Top 100 Can Do Without Quotes
#1. Religion is the best antidote to the individualism of the consumer age. The idea that society can do without it flies in the face of history and, now, evolutionary biology.
Jonathan Sacks
#2. Keep a sharp lookout upon your materials; get rid of every pound of material you can do without; put to yourself the question what business has it to be there?, avoid complexities, and make everything as simple as possible.
Henry Maudslay
#3. One can do without solutions. Only the questions matter. We may share them or turn away from them.
Elie Wiesel
#4. I think he'll have to lose you Lucy. He won't know what he can do without you until he's without you.
Ka Hancock
#5. There is a tendency to underestimate the power of what we can do without words. Sometimes you can make a scene even more powerful and precise without dialogue.
Mads Mikkelsen
#6. Never mind what I knew, nothing seems to matter now
Ooh, who I was without you, I can do without
No one knows where it ends, how it may come tumbling down
But I'm here with you now
I'm with you now
Sara Bareilles
#7. In most cases we attach ourselves to in order to take revenge on life, to punish it, to signify we can do without it, that we have found something better, and we also attach ourselves to God in horror of men.
Emile M. Cioran
#8. think my father came to believe long ago what Rhett Butler told Scarlett: reputation is something people with character can do without. Character and character
Sally Mann
#9. Sure, you can do without the hard personal comments, but it doesn't really happen apart from a few isolated incidents.
Andrew Flintoff
#10. You have no idea what a long-legged gal can do without doing anything.
Claudette Colbert
#11. There is in man a higher than love of happiness; he can do without happiness, and instead thereof find blessedness.
Thomas Carlyle
#12. There's nothing Israel can do without US support. It can't breathe without US support. The US bankrolls everything, and it's just silly to think that Israel can do anything without the support.
Norman Finkelstein
#13. For 50 years bike racers have been taking stimulants. Obviously we can do without them in a race, but then we will pedal 15 miles an hour (instead of 25). Since we are constantly asked to go faster and to make even greater efforts, we are obliged to take stimulants
Jacques Anquetil
#14. We can do without things easier than we can do without people.
Nancy Grossman
#15. Some are created for beauty, and some for use; and there are some which one can do without altogether.
Hans Christian Andersen
#16. Hope likes justification, but can do without.
Mason Cooley
#17. I can do without a television or a telephone, I think.
Billy Burke
#18. I can never think of you as a friend. You can do without a friend.
Graham Greene
#19. We can do without butter, but, despite all our love of peace, not without arms. One cannot shoot with butter, but with guns.
Joseph Goebbels
#21. Pick at random any three letters from the alphabet, put them in any order, and you will have an acronym designating a federal agency we can do without.
Milton Friedman
#22. Do not be afraid of undertaking too much of what you can do without coming and going; but fear only the thought of doing more than you are doing and more than God is giving you the means to do.
Vincent De Paul
#23. Art, it seems to me, should simplify finding what conventions of form and what detail one can do without and yet preserve the spirit of the whole - so that all that one has suppressed and cut away is there to the reader's consciousness as much as if it were in type on the page.
Willa Cather
#24. It is stupid to grieve for the loss of a girl friend: you might never have met her, so you can do without her.
Cesare Pavese
#25. How many things I can do without!
Socrates
#26. You think I have no feelings, and that I can do without one bit of love or kindness; but I cannot live so: and you have no pity.
Charlotte Bronte
#27. Your calling is in what you can do without noticing time
Sunday Adelaja
#29. They can do without architecture who have no olives nor wines in the cellar
Henry David Thoreau
#31. Let me remind you that the measure of anyone's freedom is what he can do without.
L.M. Montgomery
#32. It's amazing what you can do without in terms of filmmaking when a story is really important.
Justin Chadwick
#34. Chains and stuff are nice, don't get me wrong I love them and I wear chains, but I can do without it.
Big Sean
#36. There is a world of good you can do without even realizing it, if you decide that today, just today, you're going to be decent to the people you meet.
Jack Tyler
#37. can do without a lot of things, the only thing I can't do without is the past. [
Svetlana Alexievich
#38. Doctrines which can stand the trial of logic and reason can do without persecuting skeptics. This
Ludwig Von Mises
#39. She makes one happy, then miserable. You are to her kind, then unkind. Constant yet inconstant. Thus we have WOMAN. No real man can do without her.
