W Quotes
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“Without an integrated understanding of life, our individual and collective problems will only deepen and extend. The purpose of education isn't to produce mere scholars, technicians and job hunters, but integrated men and women who are free of fear; for only between such human beings can there be enduring peace.”
“Without an intellectual and emotional shift among both the American public and policymakers, the Unite States will not be in a good position to promote American values... and gain access to what is surely the largest new market and source of raw materials to open to the West in this generation
Goble, Paul A. "Forget the Soviet Union." Foregn Policy 86 (1992): 56”
“Without an observer at a twenty three degree angle to the light being reflected off a cloud of spherical droplets, there is no rainbow. The whole universe is like that. Our spirits stand at a twenty three degree angle to the universe. There is some new thing created at the contact of photon and retina, some space created between rock and mind.”
“Without an open-minded mind, you can never be a great success.”
“Without an organisation that can work together, sometimes over a very long period, it's difficult to see new projects to fruition.”
“Without an understanding and a familiarity of the psychedelic experience you should be sued for fraud if you're practicing psychotherapy.”
“Without an understanding of myth or religion, without an understanding of the relationship between destruction and creation, death and rebirth, the individual suffers the mysteries of life as meaningless mayhem alone.”
Source: The Pregnant Virgin: A Process of Psychological Transformation
“Without an understanding of the issue of race and a willingness to confront it head on, the working class will not build its strength.”
“Without an unfettered press, without liberty of speech, all of the outward forms and structures of free institutions are a sham, a pretense - the sheerest mockery. If the press is not free; if speech is not independent and untrammeled; if the mind is shackled or made impotent through fear, it makes no difference under what form of government you live, you are a subject and not a citizen.”
Source: Bedrock: Views on Basic National Problems
“Without an uninvestigated story, there's only the perfection of life appearing as itself. You can always go inside and find the beauty that's revealed after the pain and fear are understood.”
“Without an unreserved surrender to His grace, complete mastery over thoughts is impossible.”
Source: Autobiography: The Story of My Experiments with Truth
“Without analysis, no synthesis.”
Source: Herr Eugen Dühring's revolution in science [anti-Dühring]
“Without anarchy, there would be chaos.”
“Without animal research, polio would still be claiming thousands of lives each year.”
“Without animals, something essential is removed from the minds of the farmers.”
“Without animals, there would be no humanity. In a world of just people, people will mean nothing . . .”
Source: Haunted
“Without another word, he jumped forward off the dock and fell towards the water. Instead of a splash, a blinding white flash filled the cavern and Brant was gone.”
Source: Extant
“Without another word, he lifted her into the carriage and drove her home.
He seemed impervious to the cold shoulder she gave him, which irritated her almost as much as the knowing way he had looked at her when he had kissed her senseless.
In fact, although his face was stern, he seemed downright cheerful, the cad!”
Source: Stranger in My Bed
“Without another word, he reached for her, drawing her across the bench seat of the pickup. She felt a burst of pleasure expand inside her as he wrapped her in his strong arms and kissed her. His mouth was warm and sweet on hers.
“I’ve been wanting to do that since the first time I saw you,” he said.”
Source: Rogue Gunslinger
“Without another word, we began to eat. I was hungry, but no appetite would excuse the way we set upon those dishes. We shoveled food into our mouths in a manner ill befitting our fine attire. Bears would have blushed to see us bent over our plates. The pheasant, still steaming from the oven, its dark flesh redolent with the mushroom musk of the forest floor, was gnawed quickly to the bone. It was a touch gamy - no milk-fed goose, this - but it was tender, and the piquant hominy balanced that wild taste as I had hoped it would. The eggs, laced pink at the edges and floating delicately in a carnal sauce, were gulped down in two bites. The yolks were cooked to that rare liminal degree, no longer liquid but not yet solid, like the formative moment of a sun-colored gem.”
Source: Cinnamon and Gunpowder
“Without anxiety and illness I would have been like a ship without a rudder.”
“Without anxiety life would have very little savor.”
Source: The House by the Sea: A Journal
“Without any aid, he does his work.”
“Without any cant, does not Providence provide wonderfully for us?”
Source: Arabia, Egypt, India: A Narrative of Travel
“Without any censorship, in the West fashionable trends of thought and ideas are carefully separated from those which are not fashionable; nothing is forbidden, but what is not fashionable will hardly ever find its way into periodicals or books or be heard in colleges. Legally your researchers are free, but they are conditioned by the fashion of the day.”
