Without Quotes

"How do you make any sense of history, art or literature without knowing the stories and iconography of your own culture and all the world's main religions?"

Polly Toynbee, Journalist

"I am nothing without the players"

Stuart Pearce, Coach

"I shave without using shaving cream"

Jerry Stiller, Comedian

"Starbucks goes to a great effort, and pays twice as much for its coffee as its competitors do, and is very careful to help coffee producers in developing countries grow coffee without pesticides and in ways that preserve forest structure"

Jared Diamond, Author

"Without significant reform, the Social Security Administration will be legally and financially unable to pay full promised benefits within a generation"

Ron Lewis, Politician

"When we long for life without difficulties, remind us that oaks grow strong in contrary winds and diamonds are made under pressure"

Peter Marshall, Clergyman

"We want to continue the efforts against domestic violence and spread the drug courts, and develop real effective means of providing treatment for drug abusers without having to have them arrested"

Janet Reno, Public Servant

"I'm really thankful to God, man. Like now, I'm really making a real comeback with my group. With or without a record, with or without a movie. And behind all the negative press behind this movie"

Ike Turner, Musician

"People who talk about revolution and class struggle without referring explicitly to everyday life, without understanding what is subversive about love and what is positive in the refusal of constraints, such people have a corpse in their mouth"

Raoul Vaneigem, Philosopher

"Anybody can be very destructive in that position without at all meaning to be, and I know that I have been inadvertently destructive in the past for certain people on certain occasions"

Tobias Wolff, Writer

"The events of September 11 and what has happened since have made people understand that even a small, distant and far away country like Afghanistan cannot be left to break up into anarchy and chaos without consequences for the whole world"

Lakhdar Brahimi, Public Servant

"Architects today tend to depreciate themselves, to regard themselves as no more than just ordinary citizens without the power to reform the future"

Kenzo Tange, Architect

"Mind you, the Elizabethans had so many words for the female genitals that it is quite hard to speak a sentence of modern English without inadvertently mentioning at least three of them"

Terry Prachett, Author

"What is emitted from the divine, though it be only like the reflection from the fire, still has the divine reality in itself, and one might almost ask what were the fire without glow, the sun without light, or the Creator without the creature?"

Max Muller, Educator

"The submission of her body without love or desire is degrading to the woman's finer sensibility, all the marriage certificates on earth to the contrary notwithstanding"

Margaret Sanger, Activist

"Your law may be perfect, your knowledge of human affairs may be such as to enable you to apply it with wisdom and skill, and yet without individual acquaintance with men, their haunts and habits, the pursuit of the profession becomes difficult, slow, and expensive"

William Dunbar, Poet

"I use Windows; '98 second edition and it works very good for me. You know, I just started on the computer about 9 months ago and am fascinated with the possibilities. I don't know what I would do without it now"

Jimmy Carl Black, Musician

"I wanted to be able to go shopping without people looking to see if I really was one of the world's 10 most beautiful women. I longed to be myself"

Linda Evans, Actress

"Love without sex is still the most efficient form of hell known to man"

Peter Porter, Soldier

"As I discovered, even the governor of a major state who holds pro-life views can be denied a hearing at his party's convention without the national media protesting it"

Robert Casey, Politician

"Without the oceans there would be no life on Earth"

Peter Benchley, Author

"But, I couldn't live without creation gymnastics"

Olga Korbut, Athlete

"People commonly educate their children as they build their houses, according to some plan they think beautiful, without considering whether it is suited to the purposes for which they are designed"

Mary Wortley Montagu, Writer

"Increasingly prices are set by sellers to raise their prices without a loss of sales sufficient to wipe out the gain"

William Vickrey, Educator

"If there is a good musical reason, I think it might draw more attention and sell, though it is not guaranteed. To make a record without a musical reason, you have to either be a pop star who sells automatically or just be lucky"

Eberhard Weber, Musician

"TV is like theater. You can't enjoy it without a program"

Walter Annenberg, Businessman

"We can trust our doctors to be professional, to minister equally to their patients without regard to their political or religious beliefs. But we can no longer trust our professors to do the same"

David Horowitz, Writer

"I don't say 'Tis impossible for an impudent man not to rise in the world, but a moderate merit with a large share of impudence is more probable to be advanced than the greatest qualifications without it"

Mary Wortley Montagu, Writer

"So smoking is the perfect way to commit suicide without actually dying. I smoke because it's bad, it's really simple"

Damien Hirst, Artist

"Few of us get anything without working for it"

William Feather, Author

"So the system we have in radio and television today is the direct result of government policies that have been made in our name, in the name of the people, on our behalf, but without our informed consent"

Robert McChesney, Critic

"I made a supreme effort not to do that thing that parents do, which is to bore people without children to death by going on and on about how funny their children are, so there's none of that hopefully"

Jo Brand, Comedian

"These impossible women! How they do get around us! The poet was right: Can't live with them, or without them"

Aristophanes, Poet

"Frankly, these days, without a theory to go with it, I can't see a painting"

Tom Wolfe, Journalist

"If a voice is just too nice, without an edge, it kinda all flows by. You forget it. You don't listen to the lyrics"

Stephen Malkmus, Musician

"Later the Administration wanted me to actually sell all remaining surplus by running the War Assets Corporation. I said I couldn't do it without some shoe leather"

Stuart Symington, Businessman

"I had learned many years ago in private business never to take responsibility without adequate authority; and the new Secretary of Defense, as budgets were sharply cut, quickly found that out"

Stuart Symington, Businessman

"I sent The World Well Lost to one editor who rejected it on sight, and then wrote a letter to every other editor in the field warning them against the story, and urging them to reject it on sight without reading it"

Theodore Sturgeon, Writer

"Nothing except the mint can make money without advertising"

Thomas B. Macaulay, Historian

"I was going to buy a van and move to LA so I could secretly pursue acting without any of my friends knowing"

Steve Buscemi, Actor

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