Marcus Garvey
#40. Aye. And I can do without a viper-tongued wench.""Wench? Wench? Lass is one thing, but did you just call me a wench? I'll have you know I'm a doctor. No one calls me a wench. I passed my boards with flying colors. I could take you apart and put you back together with my eyes closed.
Jennifer LaBrecque
#41. There are subtle things you can do without crossing the line. If I see I've got up my opponent's nose, I will be over the moon. Job done.
Ian Poulter
#42. A blond in a red dress can do without introductions
but not without a bodyguard.
Rona Jaffe
#43. Photography, like alcohol, should only be allowed to those who can do without it.
Walter Sickert
#44. And if there's love, you can do without happiness too. Even with sorrow, life is sweet.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#45. But anyway, it's obvious through human experience that extended families and tribes are terribly important. We can do without an extended family as human beings about as easily as we can do without vitamins or essential minerals.
Kurt Vonnegut
#46. Judgement can do without knowledge: but not knowledge without judgement.
Michel De Montaigne
#47. The useful may be trusted to further itself, for many produce it and no one can do without it; but the beautiful must be specially encouraged, for few can present it, while yet all have need of it.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#48. Self-inquiry is a spiritually induced form of wintertime. It's not about looking for a right answer so much as stripping away and letting you see what is not necessary, what you can do without, what you are without your leaves.
Adyashanti
#49. We are not rich by what we possess but by what we can do without.
Immanuel Kant
#50. Habit is something you can do without thinking, which is why most of us have so many of them.
Frank A. Clark
#52. The amount of a man's wealth consists in the number of things he can do without.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#53. What a lot of things there are a man can do without.
Socrates
#54. What do such machines really do? They increase the number of things we can do without thinking. Things we do without thinking-there's the real danger.
Frank Herbert
#55. Progress is discovering what you can do without.
Marty Rubin
#56. Far more indispensable then food for the physical body is spiritual nourishment for the soul. One can do without food for a considerable time, but a man of the spirit cannot exist for a single second without spiritual nourishment.
Mahatma Gandhi
#57. Under budgetary pressure (arbitrary or not) it is truly remarkable how many options one discovers one can do without.
James R. Schlesinger
#58. The finest friendships are between those who can do without each other.
Elbert Hubbard
#59. I felt condemned to obscurity and to celibacy. But when one is driven by passion, one can live on almost nothing, and I was driven by passion for writing. One does not starve in modern, Western societies, and one can do without such amenities as the telephone, a car, entertainment.
Alain Robbe-Grillet
#60. I like food, like any other guy, but it is not the main thing in my life. I can do without it.
Lee Child
#61. Security depends not so much upon how much you have, as upon how much you can do without.
Joseph Wood Krutch
#62. Football needs its roots, it needs its connection with the supporters. But those in charge seem to think they can do without them.
Graham Taylor
#63. I've only wanted paper and beautiful colors. It was my dream, and it still is my dream. And books. They're all I need, and the rest I can do without.
Karl Lagerfeld
#64. Must do all we can do without destroying our ability to keep doing it.
Orson Scott Card
#65. The soul can do without everything except the word of God, without which none at all of its wants are provided for.
Martin Luther
#66. Always providing you have enough courage - or money - you can do without a reputation.
Margaret Mitchell
#67. We must risk delight. We can do without pleasure,
but not delight. Not enjoyment. We must have
the stubbornness to accept our gladness in the ruthless
furnace of this world. To make injustice the only
measure of our attention is to praise the Devil.
Jack Gilbert
#68. Part of the triumph of modernist poetry is, indeed, to have demonstrated the great extent to which verse can do without explicit meaning and yet not sacrifice anything essential to its effect as art. Here, as before, successful art can be depended upon to explain itself.
Clement Greenberg
#69. I had a family. They can be a nuisance in identity but there is no doubt no shadow of doubt that that identity the family identity we can do without.
