Top 100 To Be Without Quotes
#1. There is an inmost center in us all, where truth abides in fullness; ... and, to know, rather consists in opening out a way where the imprisoned splendor may escape, then in effecting entry for a light supposed to be without.
Robert Browning
#2. I care about money, very much. I want it. I don't ever want to be without it. My mother once said about me, 'Elaine has to have money.'
Elaine Stritch
#3. If you find your life of prayer to be always so short, and so easy, and so spiritual, as to be without cost and strain and sweat to you, you may depend upon it, you have not yet begun to pray.
Alexander Whyte
#4. Stories are compasses and architecture, we navigate by them, we build our sanctuaries and our prisons out of them, and to be without a story is to be lost in the vastness of a world that spreads in all directions like arctic tundra or sea ice.
Rebecca Solnit
#5. The most important and visible outcropping of the action bias in excellent companies is their willingness to try things out, to experiment. If you wait until you believe you are safe, sure to be without occasional foolish feelings, you've most likely waited too long.
Tom Peters
#6. Don't fuckin' do shit like that again, baby," he interuppted in a raspy, hurt voice. There was no anger in is voice, just a desolate crushed roughness. "Cause I ain't wanting to be without you. You hearing me? You're my fuckin' woman. We ride this road together, no matter what gets in our way.
Tillie Cole
#7. For such an advanced civilization as ours to be without images that are adequate to it is as serious a defect as being without memory.
Werner Herzog
#8. Memory really matters ... only if it binds together the imprint of the past and the project of the future, if it enables us to act without forgetting what we wanted to do, to become without ceasing to be, and to be without ceasing to become.
Italo Calvino
#9. One does not have to be without sin to castigate someone else for being a rapist or murderer" (386).
Kenneth Pollack
#10. Without money, you are powerless in this world. You are totally subject to whatever happens. To be without money in the physical world is to be powerless.
Frederick Lenz
#11. To be without God is to be a snake / who wants to swallow an elephant.
Anne Sexton
#12. He said what nobody understood was, she always felt like a bird in a cage--she wanted to be without roots.
Kate Alcott
#14. I don't want to be without you anymore. Somewhere in the middle of this fantasy world you created, I fell in love with you, Aria said. - Excerpt from Camp Jameson.
Wendy Lea Thomas
#15. It is better to be without a king than to have a bad one.
Chanakya
#16. If I was a braver man, I'd leave things the way they are, but I can't. You asked me why I'm a coward because I refuse to be without you. I cannot fathom any kind of a happy existence if you're not in it.
Colleen Houck
#17. Time had passed, yet her heart held onto him. She did not draw breath without thinking of him. She did not dream without feeling his presence at her side. His voice, in memory, was sweeter than any she'd heard. And she did not want to be without him.
Sasha Summers
#18. Religion I found to be without any tendency to inspire, promote, or confirm morality, serves principally to divide us and make us unfriendly to one another.
Benjamin Franklin
#19. There is no mind so weak and powerless as not to have its inclinations, and none so guarded as to be without its prepossessions.
George Crabbe
#20. It is a most miserable lot to be without an enemy. [No man can be successful without being envied and hated.]
Publilius Syrus
#21. Give up all hope, all illusion, all desire..I've tried. I've tried and still I desire, I still desire not to desire and hope to be without hope and have the illusion I can be without illusions..Give up, I say. Give up everything, including the desire to be saved.
Luke Rhinehart
#22. There is pleasure when a sore is scratched, But to be without sores is more pleasurable still. Just so, there are pleasures in worldly desires, But to be without desires is more pleasurable still.
Nagarjuna
#23. Please don't leave me. Not again. Please. It hurts too much to be without you. I don't know how.
Helena Hunting
#25. Certain unique books seem to be without forerunners or successors as far as their authors are concerned. Even though they may profoundly influence the work of other writers, for their creator they're complete, not leading anywhere.
Dodie Smith
#26. There are certain people that are so much a part of you, that are so loved, that they shine up your insides just by being around. They fill in all your parts that feel empty. And when they leave the world, you don't know how to be without them.
Jessica Lawson
#27. We all get given these bodies, and they're all fascinating and different ... I wouldn't want to be without the wrinkles.
Miranda Hart
#28. To be fated to lose. To know destiny itself the architect of my torment. Can it be true? Is to be Loki to be without hope? And if so...to whom can a god appeal for mercy?
Robert Rodi
#29. God is a kooky God who can scarcely bear to be without us.
Brennan Manning
#30. We learned we wanted too much. We could only give from the perspective of who we were and what we had. Apart, we were able to see with even greater clarity that we didn't want to be without each other.
Patti Smith
#31. If some years were added to my life, I would give fifty to the study of the Yi, and then I might come to be without great faults.
Confucius
#32. -Evie...don't ever leave me. I don't know what I'd do.
-I'm not going anywhere,Adam.
-I...I just...I could never love someone as much as I love you...you're it for me. This is it. I don't want to be without you. You're my life. You have...all of me.
