W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Without the faintest possibility of finding a job, I decided to devote myself to literature: it was about time to find out what I was worth as a writer.”
“Without the fans there's no reason to be One Direction.”
“Without the farmer, there is no food.”
“Without the farmers, there is no food.”
“Without the fear of God it is impossible to say ‘No’ to temptations and evil”
“Without the fear of God, men do not even observe justice and charity among themselves.”
Source: The Institutes Of The Christian Religion (Annotated Edition)
“Without the fear of occasional gaffes, the willingness to be perfectly imperfect, and the heart of a child who creates chaos first thing in the morning for a parent; you are not allowing our inner child to grow. You grow in pain, not in years, and you must cross the bridge without knowing of the pain, the tears, or the trials and tribulations that you will come to have to face, but sweet child of mine, stay the happy child of mine.”
Source: Purple Buddha Project: Purple Book of Self-Love
“Without the fervor to taste life’s bewitching fruit and in absence of a keenness to gain personal knowledge gained through exploring, probing, surveillance, and self-scrutiny, I risk apathy, befuddlement, and lethargy overwhelming me.”
Source: Dead Toad Scrolls
“Without the fog, London would not be a beautiful city. It is fog that gives it its magnificent amplitude...its regular and massive blocks become grandiose in that mysterious mantle.”
“Without the freedom to criticize, there is no true praise.”
“Without the friendship we'd never have discovered the reason we were friends.”
Source: Human.4
“Without the frown of clouds and lightning, the vines would be burned by the smiling sun.”
Source: The Rumi Collection: An Anthology of Translations of Mevlâna Jalâluddin Rumi
“Without the funding Amtrak needs to keep operating, we will soon see people that rely on Amtrak to get them to work each day, waiting for a train that isn't coming.”
“Without the gift of flowers and the infinite diversity of their fruits, man and bird, if they had continued to exist at all, would be today unrecognizable.”
Source: The Immense Journey: An Imaginative Naturalist Explores the Mysteries of Man and Nature
“Without the gods
a man or city can do nothing.
Only God knows everything, and man
suffers for what he does.
There is no evil
man may not expect, and soon
God wipes away the few things
he may have done.”
“Without the gods, how would I sing?' I asked. With your own voice,' he said.”
Source: Sappho's Leap: A Novel
“Without the goodness of God, how can we be glad?”
“Without the Gospel everything is useless and vain.”
“Without the gospel of salvation, how could we be saved?”
“Without the gospel we hate ourselves instead of our sin.”
“Without the gospel we hate ourselves instead of our sin. Without the gospel we’re motivated through all sorts of awful fear and pride to change and it doesn’t really change our hearts; it just restrains our hearts.”
“Without the gospel, a gathering of people, though they claim otherwise, cannot be an authentic church.”
“Without the grace of God-the-Preceptor nothing will happen in spiritualism. He is within you and you need not go to Badrinarayan, Rameswar, Jerusalem or Mecca. He is your nearest one and lives within your body. This Universe is God and for the sake of mankind this world is created.”
“Without the grace of God, there is no salvation from sin.”
“Without the grace of Jesus: a hopeless end. With the grace of Jesus: an endless hope.”
“Without the green of heart, what green apes, what oil apes - all energy leads to but one color - the color of blood - red!”
Source: Bulletproof Backbone: Injustice Not Allowed on My Watch
“Without the guiding light of God's Word, life's journey is shrouded in darkness, leaving us without direction, true joy, or lasting peace. In this moral maze, good is often mistaken for evil, and evil for good. But the blessed ones, who feast daily on the Word of God, find their path illuminated, their hearts nourished, and their souls revitalized, empowering them to live a life of purpose, integrity, and divine joy.”
“Without the hard little bits of marble which are called 'facts' or 'data' one cannot compose a mosaic; what matters, however, are not so much the individual bits, but the successive patterns into which you arrange them, then break them up and rearrange them.”
