What, sir, would the people of the earth be without woman? They would be scarce, sir, almighty scarce.
Hyperinflation can take virtually your entire life’s savings, without the government having to bother raising the official tax rate at all.
And whoever walks a furlong without sympathy walks to his own funeral drest in his shroud.
Nobody, as long as he moves about among the chaotic currents of life, is without trouble.
Victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory however long and hard the road may be; for without victory, there is no survival.
A soulmate is someone whom, when you meet, without thinking – without letting your neocortex play into the decision – you feel an instant familiarity, a sense of connection, a longing.
You can’t forgive without loving. And I don’t mean sentimentality. I don’t mean mush. I mean having enough courage to stand up and say, ‘I forgive. I’m finished with it.’
A good advertisement is one which sells the product without drawing attention to itself.
I don’t think human beings learn anything without desperation. Desperation is a necessary ingredient to learning anything or creating anything. Period. If you ain’t desperate at some point, you ain’t interesting.
Not without hope we suffer and we mourn.
All work is noble; the only ignoble thing is to live without working. There is need to realize the value of work in all its forms whether manual or intellectual, to be called ‘mate,’ to have sympathetic understanding of all forms of activity.
Without health insurance, getting sick or injured could mean going bankrupt, going without needed care, or even dying needlessly.
You can’t make positive choices for the rest of your life without an environment that makes those choices easy, natural, and enjoyable.
I go without sleep, I just go hard.
You can’t have a value structure without a hierarchy. They’re the same thing because a value structure means one thing takes precedence over another.
I think people just like seeing friendship. I think people like seeing people who just drive each other up the wall, but at same time, can’t live without each other.
A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without trials.
I do not know anyone who has got to the top without hard work. That is the recipe. It will not always get you to the top, but should get you pretty near.
No decisions should ever be made without asking the question, is this for the common good?
You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true. You may have to work for it, however.
Law, without force, is impotent.
Courage consists not in hazarding without fear; but being resolutely minded in a just cause.
I found the purpose of my existence, and also the purpose of my circumstance. There’s a purpose for why you’re in the fire. If God can use a man without arms and legs to be His hands and feet, then He will certainly use any willing heart!
A writer without a pen would be like a duck without water!
Change is not made without inconvenience, even from worse to better.
I can very well do without God both in my life and in my painting, but I cannot, suffering as I am, do without something which is greater than I am, which is my life, the power to create.
You cannot travel within and stand still without.
Tolerance is the virtue of the man without convictions.
No one can enjoy freedom without trembling.
Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind.
It is a kind of spiritual snobbery that makes people think they can be happy without money.
Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.
Nothing matters but the facts. Without them, the science of criminal investigation is nothing more than a guessing game.
Apply yourself both now and in the next life. Without effort, you cannot be prosperous. Though the land be good, You cannot have an abundant crop without cultivation.
No one succeeds without effort… Those who succeed owe their success to perseverance.
Let us with caution indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion. Reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle.
A picture is a poem without words.
Literature is my Utopia. Here I am not disenfranchised. No barrier of the senses shuts me out from the sweet, gracious discourses of my book friends. They talk to me without embarrassment or awkwardness.
Three conditions are necessary for Penance: contrition, which is sorrow for sin, together with a purpose of amendment; confession of sins without any omission; and satisfaction by means of good works.
Strike against war, for without you no battles can be fought!
Spiritual relationship is far more precious than physical. Physical relationship divorced from spiritual is body without soul.
The problem in defense is how far you can go without destroying from within what you are trying to defend from without.
I cannot look at modern buildings without thinking of historical ones.
Without rain, there is no life.
A State without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation.
Self-government won’t work without self-discipline.
Without knowledge action is useless and knowledge without action is futile.
The object of teaching a child is to enable him to get along without his teacher.
Without pain, there would be no suffering, without suffering we would never learn from our mistakes. To make it right, pain and suffering is the key to all windows, without it, there is no way of life.
Even if I don’t finish, we need others to continue. It’s got to keep going without me.
No good fish goes anywhere without a porpoise.
The talent of success is nothing more than doing what you can do well, and doing well whatever you do without thought of fame. If it comes at all it will come because it is deserved, not because it is sought after.
You can be young without money but you can’t be old without it.
Those who give themselves to prayer should in a special manner have always a devotion to St. Joseph; for I know not how any man can think of the Queen of the angels, during the time that she suffered so much with the Infant Jesus, without giving thanks to St. Joseph for the services he rendered them then.
Action without a name, a ‘who’ attached to it, is meaningless.
For to win one hundred victories in one hundred battles is not the acme of skill. To subdue the enemy without fighting is the acme of skill.
There is no such thing as perpetual tranquillity of mind while we live here; because life itself is but motion, and can never be without desire, nor without fear, no more than without sense.
Thanks to the Interstate Highway System, it is now possible to travel across the country from coast to coast without seeing anything.
A life without adventure is likely to be unsatisfying, but a life in which adventure is allowed to take whatever form it will is sure to be short.
Without craftsmanship, inspiration is a mere reed shaken in the wind.
There is no success without hardship.
