Trust me, you can’t change anything without causing some degree of disruption. It’s impossible, that is exactly what change is. Some people are uncomfortable with the disruption that change causes, but the disruption is necessary if anything is going to change.
Youth smiles without any reason. It is one of its chiefest charms.
A person needs at intervals to separate himself from family and companions and go to new places. He must go without his familiars in order to be open to influences, to change.
There is no birth of consciousness without pain.
I have found it impossible to carry the heavy burden of responsibility and to discharge my duties as king as I would wish to do without the help and support of the woman I love.
Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality.
Seven days without laughter makes one weak.
Why has government been instituted at all? Because the passions of men will not conform to the dictates of reason and justice, without constraint.
Work hard for what you want because it won’t come to you without a fight. You have to be strong and courageous and know that you can do anything you put your mind to. If somebody puts you down or criticizes you, just keep on believing in yourself and turn it into something positive.
Help us to be ever faithful gardeners of the spirit, who know that without darkness nothing comes to birth, and without light nothing flowers.
The human being is a self-propelled automaton entirely under the control of external influences. Willful and predetermined though they appear, his actions are governed not from within, but from without. He is like a float tossed about by the waves of a turbulent sea.
My definition of an intellectual is someone who can listen to the William Tell Overture without thinking of the Lone Ranger.
We dream of having a clean house – but who dreams of actually doing the cleaning? We don’t have to dream about doing the work, because doing the work is always within our grasp; the dream, in this sense, is to attain the goal without the work.
Coral reefs represent some of the world’s most spectacular beauty spots, but they are also the foundation of marine life: without them many of the sea’s most exquisite species will not survive.
This is love: to fly toward a secret sky, to cause a hundred veils to fall each moment. First to let go of life. Finally, to take a step without feet.
India can live without nuclear weapons. That’s our dream, and it should be the dream of the U.S. also.
Quality without results is pointless. Results without quality is boring.
Equality is the soul of liberty; there is, in fact, no liberty without it.
In an expanding universe, time is on the side of the outcast. Those who once inhabited the suburbs of human contempt find that without changing their address they eventually live in the metropolis.
Happiness is neither without us nor within us. It is in God, both without us and within us.
A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval.
A day without sunshine is like, you know, night.
Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. It is far better take things as they come along with patience and equanimity.
Fraternity without absorption, union without fusion.
You can’t be against bullying without actually doing something about it.
A school without football is in danger of deteriorating into a medieval study hall.
There is no blue without yellow and without orange.
Love can be unselfish, in the sense of being benevolent and generous, without being selfless.
Hope is the only bee that makes honey without flowers.
One cannot be deeply responsive to the world without being saddened very often.
To put meaning in one’s life may end in madness, But life without meaning is the torture Of restlessness and vague desire-It is a boat longing for the sea and yet afraid.
Without electricity, the air would rot.
I need to see my own beauty and to continue to be reminded that I am enough, that I am worthy of love without effort, that I am beautiful, that the texture of my hair and that the shape of my curves, the size of my lips, the color of my skin, and the feelings that I have are all worthy and okay.
A multicultural society does not reject the culture of the other but is prepared to listen, to see, to dialogue and, in the final analysis, to possibly accept the other’s culture without compromising its own.
To injure an opponent is to injure yourself. To control aggression without inflicting injury is the Art of Peace.
Without leaps of imagination, or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning.
True love makes the thought of death frequent, easy, without terrors; it merely becomes the standard of comparison, the price one would pay for many things.
My desire was not to pass any island without taking possession, so that, one having been taken, the same may be said of all.
You can compromise without violating your principles, but it is nearly impossible to compromise when you turn principles into ideology.
With public sentiment, nothing can fail. Without it, nothing can succeed.
Agriculture is not crop production as popular belief holds – it’s the production of food and fiber from the world’s land and waters. Without agriculture it is not possible to have a city, stock market, banks, university, church or army. Agriculture is the foundation of civilization and any stable economy.
With two thousand years of Christianity behind him… a man can’t see a regiment of soldiers march past without going off the deep end. It starts off far too many ideas in his head.
Music is the pleasure the human mind experiences from counting without being aware that it is counting.
Only by going alone in silence, without baggage, can one truly get into the heart of the wilderness. All other travel is mere dust and hotels and baggage and chatter.
Beer makes you feel the way you ought to feel without beer.
If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.
Life is the art of drawing without an eraser.
Nothing great will ever be achieved without great men, and men are great only if they are determined to be so.
Housing is absolutely essential to human flourishing. Without stable shelter, it all falls apart.
There will not be any investment or movement or growth in any region of the world without the voice of the Saudi sovereign wealth fund.
Man should not consider his material possession his own, but as common to all, so as to share them without hesitation when others are in need.
Corporation: An ingenious device for obtaining profit without individual responsibility.
One can state, without exaggeration, that the observation of and the search for similarities and differences are the basis of all human knowledge.
What can be asserted without evidence can be dismissed without evidence.
To die is poignantly bitter, but the idea of having to die without having lived is unbearable.
Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.
For the creation of a masterwork of literature two powers must concur, the power of the man and the power of the moment, and the man is not enough without the moment.
Success makes so many people hate you. I wish it wasn’t that way. It would be wonderful to enjoy success without seeing envy in the eyes of those around you.
Finally here is a beautiful day, a superb sun like at Giverny. So I worked without stopping, for the tide at this moment is just as I need it for several motifs. This has bucked me up a bit.
We live life in restaurants, its the center of social life, where we celebrate with family and friends, make new friends, travel without traveling, and of course, eat.
One hour of life, crowded to the full with glorious action, and filled with noble risks, is worth whole years of those mean observances of paltry decorum, in which men steal through existence, like sluggish waters through a marsh, without either honor or observation.
The duty of rhetoric is to deal with such matters as we deliberate upon without arts or systems to guide us, in the hearing of persons who cannot take in at a glance a complicated argument or follow a long chain of reasoning.
Without hope we are lost.
Change means movement. Movement means friction. Only in the frictionless vacuum of a nonexistent abstract world can movement or change occur without that abrasive friction of conflict.
Without reflection, we go blindly on our way, creating more unintended consequences, and failing to achieve anything useful.
No Government can be long secure without a formidable Opposition.
Perseverance is also key to success in any endeavor, but without perseverance in combat, there can be no victory.
At sunrise everything is luminous but not clear. It is those we live with and love and should know who elude us. You can love completely without complete understanding.
Never was anything great achieved without danger.
