Without Making Quotes

#1. One of the most difficult things to learn is to render service without bossing, without making a fuss about it, and without any consciousness of high and low. In the world of spirituality, humility counts at least as much as utility.

Meher Baba

#2. Through error you come to the truth! I am a man because I err! You never reach any truth without making fourteen mistakes and very likely a hundred and fourteen.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#3. I need someone who believes that the sun will rise again but who does not fear my darkness. Someone who can point out the rocks in my way without making me a child by carrying me. Someone who can stand in thunder and watch the lightning and believe in a rainbow.

Joe Mahoney

#4. Truman makes friends without influencing people,' noted Arthur Schlesinger Jr. 'Dewey influences people without making friends.

David Pietrusza

#5. You can't be in the public eye without making mistakes and having some regrets and having people analyze everything you do.

Sheryl Crow

#6. It is sad that so many designers don't know how to make. CAD software can make a bad design look palatable! It is sad that four years can be spent on a 3D design course without making anything! People who are great at designing and making have a great advantage.

Jonathan Ive

#7. Can you live without charm, intimidation, or some form of influence over others? Without making others do your bidding on some level? You flirt, they react one way or another. Everything is manipulation.

Wildbow

#8. You've either got to find a way to make your continuing characters insteresting without making them maudlin or overwrought, or you've got to put more emphasis on the suspects.

Jane Haddam

#9. Many a woman would get a divorce if she could do it without making her husband happy.

Evan Esar

#10. I can't leave the house without making sure all the beds are made right, so they are neat and fresh when I come in at night.

Jason Donovan

#11. I have just come from the castle, where I have seen the president of the republic, and I can tell you that he has accepted all of my proposals without making any changes.

Klement Gottwald

#12. You cannot learn to skate without making yourself ridiculous - the ice of life is slippery.

George Bernard Shaw

#13. I never see myself as writing satire. I think I write about people as they really are, without making them better or worse.

Kate Christensen

#14. It is certainly very hard to write about sex in English without making it unattractive.

Edmund Wilson

#15. I know, to the deepest marrow of my bones that I love you, that I want you, that I could not do, not a'tall, without making you mine one day. So call me weak, I don't bleeding care. Call me greedy, for I am that. I want you now, forever and always.

Eden Butler

#16. They dumped him in the orphanage as dust and dirt swirled in fierce desert winds howling like jackals. It was a day when hawks flew against the wind without making headway, hovering over him, preparing for the kill. As if he were their helpless prey. And that was how he felt. Helpless.

I.J. Sarfeh

#17. And the two of them loved each other for a long time in silence without making love again.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

#18. A critic should be taught to criticise a work of art without making any reference to the personality of the author.

Oscar Wilde

#19. You cannot go poking skeletons in the closet without making maggots wriggle." - Springfield Road

Salena Godden

#20. Without making any moral judgements whatsoever, one can say that self-indulgence and excessive self-preoccupation are the antithesis of genuine awareness.

Ronald Rolheiser

#21. We have discovered that the scheme of 'outlawing war' has made war more like an outlaw without making it less frequent and that to banish the knight does not alleviate the suffering of the peasant.

C.S. Lewis

#22. Does the beauty of life remain alive without making a comparison?

Suman Pokhrel

#23. So few people are really aware of their thoughts. Their minds run all over the place without their permission, and they go along for the ride unknowingly and without making a choice.

Thomas M. Sterner

#24. That's my life: screaming without making a sound.

Kasie West

#25. I feel that World Cup cricket should be played like football in which all the 160 countries take part. If only a handful of countries are going to keep on playing in the World Cup without making the game popular, I will be a sad man.

Kapil Dev

#26. With voice over work, you need to convey as much emotion as you can without making any physical movements, so it's hard. You've got to visualize everything.

Jake T. Austin

#27. The relationship of the toastmaster to speaker should be the same as that of the fan to the fan dancer. It should call attention to the subject without making any particular effort to cover it.

Adlai E. Stevenson

#28. There's no work-life balance without making decisions and without courage.

Michael Hyatt

#29. Somehow it seemed as though the farm had grown richer without making the animals themselves any richer - except, of course, for the pigs and the dogs.

George Orwell

#30. You're spending your life without renewing it. You've got to be amused, properly healthily amused. You're spending your vitality without making any. Can't go on you know. Depression! Avoid depression!

D.H. Lawrence

#31. Without making the actual attempt, without trial and strife, there can be no true knowledge, no progress, no high achievement, and no legend.

Brendon Burchard

#32. If a Black Death could be spread throughout the world once in every generation survivors could procreate freely without making the world too full.

Bertrand Russell

#33. There are definitely racial problems in this country [the USA]. Comedy is a way we can figure out how to solve it, and how to solve it without making people really angry.

Margaret Cho

#34. I cannot be Mary Hart - or even worse, Samantha Harris - and stand there with my hip out talking about Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes taking Suri to an art museum without making fun of it.

