Without Quotes

"Perfect as the wing of a bird may be, it will never enable the bird to fly if unsupported by the air. Facts are the air of science. Without them a man of science can never rise"

Ivan Pavlov, Psychologist

"Sometimes I wish that there were a way to let people know that just because I live in a world without rules, and in a life that is lawless, doesn't mean that it doesn't hurt so bad the morning after"

Elizabeth Wurtzel, Writer

"Everybody needs history but the people who need it most are poor folks - people without resources or options"

Henry Hampton, Activist

"Without failure there is no sweetness in success. There's no understanding of it"

Glenn Beck, Journalist

"The more you learn to live without, the more you'll have to live with"

Frank Howard Clark, Writer

"I did not want to reject religion as nonsense because life seemed to have no ultimate purpose without it, and most of the good people I knew were Christians"

Luke Ford, Writer

"When you stand up acoustic in front of an audience, you really are a man without any clothes on. And that can be fun - it depends how much of an exhibitionist you are, I suppose. I quite enjoy it"

Richard Thompson, Musician

"The student develops an analytical as well as finely blended character. He is able to choose from a wide variety of job fields from which to embrace a career, without having to be a specialist in one particular discipline"

Philippe Perrin, Astronaut

"My aim was to safeguard justice, without doing harm to our war effort"

Hans Frank, Public Servant

"I've been willing to go for years without publishing. That's been my career"

Marguerite Young, Author

"The picture alone, without the written word, leaves half the story untold"

James Lafferty, Actor

"An occupying power has no right to make significant alterations in the character of the occupied society, to change the laws all around, without a strong security reason and so forth"

Juan Cole, Educator

"Down in the south, it's how we find the brownfield sites without taking too much land take to meet the tremendous demand for housing, and that's what I've done"

John Prescott, Politician

"There's a beauty to wisdom and experience that cannot be faked. It's impossible to be mature without having lived"

Amy Grant, Musician

"Without sounding too pretentious, I was sort of a slave to the narrative. When the narrative cracks in, I have to go where it takes me. I had to go to the Bohemian Grove. It was the obvious end to the book"

Jon Ronson, Journalist

"Without my husband's costumes I wouldn't have known how to accomplish what I saw in my own mind's eyes for choreography. And then seeing our choreography and knowing the background of it I am sure helped my husband a great deal with what he designed for us"

Katherine Dunham, Dancer

"We are in a position of financial and social power, and we could be agents of change in our society. Without pretension, I believe we could be a nice little gardener who takes care of the garden, and hopefully our neighbor will do the same. Then, maybe we'll achieve a better world"

Guy Laliberte, Businessman

"It is quite cruel that a poet cannot wander through his regions of enchantment without having a critic, forever, like the old man of the sea, upon his back"

Marianne Moore, Poet

"The research rat of the future allows experimentation without manipulation of the real world. This is the cutting edge of modeling technology"

John Spencer, Actor

"It's now up to the full Senate to move swiftly to confirm John Roberts so he can assume his duties and responsibilities as chief justice when the Supreme Court begins its new term in a matter of weeks. We call on the Senate to confirm John Roberts without delay"

Jay Alan Sekulow, Lawyer

"Criticism, like rain, should be gentle enough to nourish a man's growth without destroying his roots"

Frank Howard Clark, Writer

"One cannot accomplish anything without fanatacism"

Evita Peron, Statesman

"Only now did I recognize the reciprocal relationship which exits between manufacturing power and the national system of transportation, and that the one can never develop to its fullest without the other"

Friedrich List, Economist

"Habit is something you can do without thinking, which is why most of us have so many of them"

Frank Howard Clark, Writer

"I probably wrote three-quarters of the songs without an instrument in my hands"

Richard Thompson, Musician

"Dreams are not without meaning wherever thay may come from-from fantasy, from the elements, or from other inspiration"

Paracelsus, Scientist

"What we say is that democracy means that you have the right to vote without intimidation and undue burdens. But if you stand in line for six hours, technically, today there is no document, no standard, no law that says that that's wrong"

DeForest Soaries, Politician

"At the same time, new concepts and abstractions flow into the picture, taking up the task of describing the universe without reference to such time or space - abstractions for which our language lacks adequate terms"

Benjamin Whorf, Scientist

"That freedom can never be attained by a nation without suffering and sacrifice has been amply borne out by the recent tragic happenings in this subcontinent"

Muhammad Ali Jinnah, Politician

"Jobs for every American is doomed to failure because of modern automation and production. We ought to recognize it and create an income-maintenance system so every single American has the dignity and the wherewithal for shelter, basic food, and medical care. I'm talking about welfare for all. Without it, you're going to have warfare for all"

Jerry Brown, Politician

"My idea of a real treat is Magic Mountain without standing in line"

Alan Rickman, Actor

"Nothing matters but the facts. Without them, the science of criminal investigation is nothing more than a guessing game"

Blake Edwards, Director

"Therefore it is essential that some means should be sought whereby the work of the nation may be carried on without constant yet at present necessary dislocation"

James Larkin, Activist

"Television, they say, will permit a person to be entertained at home, without the effort of going to a picture house, without the trouble of booking seats, without the presence of other people"

Ivor Novello, Musician

"A shepherd may be a very able, trusty, and good shepherd, without a sweetheart - better, perhaps, than with one. But what is he without his dog?"

James Hogg, Poet

"We are beginning to wonder whether a servant girl hasn't the best of it after all. She knows how the salad tastes without the dressing, and she knows how life's lived before it gets to the parlor door"

Djuna Barnes, Novelist

"Not an old woman that buys a paper of pins, without yielding a part of the price to the banks as interest!"

John Buchanan Robinson, Politician

"It was the king's army, the king's people, the king's taxes; and he who questioned the propriety of the royal prerogative of taking from his people without return or accounting, was reckoned, and felt himself to be, a criminal, guilty of the highest crime of disloyalty"

John Buchanan Robinson, Politician

"I recorded harp first or singing first. I recorded it all together. Part of the reason is that I don't know how to play the songs without also singing. I forget how they progress. I don't think that any of them are verse, chorus, verse, and so on. They are not simple"

Joanna Newsom, Musician

"We have to understand how the extremists got the way they are. Without that kind of understanding, we'd never really get to know them. I put in nothing about their childhoods. But what I have put in is stuff about the weird symbiotic relationship between us and them"

Jon Ronson, Journalist

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