Without Quotes

"Freedom without limits is just a word"

"How mankind defers from day to day the best it can do, and the most beautiful things it can enjoy, without thinking that every day may be the last one, and that lost time is lost eternity!"

Max Muller, Educator

"I've reached a point in my life where it's the little things that matter... I was always a rebel and probably could have got much farther had I changed my attitude. But when you think about it, I got pretty far without changing attitudes. I'm happier with that"

Veronica Lake, Actress

"I have the best roommates in the world! It creates a fun sense of family... and that's really important to me. Things can get so lonely without it"

Kristen Bell, Actress

"A minority group has "arrived" only when it has the right to produce some fools and scoundrels without the entire group paying for it"

Carl T. Rowan, Journalist

"We are not going to achieve a new world order without paying for it in blood as well as in words and money"

Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr., Historian

"I defy anyone - and I have said this to the Germans - to build a solid, articulated, and viable Europe without France's consent"

Pierre Laval, Politician

"Too often we think we can act without explaining and take decisions without justifying them"

Peter Mandelson, Politician

"Asking questions is an essential part of police investigation. In the ordinary sense a police officer is free to ask a person for identification without implicating the Fourth Amendment"

Anthony Kennedy, Judge

"We have seen from experience that, if we are in the habit of walking regularly on the same road, we are able to think about other things while walking, without paying attention to our steps"

Vinoba Bhave, Educator

"I came from such a simple origin, without any great privilege, and I would say I also wanted to make a mark. It wasn't until I was about 15 that I appeared in a race"

Roger Bannister, Athlete

"No one turns down a film with Woody; it's something everyone wants in their career as an important moment. He's such a comedic genius, without question, so I was thrilled"

Mark Rydell, Director

"We don't want crimes committed in New Mexico falling through the cracks. This legislation ensures that there is no area of our state where crimes can be committed without consequence"

Pete Domenici, Politician

"There can be no vulnerability without risk; there can be no community without vulnerability; there can be no peace, and ultimately no life, without community"

M. Scott Peck, Psychologist

"I just lived it and did my own thing without looking over my shoulder. I think I'm very lucky, considering when I started everything, and the fact that I have a masters in music, and I've always worked in music, and that's what I wanted to do"

Jon Secada, Musician

"When I was younger I was completely without money - when I was studying in Budapest, when I was a refugee"

Gyorgy Ligeti, Composer

"Only reason can convince us of those three fundamental truths without a recognition of which there can be no effective liberty: that what we believe is not necessarily true; that what we like is not necessarily good; and that all questions are open"

Clive Bell, Critic

"Because nobody goes through life without a scar"

Carol Burnett, Actress

"Enjoy your sweat because hard work doesn't guarantee success, but without it you don't have a chance"

Alex Rodriguez, Athlete

"I didn't come from any kind of academic background, but I lived in a college town and I knew people who weren't without pretense. There was this idea in the town that if something was European it would be good"

Sarah Vowell, Author

"Without hard work, nothing grows but weeds"

Gordon B. Hinckley, Clergyman

"Honesty has come to mean the privilege of insulting you to your face without expecting redress"

Judith Martin, Author

"These days an income is something you can't live without - or within"

Tom Wilson, Cartoonist

"Honesty is as rare as a man without self-pity"

Stephen Vincent Benet, Poet

"As soon as I landed at Malta I found that though I could go to Tunis I could not go away without being quarantined for ten days and if I remained in Malta I must stay a week"

Richard H. Davis

"Focused. I'm a hustler. And my hustle is trying to figure out the best ways to do what I like without having to do much else"

Mos Def, Musician

"I never would have believed as a candidate for the U.S. Senate that the U.S. government could buy GM without a hearing, with no vote, yes or no. There are billions and billions of dollars at stake here"

Mike Johanns, Politician

"Sun Tzu does not need my praise. His work has lived for over two thousand years, and will surely live for another two thousand without any help from me"

Martin van Creveld, Historian

"Politics is war without bloodshed while war is politics with bloodshed"

Mao Zedong, Leader

"It puts limits on criminals' rights to destroy unborn children without the permission of the woman"

Lindsey Graham, Politician

"My officers and men understood wishes so well that this movement was executed under fire, the right wing keeping up fire, without giving the enemy any occasion to seize or even to suspect their advantage"

Joshua Chamberlain, Soldier

"Without rebuilding the confidence between parties, you will never succeed"

Harri Holkeri, Politician

"Even if a minefield or the abyss should lie before me, I will march straight ahead without looking back"

Zhu Rongji, Statesman

"Take the decision in early March to arrest Muqtada al-Sadr. It was made apparently without knowledge or understanding of the nature of his movement or how widespread it is"

Juan Cole, Educator

"Did you know that they introduced the 15 percent flat tax on individual and corporate income in Iraq? Something that some politicians very much wanted to push in the United States without success but in Iraq they do it"

Juan Cole, Educator

"For too long, decisions have been taken behind closed doors - tablets of stone have simply been past down to people without bothering to involve people, listen to their views or give them information about what we are doing and why"

Peter Mandelson, Politician

"While some people are certainly seeing economic benefits, many others are unemployed, underemployed, without health insurance and struggling to make ends meet"

Jerry Costello, Politician

"Isn't an agnostic just an atheist without balls?"

Stephen Colbert, Comedian

"Intelligence is nothing without delight"

Paul Claudel, Dramatist

"Many writers who choose to be active in the world lose not virtue but time, and that stillness without which literature cannot be made"

Gore Vidal, Novelist

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