Top 100 Without Quotes
#1. Ladies of the choir, I want you to sound like twenty-two women having babies without chloroform.
John Barbirolli
#2. A man without any history is like a tree without roots
Malcolm X
#3. I try to get the hip-hop aesthetic, most times without an MC. I don't use a rapper or a DJ to give it the hip-hop style; it's strictly the band that makes that music, which is a lot harder to do.
Robert Glasper
#4. Roots can live without branches, although truncated; branches cannot live without roots.
David Novak
#5. You have enemies. For who can live on this earth without them? Take heed to yourselves: love them. In no way can your enemy so hurt you by his violence, as you hurt yourself if you love him not.
Saint Augustine
#6. The sands of time are quicksands, said Adam One. So much can sink into them without a trace. And what a blessing when those things that sink away are needless worries.
Margaret Atwood
#7. God neither wills nor decrees anything without having long before directed it to its proper end. People
John Calvin
#8. There is absolutely no point in not being a populist. What I feel emboldened to do is to take something which is a minority interest and make it accessible without dumbing it down. I'm such an enthusiast for peculiar things, things that are perhaps a bit avant-garde, and try and involve everyone.
Lee Hall
#10. There's not a better feeling than when you have found that moment of balance and harmony when both running and life come together. Then you know why you run and that you couldn't live without it.
Joan Benoit
#11. In civilizations without boats, dreams dry up, espionage takes the place of adventure and the police take the place of pirates
Michel Foucault
#12. So many truths have been kept from me. This violent, pointless voyage has been sopping with blood. I feel thick and sick with it. And that is all: contingent and brutal without meaning. There is nothing to be learnt here. No ecstatic forgetting. There is no redemption in the sea.
China Mieville
#13. It's been amazing how this crazy career has been created. I feel that it's been given to me. I wouldn't be anywhere without Victoria's Secret.
Candice Swanepoel
#14. Without will, without individuals, there are no heroes. But neither are there villains. And the absence of villains is as prostrating, as soul-destroying, as the absence of heroes.
Gertrude Himmelfarb
#15. Starbucks has always been about so much more than coffee. But without great coffee, we have no reason to exist.
Howard Schultz
#16. Our right to disagree is precious but fragile. The best way to protect and preserve it is to let the other side speak without demonizing them or destroying their right to be heard. Such civil exchanges are the heart beat of democracy - essential to keeping it alive.
Madeleine M. Kunin
#17. These days it's hard to look at a poodle without thinking what a good meal he would make.
Steve Martin
#19. Without my specs on, I think I look really great; then I put them on, and I scream. But at 62, I still think less is better. I use Clarins foundation, but I don't put it everywhere - I hate that covered look - so just on the sides of my nose where the veins have gone bang.
Jane Birkin
#20. Sam took my hand and looked at it. Then she whispered, "What would I do without this hand?
Benjamin Alire Saenz
#21. So, without saying anything to the others, it made its way to the farthest corner of the meadow and began to toast an imaginary muffin. That was always the best way to unwind when things got to be too much for it.
Thomas M. Disch
#22. The parent who tries to train without setting a good example is building with one hand, and pulling down with the other.
J.C. Ryle
#23. To wait - only to wait - without even the final merciful deprivation of hope.
Sometimes I think that some secret court must have tried and condemned me, unheard, to this heavy sentence.
Anna Kavan
#24. How can one bathe without undressing, or write without laying bare one's soul?
Dorothy Bussy
#25. Ceremony keeps up things: 'tis like a penny glass to a rich spirit, or some excellent water; without it the water were spilt, and the spirit lost.
John Selden
#26. The story of a marriage was an excellent way to fulfill the goal of discussing class without discussing class, and to tell an audience that they were upwardly mobile.
Jeanine Basinger
#27. He's in that larva stage, the damp, pained shedding of the child's body. This is what boarding school is for. To store them away during years like this, so they can suffer without the embarrassment of their parents watching.
Adam Haslett
#28. Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.
D.H. Lawrence
#29. The disposition of the heart is man's, but the preparation of the tongue is the Lord's." [Prov. 16:1, 9, conflated.] It is an absurd folly that miserable men take it upon themselves to act without God, when they cannot even speak except as he wills!
John Calvin
#30. Faith does not come to Calvary to do anything. It comes to see the glorious spectacle of all things done, and to accept this completion without a misgiving as to its efficacy. It listens to the It is finished! of the Sin-bearer, and says, Amen.
Horatius Bonar
#31. you've touched me
without even
touching me.
Rupi Kaur
#32. A spiritual life without discipline is impossible. Discipline is the other side of discipleship. The practice of a spiritual discipline makes us more sensitive to the small, gentle voice of God.
Henri J.M. Nouwen
#33. There is no breakthrough without breakage"--Love's Body
Norman O. Brown
#34. Insofar as some concept of cause and effect is inherent in narrative, then, the divine must make its appearance; arguably it is not until Thucydides that the idea of a sustained narrative without the divine is born.
