Top 100 People Without Quotes
#1. British politicians used to be good at misleading people without actually lying.
Tim Harford
#2. To family, whether by blood or by affection. We'd all be lesser people without them.
Jeaniene Frost
#3. People are really in despair today in Greece. They are afraid of tomorrow. They suffer. We have 1.2 million people without jobs. So you understand that this crisis cannot leave the political system untouched. Of course we have to change but we have to change in the right way.
Dora Bakoyannis
#4. Spending time with people without ambition is a self-destruction.
Amen Muffler
#5. I never expected her. Sometimes people sneak up on you and suddenly you don't know how you ever lived without them. How you went about your day and hung out with your friends and fucked other people without having this one important person in your life." Garrett Graham
Elle Kennedy
#6. People without independence have no business to meddle with science. It should never be linked with lucre.
Edward Forbes
#7. The lesson I was learning involved the idea that I could feel compassion for people without acting on it.
Melody Beattie
#9. Diplomacy, Democracy, and parenting are very much the same. It's an act of creating and maintaining control over people without them becoming aware of it while rousing their allegiance through fear or manipulation to protect your right to continue taking advantage of them and their loyalty.
Mitch Alexander
#10. Peter Falk and Denis Leary today walked into a Starbucks and shot 27 people, without any announcement whatsoever.
Denis Leary
#11. People without hope not only don't write novels, but what is more to the point, they don't read them.
Flannery O'Connor
#12. The best solution to income inequality is providing a high-quality education for everybody. In our highly technological, globalized economy, people without education will not be able to improve their economic situation.
Ben Bernanke
#13. We must love stupid people better than ourselves; are they not the really unfortunate ones of this world? Do not people without taste and without ideal grow constantly weary, rejoicing in nothing, and being quite useless here below?
George Sand
#14. He has the valuable quality of being fond of people without wanting to turn them inside out.
Dorothy L. Sayers
#15. Pierre's insanity consisted in the face that he did not wait, as before, for personal reasons, which he called people's merits, in order to love them, but love overflowed his heart, and loving people without reason, he discovered the unquestionable reasons for which it was worth loving them.
Leo Tolstoy
#16. I have always liked what the Scarecrow said to Dorothy in the Wizard of Oz.
"Some people without brains do an awful lot of talking, don't they?
Paul Howard
#17. A land without memories is a people without liberty.
Robert E.Lee
#18. We walked back the way we came, and even though it was dark there were no lights burning inside the houses. They were like people without hearts; raspberry tarts without the jam.
Glenda Millard
#19. How can you love people without encouraging them? And how can you be loyal to people without educating them.
Confucius
#20. A sage is skilled at helping people without excluding anyone.
Laozi
#21. The poorest people are not people without money, but people without memories of happier times when they're down
Kim Dong-joo
#22. Because I found myself telling the story of his family to people without the visual aids that I was able to employ by filming them eventually. But I very much knew exactly what I was going to do.
Terry Zwigoff
#23. People without children do have the freedom to do things that caring parents with dependent kids can't - to work long hours, to travel frequently, to relocate, and to do all these things on short notice if necessary. In return, they can achieve positions that devoted parents can't.
Virginia Postrel
#24. Scarecrow: I haven't got a brain ... only straw.
Dorothy: How can you talk if you haven't got a brain?
Scarecrow: I don't know ... But some people without brains do an awful lot of talking ... don't they?
Dorothy: Yes, I guess you're right.
L. Frank Baum
#25. Work honestly, meditate everyday, meet people without fear and play.
Baba Hari Dass
#26. People without hope do not write novels ... [Writing fiction] is a plunge into reality and it's very shocking to the system. If the novelist is not sustained by a hope of money, then he must be sustained by a hope of salvation, or he simply won't survive the ordeal.
Flannery O'Connor
#27. Among a people without fellow-feeling, especially if they read and speak different languages, the united public opinion, necessary to the working of the representative government, cannot exist.
John Stuart Mill
#28. Cry about the simple hell people give other people- without even thinking. Cry about the hell white people give colored folks, without even stopping to think that they're people too.
Harper Lee
#29. Unselfish love for all people without exception is the most important point of convergence among all significant spiritualities and religions.
Stephen G. Post
#30. People who care nothing for their country's stories and songs,' he said, 'are like people without a past- without a memory- they are half people
Alasdair Gray
#31. People without sense of humor aren't much fun to be around, no matter how far they've gotten.
Jane Stanton Hitchcock
#32. The telephone is a good way to talk to people without having to offer them a drink.
Fran Lebowitz
#33. Pierre's insanity consisted in not waiting, as he used to do, to discover personal attributes which he termed "good qualities" in people before loving them; his heart was now overflowing with love, and by loving people without cause he discovered indubitable causes for loving them.
