreign aid, and is completely master of itself, as the dancer of his feet, or the boxer of his hands"

Johann Gottlieb Fichte, Philosopher

"Nobody has ever built a reliable peer-to-peer service, where people can really access all the music they want in one location,... Once I got it into my head, I couldn't imagine the media space without one"

Shawn Fanning, Businessman

"After all, enforced national bilingualism in this country isn't mere policy. It has attained the status of a religion. It's a dogma which one is supposed to accept without question"

Stephen Harper, Politician

"The civil war which has so long prevailed between Spain and the Provinces in South America still continues, without any prospect of its speedy termination"

James Monroe, President

"That's the power behind a tool like Facebook Connect. It is making a Web without walls. Facebook allows you to go to other sites to comment, rate, etc., without having to set up a new profile for that site"

Erik Qualman, Author

"The Academy Awards ceremony is designed to be without irony, but Chris Rock supplied it anyway with filmed movie-theater interviews with black men and women who had never heard of the movies nominated for Best Picture"

Suzanne Fields

"The affairs of life embrace a multitude of interests, and he who reasons in any one of them, without consulting the rest, is a visionary unsuited to control the business of the world"

James F. Cooper, Novelist

"America has faced much more difficult times, including potential national extinction, without flinching"

Nick Clooney, Politician

"The year goes wrong, and tares grow strong, Hope starves without a crumb; But God's time is our harvest time, And that is sure to come"

Lewis J. Bates

"It's very hard to find critics or a magazine today that will publish material that is genuinely independent and written without any concern about being cut off some distributor's list or not be invited or flown into screenings"

Wim Wenders, Director

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