All Quotes

Without the potato, the balance of European power might never have tilted north.
‐‐ Michael Pollan

Without the power of the Industrial Union behind it, Democracy can only enter the State as the victim enters the gullet of the Serpent.
‐‐ James Connolly

Without the presence of the Spirit, it is impossible to comprehend our personal mission or to have the reassurance that our course is right.
‐‐ Sheri L. Dew

Without the right tools, we can't police our markets from illegal trade.
‐‐ Chris Chocola

Without the shepherd's dog, the whole of the open mountainous land in Scotland would not be worth a sixpence.
‐‐ James Hogg

Without the spiritual world the material world is a disheartening enigma.
‐‐ Joseph Joubert

Without the tape-recorded evidence demonstrating irrefutably, in Nixon's own voice, his knowledge of and active involvement in obstruction of justice, it is likely that Nixon would have escaped impeachment and removal from office.
‐‐ Richard Ben-Veniste

Without the three-fifths rule, there wouldn't have been a Constitution of the United States - not one that governed the American South, at any rate - because the South wouldn't have ratified it.
‐‐ Timothy Noah

Without the United States, there simply would not have been an armed uprising in our country.
‐‐ Daniel Ortega

Without the way, there is no going; without the truth, there is no knowing; without the life, there is no living.
‐‐ Thomas a Kempis

Without there being some national strategy, it is difficult for educators to know what kinds of engineers or technicians to produce and for potential students to know what professions to study for.
‐‐ Ha-Joon Chang

Without thinking or reflecting, we plunge into war, contract heavy debts, increase vastly the patronage of the Executive, and indulge in every species of extravagance, without thinking that we expose our liberty to hazard. It is a great and fatal mistake.
‐‐ John C. Calhoun

Without third parties, all forward movement stops. They're essential. They're not just OK. They are absolutely essential.
‐‐ Jill Stein

Without this playing with fantasy no creative work has ever yet come to birth. The debt we owe to the play of the imagination is incalculable.
‐‐ Carl Jung

Without this spirit, Modernist architecture cannot fully exist. Since there is often a mismatch between the logic and the spirit of Modernism, I use architecture to reconcile the two.
‐‐ Tadao Ando

Without this tremendous passion for power, influence, and advantage which money gives, how could nature develop the highest type of man? Without this infinite longing, whence would come the discipline which industry, perseverance, tact, sagacity, and frugality give?
‐‐ Orison Swett Marden

Without tolerance, our world turns into hell.
‐‐ Friedrich Durrenmatt

Without touching my subject I want to come to the moment when, through pure concentration of seeing, the composed picture becomes more made than taken. Without a descriptive caption to justify its existence, it will speak for itself - less descriptive, more creative; less informative, more suggestive - less prose, more poetry.
‐‐ Ernst Haas

Without transformation, you can assume you're at a high moral, spiritual level just because you call yourself Lutheran or Methodist or Catholic. I think my great disappointment as a priest has been to see how little actual spiritual curiosity there is in so many people.
‐‐ Richard Rohr

Without translation, I would be limited to the borders of my own country. The translator is my most important ally. He introduces me to the world.
‐‐ Italo Calvino

Without troublesome work, no one can have any concrete, full idea of what pure mathematical research is like or of the profusion of insights that can be obtained from it.
‐‐ Edmund Husserl

Without true medical liability reform, our doctors will continue to leave, and young doctors coming out of medical school $100,000 to $200,000 in debt will not be able to afford such onerous costs.
‐‐ Jim Gerlach

Without trust, no organization can sustain innovation because without trust, no one is willing to take the risks that innovation requires.
‐‐ Helen Johnson-Leipold

Without trust, you have nothing: trust is so important to me.
‐‐ Tamara Ecclestone

Without truth I feel ashamed to be alive.
‐‐ Andrei Platonov

Without trying, I'm different.
‐‐ Paul Wellstone

Without turning prison life into something more meaningful, prisoners are more likely to reoffend.
‐‐ Susan Hill

Without U.S. input, the countries of South America joined forces in 2008 to shut down a coup attempt in Bolivia and prevented a war between Ecuador and Colombia.
‐‐ Greg Grandin

Without Ukraine, Dugin's fascist Eurasian Union project is impossible, and sooner or later, Russia itself will have to join the West and become free, leaving only a few despised and doomed islands of tyranny around the globe.
‐‐ Robert Zubrin

Without understanding yourself, what is the use of trying to understand the world?
‐‐ Ramana Maharshi

Without unity, the country will face disaster.
‐‐ Bhumibol Adulyadej

Without vanity, without coquetry, without curiosity, in a word, without the fall, woman would not be woman. Much of her grace is in her frailty.
‐‐ Victor Hugo

Without vision, even the most focused passion is a battery without a device.
‐‐ Ken Auletta

Without vision you don't see, and without practicality the bills don't get paid.
‐‐ Paul Engle

Without whining and without making myself a tragic figure, there is no replacement for the loss of your privacy. It's a huge sacrifice.
‐‐ David Duchovny

Without white South Africa realizing what it had done - and on the basis of that realization having the courage to ask for forgiveness - there can really be no significant movement.
‐‐ Athol Fugard

Without wisdom, the future has no meaning, no valuable purpose.
‐‐ Herbie Hancock

Without women to nurture in this world, how do - how do men get by? How do children get by? How does society get by at all?
‐‐ Raquel Welch

Without wonder and insight, acting is just a trade. With it, it becomes creation.
‐‐ Bette Davis

Without words to objectify and categorize our sensations and place them in relation to one another, we cannot evolve a tradition of what is real in the world.
‐‐ Ruth Hubbard

Without words, without writing and without books there would be no history, there could be no concept of humanity.
‐‐ Hermann Hesse

Without work, all life goes rotten. But when work is soulless, life stifles and dies.
‐‐ Albert Camus

Without work, so much of one's identity just evaporates.
‐‐ Joshua Ferris

Without writers, none of the entertainment would exist. It starts with writers. Writers are the most important piece of the entire puzzle.
‐‐ Hill Harper

Without - you know, good intelligence stops plots against the homeland. Without that intelligence, we cannot effectively stop it.
‐‐ Mike McCaul

Without your health, everything else means nothing.
‐‐ Mary J. Blige

Without your health, you've got nothing going on. I thank God every day for good health.
‐‐ Ric Flair

Witness protection just makes for exciting stories and it's a really rich sort of place to grab stories from... people starting over completely, saying goodbye to their lives before... it never ends in terms of story opportunities.
‐‐ Mary McCormack

Witnessing the bond between a parent and their little ones firsthand really brought home to me how much I was missing.
‐‐ Jillian Michaels