A Quote by Thomas Russell

Trying to have wisdom without application is like trying to catch the winds without raising the sails!

Thomas Russell

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Thomas Russell
November 21, 1767 - October 21, 1803

Trying to build the brotherhood of man without the fatherhood of God is like trying to make a wheel without a hub.

Irene Dunne

Trying to be happy without a sense of God’s presence is like trying to have a bright day without the sun.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

But how can you understand a war without any knowledge of the society where it happens? It's like trying to understand birth without knowing anything about pregnancy or conception. Or like trying to understand our current economic collapse without knowing what a derivative is.

Annia Ciezadlo

To write a poem is like trying to catch a lizard without its tail falling off.

Lawrence Durrell

Trying to run Congress without human relationships is like trying to run a car without motor oil. Should we be surprised when the whole thing freezes up?

Jonathan Haidt

I know I could never forgive myself if I elected to live without humane purpose, without trying to help the poor and unfortunate, without recognizing that perhaps the purest joy in life comes with trying to help others.

Arthur Ashe

Let your ears hear without trying to hear. Let the mind think without trying to think and without trying to stop it. That is practice.

Shunryu Suzuki

Trying to get without first giving is as fruitless as trying to reap without having sown.

Napoleon Hill

But it ain't easy, trying to do without God even if you know he ain't there, trying to do without him is a strain

Alice Walker

Hoist the sails of your own spirit to catch the winds of God.

Ralph Washington Sockman

The passions are the winds which fill the sails of the vessel; they sink it at times, but without them it would be impossible to make way.

Voltaire

Trying to manage a project without project management is like trying to play a football game without a game plan.

Katherine Tate

I am freely able to express myself honestly to the public without trying to polish it over, trying to hide something. I'm just trying to be free with my expression.

Ziggy Marley

In essay writing, I'm trying to push the form of expository writing. I'm trying to remember, trying to reckon, trying to find connections with the world, the nation and me, but I'm always trying to push the form, too, without being too obvious that I'm trying to push the form.