Robert L. Fowler
#35. Self-awareness is the ability to take an honest look at your life without any attachment to it being right or wrong, good or bad.
Debbie Ford
#36. Woody Allen is a genius. His films are wonderful. He's poetic, but he's also a critic. He artfully steps back from a social setting and criticizes it without - I suspect - without letting himself be vulnerable to it.
Mel Brooks
#37. Everyone is so caught up in his own passions and interests that he always wants to talk about them without getting involved in the passions and interests of those to whom he speaks, although his listeners have the same need for others to listen to and help them.
Madeleine De Souvre, Marquise De ...
#38. Without remaining open to change , we can not remain open to life
Ram Dass
#39. That is why I come forward tonight without any political label, without any bias, but just simply as an Englishman to say to you: a crime is being committed against civilization.
John Amery
#40. Passion and satisfaction go hand in hand, and without them, any happiness is only temporary.
Nicholas Sparks
#41. Essentially, all life depends upon the soil ... There can be no life without soil and no soil without life; they have evolved together.
Charles Kellogg
#43. Without an understanding of what a thing really is, it cannot be either uncovered or changed. (Aubrey)
Sharon Shinn
#44. I wrote 'Hereafter' quickly and without mapping it out too much or being too schematic. As an exercise, I think that was incredibly important.
Peter Morgan
#46. I try to find my deepest, often hidden feelings about what's working and what's not. This is difficult because I do lie to myself without being aware that that's what I'm doing.
Cynthia Kadohata
#47. Enjoyment of literature is achieved only by reading without expectation but with anticipation.
David McDonald
#48. Modesty is silent when it would be improper to speak; the humble, without being called upon, never recollects to say anything of himself.
Johann Kaspar Lavater
#49. For a man who loves power, competition from the gods is annoying. I have done away with that. I have proven to these illusory godsthat a man, if he has the will, can practice, without any apprenticeship, their ridiculous trade.
Albert Camus
#50. With the Cubs, they've gone so long without a World Series championship, they wanted to win every day. I want that too, but I didn't feel comfortable.
Hee-seop Choi
#51. Without the resurrection, the cross is meaningless.
Billy Graham
#52. At the present moment two things about the Christian religion must surely be clear to anybody with eyes in his head. One is, that men cannot do without it; the other, that they cannot do with it as it is.
Matthew Arnold
#53. I define nothing. Not beauty, not patriotism. I take each thing as it is, without prior rules about what it should be.
Bob Dylan
#54. Suffering is intrinsic to human existence. There is no joy without its attendant pain.
Peter Ackroyd
#55. Life is a one-way journey towards the unknown and without a destination.
Debasish Mridha
#56. I can't lie. This - me and you - scares the shit out of me."
I'd be worried if she weren't frightened. "Me too, but wouldn't you rather be scared together than
be miserable apart? Because I know that's what I'd be without you.
Georgia Cates
#57. Do you notice that, too? How all of us just want to get through life as quickly and as easily as possible? And even though we know that without risk there's no reward, we're still so scared to chance it? I'm
Penelope Douglas
#58. This is it, so please don't question it. I love you, I need you, and you mean everything to me. So, will you have me? Please put your all your eggs in one basket because I am doing the same. I don't want a life without you in it so please don't let me have one.
Hope Alcocer
#59. The art of teaching lies in communicating the mystery of the universe without taking the mystery out of it.
Dane R. Pascoe
#60. It was a kiss good-bye. I didn't think I'd ever see you again, and I didn't want to die without knowing what kissing you felt like." He groaned. "It all sounds so dramatic.
Myra McEntire
#61. Without love, there is no reason to know anyone, for love will in the end connect us to our neighbors, our children and our hearts.
Martin Luther King Jr.
#62. Once you understand non-self, then the burden of life is gone. You'll be at peace with the world. When we see beyond self, we no longer cling to happiness and we can truly be happy. Learn to let go without struggle, simply let go, to be just as you are - no holding on, no attachment, free.
Ajahn Chah
#63. Rule for love. Accept him/her without any conditions
Sid
#64. Soon, she and the rest of them would be ironic much of the time, unable to answer an innocent question without giving their words a snide little adjustment. Fairly soon after that, the snideness would soften, the irony would be mixed in with seriousness, and the years would shorten and fly.
Meg Wolitzer
#65. I have observed that money left without special guidance is sometimes used well and sometimes not.
David Packard
#66. To those men who say that women from "good families" must come into the world of cinema, I have this question: What is it that you mean by "good?" A woman, who honestly puts her wares on display, and sells them without an intention to cheat, is such a woman not virtuous?
Saadat Hasan Manto
#67. Of course I saved you," she said. "I couldn't do without you." And because she was happy and flushed with magic, Holly leaned down and kissed Artemis, magic sparking around the contact like tiny fireworks.
Eoin Colfer
#68. There was a time when I thought it necessary to have a lot in common with a person in order for friendship to grow. Now I know it has more to do with my own growth and ability to reach out without having expectations.
Terra Trevor
#69. Nothing happens without intention, Willem. Nothing. This theory of yours - life is rules by accidents - isn't that just one huge excuse for passivity?
