Without Quotes

"You have to respect your audience. Without them, you're essentially standing alone, singing to yourself"

"Limit use of shareware and public domain software to systems without fixed disks. If you do use them on fixed disks, allocate separate subdirectories... Public domain or shareware software should never be placed in the root directory"

John McAfee, Businessman

"With or without a Social Security fix, Americans don't have enough assets to retire on. There has to be a much larger debate"

Frank Keating

"Without the power of the Industrial Union behind it, Democracy can only enter the State as the victim enters the gullet of the Serpent"

James Connolly, Politician

"So, without being cold, you really have to try to retain the capacity to help people without becoming too emotional or allowing your own emotions to have full rein"

Guy Green, Politician

"I know that we're being inexorably taken over by the Americans. Without a doubt. I don't mean invaded or anything like that, just taken over. By degrees"

Gordon Lightfoot, Musician

"I have never, ever, had an acting partnership that was a safe, as full, and as exciting as the one I had with Tony. I didn't want to go through life without having a chance to taste it again"

Genie Francis, Actress

"When I started out, I preferred to watch my films without music, as its presence tends to mask the underlying pace of the film. I felt I could feel the rhythm of the film better without music to influence me"

Paul Hirsch, Politician

"Leadership is a potent combination of strategy and character. But if you must be without one, be without the strategy"

Norman Schwarzkopf, Soldier

"Without Social Security, poverty rates for African American seniors would more than double"

Chaka Fattah, Politician

"I cannot be much pleased without an appearance of truth; at least of possibility I wish the history to be natural though the sentiments are refined; and the characters to be probable, though their behaviour is excelling"

Frances Burney

"When I felt rather overcome with my father's opposition, I said as firmly as I could, that I must have this or something else, that I could not live without some real work"

Elizabeth Garrett Anderson, Scientist

"To learn to get along without, to realize that what the world is going to demand of us may be a good deal more important than what we are entitled to demand of it - this is a hard lesson"

Bruce Catton, Historian

"It not infrequently happens that persons without any other special qualification than the drama of their lives are precipitated into important political positions"

Charles Edward Merriam, Educator

"People of substance may sin without being exposed for their stolen pleasure; but servants and the poorer sort of women have seldom an opportunity of concealing a big belly, or at least the consequences of it"

Bernard de Mandeville, Philosopher

"There is also a perfection of degrees, by which a person performs all the commands of God, with the full exertion of all his powers, without the least defect. This is what the law of God requires, but what the saints cannot attain to in this life"

Charles Buck

"Never preach a sermon without a text from the Bible, a text containing the theme which you can elaborate. The text is the best proof in support of your argument. A sermon without a text is an argument without a proof"

Isaac Mayer Wise, Clergyman

"The Internet makes it possible for people like me to live the way I do now. Without it, I'd have to be in New York or some other city. I think the Internet is the greatest invention in history after antibiotics"

Jane Haddam, Writer

"A child's fear is a world whose dark corners are quite unknown to grownup people; it has its sky and its abysses, a sky without stars, abysses into which no light can ever penetrate"

Julien Green, Novelist

"The Communist vision is the vision of man without God"

Whittaker Chambers, Writer

"On that road of the informer, it is always night. I cannot ever inform against anyone without feeling something die within me. I inform without pleasure, because it is necessary"

Whittaker Chambers, Writer

"Chris Hemsworth is like Christopher Reeve in that he can do two things: he can wear a big red cape without a shred of self-consciousness. But he's also funny as hell, and he's so sweet. So with all the fish-out-of-water stuff, he's so funny. So he does almost two jobs in a way"

Tom Hiddleston, Actor

"The British have always coped without becoming a dictatorship"

Frederick Forsyth, Author

"Arithmetic! Algebra! Geometry! Grandiose trinity! Luminous triangle! Whoever has not known you is without sense!"

Comte de Lautreamont, Poet

"We all live in a free Poland, and there would be no free Poland without you, Twenty-five years ago, I did not stand on the same side together with you, but today I have no doubts that it was your vision of Poland which led us in the right direction"

Aleksander Kwasniewski, Politician

"The work requires a moderately large investment in technological and theoretical developments and long periods of time to carry them out, without the pressure to achieve quick or short term results"

Aaron Klug, Physicist

"A social democratic party without deep roots in the working class movement would quickly fade into an unrepresentative intellectual sect"

Roy Jenkins, Politician

"I find war detestable but those who praise it without participating in it even more so"

Romain Rolland, Novelist

"It seems to be impossible to hold a credible election without reforming the electoral system"

Sheikh Hasina

"It's the duty of all novelists, all painters, all musicians, all people who try to make art move: to look for something they feel authentically, without paying attention to styles"

Nathalie Sarraute, Lawyer

"Now being upon the haunches (as he necessarily must be in this case) is it impossible but he must be light in hand, because no horse can be rightly upon his haunches without being so"

William Cavendish, Public Servant

"There is no excellence without labor. One cannot dream oneself into either usefulness or happiness"

Liberty Hyde Bailey, Scientist

"Being a purely instrumental album, it makes a musical statement, not a religious one, and I hope that people can feel the emotion of the great melodies, even without the words"

Kenny G, Musician

"Hack fiction exploits curiosity without really satisfying it or making connections between it and anything else in the world"

Vincent Canby, Critic

"I've completed the first part of my preparations without injury problems. My speed is good and I'm doing lots of volume for strength"

Jonathan Brown, Athlete

"TCP works very hard to get the data delivered in order without errors and does retransmissions and recoveries and all that kind of stuff which is exactly what you want in a file transfer because so you don't want any errors in your file"

Jon Postel, Scientist

"I could not understand how it could move under its own power. And when it had driven past me, without even thinking why I found myself chasing it down the road, as hard as I could run"

Soichiro Honda, Businessman

"The film was made in 1973. It was a golden time for people to experiment without risking, for example, AIDS. Today one has to be so much more careful and I don't think a character like that could exist now"

Sylvia Kristel, Actress

"I'm very glad to have something to be passionate about. I can't imagine a life without passion"

Sylvia Kristel, Actress

"Liverpool without European football is like a banquet without wine"

Roy Evans, Athlete

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