W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Without the book business it would be difficult or impossible for true books to find their true readers and without that solitary (and potentially subversive) alone with a book the whole razzmatazz of prizes, banquets, television spectaculars, bestseller lists, even literature courses, editors and authors, are all worthless. Unless a book finds lovers among those solitary readers, it will not live . . . or live for long.”
“Without the brave efforts of all the soldiers, sailors, airmen, and marines and their families, this Nation, along with our allies around the world, would not stand so boldly, shine so brightly and live so freely.”
“Without the breath of life, there is no living being.”
“Without the breath of real freedom we're getting nowhere fast.”
Source: Lyrics
“Without the burden of afflictions it is impossible to reach the height of Grace. The gift of Grace increases as the struggle increases.”
“Without the capacity to provide its own information, the mind drifts into randomness.”
Source: Flow: the psychology of optimal experience
“Without the changed conditions, the product of a lost war, a revolution and a pervasive sense of national humiliation, Hitler would have remained a nobody. His main ability by far, as he came to realise during the course of 1919, was that in the prevailing circumstances he could inspire an audience which shared his basic political feelings, by the way he spoke, by the force of his rhetoric, by the very power of his prejudice, by the conviction he conveyed that there was a way out of Germany's plight.”
“Without the charity of christ birth, can there be any Christmas?”
“Without the Christian explanation of original sin, the seemingly silly story of Adam and Eve and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, there was no explanation of conflict. At all.”
Source: Blue Like Jazz: Movie Edition: Nonreligious Thoughts on Christian Spirituality
“Without the church it's like having a boat without the rudder. You think you can do it on your own and this may sound pedestrian or trite but I'll equate it to this: all my life I've been involved with exercise but no matter how much - and I know a great deal about the body - you need help. You need a trainer. You need to go to a gym and you need to have the expertise and the guidance of someone else. You cannot train yourself. I feel the same way about Christianity and what the church is. The church is the gym of the soul.”
“Without the citizens, can there be a country?”
“Without the communist oppression, I am absolutely sure I would now be a local stupid professor of philosophy in Ljubljana.”
“Without the competing tugs of aristocracy and democracy, kingship would easily slide into monarchial tyranny; so too, if left unchecked, aristocracy would decay into oligarchy; and democracy into mob rule.”
Source: Of Sovereignty and Federalism
“Without the concentration of the mind and the will, performance would not result.”
“Without the concepts, methods and results found and developed by previous generations right down to Greek antiquity one cannot understand either the aims or achievements of mathematics in the last 50 years. [Said in 1950]”
“Without the concern for social welfare, economic growth is inhumanly proportional to economic disparity.”
Source: Martyr Meets World: To Solve The Hard Problem of Inhumanity
“Without the concern for the effect she might be having on the surroundings, she is able to relax into the sensation instead of resisting it. It is exquisite. It is the way she has felt in so many of his tents, the thrill of being surrounded by something wondrous and fantastical, only magnified and focused directly on her. The feel of his skin against hers reverberates across her entire body, though his fingers remain entwined in hers. She looks it up at him, caught in the haunting greenish-grey of his eyes again, and she does not turn away.
They stand gazing at each other in silence for moments that seem to stretch for hours.”
Source: The Night Circus
“Without the confidence, nothing can be accomplished.”
“Without the conscientious actions of you, o braveheart, the society ever lastingly will be stuck in a loop filled with misery, hopelessness and destructive external advancement.”
Source: Let The Poor Be Your God
“Without the constantly living and articulated eperience of absurdity, there would be no reason to attempt to do something meaningful. And on the contrary, how can one experience one's own absurdity if one is not constantly seeking meaning?”
“Without the Constitution and the Union, we could not have attained the result; but even these, are not the primary cause of our great prosperity. There is something back of these, entwining itself more closely about the human heart. That something, is the principle of "Liberty to all" the principle that clears the path for all-gives hope to all-and, by consequence, enterprize [sic], and industry to all.”
Source: Lincoln on Democracy
“Without the cops or the feds, the two of them were on their own. And Jack had no idea what they were up against. All he knew was that he now had the assumed future president's daughter's life in his hands.”
