W Quotes
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“Without sight to get in the way of things, the whole world was suddenly alive with sound: the lapping of water as it washed around the posts below her, the splashing and skimming of ducks as they landed on the lake's surface, the wooden planks stretching beneath the sun's glare. As she listened, Sadie became aware of a thick blanketing hum behind it all, like hundreds of tiny motors whirring at once. It was a sound synonymous with summer, difficult to place at first, but then she realized. Insects, a hell of a lot of insects.
Sadie sat up, blinking into the brightness. The world was briefly white before everything righted itself. Lily pads glistened, heart-shaped tiles on the water's surface, flowers reaching for the sky like pretty, grasping hands. The air surrounding them was filled with hundreds of small winged creatures.”
Source: The Lake House
“Without silence there is no music. Not simply because the faculty of hearing deteriorates from constant exposure to noise, but because silence is both the majestic frame and the stable solution for musical (and poetic) ideas. Silence is the soda water, the bracing ether, the bridge and mode of respect for receiving instructions from the angel.”
“Without silence, we can neither know ourselves, another, or the depth of anything beautiful. We learn how to take silence into the noise.”
Source: Pittown
“Without silence, there cannot be any real appreciation in life, which is as delicate in its inner fabric as a closed rosebud.”
“Without sin, there is no Saviour.”
“Without sin, who will be grateful for the grace of salvation?”
“Without sin, the universe is a Solemn Game: and there is no good game without rules.”
Source: A Preface to Paradise Lost
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“Without situations, no strength will be developed.”
“Without slavery the rebellion could never have existed; without slavery it could not continue.”
Source: The Portable Abraham Lincoln
“Without social identity, there is, in fact, no society.”
“Without social networks, you're not the coolest thing on the Christmas list, and you're not getting any bite.”
“Without Social Security, poverty rates for African American seniors would more than double.”
“Without Socialism the working class is a heterogeneous mixture of different categories, some of which have independent, varying interests, sometimes opposed to each other.”
“Without society, and a society to our taste, men are never contented.”
Source: The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence
“Without solid insights gained through market research, any kind of marketing you do is
like throwing your pamphlets at Times Square and hoping somebody will pick them up,
read them, become interested, and get the product. That happens… just not so often.”
Source: Market Research Like a Pro
“Without solitude, we are overwhelmed by all the things we hope to do and all of the things we hope to do and all of the things we are planning and praying to do but we never really have the time to actually get down and get these things done.”
Source: How To Become Great Through Time Conversion: Are you wasting time, spending time or investing time?
“Without solitude, we cannot fix the scattered pieces of our plans, hopes, wishes together.”
Source: How To Become Great Through Time Conversion: Are you wasting time, spending time or investing time?
“Without solitude, Love will not stay long by your side.”
“Without some dissimulation no business can be carried on at all.”
Source: The Works of Lord Chesterfield: Including His Letters to His Son, Etc : to which is Prefixed, an Original Life of the Author
“Without some form of censorship, propaganda in the strict sense of the word is impossible. In order to conduct propaganda there must be some barrier between the public and the event.”
Source: Public Opinion
“Without some goals and some efforts to reach it, no man can live.”
“Without some optimal level of grit and persistence, few new businesses would ever have seen the light of day, and few New Year's resolutions would ever be kept.”
Source: The Saad Truth about Happiness: 8 Secrets for Leading the Good Life
“Without some redistribution of wealth and power, downward mobility and debilitating poverty will continue to drive people into desperate channels. And without principled opposition to xenophobias from above and below, these desperate channels will produce a cold-hearted and mean-spirited America no longer worth fighting for or living in.”
Source: Race Matters
“Without somehow destroying me in the process, how could God reveal himself in a way that would leave no room for doubt? If there were no room for doubt, there would be no room for me.”
Source: The alphabet of grace
“Without someone giving you a shot, opening a door, believing that your obsession is a real thing when you're young, you don't get the opportunity. Every single day I'm reminded of that.”
“Without someone speaking into your life and keeping you on track with the things you believe, you have a tendency to drift into habitual sin- and you recognize this about yourself.”
Source: Weird: Because Normal Isn't Working
“Without someone telling you what you are doing is wrong, you can't say what you are doing is right.”
“Without song, there is always sorrow.”
“Without sorrow, 'tis difficult to know the full threshold of joy.”
Source: Selah
“Without sorry, 'tis difficult to know the full threshold of joy.”
Source: Selah
“Without sound conservation and management measures, fisheries will quickly become depleted and a basic component of global food security will be lost.”
“Without sound,
There would be no music.
And without music,
There would be no life.
And without a life force,
There would be no matter.
But it does not matter -
Because what is matter,
If there is no light?”
Source: Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
“Without sound, celebration and grief look nearly the same.”
Source: The Flame Alphabet
“Without sounding cliché, music is like air. It provides for me. I don't necessarily look for what I can get out of it. It's a compulsion. I've always gotten out of it everything.”
“Without sounding pompous, I really do feel that I have a set of standards that I must adhere to, even leaving aside considerations of what the readers expect.”
“Without sounding too cliché, the Internet really is the birth of some kind of global mind.”
“Without sounding too grandiose, the survival of the planet itself is at stake, you have rising sea levels, acidification of the oceans, immigration sparked by climate change, droughts that are much more severe.”
“Without space, there could not have been God. Likewise, without chit the other three elements, manas, buddhi and ahankar cannot manifest.”
“Without space, there is no time.”
“Without Spam, we wouldn't have been able to feed our army.”
Source: Khrushchev Remembers
“Without speaking, one can win the trust of a person by one's conduct.”
Source: Four Tales
“Without speculation there can be no economic activity reaching beyond the immediate present.”
Source: Socialism - An Economic and Sociological Analysis: The Economist
“Without spirit there is no true joy. There is no real joy without spirit.”
“Without spiritual discipline, we ruin our love relationship with God.”
“Without spiritual landmarks, mankind wanders . . . Without the word of God, we walk in circles.”
“Without spiritual self-renewal, it is extremely difficult to live within each moment. Without spiritual self-renewal, we live with the ghosts of the past and carry them with us to the future, effectively robbing ourselves of the present and never fulfilling our destiny and purpose.”
Source: Holistic Wealth: 32 Life Lessons to Help You Find Purpose, Prosperity, and Happiness
“Without spontaneity in any sport, you cannot succeed.”
“Without spring, life would be much less pinky!”
“Without standards, there can be no improvement.”