Biblical orthodoxy without compassion is surely the ugliest thing in the world.
Don’t marry the person you think you can live with; marry only the individual you think you can’t live without.
One isn’t necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential. Without courage, we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can’t be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest.
Happiness in this world, when it comes, comes incidentally. Make it the object of pursuit, and it leads us a wild-goose chase, and is never attained. Follow some other object, and very possibly we may find that we have caught happiness without dreaming of it.
Human language appears to be a unique phenomenon, without significant analogue in the animal world.
Patriot: the person who can holler the loudest without knowing what he is hollering about.
I define nothing. Not beauty, not patriotism. I take each thing as it is, without prior rules about what it should be.
Society cannot exist without law. Law is the bond of society: that which makes it, that which preserves it and keeps it together. It is, in fact, the essence of civil society.
Without feelings of respect, what is there to distinguish men from beasts?
To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in the insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning but without understanding.
If you use your mind to study reality, you won’t understand either your mind or reality. If you study reality without using your mind, you’ll understand both.
A room without books is like a body without a soul.
Cheerfulness, it would appear, is a matter which depends fully as much on the state of things within, as on the state of things without and around us.
Inflation is taxation without legislation.
My people are my people. They love me and I love them. I would not be here without them.
Let no man in the world live in delusion. Without a Guru none can cross over to the other shore.
The Bible is one of the greatest blessings bestowed by God on the children of men. It has God for its author; salvation for its end, and truth without any mixture for its matter. It is all pure.
The work itself has a complete circle of meaning and counterpoint. And without your involvement as a viewer, there is no story.
It is impossible to live a pleasant life without living wisely and well and justly. And it is impossible to live wisely and well and justly without living a pleasant life.
Thus so wretched is man that he would weary even without any cause for weariness… and so frivolous is he that, though full of a thousand reasons for weariness, the least thing, such as playing billiards or hitting a ball, is sufficient enough to amuse him.
I more fear what is within me than what comes from without.
If you begin to understand what you are without trying to change it, then what you are undergoes a transformation.
I want a world without war, a world without insanity. I want to see people do well. I don’t even think it’s as much as what I want for myself. It’s more what I want for the people around me. That’s what I want.
It is impossible to reason without arriving at a Supreme Being.
But what is liberty without wisdom, and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils; for it is folly, vice, and madness, without tuition or restraint.
Truth is beautiful, without doubt; but so are lies.
For me, the team always comes first, and without the help of my colleagues, I am nothing.
I have matured with the realization that I can live without a man!
Efforts and courage are not enough without purpose and direction.
It is easy to get everything you want, provided you first learn to do without the things you cannot get.
Philosophy of science without history of science is empty; history of science without philosophy of science is blind.
I found thee not, O Lord, without, because I erred in seeking thee without that wert within.
Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.
Without change, something sleeps inside us, and seldom awakens. The sleeper must awaken.
Life cannot be without relationship, but we have made it so agonizing and hideous by basing it on personal and possessive love. Can one love and yet not possess? You will find the true answer not in escape, ideals, beliefs but through the understanding of the causes of dependence and possessiveness.
The supreme quality for leadership is unquestionably integrity. Without it, no real success is possible, no matter whether it is on a section gang, a football field, in an army, or in an office.
Without Jupiter cleaning out the early solar system, the Earth would be pock-marked with meteor collisions. We would suffer from asteroid impacts every day. CNN studios would probably be a gigantic crater it if wasn’t for Jupiter.
Material things ain’t nothing. You feel me? At the end of the day, it’s who you is. You wasn’t born with it; you gon’ die without it.
Not everybody’s journey is easy, and it wouldn’t be worthwhile if you can’t see what you gained without realizing what kind of battles you’ve been through, what kind of scars you have.
Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.
India Conquered and dominated China culturally for 20 centuries without ever having to send a single soldier across her border.
Without tenderness, a man is uninteresting.
Basically, to lead without a title is to derive your power within the organisation not from your position but from your competence, effectiveness, relationships, excellence, innovation and ethics.
Without doubt, machinery has greatly increased the number of well-to-do idlers.
There is no love without suffering.
Without courage, wisdom bears no fruit.
Awareness without action is worthless.
No man or woman who tries to pursue an ideal in his or her own way is without enemies.
There can be no prestige without mystery, for familiarity breeds contempt.
I’m not an old, experienced hand at politics. But I am now seasoned enough to have learned that the hardest thing about any political campaign is how to win without proving that you are unworthy of winning.
Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it.
There is no respect for others without humility in one’s self.
Prejudice is a great time saver. You can form opinions without having to get the facts.
There can be no knowledge without emotion. We may be aware of a truth, yet until we have felt its force, it is not ours. To the cognition of the brain must be added the experience of the soul.
Nature doesn’t need people – people need nature; nature would survive the extinction of the human being and go on just fine, but human culture, human beings, cannot survive without nature.
To be without guile is to be free of deceit, cunning, hypocrisy, and dishonesty in thought or action.
Every language is a world. Without translation, we would inhabit parishes bordering on silence.
If people are going to judge me without fully understanding the content of my character, then their opinion just isn’t worth it.
It is a thousand times better to have common sense without education than to have education without common sense.
Art is the window to man’s soul. Without it, he would never be able to see beyond his immediate world; nor could the world see the man within.
Just as food eaten without appetite is a tedious nourishment, so does study without zeal damage the memory by not assimilating what it absorbs.
If you wanna know how not secure you are, just take a look around. Nothing’s secure. Nothing’s safe. I don’t hate technology, I don’t hate hackers, because that’s just what comes with it, without those hackers we wouldn’t solve the problems we need to solve, especially security.
Illusions commend themselves to us because they save us pain and allow us to enjoy pleasure instead. We must therefore accept it without complaint when they sometimes collide with a bit of reality against which they are dashed to pieces.
Leadership is not a popularity contest; it’s about leaving your ego at the door. The name of the game is to lead without a title.
Along the way, let’s never forget that once we were children and that we were all playing together without distinction of skin color, society level, or where people come from. Adults need to remember to play and to be more childlike in our behavior. We’ve forgotten what that childlike experience was like.
Courage without conscience is a wild beast.
It is better to debate a question without settling it than to settle a question without debating it.
Journalism without a moral position is impossible. Every journalist is a moralist. It’s absolutely unavoidable.
Love is the ability and willingness to allow those that you care for to be what they choose for themselves without any insistence that they satisfy you.
