Anything Except Quotes

167 quotes by 152 authors

I was never really good at anything except for the ability to learn. — Kanye West
Nothing is more natural than mutual misunderstanding; the contrary is always surprising. I believe that one never agrees on anything except by mistake, and that… — Paul Valery
It's as if the fasion designers decided that once a woman hit a certain weight, she'd have no need for business suits, for skirts and… — Jennifer Weiner
...don't read anything except what destroys the insulation between yourself and your experience... — Louise Erdrich
But miracles are not for the asking; they come only when the stern eyes of God droop shut for a moment, and Our Lady takes… — Michel Faber
One can stand anything except a succession of ordinary days — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Alas...I too have known love, that ruler of hearts, that soul of our soul: it's never brought me anything except one kiss and twenty kicks… — Voltaire
I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me. Like the bodiless heads you see sometimes in circus sideshows, it is as though… — Ralph Ellison
I can imagine anything except having no imagination. — Michael Chabon
I have never done anything except write, but I don't possess the vocation or talents of a narrator, have no knowledge at all of the… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Dear Complete and Utter Stranger, The first thing that I have to say is that I hate oatmeal. I really hate it. And you know… — Jaclyn Moriarty
If he were allowed contact with foreigners he would discover that they are creatures similar to himself and that most of what he has been… — George Orwell
At least I was true. My intellectual abilities gave me a release, and an excuse. I shunned company because I preferred books; and the dreams… — Robin McKinley
I can accept anything, except what seems to be the easiest for most people: the half-way, the almost, the just-about, the in-between. — Ayn Rand
It was something... the way a person's life picked up speed, the way a life was like a bullet aimed at one final target, impossible… — Joe Hill
It's just hard to see a friend hurt this much. Especially when you can't do anything except 'be there.' I just want to make him… — Stephen Chbosky
Decidedly it will never have been given to me to finish anything, except perhaps breathing. One must not be greedy. — Samuel Beckett
I'm not good enough for you. But no one is. And most men, good or bad, have limits to what they would do, even for… — Lisa Kleypas
Life is short. Short, and not about anything except what you can touch and what touches you. — Woody Allen
And the danger is that in this move toward new horizons and far directions, that I may lose what I have now, and not find… — Sylvia Plath

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