What is a fish without a river? What is a bird without a tree to nest in? What is an Endangered Species Act without any enforcement mechanism to ensure their habitat is protected? It is nothing.
I would be nowhere without martial arts. It's a passion.
The whole earth is the tomb of heroic men and their story is not given only on stone over their clay but abides everywhere without visible symbol woven into the stuff of other mens lives.
A punk concert isn't fun without a pit.
My desire was not to pass any island without taking possession, so that, one having been taken, the same may be said of all.
And later I thought, I can't think how anyone can become a director without learning the craft of cinematography.
No man is good enough to govern any woman without her consent.
I can't live without eyeliner.
One lapse of judgment can cost and talent isn't everything. A huge slice of good fortune in needed to make it to the top, and without that element of luck, you've no chance.
I'm a man without a corporation.
There is but one way for a president to deal with Congress, and that is continuously, incessantly, and without interruption. If it is really going to work, the relationship has got to be almost incestuous.
I come from a time when people like Bob Newhart and Bill Cosby told stories that were devastatingly funny without being off-color.
The set of '12 Years a Slave' was an extremely joyous one! We all recognized that we were making a powerful, necessary and beautiful film, and we weren't about doing it without that sense of responsibility, and we recognized that we needed each other to tell this story. We also knew we needed to hold each other up as we told the story.
That the caste system must be abolished if the Hindu society is to be reconstructed on the basis of equality, goes without saying. Untouchability has its roots in the caste system. They cannot expect the Brahmins to rise in revolt against the caste system. Also we cannot rely upon the non-Brahmins and ask them to fight our battle.
Greed is a sin because humans are social creatures. And they simply cannot survive without the opposite of greed, which is cooperation.
It's true that America can't solve every problem, but I don't know of any major problem in the world that can be solved without us.
All my life, as down an abyss without a bottom. I have been pouring van loads of information into that vacancy of oblivion I call my mind.
Action may not bring happiness but there is no happiness without action.
Success depends upon previous preparation, and without such preparation there is sure to be failure.
We could not, for example, arrive at a principle like that of entropy without introducing some additional principle, such as randomness, to this topography.
Every president since Nixon has embraced a policy of 'self-determination without termination' - the idea that Native Americans are best equipped to govern themselves. Trump is breaking with this position.
It is a most extraordinary thing, but I never read a patent medicine advertisement without being impelled to the conclusion that I am suffering from the particular disease therein dealt with in its most virulent form.
The music of the Gypsies belongs in the sphere of improvisation rather than in any other, without which it would have no power to exist.
No good fish goes anywhere without a porpoise.
The new rule in American politics is that no one can make it to the White House without the Hispanic vote.
It took a lot for me to be able to say that I'm a plus-size model or a model at all without feeling terror or this kind of panic, because it was something so unplanned.
One of the first things I learned in the Marine Corps is that any military mission has to be defined as precisely as you can possibly define it, and then you size the force and equipment force to accomplish that mission without fail.
Nobody travels on the road to success without a puncture or two.
But in my college years it got to the point where my friends and I didn't do anything without consuming a massive amount of alcohol before we went anywhere or did anything, and you know that.
We observe that in the scriptures, fasting almost always is linked with prayer. Without prayer, fasting is not complete fasting; it's simply going hungry.
Just imagine, the thousands and thousands of concerts that take place every single day, all over the world. And the positive effect that they would have on the people listening. Now imagine a world without this. This void... it is unthinkable.
Never assume, no matter how strong the temptation, that other people are low-life lying manipulators without a shred of human decency.
Increasingly prices are set by sellers to raise their prices without a loss of sales sufficient to wipe out the gain.
If it awakens in us as a whole how important that is - the theme of how conquest and ambition are meaningless without contribution - I think then as a society we're in better shape. I hope people are inspired to be the best.
You can't be elected president without passing though Iowa and bowing down before corn-based ethanol, before agricultural subsidies. I mean, even McCain was a critic of ethanol, but when he got to Iowa, he was singing a different tune.
Unquestionably, it is possible to do without happiness; it is done involuntarily by nineteen-twentieths of mankind.