Chelsea Handler

#35. I don't know how to describe the magnificence of Carlsbad Caverns without making it sound like a cartoon or a drug trip or a cartoon of a drug trip. The only thing I can say is that it is one of those dear places that make you love the world.

Sarah Vowell

#36. The task for Germany today is - through its own policies and its own structural reforms, its own investments - to support the EU and the Commission ... but every nation has to have the courage to broach such structural reforms and speak clearly about them without making people be afraid.

Sigmar Gabriel

#37. No woman that I know is capable of leaving her child down for thirty seconds. She can't walk away without making sure that everything is absolutely as secure and safe for her child as can be.

Anne Enright

#38. When you have a background in combat sports, people think you're this martial arts expert, but really I'm just a guy who is able to do certain things without making a mess of himself.

Rick Yune

#39. Maybe,' she said, 'we should just enjoy our fantasies for what they are, without making them into lost opportunities.

V.S. Kemanis

#40. Although designers continue to dream of 'transparency' - technologies that just do their job without making their presence felt - both creators and audiences actually like technologies with 'personality.'

Brian Eno

#41. Life without making progress is dead. What is life if you don't embrace new truths that scare you, meet people who intimidate you, and so on.

Assegid Habtewold

#42. I like Valentine's Day. The trouble is the florists and the candy-makers and the card people are all advertising so much, you don't dare let the day go by without making an offering, whether you mean it or not. Money exceeds affection.

Andy Rooney

#43. Diplomacy: the art of jumping into trouble without making a splash.

Art Linkletter

#44. Without making a fetish of goal setting, and without letting "lists" of tasks we desire to do dominate us, some recording of goals is wise not only for the self-reminder these constitute, but also for the satisfaction of crossing things off.

Neal A. Maxwell

#45. I'll try not to let a day go by without making a song. I don't think I've created a lot of music.

Josh Klinghoffer

#46. That's sort of overkill. We've had 70 years of the Ryder Cup, and it's gotten along just fine. The pendulum will swing back without making a monumental thing about it.

Jack Nicklaus

#47. Anyone that has character leaves a mark on another. Would you like to leave the world without making a ripple?

Nora Roberts

#48. Any man who can take a TV wall apart and put it back together again, and most men can nowadays, is happier than any man who tries to slide-rule, measure, and equate the universe, which just won't be measured or equated without making man feel bestial and lonely.

Ray Bradbury

#49. Could consistently tell me no without making me angry. He was a genius of no.

Stephen King

#50. You never help anyone without helping yourself. You never pick up anyone without making yourself stronger.

Debasish Mridha

#51. And I understood that I ought not ask for a prayer language until I could ask without making it the test of my entire faith.

Lauren F. Winner

#52. No relationship works without making an effort. That goes without saying. But you should never overcompensate.

Sonam Kapoor

#53. My voice is for hire. My endorsement is not for hire. I will do a voice-over, but I cannot endorse without making a different kind of commitment. My politics are very personal and subjective.

James Earl Jones

#54. I've learned that I need to learn how to direct without making the person distracted and keeping them comfortable, and pay more attention to lighting ...

Kalup Linzy

#55. He counts as an ex because he made me feel dumped even without making me feel loved first.

David Levithan

#56. It's time we stopped ignoring the environment. Let's not let another election go by without making this a high priority.

David Suzuki

#57. It is impossible to give a soldier a good education without making him a deserter. His natural foe is the government that drills him.

Henry David Thoreau

#58. There's no way that you can live an adequate life without making many mistakes.

Charlie Munger

#59. Doesn't it show us all that we are silly little boys or fatuous asses to think that we can play golf without making a lot of bad shots?

Bobby Jones

#60. It's always hard when you make a movie that's fundamentally about kids for adults. How do you make people aware of who the adult cast is without making them feel that the adults are the center of it? You don't want to make it misleading, but at the same time you want to make it appealing.

Scott Rudin

#61. My advice is that you wait. You can love without making love. It is a beautiful way of showing your feelings but it brings responsibility, great responsibility, and there is no rush.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

#62. My eating habits are the only behaviour of mine that are still manic. I can't walk by a restaurant, a bakery, an ice-cream store or a candy store without making a purchase; the amount of calories I take in today are at least five times as many as I took before starting on all of this medication.

Andy Behrman

#63. Just as we may learn from our successes (how to do it) so also can we learn from our mistakes (how not to do it). It just isn't in the cards that anybody should get by forever without making mistakes and perhaps sometimes making costly ones.

Norman Vincent Peale

#64. I started to cry then, and I cried for a long time without making much noise. I cried and cried like a little kid.

Anne Lamott

#65. On most lines, making a sale without making a convert does not count for much. Sales made by conviction - by advertising - are likely to bring permanent customers. People who buy through casual recommendations often do not stick

Claude C. Hopkins

#66. Acting without design, occupying oneself without making a business of it, finding the great in what is small and the many in the few, repaying injury with kindness, effecting difficult things while they are easy, and managing great things in their beginnings; this is the method of Tao.

