Without Quotes

"There are no Rabbits in the north-west. This statement, far from final, is practically true today, but I saw plenty of Lynxes, and one cannot write of ducks without mentioning water"

Ernest Thompson Seton, Leader

"If you desire to be pure, have firm faith, and slowly go on with your devotional practices without wasting your energy in useless scriptural discussions and arguments. Your little brain will otherwise be muddled"

Ramakrishna, Leader

"That's why I do this music business thing, it's communication with people without having the extreme inconvenience of actually phoning anybody up"

Steven Morrissey, Musician

"It is the advertiser who provides the paper for the subscriber. It is not to be disputed, that the publisher of a newspaper in this country, without a very exhaustive advertising support, would receive less reward for his labor than the humblest mechanic"

Alexander Hamilton, Politician

"Truly great actors carry their characters in silence with them. They communicate without words the relationships that predate the movie"

Sam Mendes, Director

"Fashion offers no greater challenge than finding what works for night without looking like you are wearing a costume"

Vera Wang, Designer

"All those years of skating and dancing have carried over. I can't design anything without thinking of how a woman's body will look and move when she's wearing it"

Vera Wang, Designer

"It is not possible for a man to be elegant without a touch of femininity"

Vivienne Westwood, Designer

"But, the thing is, since I always had my own little shop and direct access to the public, I've been able to build up a technique without marketing people ever telling me what the public wants"

Vivienne Westwood, Designer

"It is to be feared that those who emigrate to New South Wales, generally anticipate too great facility in their future operations and certainty of success in conducting them; but they should recollect that competency cannot be obtained without labour"

Charles Sturt, Explorer

"No good fish goes anywhere without a porpoise"

Lewis Carroll, Author

"How are men to be secured in any rights without instruction; how to be secured in the equal exercise of those rights without equality of instruction? By instruction understand me to mean knowledge - just knowledge; not talent, not genius, not inventive mental powers"

Frances Wright, Writer

"Do we exert our own liberties without injury to others - we exert them justly; do we exert them at the expense of others - unjustly. And, in thus doing, we step from the sure platform of liberty upon the uncertain threshold of tyranny"

Frances Wright, Writer

"I started 20 years without missing a race and ESPN started broadcasting on the air waves"

Dale Earnhardt, Celebrity

"Think of an economy where people could be an artist or a photographer or a writer without worrying about keeping their day job in order to have health insurance"

Nancy Pelosi, Politician

"The president led us into the Iraq war on the basis of unproven assertions without evidence; he embraced a radical doctrine of pre-emptive war unprecedented in our history; and he failed to build a true international coalition"

Nancy Pelosi, Politician

"All I really had was my talent. Without that I wouldn't be welcome at the White House"

Sammy Davis, Jr., Entertainer

"I told him there was one city that they must not bomb without my permission and that was Kyoto"

Henry L. Stimson, Statesman

"I never make a trip to the United States without visiting a supermarket. To me they are more fascinating than any fashion salon"

Wallis Simpson, Royalty

"Real elation is when you feel you could touch a star without standing on tiptoe"

Doug Larson, Cartoonist

"I never play without my cape"

Bela Lugosi, Actor

"I enjoy my work. I haven't been an actor for 30 years without getting pleasure out of the profession"

Bela Lugosi, Actor

"Raquel Welch is someone I can also live without. We've got some love scenes together and I am dreading them!"

Oliver Reed, Actor

"No individual has any right to come into the world and go out of it without leaving something behind"

George Washington Carver, Scientist

"Enthusiasm is the genius of sincerity and truth accomplishes no victories without it"

Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton, Politician

"The first big break was winning a scholarship to go to Cambridge University. I was very lucky, because my parents couldn't have afforded a university education for me. Without a scholarship I couldn't possibly have gone"

Trevor Nunn, Director

"It is by a wise economy of nature that those who suffer without change, and whom no one can help, become uninteresting. Yet so it may happen that those who need sympathy the most often attract it the least"

F. H. Bradley, Philosopher

"My body gets weak without truth"

Andrei Platonov, Writer

"At every crisis in one's life, it is absolute salvation to have some sympathetic friend to whom you can think aloud without restraint or misgiving"

Woodrow Wilson

"No man succeeds without a good woman behind him. Wife or mother, if it is both, he is twice blessed indeed"

Harold MacMillan, Politician

"There is no truth without responsibility following in its wake"

Kenneth L. Pike, Sociologist

"I'm not a Hollywood basher because enough good movies come out of the Hollywood system every year to justify its existence, without any apologies"

Quentin Tarantino, Director

"I have the feeling it will influence my future writing to the extent that without any material worries I could develop a greater ease, even lightheartedness, in my writing"

Elfriede Jelinek, Playwright

"Without discipline, there is no Marine Corp"

R. Lee Ermey, Soldier

"We think it will be shortly afterwards, but it seems a terrible thing to gamble with such big stakes in diplomacy without having your master card in your hand"

Henry L. Stimson, Statesman

"It took a brave editor in the U.S. to sign a contract for Dancing Girls, and without her belief in the book, I'm not sure it would ever have found its way into print"

Louise Brown, Celebrity

"My errors will point to thinking men the various roads, and will teach them the great art of treading on the brink of the precipice without falling into it"

Giacomo Casanova, Celebrity

"It is only necessary to have courage, for strength without self-confidence is useless"

Giacomo Casanova, Celebrity

"In the mean time I worship God, laying every wrong action under an interdict which I endeavour to respect, and I loathe the wicked without doing them any injury"

Giacomo Casanova, Celebrity

"I took pleasure when I could. I acted clearly and morally and without regret. I'm very lucky"

Jeanne Calment, Celebrity

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