Source: The Act of Creation
“Without the heart it is no worship; it is a stage play; an acting a part without being that person really which is acted by us: a hypocrite, in the notion of the word, is a stageplayer.”
“Without the heart it’s not worship, it’s a stage play.”
“Without the heart, life is essentially dulled and dialed down to a nub of its human potential.”
“Without the heart to ground it and open it to who we really can be as human beings, the brain is a very dangerous machine. A machine that is saying: we've got to have economic growth; we've got to have unending economic growth, otherwise societies will collapse. And yet there should be something saying: wait a minute, this isn't going to work.”
“Without the height of the peak and the depth of our commitment to scale it, we will spend the whole of our lives viewing our dreams from the bottom looking up.”
“Without the help of selfishness, the human animal would never have developed. Egoism is the vine by which man hoisted himself out of the swamp and escaped from the jungle.”
“Without the herbivore, grass is without value. Without the valuable cover of grass, the soil is without life. Without life, the terrestrial world becomes valueless and simply unhappy. The uniform diversity of the meadowland demonstrates that value co-creates the valuable via the tool of time. Time and value. Seeing and being. Grass is nothing at all. The community of grass is all.”
Source: Dark Cloud Country: The 4 Relationships of Regeneration
“Without the heroic, man has no meaning; without the economic, he has no sense. Economic man is most likely to be economic woman - a good wife, pulling the coat tails of her heroic husband, checking his extravagances of speech and action with words of caution and good sense. But without the heroic coat tails to pull, life for both of them would be dull and savorless indeed.”
“Without the high and noble the simple and vulgar is utterly mean; and without the simple and ordinary the noble and heroic is meaningless”
Source: The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien
“Without the Holy Bible, how can we believe in God?”
“Without the Holy Spirit, Christian discipleship would be inconceivable, even impossible. There can be no life without the life-giver, no understanding without the Spirit of truth, no fellowship without the unity of the Spirit, no Christlikeness of character apart from His fruit, and no effective witness without His power. As a body without breath is a corpse, so the church without the Spirit is dead.”
Source: The Message of Acts
“Without the hope of posterity, for our race if not for ourselves, without the assurance that we being dead yet live, all pleasures of the mind and senses sometimes seem to me no more than pathetic and crumbling defences shored up against our ruin.”
Source: The Children of Men
“Without the human community one single human being cannot survive.”
“Without the ice, the earth will fall”
“Without the imagination to stimulate and enliven it, plain facts are dull and inert.”
Source: The Salmon Who Dared to Leap Higher
“Without the imaginative insight which goes with creative literature, history cannot be intelligibly written.”
“Without the incarnation, Christianity isn’t even a very good story, and most sadly, it means nothing. "Be nice to one another" is not a message that can give my life meaning, assure me of love beyond brokenness, and break open the dark doors of death with the key of hope.”
“Without the infinite personal God, all a person can do, as Nietzsche points out, is to make systems. In today's speech we would call them gameplans. A person can erect some sort of structure, some type of limited frame in which he lives, shutting himself up in that frame and not looking beyond it.”
Source: How Should We Then Live? The Rise and Decline of Western Thought and Culture
“Without the instinct for adventure, any civilization, however enlightened; any state, however well-ordered, will wilt and wither.”
“Without the institution of slavery, civilization would never have been achieved, for no one could ever have done anything intellectual if he had to spend all his time hewing and digging and fighting.”
“Without the instruments and accumulated knowledge of the natural sciences... humans are trapped in a cognitive prison. They are like intelligent fish born in a deep shallowed pool. Wondering and restless, longing to reach out, they think about the world outside. They invent ingenious speculations and myths about the origin of the confining waters, of the sun and the sky and the stars above , and the meaning of their own existence. But they are wrong, always wrong because the world is too remote from ordinary experience to be merely imagined.”
“Without the intense touch of nature, you can never fully freshen yourself! Go for a camping and there both your weary mind and your exhausted body will rise like a morning sun!”