Without Quotes

"I couldn't live a week without a private library - indeed, I'd part with all my furniture and squat and sleep on the floor before I'd let go of the 1500 or so books I possess"

H. P. Lovecraft, Novelist

"Frankly - and believe me, I say this without any pretense - when I see the road I've taken, I have to say that thanks to good luck, because without good luck one can do nothing, I've come out pretty well"

James MacArthur, Actor

"Nothing is more confused than to be ordered into a war to die or to be maimed for life without the faintest idea of what's going on"

Hanoi Hannah, Celebrity

"There are many ways of showing your protest and discontent without the actions of Kremlin"

Garry Kasparov, Celebrity

"If one seeks to analyze experiences and reactions to the first postwar years, I hope one may say without being accused of bias that it is easier for the victor than for the vanquished to advocate peace"

Gustav Stresemann, Politician

"We could not, for example, arrive at a principle like that of entropy without introducing some additional principle, such as randomness, to this topography"

Michael Polanyi, Scientist

"No matter how many people tell you, Save your money, when you've got a series, you never do. Somehow it doesn't seem important. Maybe it's because you've been without money for so long as an actor"

David Morse

"Publicity is the life of this culture - in so far as without publicity capitalism could not survive - and at the same time publicity is its dream"

John Berger, Artist

"I couldn't walk down any street in Britain without being laughed at. It was a nightmare. My children were devastated because their dad was a figure of ridicule"

David Icke, Athlete

"We were wavering around like a ship without a sail"

Judy Holliday, Actress

"Teddy Wilson, I think, said a little while ago that it's much easier to come in and play whatever comes into your mind, without obeying any of the laws of bass line and harmony and so on"

George Shearing, Musician

"The fact is, Latinos now own their own lives and I believe they can afford to look back without judgment"

Ednita Nazario, Musician

"I am not a member of any organization listed by the Attorney General as subversive. In any instance where I lent my name in the past, it was certainly without knowledge that such an organization was subversive. I have always been essentially and foremost an American"

Judy Holliday, Actress

"Titles are not only important, they are essential for me. I cannot write without a title"

Guillermo Cabrera Infante, Novelist

"We shall be forced to attempt planned and directed research employing hundreds of workers for many years, and this cannot be done without risking the loss of independence and originality. This is a serious and fundamental obstacle but it may be overcome in two ways"

John Desmond Bernal, Scientist

"A rich man without charity is a rogue; and perhaps it would be no difficult matter to prove that he is also a fool"

Henry Fielding, Novelist

"A saint is a person who gives of themself without asking for anything in return. That's how simple it is to be a saint. Try it! Try being a saint"

Edward James Olmos, Actor

"Possession without obligation to the object possessed approaches felicity"

George Meredith, Novelist

"There's a trick to the Graceful Exit. It begins with the vision to recognize when a job, a life stage, a relationship is over - and to let go. It means leaving what's over without denying its value"

Ellen Goodman, Journalist

"I regard this novel as a work without redeeming social value, unless it can be recycled as a cardboard box"

Ellen Goodman, Journalist

"It is difficult to write about any form of mental disease, especially your own, without sounding as if you were examining a bug under glass"

Gene Tierney, Actress

"We own our movie and are now close to breaking even, even without finishing domestic DVD deals"

Donal Logue, Actor

"No real social change has ever been brought about without a revolution... revolution is but thought carried into action"

Emma Goldman, Activist

"Biblical orthodoxy without compassion is surely the ugliest thing in the world"

Francis Schaeffer, Theologian

"If love does not know how to give and take without restrictions, it is not love, but a transaction that never fails to lay stress on a plus and a minus"

Emma Goldman, Activist

"Without the right tools, we can't police our markets from illegal trade"

Chris Chocola, Politician

"I spoke without fear of contradiction. I simply did not suffer self-doubt"

Elia Kazan, Director

"I have no ideas about what the paintings imply about the world. I don't think that's a painter's business. He just paints paintings without a conscious reason"

Jasper Johns, Artist

"A good businessman never makes a contract unless he's sure he can carry it through, yet every fool on earth is perfectly willing to sign a marriage contract without considering whether he can live up to it or not"

Dalton Trumbo, Novelist

"As Commander in Chief of the United States Military, I will never send our sons and daughters and our brothers and sisters to die in a foreign land without telling the truth about why they're going there"

Howard Dean, Politician

"I fear that the hearts of the vast majority of mankind would beat on strongly and steadily and without any quickening if the league were to perish altogether"

Henry Cabot Lodge, Politician

"Without a reunion, the Eagles are forever young, like James Dean"

Glenn Frey, Musician

"I never do any television without chocolate. That's my motto and I live by it. Quite often I write the scripts and I make sure there are chocolate scenes. Actually I'm a bit of a chocolate tart and will eat anything. It's amazing I'm so slim"

Dawn French, Comedian

"If a man is going to be an American at all let him be so without any qualifying adjectives, and if he is going to be something else, let him drop the word American from his personal description"

Henry Cabot Lodge, Politician

"First, those images help us understand the general and specific magnitude of disaster caused by the tsunami. The huge outpouring of aid would not have happened without those images"

Bruce Jackson, Public Servant

"The people currently in charge have forgotten the first principle of an open society, namely that we may be wrong and that there has to be free discussion. That it's possible to be opposed to the policies without being unpatriotic"

George Soros, Businessman

"Without a struggle, there can be no progress"

Frederick Douglass, Author

"She had called in the debt that parents owe a child for bringing her, unasked, into a strange world. One should never make an offer without knowing full well what will happen if it is accepted"

David Brin, Author

"I think people should have the legal right to hurt themselves without fearing that they're going to get locked up for doing so. But on a personal level, if someone I loved was hurting himself or herself in front of me, I would, of course, try to restrain them"

Chester Brown, Cartoonist

"I've spent my career trying to help people without connections understand what's going on so that they have a chance of getting a fair shake from the connected and the powerful"

Allan Sloan

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