Gayle Forman
#70. Boy I need a hug (boy I need a hug)
'Cause my heart stops without you
There's something about you
Owl City
#71. Behind every flinch is a fear or an anxiety - sometimes rational, sometimes not. Without the fear, there is no flinch. But wiping out the fear isn't what's important - facing it is.
Julien Smith
#72. Many people come into company full of what they intend to say in it themselves, without the least regard to others; and thus charged up to the muzzle are resolved to let it off at any rate.
Lord Chesterfield
#73. Yet I knew that spiritual practice is impossible without great dedication, energy, and commitment.
Jack Kornfield
#74. Without moral progress, stimulated by faith in God, immorality in all its forms will proliferate and strangle goodness and human decency. Mankind will not be able to fully express the potential nobility of the human soul unless faith in God is strengthened.
James E. Faust
#75. OBLIVION, n. Cold storage for high hopes. A place where ambitious authors meet their works without pride and their betters without envy. A dormitory without an alarm clock.
Ambrose Bierce
#76. Part of the reason why Scandinavian crime has been so popular is the landscape. It is just so strong and alien. Although without taking anything away, you should probably also never discount the fact that blood does look particularly good against snow.
Mark Billingham
#77. You have the power to treat your own pain, and you can do it without surgery, drugs, or other invasive interventions.
Jed Diamond
#78. There is no achievement without risk.
Gene Kranz
#79. Loss is a strange thing. It comes without a warning. It rips your heart to shreds and lets you learn to live with the pieces. It never lets you heal, but eventually, the memories you carry will help you learn to live with the pain of knowing that you will never see your loved one again.
J.C. Reed
#80. Taste is only to be educated by contemplation, not of the tolerably good but of the truly excellent. I therefore show you only the best works; and when you are grounded in these, you will have a standard for the rest, which you will know how to value, without overrating them.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#81. You can't hurt others without hurting yourself; you can't love others without loving yourself.
Debasish Mridha
#82. Trading is more or less like betting or gambling, but only without the pleasure show of the game.
William C. Brown
#83. Without virtue it is difficult to bear gracefully the honors of fortune.
Aristotle.
#84. It's funny what memory does, isn't it? My favorite holiday tradition might not have happened more than once or twice. But because it is such a good memory, so encapsulating of everything I love about the holidays, in my mind it happened every year. Without fail.
Molly O'Keefe
#85. Generosity without delicacy, like wit without judgement, generally gives as much pain as pleasure.
Fanny Burney
#86. Oddly, with discipline, structure, and order, you will find freedom, anything is possible. Without it, locating your saddle may take all morning.
Ethan Hawke
#87. You want the industry to finally admit that you're good. But I'm still good without their admission.
Ice Cube
#88. I decided to become a policeman to speak for the dead. They have no one else, you see. Somewhere there's always proof of what happened, some piece of evidence that will obtain a conviction. It's important for the guilty to be brought to justice, I think. Without justice, there's chaos.
Charles Todd
#89. Anna spoke not only naturally and intelligently, but intelligently and casually, without attaching any value to her own thoughts, yet giving great value to the thoughts of the one she was talking to.
Leo Tolstoy
#90. We said that mere judgment would probably suffice in a primitive society. It is easy for a society to live without mathematics -
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
#91. The soul, they say, is divine and the flesh is iniquity. But I am a musician and I ask this - without the wood and the strings of the violin, where would the sonata find form?
Kathleen Valentine
#92. Jared gently pulled my chin to face him. "He said he wouldn't make you choose. But if you don't have a choice, I'm the one that loses. So I'm going to make you choose, Nina. Choose me. Please ... choose me." He shook his head. "I can't live without you.
Jamie McGuire
#93. Covenant did not reply at once. He trembled also, and hand to clench himself before he could say without a tremor, "Why? Why do you trust me?"
The Hirebrand's eyes gleamed as if he were on the verge of tears, but he was smiling as he said, "You are a man who knows the value of beauty."
Stephen R. Donaldson
#94. It is certainly not a matter of indifference whether I learn something without effort or finally arrive at it myself through my system of thought. In the latter case everything has roots, in the former it is merely superficial.
Georg C. Lichtenberg
#95. When you reached the point of losing your reasoning, that's called falling in love. Actually, those who have lost their reasoning chase blindly without thinking about the risks. They run and run like confused wild pigs. That's why, most of the time, they end up getting hurt. -- Sagan
Yuuri Eda
#96. Give to another human being without the expectation of a return.
Bill Bradley
#97. The pursuit of holiness is a joint venture between God and the Christian. No one can attain any degree of holiness without God working in his life, but just as surely no one will attain it without effort on his own part.
Jerry Bridges
#98. You cannot make a socialist revolution without really trying.
Ernest Mandel
#99. I like profanity - it's practically my mother tongue - but I try to use words that insult without demeaning, when I can.
Seanan McGuire
#100. France was an occupied country, a country that surrendered and was left without the right to choose.
Jean-Marie Le Pen