Laozi

#67. I'm always excited and enthusiastic to have women join the technical side of the industry. Without making ridiculous stereotypes, which this might be, I have had clients - male and female - who said they feel more comfortable working with a woman in the mastering capacity for various reasons.

Emily Lazar

#68. No one's death comes to pass without making some impression, and those close to the deceased inherit part of the liberated soul and become richer in their humanness.

Hermann Broch

#69. Without making the fundamental choice to be the predominant creative force in your life, no matter what you do to attempt to benefit yourself or enhance your life, you will merely be finding more sophisticated ways of responding to circumstances.

Robert Fritz

#70. If it's possible to have an enemy without making it personal or moral, then that's what I'm trying to do.

Cass McCombs

#71. Generally, I have to be able to get the lines out of my mouth without making a mistake before I go to sleep.

Brent Spiner

#72. Most people don't know why they're doing what they're doing. They imitate others, go with the flow, and follow paths without making their own.

Derek Sivers

#73. If we die without making peace with God through His precious blood which was shed for us on the cross surely we shall end up in hellfire.

Bakht Singh

#74. One must be a god to be able to tell successes from failures without making a mistake.

Anton Chekhov

#75. How can a man live without drinking water? How can a man live without breathing air? How can a man live without making jokes?

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#76. It was a sin to break a deathbed promise.
Arin left without making one.

Marie Rutkoski

#77. As there begins to be less time ahead of you, you want to be exactly who you are, without making it easier for everyone else.

Meryl Streep

#78. Rich in odor-producing sulfides, the meaty poop of carnivores tends to smell horrendous. As for their herbivore prey? A high-fiber, leafy diet exits the body without making much of a stink.

Deuce Flanagan

#79. God likes to appear to us in this way. He does not come in the form of God but in the form of man, without making any declaration that He is Jehovah God.

Witness Lee

#80. Effective churches manage their resources - budgets, schedules, personnel - to accomplish the work of God in their communities without making efficiency the ruling principle of the congregation.

Thomas White

#81. I think women should be seductive, not triste. There's enough sadness in life now without making women look sad, too.

Azzedine Alaia

#82. I don't think we need to extend unemployment any further without paying for it, and without making some modifications such as turning it into a loan at some point. It then encourages people to go back to work.

Jim DeMint

#83. I'm just one of the many millions of lonely souls trying to live on the face of this earth. I'm trying to acquit myself without making too many mistakes. Now and then I may even be on top of things enough to try and do some good. That's all.

Jo Nesbo

#84. When love chooses, it chooses with a perfect sensitivity for the unique beauty of the chosen one, and it chooses without making anyone else feel excluded.

Henri J.M. Nouwen

#85. The Universe is cool enough without making up crap about it.

Phil Plait

#86. An elegant woman should be able to do her marketing without making housewives laugh. Those who laugh are always right.

Coco Chanel

#87. Destiny smiles upon me but without making me the least bit happier.

Gustav Mahler

#88. With the superciliousness of extreme youth, I put thirty-five as the utmost limit at which a man might fall in love without making a fool of himself.

W. Somerset Maugham

#89. Children need to learn that silence is the home of spirit. All other voices speak out loud, but spirit communicates without making a sound.

Deepak Chopra

#90. It can be a great temptation to rest on the field and let the opponent have a play without making him pay for every inch. I must hold his pain where it is. Mine does not matter ... The punishment I inflict, his fatigue, and that he is up against something that he does not comprehend is everything.

Jim Harbaugh

#91. I don't think you can be a credible, modern candidate for president without making the environment a major part of your platform.

Graydon Carter

#92. How can we understand what we've never experienced and adapt without making mistakes?

Melissa Landers

#93. It doesn't matter which side of the fence you get off on sometimes. What matters most is getting off. You cannot make progress without making decisions.

Jim Rohn

#94. It's possible to make an organization more efficient without making it better. That's what happens when you drive out slack.

Tom DeMarco

#95. Famous Harry Potter," said Malfoy. "Can't even go to a bookshop without making the front page.

J.K. Rowling

#96. I wish I could've lived my life without making any wrong turns. But that's impossible. A path like that doesn't exist. We fail. We trip. We get lost. We make mistakes. And little by little, one step at a time, we push forward. It's all we can do. On our own two feet.

Natsuki Takaya

#97. We are as happy as people can be, without making themselves ridiculous, and might be even happier; but, as a matter of taste, we choose to stop short at this point.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

#98. The totalitarian phenomenon is not to be understood without making an allowance for the thesis that some important part of every society consists of people who actively want tyranny: either to exercise it themselves or - much more mysteriously - to submit to it.

Jean Francois Revel

#99. Nobody ought to be too old to improve: I should be sorry if I was; and I flatter myself I have already improved considerably by my travels. First, I can swallow gruel soup, egg soup, and all manner of soups, without making faces much. Secondly, I can pretty well live without tea ...

Anna Letitia Barbauld

#100. My friends are people who like building cool stuff. We always have this joke about people who want to just start companies without making something valuable. There's a lot of that in Silicon Valley.

Mark Zuckerberg