Without Quotes: Embracing Life's Moments of Absence (Page 4)

"A room without books is like a body without a soul"

Gilbert K. Chesterton, Writer

"The object of teaching a child is to enable him to get along without his teacher"

Elbert Hubbard, Writer

"It is easy to get everything you want, provided you first learn to do without the things you cannot get"

Elbert Hubbard, Writer

"As the builders say, the larger stones do not lie well without the lesser"

Plato, Philosopher

"It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it"

Aristotle, Philosopher

"You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer 'yes' without having asked any clear question"

Albert Camus, Philosopher

"You have to be very rich or very poor to live without a trade"

Albert Camus, Philosopher

"No presidential candidate should visit Las Vegas without condemning organized gambling"

Ralph Nader, Lawyer

"There can be no daily democracy without daily citizenship"

Ralph Nader, Lawyer

"Without God, democracy will not and cannot long endure"

Ronald Reagan, President

"Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm"

Winston Churchill, Statesman

"There's no possibility of being witty without a little ill-nature"

Richard Brinsley Sheridan, Playwright

"The philosophy of the common man is an old wife that gives him no pleasure, yet he cannot live without her, and resents any aspersions that strangers may cast on her character"

George Santayana, Philosopher

"Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. It is far better take things as they come along with patience and equanimity"

Carl Jung, Psychologist

"I am quite serious when I say that I do not believe there are, on the whole earth besides, so many intensified bores as in these United States. No man can form an adequate idea of the real meaning of the word, without coming here"

Warren Buffett, Businessman

"Nothing is more terrible than activity without insight"

Thomas Carlyle, Writer

"Be able to suffer wearing a necktie or slightly high heels for an entire evening without complaint or early removal"

Marilyn vos Savant, Author

"Man is a tool-using animal. Without tools he is nothing, with tools he is all"

Thomas Carlyle, Writer

"We cannot attribute to fortune or virtue that which is achieved without either"

Niccolo Machiavelli, Writer

"A man without a vote is man without protection"

Lyndon B. Johnson, President

"Without knowing what I am and why I am here, life is impossible"

Leo Tolstoy, Novelist

"You cannot spend money in luxury without doing good to the poor. Nay, you do more good to them by spending it in luxury, than by giving it; for by spending it in luxury, you make them exert industry, whereas by giving it, you keep them idle"

Samuel Johnson, Author

"Perfect courage is to do without witnesses what one would be capable of doing with the world looking on"

Francois de La Rochefoucauld, Writer

"The sure mark of one born with noble qualities is being born without envy"

Francois de La Rochefoucauld, Writer

"A life without adventure is likely to be unsatisfying, but a life in which adventure is allowed to take whatever form it will is sure to be short"

Bertrand Russell, Philosopher

"Adventure without risk is Disneyland"

Doug Coupland, Author

"Once I knew only darkness and stillness... my life was without past or future... but a little word from the fingers of another fell into my hand that clutched at emptiness, and my heart leaped to the rapture of living"

Helen Keller, Author

"Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it"

C. S. Lewis, Author

"It is a very delicate job to forgive a man, without lowering him in his own estimation, and yours too"

Josh Billings, Comedian

"Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious"

Thomas Aquinas, Theologian

"Without revolutionary theory there can be no revolutionary movement"

Vladimir Lenin, Leader

"Intuition and concepts constitute... the elements of all our knowledge, so that neither concepts without an intuition in some way corresponding to them, nor intuition without concepts, can yield knowledge"

Immanuel Kant, Philosopher

"Nothing is more dangerous than a friend without discretion; even a prudent enemy is preferable"

Jean de La Fontaine, Poet

"Life is not an easy matter... You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above weakness, above all kinds of perfidy and baseness"

Leon Trotsky, Revolutionary

"Affirmation without discipline is the beginning of delusion"

Jim Rohn, Businessman

"Advertising is a racket, like the movies and the brokerage business. You cannot be honest without admitting that its constructive contribution to humanity is exactly minus zero"

F. Scott Fitzgerald, Author

"Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings"

Salvador Dali, Artist

"The man who has begun to live more seriously within begins to live more simply without"

Ernest Hemingway, Novelist

"Happiness in this world, when it comes, comes incidentally. Make it the object of pursuit, and it leads us a wild-goose chase, and is never attained. Follow some other object, and very possibly we may find that we have caught happiness without dreaming of it"

Nathaniel Hawthorne, Novelist

"No man for any considerable period can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be the true"

Nathaniel Hawthorne, Novelist

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