My father, who died a few years ago, was a good, simple, very honest man. His faith and affection for his family was just unassailable, without question.
I don't know; I think I'd be gloomy without some faith that there is a purpose and there is a kind of witness to my life.
No person I have ever met, not even the most righteous or pure of heart, has gone without those times when faith recedes in the busy-ness of life.
When the truth is that there would be no great Western music, and certainly no decent choral repertoire, without the Catholic faith.
Without faith that there's a world beyond the one we live in, I don't see how it's possible to get rid of angst.
Our modern states are preparing for war without even knowing the future enemy.
I don't need to convince anybody that I know kung fu, but maybe somebody needs to know that I really can act, without doing a Chinese accent or a funny walk.
Some lucky people can be funny without half trying because they actually look funny, because acting funny is in their bones - fun as funny, not funny as crude slapstick.
I believe in God. It's a big part of my life. You can bring it up and talk about it without being 'Christian Rocker.'
Dante himself is open to the suspicion of partiality: it is said, not without apparent ground, that he puts into hell all the enemies of the political cause, which, in his eyes, was that of Italy and God.
Imparting knowledge is only lighting other men's candles at our lamp without depriving ourselves of any flame.
To attempt this would be like seeing without eyes or directing the gaze of knowledge behind one's own eye. Modern science can acknowledge no other than this epistemological stand-point.
As in nature, politics abhors a vacuum. Without a strong voice for more moderate leadership, the Tea Party is filling that vacuum.
I think women should be seductive, not triste. There's enough sadness in life now without making women look sad, too.
We all want to be someone else but without ceasing to be ourselves. I think it's very important to defend this idea in real life too.
From Romare Bearden I learned that the fullness and richness of everyday life can be rendered without compromise or sentimentality.
I have no private life at all. I am a hunted woman. I can't take a step without being questioned and surrounded.
If you live only in one culture for the first 20 years of your life, you become conditioned without knowing it.
It's obvious that the key problem facing humanity in the coming century is how to bring a better quality of life - for 8 billion or more people - without wrecking the environment entirely in the attempt.
In her whole life Mom never earned more than five or six dollars a week. Being without a husband, it was hard for her to find any place at all for us to live.
Life has always taken place in a tumult without apparent cohesion, but it only finds its grandeur and its reality in ecstasy and in ecstatic love.
