At the age of five, of six, at the age of seven, I used to begin weeping sometimes without warning, simply for the sake of weeping, my eyes open wide to the sun, to the flowers... I wanted to feel an immense grief inside me, and it came.
Once every five hundred years or so, a summary statement about poetry comes along that we can't imagine ourselves living without.
Chance is a word void of sense; nothing can exist without a cause.
Mindfulness helps us freeze the frame so that we can become aware of our sensations and experiences as they are, without the distorting coloration of socially conditioned responses or habitual reactions.
I don't want to flee, nor do I want to abandon the battle of these farmers who live without any protection in the forest. They have the sacrosanct right to aspire to a better life on land where they can live and work with dignity while respecting the environment.
The Internet has the capacity to extend to us genuine choice, and that is not without risk. Real power does entail real responsibility.
I remembered seeing it and it was this metallic turbine and I thought it was beautiful. I had never been in a power plant before, but I felt, without being overly dramatic, compelled to make photographs of this for myself.
When I talk to students or young writers about the importance of being unafraid to take controversial positions, I'm struck by the degree to which they can't entertain a thought, much less commit one to paper, without imagining the cacophony of snark they'll get in response.
As parents know, little children are, by their nature, without guile. They speak the thoughts of their minds without reservation or hesitance as we have learned as parents when they embarrass us at times. They do not deceive. They set an example of being without guile.
There is no Polish culture without Jewish culture.
My idea of a real treat is Magic Mountain without standing in line.
History is formed by the people, those who have power and those without power. Each one of us makes history.
I would be surprised if my girls ended up as women without grit. I really would.
The Book of Mormon offers so much that broadens our understandings of the doctrines of salvation. Without it, much of what is taught in other scriptures would not be nearly so plain and precious.
Life is the only art that we are required to practice without preparation, and without being allowed the preliminary trials, the failures and botches, that are essential for training.
The challenge of modernity is to live without illusions and without becoming disillusioned.
The Internet makes it possible for people like me to live the way I do now. Without it, I'd have to be in New York or some other city. I think the Internet is the greatest invention in history after antibiotics.
You can't get anywhere without the people who have come into your life.
No great genius has ever existed without some touch of madness.
Better a diamond with a flaw than a pebble without.
No power on earth has a right to take our property from us without our consent.
You see, my brethren, my heart is full; I could almost say it is too big to speak, and yet too big to be silent, without dropping a word to you.
We're newspaper junkies; I can't imagine life without a newspaper.
The only way of knowing a person is to love them without hope.
Films are wonderful but they do fix an identity. I can't read 'Pride and Prejudice' anymore, for instance, without imaging Colin Firth as Mr. Darcy.
Our generation, unfortunately, is stuck to our phones - and, like, Twitter - constantly, which I have no problem with. I'd say we're not describing the children of America or anything like that, but there is something to take from it: It is kind of sad how we can't go thirty minutes without checking our phone.
Evil is done without effort, naturally, it is the working of fate; good is always the product of an art.
It is impossible to live a pleasant life without living wisely and well and justly. And it is impossible to live wisely and well and justly without living a pleasant life.
I just wanna get to the end of the day without it raining.
How poor this world would be without its graves, without the memories of its mighty dead. Only the voiceless speak forever.
Isn't an agnostic just an atheist without balls?
The absent are never without fault. Nor the present without excuse.
Under Xi, China has again become the world's top jailer of journalists. China's rank on the Reporters Without Borders index of press freedom is 176th out of 180 countries. China comes in dead last on the Freedom House 'Freedom on the Net' list.
I wanted to see if I could be happy without a lot of stuff. And what I found out was, yeah, I really could.
I do get very involved in making a scene work without giving too much thought about how it affects the overall, which I think is hard to know in any case.
Although when I start a novel I know how it will begin and end, I like to let the people within the story take me on a journey between those points without having a fixed plan.