Gertrude Stein
#70. If he thinks I'm going to sit around crying over him, he's got another thing coming. I can live without him, I can do without him just fine - but I don't like to lose. It's not like me. None of this is like me. I don't get rejected. I'm the one who walks away.
Paula Hawkins
#71. It is amazing how much theory we can do without when work actually begins.
E.F. Schumacher
#73. Everyone is alone and yet nobody can do without other people, not just because they are useful ... but also when it comes to happiness.
Maurice Merleau Ponty
#74. God, bless me with luxury. Necessities I can do without.
Oscar Wilde
#75. My experience of ships is that on them one makes an interesting discovery about the world. One finds one can do without it completely.
Malcolm Bradbury
#77. When you find peace within, you also find that you can do without. This means simply that you no longer need the things of your outside world, and not needing is a great freedom.
Neale Donald Walsch
#78. I've never recommended anybody go into coaching, 'cause if they have enough on the ball, if they can do without coaching, they should do without it. If they put as much work into it and
spend as much time, the rewards are going to be much better in something else.
Bear Bryant
#79. You can do without sleep or without food, but not without both and sleep wasn't an option.
Ilona Andrews
#81. We can no more do without spirituality than we can do without food, shelter, or clothing.
Ernest Holmes
#82. With luck on your side, you can do without brains.
Giordano Bruno
#83. He who imagines he can do without the world deceives himself much; but he who fancies the world cannot do without him is still more mistaken.
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
#84. I don't seem to require a lot of sleep. I just - if I get four, five good hours, I'm fine. But sleeping is sort of dull. There's a lot of other good stuff that you can do without just lying down and closing your eyes.
Betty White
#85. The man who thinks he can do without the world is indeed mistaken; but the man who thinks the world cannot do without him is mistaken even worse.
Francois Truffaut
#86. We can do without any article of luxury we have never had; but when once obtained, it is not in human natur' to surrender it voluntarily.
Thomas Chandler Haliburton
#87. True security lies not in the things one has, but in the things one can do without.
Og Mandino
#88. Let me be surrounded by luxury, I can do without the necessities!
Oscar Wilde
#89. The story is told of Socrates walking through the market in Athens, with its groaning abundance of options, and saying to himself, "Who would have thought that there could be so many things that I can do without?"4
Os Guinness
#90. Don't try to be fancy. Shoot for the center of mass. The world is full of decent people. Criminals we can do without.
Jeff Cooper
#91. I don't know how much longer I can keep going without a friend. I used to be able to do it very easily, but that was before I knew what having a friend was like.
Stephen Chbosky
#92. The thing is, what I'm tryin' to say is -
they do get on a lot better without me, I can't help them any. They ain't mean. They buy me everything I want, but it's now - you've-got-it-go-play-with-it. You've got a roomful of things. I-got-you-that-book-so-go-read-it.
Harper Lee
#93. The only thing a person can ever really do is keep moving forward. Take that big leap forward without hesitation, without once looking back. Simply forget the past and forge toward the future.
Alyson Noel
#94. Energy will do anything that can be done in the world; and no talents, no circumstances, no opportunities will make a two-legged animal a man without it.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#95. Mother Teresa said that she couldn't imagine doing her work for more than thirty minutes without prayer. Do you and I have work that we can't imagine doing for thirty minutes without prayer?
Gary Haugen
#96. Some people think that nothing moves in this world without leave of the woman. Do not know more, but I can say that war never happened, nor can there be, when you do not want to leave sovereign
Jose De Alencar
#97. I'm not sure what kind of love you mean, baby, but if you mean do I want you to be with me forever, that I can't bear the thought of being without you as my lover, my best friend, my whole world....one day my wife, and my baby mama, then yes, I Love you, Love you!
S.E. Hall
#98. Why, if one were Queen, would one ever want to marry? If one is ruler, is it not better to both King and Queen? That is exactly what a woman can do if she remains without a mate.
Kathryn Lasky
#99. I sketch in a way that people can nearly do the dresses without me coming in for a fitting. Every single detail, every proportion, every cut
everything.
Karl Lagerfeld
#100. We can take action with a player without the league taking any action. But all that we can do is, we can deactivate him. But we're limited under the collective bargaining agreement to four games.
Bob McNair
