Without Quotes

"Inasmuch as society cannot go on without discipline of some kind, men were constrained, in the absence of any other form of discipline, to turn to discipline of the military type"

Irving Babbitt, Critic

"What is a fish without a river? What is a bird without a tree to nest in? What is an Endangered Species Act without any enforcement mechanism to ensure their habitat is protected? It is nothing"

Jay Inslee, Politician

"You can still have chemistry on screen without getting on with the person. But it just makes your job a lot easier if you don't have to gird your loins, if that's not quite the right phrase, every time you're going to do a scene with that person"

Hugh Dancy, Actor

"Things are difficult enough about Iraq without the Federal Government suppressing the truth about Iraq"

Jay Inslee, Politician

"But if you put a script up in front of me to read, or a cue card, I couldn't do it without stuttering"

Mel Tillis, Musician

"The public, hearing pop music, is, without knowing it, also soaking up jazz"

Norman Granz, Musician

"A man without ambition is dead. A man with ambition but no love is dead. A man with ambition and love for his blessings here on earth is ever so alive"

Pearl Bailey, Actress

"I try to do that in this book without preaching - to try to do as you just said that you really have to defend the First Amendment rights of everybody"

Floyd Abrams, Lawyer

"Our teachers are responsible for our children's welfare for the six or eight hours they are at school and we need to know without question that their safety will be paramount on the minds of teachers, faculty and volunteers"

Mike Fitzpatrick, Politician

"To find in ourselves what makes life worth living is risky business, for it means that once we know we must seek it. It also means that without it life will be valueless"

Marsha Sinetar, Philosopher

"I've experienced huge kindness here, a great welcome and some very generous reviews without the snide social edge I often suffer from at home. I'm not patronized here either, which I much appreciate!"

Joanna Trollope, Novelist

"Ibrahim tells his story without a grain of complaint, and this was true for all of the band members. This is very much part of the Cuban spirit and soul"

Wim Wenders, Director

"Of all creatures in this visible world, light is the most glorious; of all light, the light of the sun without compare excels the rest"

William Gurnall, Author

"It is impossible to go through life without trust: that is to be imprisoned in the worst cell of all, oneself"

Graham Greene, Playwright

"It was a complex endeavor so without Robert Redford's constant support we wouldn't have gotten to the end"

Walter Salles, Director

"In order to get somewhere in life, you need to have a vision. The vision brings you to the table. Without a vision, you just do what everybody else does and you are just there"

Michael Schenker, Musician

"I think the answer of course is that space and time are not these hard external objects. Again we're, scientists have been building from one side of nature (physics) without considering the other side (life in consciousness). Neither side exists without the other. They cannot be divorced from one another or else there is no reality"

Robert Lanza, Scientist

"We can do it better, more consistently, and in the end, it will cost us less because the students that we produce will be superior to those without technology experience"

Major Owens, Politician

"You know as I started as a shy young conductor, I always wanted to cooperate. To build up the musicians. To help them to be better than without a conductor. And sometimes young talented musicians have to be encouraged"

Kurt Masur, Musician

"Sensuality without love is a sin; love without sensuality is worse than a sin"

Jose Bergamin, Writer

"In the old covenants the people were sprinkled with blood of calves without, in their bodies, to bind them to keep the law; else we were bound to just damnation, for the breaking of it"

William Tyndale, Clergyman

"You have to be smart to play a dumb blonde over and over again and keep the audience's attention without extraordinary physical equipment"

Judy Holliday, Actress

"We can do things the cheap way, the simple way, for the short-term and without regard for the future. Or, we can make the extra effort, do the hard work, absorb the criticism and make decisions that will cause a better future"

Mike Rounds, Politician

"On 'don't ask, don't tell' I was always the same. I said we needed a complete review of the impact on morale and battle effectiveness of 'don't ask, don't tell' before we repeal it. That's my position now. Now they're trying to ram through a repeal without a - any kind of really realistic survey done"

John McCain, Politician

"It's time we stopped ignoring the environment. Let's not let another election go by without making this a high priority"

David Suzuki, Scientist

"Very quickly a painting is turned into a facsimile of itself when one becomes so familiar with with it that one recognizes it without looking at it"

Robert Rauschenberg, Artist

"Do not imagine that what we have said of the insufficiency of our understanding and of its limited extent is an assertion founded only on the Bible: for philosophers likewise assert the same, and perfectly understand it,- without having regard to any religion or opinion"

Maimonides, Philosopher

"Where would you be without friends? The people to pick you up when you need lifting? We come from homes far from perfect, so you end up almost parent and sibling to your friends - your own chosen family. There's nothing like a really loyal, dependable, good friend. Nothing"

Jennifer Aniston, Actress

"I never could get over the fact that The Pixies formed, worked and separated without America taking them to its heart or even recognizing their existence for the most part"

David Bowie, Musician

"But please know, whether you believe campaign contributions are speech or property, that I learned to love very dearly the right of free expression when I lived without that freedom for a while a long time ago"

John McCain, Politician

"To walk behind others on a road you are traveling together, to give precedence to others without envy - this is painful for an individual and painful for a nation"

Gustav Stresemann, Politician

"It's quite difficult for me to imagine my life without chess"

Garry Kasparov, Celebrity

"Adversity is the trial of principle. Without it a man hardly knows whether he is honest or not"

Henry Fielding, Novelist

"It is the press that has taken these charges and accusations and blown them up without any kind of skepticism whatsoever - blown them into realities and treated them as if they were true"

Dixie Lee Ray, Politician

"One way we gave small businesses more money to invest was by extending tax provisions on expensing. This allows businesses to immediately write off things like equipment, without being burdened by depreciation requirements"

Dennis Hastert, Politician

"An autobiography is not about pictures; it's about the stories; it's about honesty and as much truth as you can tell without coming too close to other people's privacy"

Boris Becker, Athlete

"A fan sent me a letter and a $10 bill. It's a short letter - all she said was, "Hey, since it's harder for you to go out these days without getting photographed, here $10 for a pizza." I was like, "Aww, she sent me money for a pizza so I could eat at home!""

Zac Efron, Actor

"I regarded drugs as somewhat like rattlesnakes - it's possible to pick one up without getting bit, but why bother?"

Elizabeth Moon, Author

"But I found out that bones with flesh are more interesting than bones without"

James MacArthur, Actor

"There came to port last Sunday night the queerest little craft, without an inch of rigging on; I looked and looked - and laughed. It seemed so curious that she should cross the unknown water, and moor herself within my room - my daughter! O my daughter!"

George Washington Cable, Novelist

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