The essence of man is, discontent, divine discontent; a sort of love without a beloved, the ache we feel in a member we no longer have.
We cannot attribute to fortune or virtue that which is achieved without either.
Without failure there is no achievement.
In comparing various authors with one another, I have discovered that some of the gravest and latest writers have transcribed, word for word, from former works, without making acknowledgment.
It is not true that people are naturally equal for no two people can be together for even a half an hour without one acquiring an evident superiority over the other.
A categorical imperative would be one which represented an action as objectively necessary in itself, without reference to any other purpose.
You can't make an action movie without action, and so, you can't make a romance movie without romance.
Is it 'a drag' that passions don't come to us all at once, as epiphanies, without the need to actively develop them? Maybe. But the reality is that our early interests are fragile, vaguely defined, and in need of energetic, years-long cultivation and refinement.
There is nothing so terrible as activity without insight.
Generality is, indeed, an indispensable ingredient of reality; for mere individual existence or actuality without any regularity whatever is a nullity. Chaos is pure nothing.
No design, no matter how common or seemingly insignificant, is without its adamant critics as well as its ardent admirers.
Our case, we used the organometallic compounds. Additionally, we need one important element, that is base. Without base, the acidic coupling reaction using organoboron compounds cannot proceed nicely. So, that is very important point in our cross-coupling reaction.
Tossing doughnuts, fritters or fried dumplings in fennel sugar adds grown-up complexity without diminishing the indulgence factor.
The promise of education reform can never be fulfilled without adequate funding, and by shortchanging our schools, President Bush is breaking his promise to our children.
If a man is going to be an American at all let him be so without any qualifying adjectives, and if he is going to be something else, let him drop the word American from his personal description.
A well adjusted person is one who makes the same mistake twice without getting nervous.
Without a doubt, the most fiscally responsible way to increase the number of officers on our streets is to mobilize uniformed officers in administrative jobs and to use civilian employees to fill those jobs.
The only things one can admire at length are those one admires without knowing why.
You cannot have adoration without being criticized.
Wealth is not without its advantages and the case to the contrary, although it has often been made, has never proved widely persuasive.