Source: Into Dust
“Without the Creator, there is no creation.”
“Without the cross the Discipline of Confession would be merely therapeutic. But it is so much more. It involves an objective [a better word would have been "metaphysical"] change in our relationship with God and a subjective change in us. It is a means of healing and transforming the inner spirit.”
“Without the cross we have a meaningless and powerless Christianity.”
“Without the cross, there's only condemnation. If Jesus wasn't executed, there's no celebration.”
“Without the ‘dark’ I would never understand how light the ‘light’ really is. And while I don’t care for the dark, I do appreciate what it does for the light.”
“Without the dark, we would not be light.
Every agony- does it bring the letter of ecstasy?
As stones are shaped by the waves,
For the sea, in motion, beats the stones,
turning them into pebbles of stories
of hardness and softness,
How the swirl of sea, dulled the hardness,
And now, though stones, they are,
Yet tender remains, of ancient ages.
We, too, are beaten in the pit of dark,
Who wept in the valley for ages and ages,
But now, a sun of light, an orb of gold.”
“Without the darkness, we can't really appreciate the light”
“Without the desire to be patient patience doesn't happen,
Just like without the desire to grow, LIFE doesn't happen!”
Source: Life Simplified!
“Without the desire to learn, help is powerless; with the desire to learn, obstacles are powerless.”
Source: The Light in the Heart
“Without the destruction of the battle there will be no calm of the peace, for such a perplexing dichotomy illustrates the contradictory nature of our humanity.”
“Without the discovery of uniformities there can be no concepts, no classifications, no formulations, no principles, no laws; and without these no science can exist.”
“Without the doing, the dreaming is useless.”
“Without the Dreamscape, we can’t sleep.
My parents remind me all the time about stories their parents told them, of how things were in the Manic Age. The time before our bodies were upgraded to sync with the amazing invention called the Dreamscape. Thirty-eight years ago, people actually had to fall asleep on their own and, sometimes, they would toss and turn for hours. My grandparents said when sleep, in its mercy, did come, it often brought with it horrible images I’ve heard people used to call nightmares.”
Source: Awakening
“Without the dressmaker, there is no dress.”
“Without the edge, [life's] boring...If you're doing something that's definitely achievable with 100% odds of success, where's the draw in that?”
“Without the education of children, the economy cannot grow, and the world would starve from ignorance"
(August 1851) - King Edmond Scott”
“Without the elected president and if there is a freak result, within two or three years, the army would have to come in and stop it.”
“Without the element of enjoyment, it is not worth trying to excel at anything.”
“Without the element of uncertainty, the bringing off of even, the greatest business triumph would be dull, routine, and eminently unsatisfying.”
“Without the emotion and willingness of Spirit, our music becomes dry and dusty—without life. Without doctrinal bones as a skeleton, the Body is not enfleshed in a healthy way.”
Source: How Shall We Worship?: Biblical Guidelines for the Worship Wars
“Without the English, reason and philosophy would still be in the most despicable infancy in France.”
“Without the errors involved in the assumptions of ethics, man would have remained an animal. Thus has he taken himself as something higher and imposed rigid laws upon himself.”
Source: A Book for Free Spirits 1: Human Book
“Without the errors which are active in every psychical pleasure and displeasrue a humanity would never have come into existence--whose fundamental feeling is and remains that man is the free being in a world of unfreedom, the external miracle worker whether he does good or ill, the astonishing exception, the superbeast and almost-god, the meaning of creation which cannot be thought away, the solution of the cosmic riddle, the mighty ruler over nature and the despiser of it, the creature which calls its history world history!--Vanitas vanitatum homo.”
Source: A Nietzsche Reader
“Without the errors which lie in the assumption of morality, man would have remained an animal.”
Source: Human, All-Too-Human: Parts One and Two
“Without the errors, wrong turns and blind alleys, without the doubling back and misdirection and fumbling and chance discoveries, there was not one bit of joy in walking the labyrinth.”
“Without the Eucharist, the Church simply does not exist.”
“Without the existence of the opposite, the concept has no meaning.”
“Without the eye, the head is blind. Without the head, the eye is adrift.”