W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Without the Internet I would have no fans and I wouldn't be in this business. I owe everything to the Internet and my fans.”
“Without the interpretation of the universe by man to the glory of God the whole world would be meaningless”
“Without the intervention of the civil authority what would our percepts become?- Platonic laws.”
“Without the jobs being available to enable them to repay that [student-loan] debt in the course of their financial lifetimes, basically.We maintain that, yes, that's a significant chunk of change - it's $1.3 trillion - but what investment is more worth making than in a generation that does not have a future?”
“Without the journey and crucial moment of understanding, I would still be questioning everything before me. I know now that I must trust what comes next, for there is a plan greater than the one I can see at work.”
Source: Falling Out of Focus
“Without the KGB he was just a weak, insignificant little man. Blake liked to play God. For years he had used the KGB for his own selfish ends. He had used them to enable him to wield the power of life and death over other men.”
Source: The Springing of George Blake
“Without (the knowledge and application of) administration, you will waste your days.”
“Without the knowledge of God, there is no knowing.”
“Without the knowledge of God, we are in complete darkness.”
“Without the Knowledge of One's real form as the Self and Its realization, anything that is being done will cause that living being to wander about aimlessly in worldly life.”
Source: Brahmacharya: Celibacy With Understanding
“Without the knowledge of our wretchedness, the knowledge of God creates pride. With it, the knowledge of God creates despair. The knowledge of Christ offers a third way, because in him we find both God and our wretchedness.”
“Without the knowledge of Scriptures, we are senseless.”
“Without the knowledge of the Scriptures, we fail to pray effectively.”
“Without the knowledge of the true number of the people, as a principle, the whole scope and use of keeping bills of birth and burials is impaired; wherefore by laborious conjectures and calculations to deduce the number of people from the births and burials, may be ingenious, but very preposterous.”
Source: The Economic Writings of Sir William Petty: Together with the Observations Upon the Bills of Mortality More Probably by John Graunt
“Without the land, the rivers, the oceans, the forests, the sunshine, the minerals and thousands of natural resources we would have no economy whatsoever”
“Without the laughs, the audience wouldn't be there at all, so in that sense, yes, I am a comedian.”
“Without the law commanding good there could be no evil. But the same law makes it possible for the creature to exist. Without the law man would sink into nothingness; the law determines his humanity.”
Source: Roots of Western Culture: Pagan, Secular, and Christian Options
“Without the law, you can't have society. But without the arts, you can't have civilisation”
“Without the Lawmaker, there is no law.”
“Without the letters of condolence, telegrams of congratulations and even occasional postcards, the friendship of a separated friend is not a social reality. It has no existence without the rites of friendship. Social rituals create a reality which would be nothing without them.”
“Without the library, you have no civilization.”
“Without the Light of the Heart, the Mind will always remain in the Dark. The Mind seeks truth but the Heart is the ultimate truth.”
“Without the light, no chance; without the dark, no dance.”
Source: The Year Of The Flood
“Without the little ideas, there are no big ideas.”
Source: The Creative Habit: Learn It and Use It for Life
“Without the local library in my neighborhood, I don’t think I would have grown up to be a writer or a teacher.”
“Without the LORD, there is no life.”
“Without the lord to shield you and guide you, you gonna fade away. Jah is your shield and your guide. The wicked man gotta turn aside. No need to fear no wicked guide. Rastafari protect your life!”
“Without the love of a woman, it is impossible to have a manly world.”
Source: LOVE, HATRED AND MADNESS
“Without the low operating costs, high efficiency, high reliability, and great durability of diesel engines, it would have been impossible to reach the extent of globalization that now defines the modern economy.”
Source: Numbers Don't Lie: 71 Things You Need to Know About the World
“Without the lower chakras, all our work in the more spiritual and intuitive centres would be fraught with difficulties. Spiritual students should not go too deeply into the path without very strong and stable lower energy centres.”
“Without the means to prevent, and to control the timing of, conception, economic and political rights have limited meaning for women. If women cannot plan their pregnancies, they can plan little else in their lives.”
Source: The Feminist Papers: From Adams to de Beauvoir
“Without the meditative background that is criticism, works become isolated gestures, historical accidents, soon forgotten.”
“Without the mercy of God, how could we have a merry heart?”
“Without the mercy of the Maker, every man should have perish in his sins.”
“Without the mess, who treasure the mercy of the Maker?”
“Without the mind, the idea of worthiness would not exist.”
Source: Empty Your Cup: Why We Have Low Self-Esteem and How Mindfulness Can Help
“Without the mind there is no Buddha. Without the Buddha there's no mind.”
Source: The Zen Teaching of Bodhidharma
“Without the momentum of a stern discipline, motivation is mostly a momentary, flighty emotion. For it works best under the supervision of discipline, but can serve as not only an ally but also an enemy: because in anything that requires your self-discipline - whether going to church, going to classes, going to workouts, going through trainings, completing jobs, reading books, living well, eating healthily, studying, practicing something - the more times you skip, the more relaxed and motivated you'll become about skipping; and the next thing you know you've quit your fight altogether (or, put in short, the more you skip, the more you'll skip until you've quit). Maybe then you'll see that motivation bears its fruits when watered by discipline, but it spoils when not.”
“Without the more developed sense of history that only fully flourished in modernity - reflected in the notion of a future potentially utterly unlike the past - there is no room for thinking of perils or promises that outstrip present and past experience.”
Source: X-Risk: How Humanity Discovered Its Own Extinction
“Without the music, it's just a box.”
Source: Small Things Mended
“Without the musician, there is no music.”
“Without the Name, there is no peace.”
“Without the National Federation of Republican Women, there would be no Republican Party.”
“Without the necessary humility to worship, I subconsciously desired to be worshiped, not in a crazy Napoleanic manner, but like a modern-day celebrity.”
“Without the New York Times, there is no blog community. They'd have nothing to blog about.”
“Without the nothing, God is nothing.
Without emptiness, God is empty.
Without division, God is indivisibly dead.
The divisibility of God is the source of life.
However, how can it be divided if there is absolute oneness?
Absolute is the biggest enemy of the absolute itself.
To live, the Absolute must transform into relativity.”
Source: ABSOLUTE
“Without the Nothing, nothing can exist in the world as we see it. Nothing is the medium of the Being. Without the Nonbeing, there is no Being. This coexistence and symbiosis produce something we may call, at best, an illusion of “curvature of space” since actual space remains uncurved and cannot be curved.”
Source: ABSOLUTE
“Without the oceans there would be no life on Earth.”
“Without the ontological assumption which goes with it, what is called science, is nothing but the dreamer's well-ordered dream.”
Source: Philosophy of Mind
“Without the opinion of an expert there's no such thing as certainty.”
Source: Dan