W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Without birds to feed on them, the insects would multiply catastrophically. The insects, not man or other proud species, are really the only ones fitted for survival in the nuclear age. The cockroach, a venerable and hardy species, will take over the habitats of the foolish humans, and compete only with other insects or bacteria.”
“Without birds, trees would be very lonely and men too!”
“Without birth and death, and without the perpetual transmutation of all the forms of life, the world would be static, rhythm-less, undancing, mummified.”
Source: The Book: On the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are
“Without birth or death, eternal, ever-existing, free, unchangeable and beyond all conditions is this Soul of man - the real Self of Man - the Atman.”
“Without bitterest cold that penetrates to the very bone, how can plum blossoms send forth their fragrance all over the world?”
“Without black, no color has any depth. But if you mix black with everything, suddenly there's shadow - no, not just shadow, but fullness. You've got to be willing to mix black into your palette if you want to create something that's real.”
“Without books, God is silent, justice dormant, natural science at a stand, philosophy lame, letters dumb, and all things involved in darkness.”
“Without books I would not have become a vivacious reader, and if you are not a reader you are not a writer.”
“Without books the development of civilization would have been impossible. They are the engines of change, windows on the world, "Lighthouses" as the poet said "erected in the sea of time." They are companions, teachers, magicians, bankers of the treasures of the mind, Books are humanity in print.”
Source: 101 Facts of life
“Without books we should very likely be a still-primitive people living in the shadow of traditions that faded with years until only a blur remained, and different memories would remember the past in different ways. A parent or a teacher has only his lifetime; a good book can teach forever.”
Source: Education of a Wandering Man: A Memoir
“Without books we should very likely be a still-primitive people living in the shadow of traditions that faded with years until only a blur remained, and different memories would remember the past in different ways. A parent or a teacher has only his lifetime; a good book can teach forever.Without books we should very likely be a still-primitive people living in the shadow of traditions that faded with years until only a blur remained, and different memories would remember the past in different ways. A parent or a teacher has only his lifetime; a good book can teach forever.”
“Without books we're a very uneducated society. Think of the places books have taken us, the people we've been introduced to (fiction or non-fiction) and how books have allowed us to broaden our vocabulary.”
“Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill. Without books, the development of civilization would have been impossible. They are engines of change, windows on the world, and (as a poet has said) "lighthouses erected in the sea of time." They are companions , teachers, magicians, bankers of the treasures of the mind. Books are humanity in print.”
“Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled.”
Source: The Book: A Lecture Sponsored by the Center for the Book in the Library of Congress and the Authors' League of America, Presented at the Library of Congress October 17, 1979
“Without books, I would certainly die.”
“Without boring you with the specifics, I will tell you that it is an experimental ‘truth-serum’ formula, many times more powerful than sodium pentothal or SP-17; with properties in common with LSD, which is enjoyed recreationally by many in your country’s ‘counter-culture’. I’m afraid this formula will be decidedly unpleasant. SP-17 had the unfortunate side-effect of leaving the subject somewhat sane afterward. This, which we call ‘Veritas X’, will most likely lead to permanent madness…”
Source: The Edge of Reality
“Without boundaries and values, any choice becomes self-serving and destructive.”
Source: Swarm
“Without boundaries you are lost in the void with no horizon.”
Source: One Thousand Cranes
“Without bragging, I've been blessed to have five of the greatest statistical years for a running back.”
“Without bread all is misery.”
Source: Cottage Economy: Containing Information Relative to the Brewing of Beer, Making of Bread, Keeping of Cows, Pigs, Bees, Ewes, Goats, Poultry and Rabbits, and Relative to Other Matters Deemed Useful in the Conducting of the Affairs of a Labourer's Family: To which are Added, Instructions Relative to the Selecting, the Cutting and the Bleaching of the Plants of English Grass and Grain, for the Purpose of Making Hats and Bonnets
“Without breaking his gaze, I whisper, "Yes I love him. Enough to follow him anywhere.”
“Without breaking stride she walked into the midst of the rioters, a cat among unbalanced pigeons”
Source: Vicious Circle
“Without breaks, faults, and gaps, nothing could grow and nothing would become.”
Source: The Mountain Is You: Transforming Self-Sabotage Into Self-Mastery
“Without bridges, there are no connections. Without bridges, there are only chasms. Without bridges, there are only longings. We cannot wait for the land to flatten and the stream to narrow before we seek to cross.”
Source: Painted Oxen
“Without Britain, Europe would remain only a torso.”
“Without businesse debauchery.”
“Without butter, without eggs, there is no reason to come to France.”
“Without butterflies, the world would soon have few flowers. There is enough room in the sky for all flyers.”
“Without calculation, economic activity is impossible. Since under Socialism economic calculation is impossible, under Socialism there can be no economic activity in our sense of the word All economic change, therefore, would involve operations the value of which could neither be predicted beforehand nor ascertained after they had taken place. Everything would be a leap in the dark. Socialism is the renunciation of rational economy.”
“Without calling the overall national issue a bubble, it's pretty clear that it's an unsustainable underlying pattern.”
“Without causality in the world, there is no point in educating people, or making any moral or political appeal.”
Source: The Perception of Time... and its Measurement
“Without cavalry, battles are without result.”
“Without censorship, things can get terribly confused in the public mind.”
“Without centuries of Christian antisemitism, Hitlers passionate hatred would never have been so fervently echoed.”
“Without challenge we become too comfortable with life.”
Source: Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind
“Without challenge we fail to develop the higher self.”
Source: Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind
“Without challenges, there is no change.”
“Without challenges, we fail to wonder.”
Source: Think Great: Be Great!
“Without challenges we would literally wither and die (which also would be perfect).”
“Without challenges, the human body will soften. We thrive when we push our boundaries, reach goals, and blast personal records. We perform better, we look better, and we feel alive.”
“Without challenges, there would be no opportunity to evolve.”
“Without change of thought nothing changes.”
Source: Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind
“Without change there is no growth, and without growth there is no life”
“Without change there is no innovation, creativity, or incentive for improvement. Those who initiate change will have a better opportunity to manage the change that is inevitable.”
“Without change, something sleeps inside us, and seldom awakens. The sleeper must awaken.”
“Without change, there is no innovation, creativity or incentive for improvement”
“without changing color
in the emptiness
of this world of ours,
the heart of man
fades like a flower.
Tsurayuki identifies two powers of poetry I do not find in Komachi's extant poems.
Both relate to the higher realm of the gods and goddesses, and again I do not find this subject matter in her poems.
He cites poems 'Moving heaven and earth' and 'Waking the feelings of unseen gods and spirits'.
In fact, Komachi expresses a view that seems to be nihilistic.”
Source: Moments of Lightness: Haiku & Tanka
“Without changing my style and who I am, they [Trent Willmon and Dan Couch and Dale Oliver ] know how to draw those things out of me. It was a really cool experience on this record, because I tried really hard on the writing to make sure that I wasn't just writing it just like I wanted to.”
“Without changing one's self, without peace in one's self, world peace is not possible.”
“Without changing our pattern of thought, we will not be able to solve the problems we created with our current patterns of thought”