I grew up without a television. It meant that I read lots of books and entertained myself.
Much as I like owning a Rolls-Royce, I could do without it. What I could not do without is a typewriter, a supply of yellow second sheets and the time to put them to good use.
Adventure without risk is Disneyland.
Too often we think we can act without explaining and take decisions without justifying them.
A God without dominion, providence, and final causes, is nothing else but fate and nature.
A hero is someone we can admire without apology.
If we continue to develop our technology without wisdom or prudence, our servant may prove to be our executioner.
Rich people without wisdom and learning are but sheep with golden fleeces.
I'm thrilled to have a completely new audience that I can get from Court TV, without it being my own trial. That was the only other way I would have gotten it.
I think especially older people, and I count myself one, in the business - people get to know who you really are. So there comes a time when you can't just go in and audition without everybody knowing exactly how you've brought up your kids, what you said at the meeting, what kind of food you cook.
Nobody gets any fun out of baseball any more. I guess a kid's crazy not to be serious about it when he's drawing down $20,000 or $30,000 a year, and any smart-aleck gag you try may be your last. But what's life without a laugh?
It is in the character of very few men to honor without envy a friend who has prospered.
Obama rammed through Obamacare legislation without a single Republican vote.
I have three daughters and I find as a result I played King Lear almost without rehearsal.
My whole family could sing. My family harmonized without any instruments to accompany them.
When I celebrated my bar mitzvah, there was no cake. Today, there is no such thing as a bar mitzvah in the United States without a special cake. It can be even more complicated and expensive than a wedding cake, because bar-mitzvah cakes are often based on a particular theme.
Conservation is not without its critics and opposition. There are a lot of special interests that don't want to see land set aside.
If we overregulate, over control, impose too many burdens and too much bureaucracy - or if we do it across the board, without taking into account the differences among businesses and their relative impact on society - that could make people risk-averse and dampen the entrepreneurial spirit.
I think most people don't like others who, without a voice of their own, emulate the other. I certainly don't want anybody just to pick up my thoughts and hand them back to me.
Every man's dream is to be able to sink into the arms of a woman without also falling into her hands.
At the same time, new concepts and abstractions flow into the picture, taking up the task of describing the universe without reference to such time or space - abstractions for which our language lacks adequate terms.
We must have ideals and try to live up to them, even if we never quite succeed. Life would be a sorry business without them. With them it's grand and great.
True happiness is... to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future.
The prospect of success in achieving our most cherished dream is not without its terrors. Who is more deprived and alone than the man who has achieved his dream?
There is no excellence without labor. One cannot dream oneself into either usefulness or happiness.
There's a beauty to wisdom and experience that cannot be faked. It's impossible to be mature without having lived.
Golf is a puzzle without an answer. I've played the game for 40 years and I still haven't the slightest idea how to play.
But your questions, which are unanswerable without exception, all spring from the same erroneous thinking.
It's hard to see your own face without a mirror.
However, writing software without defects is not sufficient. In my experience, it is at least as difficult to write software that is safe - that is, software that behaves reasonably under adverse conditions.
The secret thoughts of a man run over all things, holy, profane, clean, obscene, grave, and light, without shame or blame.
How many times can you put together 26 different stories without running out?
As a child, I would go days without speaking, and then suddenly I would scream until everyone was looking at me.
I like a lot of the stuff that they did without me, the time I wasn't around.
Ever since our Surfin' Safari' began in the early 1960's, the relations'hip with The Beach Boys and water has been synonymous. 'Surfin', 'Catch a Wave', and 'Surfin' USA' are songs which capture the feelings of being out in the water without a care in the world, living a dream so many long to live no matter where they are from.
Punditry is like weather forecasting: the winds can shift without warning. I remember when nobody would bet a McDonald's Quarter Pounder that Bill Clinton would win the White House.