-And you have all of me. I'm yours.
Lisa J. Hobman
#33. They were without shame and without desire, like the angels. But it is not human to be without shame and without desire.
Ursula K. Le Guin
#34. I don't want to be without you. I like who I am with you, and I don't want to go back to who I was before."
"I love you, Rachel. So this will work. No matter what or who stands in our way.
Katie McGarry
#35. No nation ought to be without a debt. A national debt is a national bond; and when it bears no interest, is in no case a grievance.
Thomas Paine
#36. I didn't want to love you, but I can't help it. I don't want to be without you, but I bloody well will. - Max
Colleen Gleason
#37. To be without trees would, in the most literal way, to be without our roots.
Richard Mabey
#38. I think girls and boys should be able to be any way they want to be without getting picked on.
Leslie Feinberg
#39. I feel that good food should be a right and not a privilege, and it needs to be without pesticides and herbicides. And everybody deserves this food. And that's not elitist.
Alice Waters
#40. I gave up language for a while, and I started painting.And then I only listened to Miles Davis and other instrumental music to see how it felt to be without words.
Rosanne Cash
#41. It is good to be without vices, but it is not good to be without temptations.
Walter Bagehot
#42. We have no higher life that is really apart from other people. It is by imagining them that our personality is built up; to be without the power of imagining them is to be a low-grade idiot.
Charles Horton Cooley
#43. The answers come when you are quietly willing to be without them.
Vernon Howard
#44. Experience, already reduced to a group of impressions, is ringed round for each one of us by that thick wall of personality through which no real voice has ever pierced on its way to us, or from us to that which we can only conjecture to be without.
Walter Pater
#45. and we both know how beautiful the book will be, how clearly it will speak to something within us - some previously unarticulated thought or reflection that, once recognized, we will never want to be without again.
Julie Schumacher
#46. And where people do not want to know God, he usually allows them to be without him - at least for a while. When desire conflicts with reality, sooner or later reality wins.
Dallas Willard
#47. Never offer an oath lightly. For you pledge not only your life and sacred honor, but your people's honor as well. To break an oath is to be without honor, to be without a spirit, and to be apart from the people.
Raymond E. Feist
#48. The happiest life is to be without thought
Sophocles
#49. That transformation is to lose everything is an understatement so vast as to be without meaning. One has to lose everything, and one has to lose the one who has lost everything ...
Steven Harrison
#50. Never lead your soldiers to battle if you have not first confirmed their spirit and known them to be without fear and ordered; and never test them except when you see that they hope to win.
Niccolo Machiavelli
#51. One thing, all things: move among and intermingle, without distinction. To live in this realization is to be without anxiety about non-perfection. To live in this faith is the road to non-duality, because the non-dual is one with the trusting mind.
Sengcan
#52. I don't want to go through this. I don't want to be without her. I don't want to miss her like I do, longing for her taste, her touch, her sounds. I don't want to be reborn in this new world, a world that means nothing in her absence. I don't want to be in this life without her.
Laurelin Paige
#53. I was forever under his spell and I never wanted to be without him, ever again. And if being with him, like this, turned out to be a mistake, it would be the best mistake I'd ever make.
C.J. English
#54. To be without silver is better than to be without honor.
Robert Low
#55. He put his arms about himself as if he were cold. I do not know who to be without him.
Cassandra Clare
#56. To navigate in a world without value is to be without rudder or destination, and yet without science, we navigate blind. To many, apparently, blindness is preferable.
Terrence W. Deacon
#57. Dr. Boice's commentary series is a treasure for the church and for her pastors. No expository preacher can afford to be without it.
R.C. Sproul
#58. Diversity may be the hardest thing for a society to live with, and perhaps the most dangerous thing for a society to be without.
William Sloane Coffin
#59. Sometimes a woman is afraid to be without security or without certainty, for even a short time. She has more excuses than dogs have hairs. She must just simply dive in and stand not knowing what will happen next.
Clarissa Pinkola Estes
#60. But you can't get to the place you most want to be without taking a chance.
Susane Colasanti
#61. The way love feels is always only approximate. I would like to be without shame. I would like to be shameless. I would like to be ignorant. Then I would not know how ignorant I was.
Margaret Atwood
#62. To be without guile is to be free of deceit, cunning, hypocrisy, and dishonesty in thought or action.
Joseph B. Wirthlin
#63. Do you know what my ambition is in life? To be without ambition. As far back as I can remember I've been absolutely hag-ridden. I'd like to attain the state of mind that the Indians call Nirvana. That, for me, would happen if I were free of ambition.
Tallulah Bankhead
#64. During the songs, you transcend yourself. The best way to be in the performance is to be without pause and be essentially in the moment, in that moment of expression.
Florence Welch
#65. She lets him see how
afraid she is to be without him and he soon comes to feel as though
he has a 100 percent hold on her. This is often the point when
women begin to complain: He doesn't make enough time for me.
He isn't as romantic as he used to be.
Sherry Argov
#66. Rules. Custom. Danger. It's dangerous to be with me."
