Without Quotes

"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

"There are a couple of teachers I have had without whose influence I would not be as happy with who I am"

Mackenzie Astin, Actor

"We are an age without leaders. We stopped having leaders at the end of the 20th century"

Oriana Fallaci, Journalist

"I regard freedom of expression as the primary right without which one can not have a proper functioning democracy"

Lord Hailsham, Politician

"Experiments were not attempted at that time, we did not believe in the usefulness of the concept anyway, and I finished my thesis in 1962 with a feeling like an artist balancing on a high rope without any interested spectators"

Richard Ernst, Scientist

"An actor without a playwright is like a hole without a doughnut"

George Jean Nathan, Editor

"On the contrary a film can promote the idea of change without any political message whatsoever but in its form and language can tell people that they can change their lives and contribute to progressive changes in the world"

Wim Wenders, Director

"The lessons of September 11 are that if we allow law enforcement to do their work free of political interference, if we give them adequate resources and modern technologies, we can protect our citizens without intruding on our liberties"

Lucille Roybal-Allard

"Having photographed the landscape for a number of years and specifically working with trees and in the forest I found, without consciously thinking about it, that it was a great learning experience for me in terms of organizing elements"

John Sexton, Educator

"What I know about this world is that white people will take care of themselves. And what I have learned is that if you are where they are on an equal basis, they cannot take care of themselves without taking care of you"

Vernon Jordan, Businessman

"Certain it is that their power increased always in an exact proportion to the weakness of the Caliphate, and, without doubt, in some of the most distracted periods of the Arabian rule, the Hebrew Princes rose into some degree of local and temporary importance"

Isaac Disraeli, Writer

"You have to be able to be a good loser. You have to be okay knowing you're going to fail every day in something without getting mad and upset"

Dan O'Brien, Athlete

"The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in the insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning but without understanding"

Louis D. Brandeis, Judge

"Baldness is visually enough of a stigma as it is without a big sweaty bloke on stage pointing it out"

Johnny Vegas, Comedian

"It is virtually impossible to compete in today's global economy without a college degree"

Bobby Scott, Politician

"The conception of two people living together for twenty-five years without having a cross word suggests a lack of spirit only to be admired in sheep"

Alan Patrick Herbert, Novelist

"Because they feel that without them telling you to do this, you wouldn't have had the characters that you have, you wouldn't have the book that you have"

Dan DeCarlo, Cartoonist

"One expected growth, change; without it, the world was less, the well of inspiration dried up, the muses fled"

Charles de Lint, Writer

"For far too long, America has been without a comprehensive energy plan, and today consumers are paying the price - literally - at the pump and in their heating bills"

Chris Chocola, Politician

"Yet, history has shown that if material force can defeat some ideologies it can no longer obliterate a civilization without destabilizing the whole planet"

Abdelaziz Bouteflika, Statesman

"One man cannot hold another man down in the ditch without remaining down in the ditch with him"

Booker T. Washington, Educator

"In itself, homosexuality is as limiting as heterosexuality: the ideal should be to be capable of loving a woman or a man; either, a human being, without feeling fear, restraint, or obligation"

Simone de Beauvoir, Writer

"Success without honor is an unseasoned dish; it will satisfy your hunger, but it won't taste good"

Joe Paterno, Coach

"A man may lack everything but tact and conviction and still be a forcible speaker; but without these nothing will avail... Fluency, grace, logical order, and the like, are merely the decorative surface of oratory"

Charles Horton Cooley, Sociologist

"I therefore claim to show, not how men think in myths, but how myths operate in men's minds without their being aware of the fact"

Claude Levi-Strauss, Scientist

"The job of the poet is to render the world - to see it and report it without loss, without perversion. No poet ever talks about feelings. Only sentimental people do"

Mark Van Doren, Poet

"Prudent people are very happy; 'tis an exceeding fine thing, that's certain, but I was born without it, and shall retain to my day of Death the Humour of saying what I think"

Mary Wortley Montagu, Writer

"God is an immensity, while this disease, this death, which is in me, this small, tightly defined pedestrian event, is merely and perfectly real, without miracle - or instruction"

Harold Brodkey, Author

"One-half of life is luck; the other half is discipline - and that's the important half, for without discipline you wouldn't know what to do with luck"

Carl Zuckmayer, Playwright

"I think life without Coronation Street would be unthinkable. It's part of all our lives"

Michael Parkinson, Journalist

"I assert that nothing ever comes to pass without a cause"

Jonathan Edwards, Clergyman

"His claim to his home is deep, but there are too many ghosts. He must absorb without being absorbed"

Willie Morris, Writer

"Democracy without morality is impossible"

Jack Kemp, Politician

"Is it possible that literacy standards are falling because young Australians are growing up in a culture in which they can be entertained and informed, and in which they can communicate effectively, without having to master any but the most rudimentary literacy skills?"

Hugh Mackay

"Once the image was in the digital environment, one of the problems was, we had no means to reproduce the color spectrum, grey scale, and contrast that film produces, without converting the digital file to film, evaluating it, then going back and changing the digital image"

John Dykstra, Scientist

"What does music mean to me? I don't think I would really be much without it, without it coming through me. It's my means of communication, my means of growth, my means of transportation from one point in my life to another"

Erykah Badu, Musician

"Historically, musicians know what it is like to be outside the norm - walking the high wire without a safety net. Our experience is not so different from those who march to the beat of different drummers"

Billy Joel, Musician

"It takes good clients to make a good advertising agency. Regardless of how much talent an ad agency may have, it is ineffective without good products and services to advertise"

Morris Hite, Businessman

"I think if I could have a boyfriend like my brothers I'd be really happy. But without the brother thing"

Patricia Velasquez, Actress

"I got to get the right people in the right job. Because a lot of costs can be taken out in the context of your administration without the legislature.For example, using technology to do more with less. Using technology to fight fraud. Reorganizing and streamlining can be done within the context of the administration"

Meg Whitman, Businessman

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