Without Quotes

"I am concerned for the security of our great Nation; not so much because of any threat from without, but because of the insidious forces working from within"

Douglas MacArthur, Soldier

"Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality"

Edgar Allan Poe, Poet

"Married sex is like being awake during your own autopsy. It is root canal work without anesthetic"

Al Goldstein, Publisher

"Life is the art of drawing without an eraser"

John W. Gardner, Educator

"Is it possible to succeed without any act of betrayal?"

Jean Renoir, Director

"An actress must never lose her ego - without it she has no talent"

Tom Lehrer, Musician

"Our dreams are a second life. I have never been able to penetrate without a shudder those ivory or horned gates which separate us from the invisible world"

Gerard De Nerval, Novelist

"Laughter kills fear, and without fear there can be no faith. For without fear of the devil there is no need for God"

Sean Connery, Actor

"Firstly you must always implicitly obey orders, without attempting to form any opinion of your own regarding their propriety. Secondly, you must consider every man your enemy who speaks ill of your king; and thirdly you must hate a Frenchman as you hate the devil"

Horatio Nelson, Soldier

"I praise the Lord here today. I know that all my talent and all my ability comes from him, and without him I'm nothing and I thank him for his great blessing"

Ernie Harwell, Celebrity

"No man should escape our universities without knowing how little he knows"

J. Robert Oppenheimer, Physicist

"He was as great as a man can be without morality"

Alexis de Tocqueville, Historian

"However, without considering this connection, there is no doubt but that more good than evil, more delight than sorrow, arises from compassion itself; there being so many things which balance the sorrow of it"

Joseph Butler, Clergyman

"Consequently it will often happen there will be a desire of particular objects, in cases where they cannot be obtained without manifest injury to others"

Joseph Butler, Clergyman

"A day without sunshine is like, you know, night"

Steve Martin, Comedian

"I believe that the fact and the reality of homosexuality and heterosexuality and of opposite and same-gender unions should be taught in our public schools without a value judgement system also being offered"

Ed Case, Politician

"He also didn't like a lock of my hair and said that he couldn't get into the moment without the hair being just right. I quietly knew that he was anxious and that the hairdo wasn't the real issue. But we all let it go and came back to the scene sometime later"

Madeleine Stowe, Actress

"To have what we want is riches; but to be able to do without is power"

George MacDonald, Novelist

"Gout produces calculus in the kidney... the patient has frequently to entertain the painful speculation as to whether gout or stone be the worst disease. Sometimes the stone, on passing, kills the patient, without waiting for the gout"

Thomas Sydenham, Scientist

"A punk concert isn't fun without a pit"

Billie Joe Armstrong, Musician

"I believe that at the end of the century the use of words and general educated opinion will have altered so much that one will be able to speak of machines thinking without expecting to be contradicted"

Alan Turing, Mathematician

"Being in love was like China: you knew it was there, and no doubt it was very interesting, and some people went there, but I never would. I'd spend all my life without ever going to China, but it wouldn't matter, because there was all the rest of the world to visit"

Philip Pullman, Writer

"It goes without saying that when survival is threatened, struggles erupt between peoples, and unfortunate wars between nations result"

Hideki Tojo, Soldier

"We can, for example, be fairly confident that either there will be a world without war or there won't be a world - at least, a world inhabited by creatures other than bacteria and beetles, with some scattering of others"

Noam Chomsky, Activist

"From the material point of view the proposal is unacceptable, for France, without further territory in Europe being taken from her, could be so crushed as to lose her position as a Great Power, and become subordinate to German policy"

Edward Grey, Politician

"It has been demonstrated that no system, not even the most inhuman, can continue to exist without an ideology"

Joe Slovo, Politician

"A man is never drunk if he can lay on the floor without holding on"

Joe E. Lewis, Comedian

"Without censorship, things can get terribly confused in the public mind"

William Westmoreland, Soldier

"Without natural gifts technical rules are useless"

Quintilian, Educator

"You don't build a bond without being present"

James Earl Jones, Actor

"Without Liberty, Law loses its nature and its name, and becomes oppression. Without Law, Liberty also loses its nature and its name, and becomes licentiousness"

James Q. Wilson, Politician

"There can be no rise in the value of labour without a fall of profits"

David Ricardo, Economist

"Doubt, the essential preliminary of all improvement and discovery, must accompany the stages of man's onward progress. The faculty of doubting and questioning, without which those of comparison and judgment would be useless, is itself a divine prerogative of the reason"

Albert Pike, Lawyer

"An able, disinterested, public-spirited press, with trained intelligence to know the right and courage to do it, can preserve that public virtue without which popular government is a sham and a mockery"

Joseph Pulitzer, Publisher

"Freedom is the oxygen without which science cannot breathe"

David Sarnoff, Inventor

"I am a real ham. I love an audience. I work better with an audience. I am dead, in fact, without one"

Lucille Ball, Comedian

"Given Pounds and five years, and an ordinary man can in the ordinary course, without any undue haste or putting any pressure upon his taste, surround himself with books, all in his own language, and thence forward have at least one place in the world"

Augustine Birrell, Author

"I got along without you before I met you and I'll get along without you a long time after you're gone"

Willie Nelson, Musician

"A goal without a plan is just a wish"

Larry Elder, Journalist

"It is true practically if not altogether without exception that the changes studied by any science tend to equilibrate or neutralize the forces which bring them about, and finally to come to rest"

Frank Knight, Economist

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