"It's dangerous to be without you." I nudge closer to the fire.
He reaches out and adjusts my blanket around my shoulders. "That doesn't change the rules, though.
Susan Ee
#67. My personal opinion is that I'm in the media too much. I'm not a politician, I'm a businessman. I would like to be without any extra visibility.
Viktor Vekselberg
#68. If a man has a right to be proud of anything, it is of a good action done as it ought to be, without any base interest lurking at the bottom of it.
Laurence Sterne
#69. To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.
Bertrand Russell
#70. Human love is to devote a part of ourselves to the providence of another existence. To be without this devotion is to be void of love.
Michael Hollingworth
#71. To be without a dog is worse than being without a song.
Henry Hough
#72. To be without method is deplorable, but to depend entirely on method is worse.
Chai Lu
#73. And patience flees my heart, And reason flees my mind. Oh, how drunk can I get to be, Without your love's security?
Rumi
#74. The world is not a pleasant place to be without someone to hold and be held by.
Nikki Giovanni
#75. She knew in her heart that to be without optimism, that core of reasonless hope in the spirit rather than the brain, was a fatal flaw, the seed of death.
Anne Perry
#76. To join two things together there must be nothing between them or there cannot be a perfect fusion. Now realize that this is how God wants our soul to be, without any selfish love of ourselves or of others in between, just as God loves us without anything in between.
St. Catherine Of Siena
#77. The Academy Awards ceremony is designed to be without irony, but Chris Rock supplied it anyway with filmed movie-theater interviews with black men and women who had never heard of the movies nominated for Best Picture.
Suzanne Fields
#78. Evil is often supposed to be without rhyme or reason.
Terry Eagleton
#80. cannot be called talent to slay fellow-citizens, to deceive friends, to be without faith, without mercy, without religion; such methods may gain empire, but not glory.
Niccolo Machiavelli
#81. Zen is not a particular state but the normal state: silent, peaceful, unagitated. In Zazen neither intention, analysis, specific effort nor imagination take place. It's enough just to be without hypocrisy, dogmatism, arrogance - embracing all opposites.
Taisen Deshimaru
#82. You have to learn how to turn the tables on the ego. The only way to forgive what is within is to forgive what seems to be without.
Gary Renard
#83. I presume that you are compassionate: to be without pity means to be sick in body and spirit. But one should have spirit in abundance, so as to be permitted to be compassionate! For your pity is detrimental to you and to everyone.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#84. I know it's not good for a girl to be without a father these days. But is it any better for a father to be without a daughter?
Gavriel Savit
#85. A man will speedily sit down and sympathize with a friend's griefs, but if he sees him honored and esteemed, he is apt to regard him as a rival and does not so readily rejoice with him. This ought not to be; without effort, we ought to be happy in our brother's happiness.
Charles Spurgeon
#86. The Internet is like the phone. To be without it is ridiculous.
Kevin Mitnick
#87. I never knew that missin somebody could hurt, I says. But it does. Deep inside. Like it's in my bones. We ain't never bin apart till now. Never. I dunno how to be without him. It's like ... I ain't nuthin.
Moira Young
#88. Today, some of the most spiritual people I know claim to be without religion.
Tony Campolo
#89. No government ought to be without censors; and where the press is free no one ever will.
Thomas Jefferson
#90. We were friends who realized they didn't want to be without each other. We were the other's opposite in many ways but also so very similar. I couldn't call our relationship fate, but it did seem bigger than anything I'd known before.
Kiera Cass
#91. It cannot be called ingenuity to kill one's fellow citizens, to betray friends, to be without faith, without mercy, without religion; by these means one can aquire power but not glory.
Niccolo Machiavelli
#92. To be without sympathy is to be alone in the world
without friends or country, home or kindred.
Christian Nestell Bovee
#93. I liked the fact that I could be who I wanted to be without my sister's voice reminding me of who I had been.
Jojo Moyes
#94. It is better for you to suffer an injustice than for the world to be without law. Therefore, let everyone submit to the law.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#95. This season isn't going to be without several crises. There's no doubt about it. They're coming.
Bill Parcells
#96. Among all the characters mentioned in the Bible, none is more mysterious than Melchisedec; said to be without father, mother, or earthly kin, and holding the dual office of king and priest.
Max Heindel
#97. I have been through two wars in my 24 years, and I know what it's like to be without anything, to see the bombs flying above your head.
Novak Djokovic
#98. I love you; I love you and I don't care that you're my sister; don't be with him, don't want him, don't go with him. Be with me. Want me. Stay with me.
I don't know how to be without you.
Cassandra Clare
#99. You don't give a gift to shape someone into the person you want him to be. You give a gift because it's something you couldn't bear to be without, but it's even more unthinkable for the other person to be without it.
Will Chancellor
#100. In other words, despite the dogged liberal assumption - again, coming from Smith's legacy - that the existence of states and markets are somehow opposed, the historical record implies that exactly the opposite is the case. Stateless societies tend also to be without markets.
David Graeber
