You can't have a light without a dark to stick it in.
Don't be afraid to convince yourself that your business is incredible, but don't expect others to be convinced without solid data to back it up. Ideas can be a worth a lot, but they are usually not. Execution is everything.
If I walked into the kitchen without washing my hands as a kid, I'd hear a loud 'A-hem!' from my mother or grandmother. Now I count on other people to do the same.
That's the thing about depression: A human being can survive almost anything, as long as she sees the end in sight. But depression is so insidious, and it compounds daily, that it's impossible to ever see the end. The fog is like a cage without a key.
In this world without quiet corners, there can be no easy escapes from history, from hullabaloo, from terrible, unquiet fuss.
Without the brave efforts of all the soldiers, sailors, airmen, and marines and their families, this Nation, along with our allies around the world, would not stand so boldly, shine so brightly and live so freely.
I have gained this from philosophy: that I do without being commanded what others do only from fear of the law.
Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul. It is daily admission of one's weakness. It is better in prayer to have a heart without words than words without a heart.
I couldn't imagine a day without music. It relaxes and stimulates me in equal measure and I hate the sound of silence - the concept, I mean, not the track by Simon and Garfunkel.
A free press can, of course, be good or bad, but, most certainly without freedom, the press will never be anything but bad.
I've been to a lot of places and done a lot of things, but writing was always first. It's a kind of pain I can't do without.
At rehearsals, I began conducting the band, counting them in without thinking. I guess it came from watching salsa legends like my uncle and Tito Puente, who was very much the leader of his band on stage.
You can't write about an iconic Hollywood star of the sixties without bumping up against Elizabeth Taylor.
It's not that I sit down and write great stuff without thinking, not at all. Most of it is terrible. But the stuff that feels fun and fresh to me tends to happen fairly unthinkingly.
What I argued in 'The Great Divide' is that societies can't function without trust, both politically and economically.
Once we have learned to read, meaning of words can somehow register without consciousness.
Be able to blow out a dinner candle without sending wax flying across the table.
For nine years I worked to change what was hairdressing then into a geometric art form with color, perm without setting which had never been done before.
If a man suffers ill, let it be without shame; for this is the only profit when we are dead. You will never say a good word about deeds that are evil and disgraceful.
Security depends not so much upon how much you have, as upon how much you can do without.
Beer makes you feel the way you ought to feel without beer.
One of the main points about travelling is to develop in us a feeling of solidarity, of that oneness without which no better world is possible.
What's great about 'The Avengers' is that it's the next step. It's not just superhero fights super-villain and superhero wins. It's about superheroes that come together and interact. It's a clash of the egos. You could do 'Avengers 1' without a villain, just with all these guys coming together. They could sit down and just have a discussion.
You can't be in the public eye without making mistakes and having some regrets and having people analyze everything you do.
The problem is that the right doesn't need any ideas to govern, but the left can't govern without ideas.
Without strength and courage it's really hard to perform at the highest levels of international figure skating, because you're alone on the ice and you only have seven minutes over two nights to prove yourself.
The enemies are not so much from without as from within the race.
Without the United States, there simply would not have been an armed uprising in our country.
There is nothing more universally commended than a fine day; the reason is that people can commend it without envy.
A teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on cold iron.
Fear is excitement without breath.
Without movie parts I was reduced to freak status. I just couldn't stand it.
It is plain that, when it comes to inferior officers, Congress itself can pass a law sending these nominees to the President with him having the authority to put them on the bench without the advice and consent of the Senate.
Without that assured American largesse Israel would have been obliged to come to an accommodation with her neighbours.
Without forgiveness, there's no future.
You just couldn't be in George Romney's presence without some of his goodness and integrity wearing off on you.
