Without Quotes

"Got through it without fluffing, that's the main thing any actor can hope for"

"He who studies medicine without books sails an uncharted sea, but he who studies medicine without patients does not go to sea at all"

William Osler, Scientist

"Without heroes, we are all plain people and don't know how far we can go"

Bernard Malamud, Novelist

"Aspiring to a souffle, he achieves a pancake at which the reader saws without much appetite"

John Leonard, Poet

"I think people are entitled to march without a permit. When you have a few hundred thousand people on the street you have permission"

Tom Hayden, Politician

"He's passed from rising hope to elder statesman without any intervening period whatsoever"

Michael Foot, Politician

"It was tough at the time but when I was younger, my Dad. I would say my Dad, because without him I wouldn't have been here. I mean it was tough for me because he was really demanding. With him, it was never enough, you know, anything I did was never enough"

Thierry Henry, Athlete

"Sure, you would lose more bombers without fighters, but, flying in formation, you could get the job done"

Stuart Symington, Businessman

"And I believe that public broadcasting has an important trust with the American people, it's an intimate medium of television, and that we can do reading and language development for young children without getting into human sexuality"

Margaret Spellings, Public Servant

"Although housing sales and starts have cooled to more typical levels, the housing market remains strong and sound. Without the expansion of homeownership and the strength of our housing market, our nation would not have the economic growth we are experiencing today"

Randy Neugebauer, Politician

"In Europe the various ranks of society are, like the strata of the earth, fixed and fossilized. There can be no great change without a terrible upheaval, a social earthquake"

Josiah Strong, Clergyman

"Socialism is simply Communism for people without the testosterone to man the barricades"

Gary North, Writer

"Without craftsmanship, inspiration is a mere reed shaken in the wind"

Johannes Brahms, Composer

"I like this life. I like it when it's hard, and I like it better when it's not, but I know you don't get the sweet part without the bitter"

Holly Near, Musician

"There is nothing that war has ever achieved we could not better achieve without it"

Havelock Ellis, Psychologist

"There is a lovable quality about the actual tools. One feels so kindly to the thing that enables the hand to obey the brain. Moreover, one feels a good deal of respect for it; without it the brain and the hand would be helpless"

Gertrude Jekyll, Celebrity

"The dream, alone, is of interest. What is life, without a dream?"

Edmond Rostand, Poet

"To love without criticism is to be betrayed"

Djuna Barnes, Novelist

"I was a fighter and very determined. There was no way I was going to back out without winning"

Christine Lahti, Actress

"From William of Orange to William Pitt the younger there was but one man without whom English history must have taken a different turn, and that was William Pitt the elder"

Albert Bushnell Hart, Historian

"Roy was just another bureaucrat to me, but I realized very soon that without Roy this thing would have died"

Ben Shahn, Artist

"The world is changing. Networks without a specific branding strategy will be killed. I envision a world of highly niched services and tightly run companies without room for all the overhead the established networks carry"

Barry Diller, Businessman

"A well adjusted person is one who makes the same mistake twice without getting nervous"

Alexander Hamilton, Politician

"Equality is the soul of liberty; there is, in fact, no liberty without it"

Frances Wright, Writer

"The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring. And that is not happiness"

F. H. Bradley, Philosopher

"No one succeeds without effort... Those who succeed owe their success to perseverance"

Ramana Maharshi, Philosopher

"Their every instinct - and I have to say this is without exception - is to iron out the bumps, and It's always the bumps that are the most interesting stuff"

Adrian Lyne, Director

"To live without evil belongs only to the gods"

Sophocles, Author

"What house, bloated with luxury, ever became prosperous without a woman's excellence?"

Sophocles, Author

"Without music, life would be a mistake"

Friedrich Nietzsche, Philosopher

"I have spent all my life under a Communist regime, and I will tell you that a society without any objective legal scale is a terrible one indeed. But a society with no other scale but the legal one is not quite worthy of man either"

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Author

"I can say without affectation that I belong to the Russian convict world no less than I do to Russian literature. I got my education there, and it will last forever"

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Author

"Words without thoughts never to heaven go"

William Shakespeare, Dramatist

"One may no more live in the world without picking up the moral prejudices of the world than one will be able to go to hell without perspiring"

H. L. Mencken, Writer

"No man ever prayed heartily without learning something"

Ralph Waldo Emerson, Philosopher

"Enthusiasm is the mother of effort, and without it nothing great was ever achieved"

Ralph Waldo Emerson, Philosopher

"It is one of the beautiful compensations in this life that no one can sincerely try to help another without helping himself"

Ralph Waldo Emerson, Philosopher

"Without passion man is a mere latent force and possibility, like the flint which awaits the shock of the iron before it can give forth its spark"

Henri Frederic Amiel, Philosopher

"There is no respect for others without humility in one's self"

Henri Frederic Amiel, Philosopher

"Women wish to be loved without a why or a wherefore; not because they are pretty, or good, or well-bred, or graceful, or intelligent, but because they are themselves"

Henri Frederic Amiel, Philosopher

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