Leo Tolstoy
#35. Pettiness is the tendency of people without large purposes.
George Will
#36. I like going to Burning Man, for example. An environment where people can try new things. I think as technologists we should have some safe places where we can try out new things and figure out the effect on society. What's the effect on people, without having to deploy it to the whole world.
Larry Page
#37. The essence of dramatic form is to let an idea come over people without it being plainly stated. When you say something directly, it's simply not as potent as it is when you allow people to discover it for themselves.
Stanley Kubrick
#38. Most people, without consciously realizing it, absorb a great deal of psychic energy from the people they casually associate with, and even a greater amount from people with whom they have strong emotional connections.
Frederick Lenz
#39. You can't get any movement larger than five people without including at least one fucking idiot.
Kim Stanley Robinson
#40. Thou hast been with the Monkey People - the gray apes - the people without a law - the eaters of everything.
Rudyard Kipling
#41. It's obvious that the key problem facing humanity in the coming century is how to bring a better quality of life - for 8 billion or more people - without wrecking the environment entirely in the attempt.
E. O. Wilson
#42. The laws are still very unclear. Cells are still taken from people without consent - a lot of people don't realize it.
Rebecca Skloot
#43. Seeing things from a different point of view can help us understand why other people act the way they do. We too often judge people without having all the facts.
Sean Covey
#44. Shadow found himself starting to like Smith. He told himself that liking this man was not a sensible thing to do. He had met people like Smith before, people without consciences, without scruples, without hearts, and they were uniformly as dangerous as they were likeable.
Neil Gaiman
#46. It's the advantage of the virus to spread, and you can only spread when you infect people and they infect other people without necessarily killing them. So if you had 100 percent mortality, the potential pandemic would almost self-eliminate itself.
Anthony Fauci
#47. Needless to say, you can love people without leading them, but you cannot lead people without loving them.
John C. Maxwell
#48. Chemistry is a trade for people without enough imagination to be physicists.
Arthur C. Clarke
#49. A people without the memories of heroic suffering and sacrifices are a people without a history.
John Brown Gordon
#50. There are a number of people without whom I could not have written this book, but I hope you don't hold that against them. They are all fine people, and they had no idea how it would turn out.
Dave Barry
#51. When you judge other people without wanting to know the true story behind their actions, is usually when there is something inside of you that is so broken that if you found out what you believed about them was a lie, you wouldn't want to accept it or make amends.
Shannon L. Alder
#52. 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
#53. Why is it that so few "pretty people" without checkered pasts are used mightily in the Scriptures? Because the Bible is primarily about God's grace, not about human cleanliness.
Matt Chandler
#54. The Internet is a giant international network of intelligent, informed computer enthusiasts, by which I mean, "people without lives." We don't care. We have each other ...
Dave Barry
#55. I think when I started going to war zones and started covering humanitarian issues, it became a calling because I realized I had a voice, and I can give people without a voice a voice ... and now it is something that sits inside of me every day.
Lynsey Addario
#56. Comedy is a great tool. We [comics] are trying to find ways to use humor to enlighten people without preaching to them.
Trevor Noah
#57. He thought about his people without sentimentalily, with a strick closing of his accounts with life, beginning to understand how much he really loved the people he hated the most.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
#58. A major advantage of age is learning to accept people without passing judgment.
Liz Carpenter
#59. I've never thought it was necessary to make fun of people - you can find fun in people without necessarily mocking them.
Roy Blount Jr.
#60. Do not be a people without a will of your own saying: If others treat well you will also treat well and if they do wrong we will do wrong; but accustom yourselves to do good if people do good and do not do wrong if they do evil.
Anonymous
#61. You have to learn how to care about people without taking on all of their problems.
Phylicia Rashad
#62. The only people without problems are those in cemeteries. It is not what happens to us that separates failures from successes. It is how we perceive and what we do about what happens that makes the difference.
Tony Robbins
#63. when we conceive an idea, we don't just look anymore but we see. People without a well defined vision look; men with a focused purpose look and they see.
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#64. (If this goes on, all communication everywhere will be through text messages or computers, and direct speech between two people, without a machine, will be outlawed.)
Ray Bradbury
#65. Strong emotions are present in all people. Without feeling, we would not be human. It's unnatural for man to hide what he's feeling, though if taught to do so, he can learn. Love teaches a man to show what he is feeling. Love never presupposes that it can be discerned or felt without expression ...
Leo Buscaglia
#66. I want to undo this. To make it right. But I have no idea how. I don't seem to know how to open up to people without getting the door slammed in my face. So I do nothing.
Gayle Forman
#67. People without clear vision are easily distracted, have a tendency to drift from one idea to another and often make foolish decisions that rob them of their dreams.
Andy Stanley
#68. Truman makes friends without influencing people,' noted Arthur Schlesinger Jr. 'Dewey influences people without making friends.