“Without any coherent international blueprint the White House has bombed its way around the globe, while dropping troops far and wide for ill-defined peacemaking duties. This policy has gutted the American military which now must be rebuilt.”
“Without any doubt at all, teacher quality is the fundamental differentiator. Not just, incidentally, of education, but I would argue, probably the biggest single differentiator of success for the nations of the 21st Century.”
“Without any doubt the best player in the Premiership has to be Paul Scholes. He knows how to do everything, and he is the one who directs the way his team plays. On top of that, he has indestructible mental strength, and he is a genuine competitor.”
“Without any doubt, I am striving for power.”
“Without any doubt, the regularity which astronomy shows us in the movements of the comets takes place in all phenomena. The trajectory of a simple molecule of air or vapour is regulated in a manner as certain as that of the planetary orbits; the only difference between them is that which is contributed by our ignorance. Probability is relative in part to this ignorance, and in part to our knowledge.”
Source: Pierre-Simon Laplace Philosophical Essay on Probabilities: Translated from the fifth French edition of 1825 With Notes by the Translator
“Without any extraordinary effort of genius, I have discovered that nature was the same three thousand years ago as at present; that men were but men then as well as now; that modes and customs vary often, but that human nature is always the same. And I can no more suppose, that men were better, braver, or wiser, fifteen hundred or three thousand years ago, than I can suppose that the animals or vegetables were better than they are now.”
“Without any fight, just being a witness, mind disappears.”
“Without any formal personal finance instruction in our high school or college curricula, many college seniors who graduate in the red will continue to make common financial mistakes that only exacerbate their debt burdens.”
“Without any hope you cannot talk about suffering. If you talk about suffering without hope it's enjoying our euthanization. I tried to avoid euthanization enjoyment.”
“Without any inner strength, how can you overcome your struggles?”
“Without any intended hubris, I've lead a pretty exciting life. What I've tried to do in Mission Compromised is draw on those experiences to create a sense of excitement and realism within the story”
“Without any kind of real ego on my part, I just thought, I'm going to approach the people I admire and see if they want to do something together.”
“Without any music, I started to dance. I wanted the music to be inside me, or at least for it to appear that way. I imagined myself the lead with an audience here to see me perform in a famous ballet. In my fantasy, there was no panic attack. I was free to dance. Free to be me.”
Source: Phantom's Dance
“Without any sacrifice, is there any success?”
“Without any self-sacrifice, how can there be a success?”
“Without anyone's help, Darth Maul will only commit himself to his mistakes of the past. Every time we find this character, he is living in the past and in some cases he is living with the dead. This character is desperate and he needs Obi-Wan's help to move on.”
“Without appreciation and respect for other people, true leadership becomes ineffective, if not impossible.”
Source: Knockout Entrepreneur: My Ten-Count Strategy for Winning at Business
“Without appreciation (for yourself, others and life itself) there is no growth”
“Without appropriate equipment, working with nanotechnology is only theoretically for nanosciences as physicists do with fundamental sciences.”
“Without approval and without scorn, but carefully studying the sentences word by word, one should trace them in the Discourses and verify them by the Discipline. If they are neither traceable in the Discourses nor verifiable by the Discipline, one must conclude thus: 'Certainly, this is not the Blessed One's utterance; this has been misunderstood by that bhikkhu - or by that community, or by those elders, or by that elder.' In that way, bhikkhus, you should reject it.”
“Without archives many stories of real people would be lost, and along with those stories, vital clues that allow us to reflect and interpret our lives today.”
“Without argument the species would parish.”
“Without armaments peace cannot be kept; wars are waged not only to repel injustice but also to establish a firm peace.”
Source: What Luther says: an anthology
“Without armed struggle neither the proletariat, nor the people, nor the Communist Party would have any standing at all in China and it would be impossible for the revolution to triumph. In these years [the eighteen years since the founding of the Party] the development, consolidation and bolshevization of our Party have proceeded in the midst of revolutionary wars; without armed struggle the Communist Party would assuredly not be what it is today. Comrades throughout the Party must never forget this experience for which we have paid in blood.”
Source: Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung (The Little Red Book) & Other Works
“Without art, a film is pure wastage of time and resources.”
Source: The Film Testament