#without

I'd look at one of my stonecutters hammering away at the rock, perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet, at the hundred and first blow it would split in two, and I knew it was not that blow that did it, but all that had gone before. ↗

— Jacob August Riis

#before #blow #crack #did #first

By far the greatest part of those goods which are the objects of desire, are procured by labour; and they may be multiplied, not in one country alone, but in many, almost without any assignable limit, if we are disposed to bestow the labour necessary to obtain them. ↗

— David Ricardo

#alone #any #bestow #country #desire

Enjoy your sweat because hard work doesn't guarantee success, but without it you don't have a chance. ↗

— Alex Rodriguez

#chance #enjoy #guarantee #hard #hard work

The dream, alone, is of interest. What is life, without a dream? ↗

— Edmond Rostand

#dream #interest #life #without

Worldwide is an overused word. But it's true that being known has given me new ideas and a chance to get to know new people who think in different ways. I want to hear myself referred to as Elie Saab, without labels or titles. ↗

— Elie Saab

#chance #different #different ways #get #given

We breathed the air of freedom without knowing the language or any person. ↗

— Nelly Sachs

#any #breathed #freedom #knowing #language

A husband without faults is a dangerous observer. ↗

— George Savile

#faults #husband #observer #without

So this anchoring in some way, in some important way in the past without repeating the past, but on the basis of the past building something new: that is what is important. ↗

— Gunther Schuller

#basis #building #important #important way #in the past

Dreams are not without meaning wherever thay may come from-from fantasy, from the elements, or from other inspiration. ↗

— Paracelsus

#dreams #elements #fantasy #inspiration #may

I suffered evils, but without allowing them to rob me of the freedom to expand. ↗

— Gordon Parks

#evils #expand #freedom #i #me