Without Quotes

"Work and love; these are the basics. Without them there is neurosis"

"I was born with this. It's a hereditary genetic condition. This is something you can go your whole life without really knowing that something's wrong. I had high blood pressure, and that was the first sign"

Steven Cojocaru, Critic

"People come from around the world and can understand each other without even speaking the same languages!"

Sergei Bubka, Athlete

"Kennedy lied and lied about his health while he was alive, even using his father's influence to get into the Navy without ever taking a medical examination"

Richard Reeves, Writer

"Mutineer is the first album of mine without a demo stage"

Warren Zevon, Musician

"That's the thing about depression: A human being can survive almost anything, as long as she sees the end in sight. But depression is so insidious, and it compounds daily, that it's impossible to ever see the end. The fog is like a cage without a key"

Elizabeth Wurtzel, Writer

"I was a Sedgewick without the smarts. It infused its way into me and I feel like it formed my character in a big way because of what I was exposed to"

Rob Morrow, Actor

"For a child actor, it's a matter of listening, reacting, and being able to put yourself in a new place without being scared"

Jena Malone, Actress

"But when, in the first setting out, he takes it for granted without proof, that distinctions found in the structure of all languages, have no foundation in nature; this surely is too fastidious a way of treating the common sense of mankind"

Thomas Reid, Philosopher

"I think the touchstone is to give consumers a full, fair choice without the power of a monopoly operating system pushing them in a direction that free competition might or might not achieve"

Jim Barksdale, Businessman

"The show can go on without me, and probably will, but I want to come back to act in Chicago. My wife and I just bought a condo downtown, and I want to do theater"

William Petersen, Actor

"The question whether the long effort to put an end to war can succeed without another major convulsion challenges not only our minds but our sense of responsibility"

Emily Greene Balch, Educator

"We were delighted to have Nigel as a producer. The only problem is that Nigel is so famous that he seems to dominate most interviews without being there"

Stephen Malkmus, Musician

"Imparting knowledge is only lighting other men's candles at our lamp without depriving ourselves of any flame"

Jane Porter, Novelist

"All children have to be deceived if they are to grow up without trauma"

Kazuo Ishiguro, Author

"The President, the Administration and the campaign need a theme. I am concerned that the President is seen as a tactician without an overall strategy of his plan for the country"

Robert Teeter, Politician

"To attempt this would be like seeing without eyes or directing the gaze of knowledge behind one's own eye. Modern science can acknowledge no other than this epistemological stand-point"

Wilhelm Dilthey, Historian

"I wrote two plotted books, got some of the fundamentals of storytelling down, then... it's sort of like taking the training wheels off, trying to write a book that's fun in the same way without relying on quite such mechanical or external beats"

Jonathan Franzen, Novelist

"Without a common loyalty to either a state or a church they have nevertheless a vast deal in common"

Emily Greene Balch, Educator

"I don't know how people can live without a therapist"

Neve Campbell, Actress

"Those of us who were brought up as Christians and have lost our faith have retained the sense of sin without the saving belief in redemption. This poisons our thought and so paralyses us in action"

Cyril Connolly, Journalist

"For what the lover would, that would the beloved; what she would ask of him that should he go before to grant. Without accord such as this, love is but a bond and a constraint"

Marie de France, Poet

"Fairest and dearest, your wrath and anger are more heavy than I can bear; but learn that I cannot tell what you wish me to say without sinning against my honour too grievously"

Marie de France, Poet

"Study with desire is real activity; without desire it is but the semblance and mockery of activity"

William Godwin, Writer

"Without reflection, we go blindly on our way, creating more unintended consequences, and failing to achieve anything useful"

Margaret J. Wheatley, Writer

"Despite the increase in world attention toward Sudan in the past months, the genocide in Darfur has continued without any serious attempt by the Sudanese government to do what governments primarily exist to do, protect their citizens"

Tom Allen, Politician

"To him it is an ocean, unfathomable, and without a shore"

William Godwin, Writer

"The great mystery to me is how restaurant critics think they can get away with doing their job without anybody noticing who they are"

Ted Allen, Entertainer

"I want to state upfront, unequivocally and without doubt: I do not believe that any racial, ethnic or gender group has an advantage in sound judging. I do believe that every person has an equal opportunity to be a good and wise judge, regardless of their background or life experiences"

Sonia Sotomayor, Judge

"There is nothing more natural than to consider everything as starting from oneself, chosen as the center of the world; one finds oneself thus capable of condemning the world without even wanting to hear its deceitful chatter"

Guy Debord, Writer

"I don't believe there can be a poetic novel without political consciousness. I have a strong political conscience"

Marguerite Young, Author

"I had achieved the most important things in my life when I married Joan and had the sons. Given the choice between Joan and the boys, and being a writer, I world give up being a writer without a blink"

Robert B. Parker, Writer

"Without any intended hubris, I've lead a pretty exciting life. What I've tried to do in Mission Compromised is draw on those experiences to create a sense of excitement and realism within the story"

Oliver North, Soldier

"The hardest job kids face today is learning good manners without seeing any"

Fred Astaire, Actor

"The longer the president goes without telling his side of the story, the more unease there will be in the public"

George Stephanopoulos, Celebrity

"I think most people don't like others who, without a voice of their own, emulate the other. I certainly don't want anybody just to pick up my thoughts and hand them back to me"

Marguerite Young, Author

"Great art is the expression of a solution of the conflict between the demands of the world without and that within"

Edith Hamilton, Writer

"We cannot build up the idea of the apostolate of the laity without the foundation of the liturgy"

Dorothy Day, Activist

"I had been playing since I was 2 years old, never remembering a life without music, always playing everything naturally and mostly by ear, and all the grownups wanted were more scales and drudgery out of me"

Lara St. John, Musician

"I don't exist without writing"

Jewel Kilcher, Musician

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