Without Quotes

"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

"There is something very basic to the sense of listening. The sense of hearing is the only one that operates totally from vibrations, without other physical or chemical reactions to receive the sensations"

Henry Reed, Writer

"The reader need not be told that John Bull never leaves home without encumbering himself with the greatest possible load of luggage. Our companions were no exception to the rule"

Francis Parkman, Historian

"I speak English without an accent, and I speak Spanish without an accent. I really do have the best of both worlds"

Eva Mendes, Actress

"Through years of secret work, scientific and basic ground work was laid, in order to be ready again to work the German Armed Forces at the appointed hour, without loss of time or experience"

Gustav Krupp, Businessman

"Without a notion of the transcendental, human beings would, indeed, be animals; however, only fools can be convinced of it, and only degenerates need such a conviction"

Franz Grillparzer, Poet

"For no continuity of social act is possible without a corresponding social status and the many different kinds of act required in an industrial state, with its high degree of specialization, make for corresponding classification of status"

Kenneth Burke, Philosopher

"Many people and governments share the mistaken belief that science, with new, ingenious devices and techniques, can rescue us from the troubles we face without our having to mend our ways and change our patterns of activity. This is not so"

Henry W. Kendall, Scientist

"In addressing you I feel that I am not so much speaking to the representatives of diverse States of Europe and America as to the exponents of principles and hopes that are common to us all, and without which our life on earth would be a life without horizon or prospect"

Henry Campbell-Bannerman

"An administration without a police executive is powerless and there were many proofs of this"

Hans Frank, Public Servant

"I had to work out that it was something that could move, without having everybody in spray painted leotards"

Colleen Atwood, Designer

"More and more, unsolicited gifts from without are likely to be received with unconscious resentment"

Edward Sapir, Scientist

"I hope to live all my life for my art, without abandoning my principles one iota"

Gustave Courbet, Artist

"The most important thing that parents can teach their children is how to get along without them"

Frank Howard Clark, Writer

"These examples of the lack of simplicity in English and French, all appearances to the contrary, could be multiplied almost without limit and apply to all national languages"

Edward Sapir, Scientist

"Fort Leavenworth is in fact no fort, being without defensive works, except two block-houses"

Francis Parkman, Historian

"You can be childlike without being childish. A child always wants to have fun. Ask yourself, "Am I having fun?""

Christopher Meloni, Actor

"One of the main points about travelling is to develop in us a feeling of solidarity, of that oneness without which no better world is possible"

Ella Maillart, Writer

"I was extravagant in the matter of cameras - anything photographic - I had to have the best. But that was to further my work. In most things I have gone along with the plainest - or without"

Edward Weston, Photographer

"Many people do not realize that where unions have bargaining rights employers cannot raise wages or improve benefit plans any more than they can reduce them without of the consent of the union"

Charles E. Wilson, Businessman

"Working-class Americans have waited too long, close to a decade in fact, for an increase in the minimum wage. This has been the second longest period without a pay raise since the Federal minimum wage law was first enacted in 1938"

Bill Pascrell, Politician

"Love is moral even without legal marriage, but marriage is immoral without love"

Ellen Key, Writer

"The pains of disconcerted or frustrated habits, and the inherent pleasure there is in following them, are motives which nature has put into our wills without generally caring to inform us why; and she sometimes decrees, indeed, that her reasons shall not be ours"

Chauncey Wright, Philosopher

"Others are keen to see if natives other than us live better than we do, without heat in pipes, ice in boxes, sunshine in bulbs, music on disks, or images gliding over a pale screen"

Ella Maillart, Writer

"Let me tell you something: if you're on an island for three and a half months and you're four and a half hours by boat from the nearest store, and there's nobody but 30 crew members on the island, I guarantee that you'd be running around without your clothes on"

Christopher Atkins, Actor

"First, I was Bavarian State Minister of Justice, and after the ministries of justice in the various states were dissolved I became Reich Minister without portfolio"

Hans Frank, Public Servant

"There is no refuge from memory and remorse in this world. The spirits of our foolish deeds haunt us, with or without repentance"

Gilbert Parker, Politician

"The prospect of success in achieving our most cherished dream is not without its terrors. Who is more deprived and alone than the man who has achieved his dream?"

Brendan Francis, Playwright

"We shall continue to work for a Middle East that is free of strife and violence, living in harmony without the threat of terrorism or the dangers of weapons of mass destruction"

Hosni Mubarak, Statesman

"An animal that embarks on forming states without greatly restricting egoism will perish"

Erwin Schrodinger, Scientist

"Black or white good parts are hard to come by. A good actor with a good opportunity has a shot; without the opportunity it doesn't matter how good you are"

Denzel Washington, Actor

"I do not think that Mulder trusts any one other than Scully. He s very solitary. She is the only one who takes him seriously. I don t know if they re in love. In a way, their relationship is deeper than that, because they cannot live without each other"

David Duchovny, Actor

"A trial without witnesses, when it involves a criminal accusation, a criminal matter, is not a true trial"

Bill McCollum, Politician

"My whole family could sing. My family harmonized without any instruments to accompany them"

Ethel Waters, Musician

"In her whole life Mom never earned more than five or six dollars a week. Being without a husband, it was hard for her to find any place at all for us to live"

Ethel Waters, Musician

"I care about being able to play. If you're playing with integrity in the music, then that's what matters. But it wasn't that great for me because it was kinda like going back into the old times without the guy"

Bill Kreutzmann, Musician

"It is quite an illusion to imagine that one adjusts to reality essentially without the use of language and that language is merely an incidental means of solving specific problems of communication or reflection"

Edward Sapir, Scientist

"We, Russia, are prepared to work with others. I am convinced that stability and security in Europe cannot be considered without taking Russia into account"

Boris Yeltsin, President

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