Without Quotes

"The world has become more complex as technology and easy travel mixes cultures without homogenizing them"

"Without a doubt, first thing we should do is clean up our fiscal house, and that starts with balancing our budgets and digging out of this red ink. We cannot expect to continue in this fashion and remain the leader of the free world"

Marcy Kaptur, Politician

"Anger is seldom without argument but seldom with a good one"

Lord Halifax, Politician

"I never can pass by the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York without thinking of it not as a gallery of living portraits but as a cemetery of tax-deductible wealth"

Lewis H. Lapham, Editor

"A hero is someone we can admire without apology"

Kitty Kelley, Journalist

"A Republic without parties is a complete anomaly. The histories of all popular governments show absurd is the idea of their attempting to exist without parties"

Franklin Pierce, President

"The most important thing in the programming language is the name. A language will not succeed without a good name. I have recently invented a very good name and now I am looking for a suitable language"

Donald Knuth, Scientist

"There have been a couple of jobs I've done without thinking, without being engaged, and they just stink"

Clancy Brown, Actor

"Authority without wisdom is like a heavy ax without an edge, fitter to bruise than polish"

Anne Bradstreet, Poet

"You can't be in the public eye without making mistakes and having some regrets and having people analyze everything you do"

Sheryl Crow, Musician

"Without strength and courage it's really hard to perform at the highest levels of international figure skating, because you're alone on the ice and you only have seven minutes over two nights to prove yourself"

Scott Hamilton, Athlete

"So I have cultivated the vast garden of human experience which is history, without troubling myself overmuch about laws, essential first causes, or how it is all coming out"

Samuel E. Morison, Historian

"John Paul II, above all, managed to contain the huge mass of frustration, of hate that had accumulated in that region, in favour of a peaceful transition. This was, without doubt, something that changed European history"

Rocco Buttiglione, Politician

"I spent 26 years in the business without ever knowing what I was doing a month from now"

Stephen Collins, Actor

"There is fear as to whether Japan, reduced to such a predicament, could ever manage to pay reparations to certain designated Allied Powers without shifting the burden upon the other Allied Powers"

Shigeru Yoshida, Politician

"Without a doubt, the best way to get to know me is through my music"

Shania Twain, Musician

"We know well enough that if we repeal this law and give nothing for it, the people of this country will regard it as a total demonetization of silver, which it will be, so far as this Congress is concerned, without any question"

Richard Parks Bland, Politician

"To tell you the truth, in my work, love is always in opposition to the elements. It creates dilemmas. It brings in suffering. We can't live with it, and we can't live without it. You'll rarely find a happy ending in my work"

Krzysztof Kieslowski, Director

"I'm thrilled to have a completely new audience that I can get from Court TV, without it being my own trial. That was the only other way I would have gotten it"

John Waters, Director

"I want a world without war, a world without insanity. I want to see people do well. I don't even think it's as much as what I want for myself. It's more what I want for the people around me. That's what I want"

Tom Cruise, Actor

"But without a caring society, without each citizen voluntarily accepting the weight of responsibility, government is destined to grow even larger, taking more of your money, burrowing deeper into your lives"

Jeb Bush, Politician

"I think it's a pretty good day if I can get through it without lifting a finger"

Jane Kaczmarek, Actress

"And I taught acting for years, and without knowing it that was the real thing that started bending me toward directing"

Sydney Pollack, Director

"I was the youngest of seven kids and I would not have been able to go to college without an athletic scholarship"

Scott Brooks, Coach

"Slavery is but half abolished, emancipation is but half completed, while millions of freeman with votes in their hands are left without education"

Robert Charles Winthrop, Politician

"A woman always has her man, but the man unconsciously leans on his roots, his heritage. He feels like an orphan without his parents"

Raj Kapoor, Actor

"Delaware State is no longer a college for African Americans without other choices, it is a university of choice"

Michael N. Castle, Politician

"I've learned you can make a mistake and the whole world doesn't end. I had to learn to allow myself to make a mistake without becoming defensive and unforgiving"

Lisa Kudrow, Actress

"Without the Guard and Reserve, our active duty troops could hardly deploy"

John Spratt, Politician

"Indeed, if a chief question does remain: how is the power to think possible? - The power to think right and left, before and without, with and above experience? then it does not take a deduction to prove the genealogical priority of language"

Johann G. Hamann

"Knowledge is not a passion from without the mind, but an active exertion of the inward strength, vigor and power of the mind, displaying itself from within"

Ralph Cudworth, Theologian

"I can go out in public without being recognized. If I want to be recognized in public, it will happen"

Peter Mayhew, Actor

"I can't walk by chocolate without eating it"

Malin Akerman, Actress

"I'd like to be able to tap with my action this low without buzzing"

Stanley Jordan, Musician

"Religion without humanity is very poor human stuff"

Sojourner Truth, Activist

"Imagination is the only key to the future. Without it none exists - with it all things are possible"

Ida Tarbell, Journalist

"Expressions of disapproval are on a level of vulgarity that cannot be tolerated. The way to express disapproval is to do without applause"

Rudolf Bing, Musician

"But now that the guerrilla fighting is over, the Spaniards are again men without a country or families or homes or work, though everyone appreciates very much what they did"

Martha Gellhorn, Journalist

"I have a sneaking suspicion that if there were a way to make movies without actors, George Lucas would do it"

Mark Hamill, Actor

"A computer does not substitute for judgment any more than a pencil substitutes for literacy. But writing without a pencil is no particular advantage"

Robert McNamara, Public Servant

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