David Pietrusza
#69. What is Obamacare doing? It's destroying the only kind of plans people without insurance ever get. And nobody seems to be noticing except the people who are being canceled and then can't find a replacement because it's too expensive.
Rush Limbaugh
#70. Housing without people, and people without housing.
Milad Hanna
#71. Too many people in the U.S. support death and destruction without being aware of it. They indirectly support the killing our people without ever having to look at the corpses
Assata Shakur
#72. A people's memory is history; and as a man without a memory, so a people without a history cannot grow wiser, better.
I.L. Peretz
#73. If you have love, you can correct people without saying anything to them because love is a supreme intelligence.
Nirmala Srivastava
#74. We cannot and we will not negotiate with terrorists. We have nothing but contempt for them. To conciliate differences with these people without them changing their objectives is to condemn our Republic to ultimate strangulation and death.
Ferdinand Marcos
#75. Charm is the ability to insult people without offending them; nerdiness the reverse
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
#76. A people without a positive history is like a vehicle without an engine.
Steven Biko
#77. Last year I told Lori I thought I might be bi. Ever since, whenever she saw me looking at another girl, she asked if I liked her. Lori didn't get that sometimes it was fun just to notice people without having to think about whether you liked them or not.
Robin Talley
#78. I know we will create a society where there are no rich or poor, no people without work or beauty in their lives, where money itself will disappear, where we shall all be brothers and sisters, where every one will have enough.
Sylvia Pankhurst
#79. People without an internalized symbolic system can all too easily become captives of the media.
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
#80. I want to thank some very special people without whom I would not be here today. George Bush, Sarah Palin and the Pope. When I came to Hollywood in 1983, I had one dream - to sleep with Jodie Foster. That didn't work out, but this is nice, too.
Bill Maher
#81. The spirit in which the offer was made must of necessity contribute to improving and alleviating the situation of the Jewish people without our renouncing one iota of the great principles upon which our movement is based.
Theodor Herzl
#83. I think the United States and the secretary of State should be concerned about the poverty in this country - people without health insurance. The United States should stop being the empire and be concerned about other countries. You've got to be more worried about your own people.
Hugo Chavez
#84. I see the insurance issue, the coverage of people for healthcare in our country as a huge moral issue. The richest country in the world to have 47 million people without health insurance is ridiculous.
Benjamin Carson
#85. This is a basic problem, to feed 6.6 billion people. Without fertilizer, forget it. The game is over.
Norman Borlaug
#86. Everybody needs history but the people who need it most are poor folks - people without resources or options.
Henry Hampton
#87. But the truth is, you can't really earn trust over time with people without being somewhat vulnerable [first].
Timothy Ferriss
#88. High-profile columnists should remember they are in a privileged position. Writing isn't a dreadfully specific skill - it's taught to millions via our schooling system. And opinions? Well, I've yet to meet people without opinions.
Rob Manuel
#89. Do not fear facing people without your pants; the world is dirtier than your underwear.
M.F. Moonzajer
#90. Gray is not a substitute for black and white. You don't bump into people without saying you're sorry. When you shake hands, it's supposed to mean something. If someone is in trouble, you reach out.
Jon M. Huntsman Sr.
#91. And, by the way, one of the most delightful things I find in America is meeting a people without prejudice
everywhere open to the truth.
Oscar Wilde
#92. The telephone, it struck me at that moment, is the wrong means of communication for people without ears.
Timur Vermes
#93. When you are asked to love everybody indiscriminately, that is to love people without any standard, to love them regardless of whether they have any value or virtue, you are asked to love nobody.
Ayn Rand
#94. I do not propose that everyone in Guantanamo or its evil twin at Bagram is innocent. I just don't believe we should incarcerate people without trial and torture them or facilitate and profit from their torture.
Nick Harkaway
#95. We have to lock up people, without trial, whether they are communists, whether they are language chauvinists, whether they are religious extremists. If you don't do that, the country would be in ruins.
Lee Kuan Yew
#96. A people without knowledge of their history is like a tree without roots." I
Gregory S. Parks
#97. This used to be about sex. The literature of my people was pornography, filled with cries for mercy, drama enacted on people without prolonged negotiation, partners engaged in a dance in the middle of a bonfire. Now, it's 300-page manuals about how to make sure nothing bad will happen.
Laura Antoniou
#98. I know it sounds crazy, but people with jobs tend to have more creative freedom than people without.
Jon Acuff
#99. I have to speak carefully now because I have this strange habit of imitating British people without even realizing that I'm doing it.
Matthew Norman
#100. If we're going to kill our own people without even charging them with a crime, well, then we should just say we live in a different country, and stop telling the world that we're the sort of great, shining city on the hill.
Jeremy Scahill
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