Kids who enter 'adulthood' without any strong attachments to people who know and care about them have a rough road ahead, to say the least.
By 'justice', I understand nothing more than that bond which is necessary to keep the interest of individuals united, without which men would return to their original state of barbarity. All punishments which exceed the necessity of preserving this bond are, in their nature, unjust.
Well, television is grueling. The hours are grueling, it's hard work, and there's a lot of pressure to get it done without a lot of rehearsal time.
My fear was not of death itself, but a death without meaning.
A man with a surplus can control circumstances, but a man without a surplus is controlled by them, and often has no opportunity to exercise judgment.
The truth is a snare: you cannot have it, without being caught. You cannot have the truth in such a way that you catch it, but only in such a way that it catches you.
I have the feeling it will influence my future writing to the extent that without any material worries I could develop a greater ease, even lightheartedness, in my writing.
The student develops an analytical as well as finely blended character. He is able to choose from a wide variety of job fields from which to embrace a career, without having to be a specialist in one particular discipline.
The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in the insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning but without understanding.
I used to be really fat, but now I'm not. I used to have hair, but now I don't. I used to be able to see without corrective lenses, but now I can't. One of these this is exacerbated by the fact that I'm an editor. One of these things is true despite the fact that I'm an editor. One of them has nothing to do with me being an editor.
Nothing is sadder than having worldly standards without worldly means.
Without the power of the Industrial Union behind it, Democracy can only enter the State as the victim enters the gullet of the Serpent.
I would love to have seen a male-female relationship that had nothing to do with falling in love, I'd love to prove, even on TV - even if it's not true! - that men and women can be friends without any kind of involvement.
To try to fashion something from suffering, to relish our triumphs, and to endure defeats without resentment: all that is compatible with the faith of a heretic.
You can't be a major company today without paying attention to celebrities. They are the leaders in beauty and fashion.
Enthusiasm is the genius of sincerity and truth accomplishes no victories without it.
I told him there was one city that they must not bomb without my permission and that was Kyoto.
Try to never say 'yes' on the phone; instead, say, 'I'll get back to you.' When you're actually speaking to someone, the desire to be accommodating is very strong, and can lead you to say 'yes' without enough consideration.
Without a policy restricting immigration, it becomes difficult, if not impossible, to fight against communalism and the rise of ways of life at odds with laicite - France's distinctive form of secularism - and other laws and values of the French Republic.
One way I differ from my character, Coach Taylor, is that I never would have taken this faraway job without my wife's consent.
I am trying to understand what it means to be a Christian without being religious.
Most of the time, I grill over high heat. I like things to move fast. I like the sound and smell of a very hot fire. I gravitate towards dishes that you can get on and off the grill as quickly as possible. After a while, you'll know without thinking about it how hot the fire is.
You can't have a healthy civilization without healthy soil. You can't have junk food and have healthy people.
To be used in a part without depth is a frustrating feeling, when you know you have something to give.
We need to invest in healthcare, in education, in the sciences. And in so doing, we will tackle one of the most intractable problems we face, which is gross wealth inequality. We can't fight climate change without dealing with inequality in our countries and between our countries.
The Internet is a bright spot for our struggling economy and functioning just fine without what amounts to a federal pat-down of the inner workings of the Internet.
Most people work for the private sector, which cannot exist without profit.
You can grow without destroying the things that you love.
Men may be popular without being ambitious, but there is hardly an ambitious man who does not try to be popular.
You can design a mortgage system that is different without a Fannie and Freddie, but there are principles you have to have, to have a good system.
As I wrote I began to see more strongly that there were inescapable analogies. You couldn't really live through the '80s without feeling how crass and distasteful some of the economic doctrines were. The slave trade is a perfect model for that kind of total devotion to the profit motive without reckoning the human consequences.
Go right straight down the road, to do what is best, and to do it frankly and without evasion.
In fiction, you are not limited by real facts. You can manipulate reality; you can invent without being disloyal to the essence of history.
I can't imagine a day without coffee. I can't imagine!
Music embodies feeling without forcing it to contend and combine with thought, as it is forced in most arts and especially in the art of words.
Anything I've done up till May 27th 1999 was kind of an illusion, existing without living. My daughter, the birth of my daughter, gave me life.
