How could I describe our relationship even to myself without either disparaging it or insulting it with the tawdry decoration of sentimentality?
Here, on the river's verge, I could be busy for months without changing my place, simply leaning a little more to right or left.
We all have these tendencies in us that could go this way or that. I think that's the real key in writing. To look at a character without judgment.
Cyber weapons provide the tantalising possibility of being able to cripple the enemy without inflicting lasting damage on them.
My mind skidded round a very short track and passed the finish line in a matter of seconds without any sensible conclusion.
I defy anyone - and I have said this to the Germans - to build a solid, articulated, and viable Europe without France's consent.
Self pity becomes your oxygen. But you learned to breathe it without a gasp. So, nobody even notices you're hurting.
I'm such a control freak, and it's very hard for me to lose my inhibitions without something chemical inside me.
Blake said Milton was a true poet and of the Devil's party without knowing it. I am of the Devil's party and know it.
But it seemed to me that the American way of doing things was to obliterate a complete area, without really knowing exactly what was there and where they were.
At the heart of personality is the need to feel a sense of being lovable without having to qualify for that acceptance.
Knowledge is not the thing to boast or to brag! It's about how you can make influence on lives without uttering a single word.
Captaincy is 90 per cent luck and 10 per cent skill. But don't try it without that 10 per cent.
Unfortunately, some in Washington remain tied to the dogma that responsible energy development cannot be achieved without taking a wrecking ball to the environment.
There is no such thing as a problem without a gift for you in its hands. You seek problems because you need their gifts.
The notion that Cuba is the only country in the world where you can live without working must be erased forever.
When facing terrorism, especially in the wake of awful events, there is a tendency to despair, to see in the battle a problem without a solution.
I can't accept collective responsibility for the decision to commit Britain now to military action in Iraq without international agreement or domestic support.
The role of any person in this world is to be themselves without damaging the rest. We are important as long as the rest "is". - Rossana Condoleo
A universe with a creator would be a totally different kind of universe, scientifically speaking, than one without.
I had to learn to live without you and I couldn't make sense of it, because I left so much of me inside of you.
