Without Quotes

Perfect valour consists in doing without witnesses that which we would be capable of doing before everyone.

Perfect courage is to do without witnesses what one would be capable of doing with the world looking on.

A categorical imperative would be one which represented an action as objectively necessary in itself, without reference to any other purpose.

Without civilization, we would not turn into animals, but vegetables.

Without frugality none can be rich, and with it very few would be poor.

I live for my sons. I would be lost without them.

No baseball pitcher would be worth a darn without a catcher who could handle the hot fastball.

Rain is grace; rain is the sky descending to the earth; without rain, there would be no life.

Without vanity, without coquetry, without curiosity, in a word, without the fall, woman would not be woman. Much of her grace is in her frailty.

Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods.

I can well conceive a man without hands, feet, head. But I cannot conceive man without thought; he would be a stone or a brute.

I would rather be poor in a cottage full of books than a king without the desire to read.

If I had my way, if I was lucky enough, if I could be on the brink my entire life - that great sense of expectation and excitement without the disappointment - that would be the perfect state.

If I owned a network, I would never let a guy just put people on without telling me who they are.

Prejudices are so to speak the mechanical instincts of men: through their prejudices they do without any effort many things they would find too difficult to think through to the point of resolving to do them.

Ambition is not what a man would do, but what a man does, for ambition without action is fantasy.

I ask every Communist individually to set an example, by deeds and without pretense, a real example worthy of a man and a Communist, in restoring order, starting normal life, in resuming work and production, and in laying the foundations of an ordered life.

It's a source of great sadness to me that my father died without having seen me do anything worthwhile. He was constantly having to make excuses for me.

Awareness without action is worthless.

It has not been for nothing that the word has remained man's principal toy and tool: without the meanings and values it sustains, all man's other tools would be worthless.

There must be some one quality without which a work of art cannot exist; possessing which, in the least degree, no work is altogether worthless.

No matter what Aristotle and the Philosophers say, nothing is equal to tobacco; it's the passion of the well-bred, and he who lives without tobacco lives a life not worth living.

To find in ourselves what makes life worth living is risky business, for it means that once we know we must seek it. It also means that without it life will be valueless.

Any man worth his salt will stick up for what he believes right, but it takes a slightly better man to acknowledge instantly and without reservation that he is in error.

It seems to me that trying to live without friends is like milking a bear to get cream for your morning coffee. It is a whole lot of trouble, and then not worth much after you get it.

The least of things with a meaning is worth more in life than the greatest of things without it.

One man with a head on his shoulders is worth a dozen without.

Without football, my life is worth nothing.

Culture's worth huge, huge risks. Without culture we're all totalitarian beasts.

I was convinced I was worth less than my straight peers. I was at best inauthentic, and the longer I went without amending that dishonesty, the more ashamed I felt.