Everything Except Quotes

141 quotes by 119 authors

Almost everything that I behold in this wonderful country bears traces of improvement and reform - everything except Pie. — George Augustus Henry Sala
Tightness gets in the way of everything, except tightness. — Jeff Bridges
Everything on earth is beautiful, everything -- except what we ourselves think and do when we forget the higher purposes of life and our own… — Anton Chekhov
The covenant of your servanthood is that you be a servant to God, not to someone else, and that you know that everything except God… — Ibn Ata Allah
Manchester's got everything except a beach. — Ian Brown
The basic problem is that our civilization, which is a civilization of machines, can teach man everything except how to be a man. — Andre Malraux
Discard everything except these few truths: we can live only in the present moment, in this brief now; all the rest of our life is… — Marcus Aurelius
As a Buddhist, I was trained to be tolerant of everything except intolerance. I was brought up not only to develop the spirit of tolerance… — U Thant
Literature is a vast bazaar where customers come to purchase everything except mirrors. — James Branch Cabell
The photographer has almost as much control over his subject matter as a painter. He can control light and shade, form and space, pattern and… — Andreas Feininger
I can reason down or deny everything, except this perpetual Belly: feed he must and will, and I cannot make him respectable. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
The Gross National Product measures everything except that which makes life worthwhile — Robert Kennedy
Shoot up everything except a school or a playground — Birdman
Songwriting is like editing. You write down all this stuff - all this bad, stupid stuff - and then you have to get rid of… — Juliana Hatfield
I've succeeded at everything except my life. — Serge Gainsbourg
Hollywood's a very weird place. I think there's less of everything except for attitude. — Dean Cain
Advances have fallen, generally, for everything except the biggest potential bestsellers. Given all the changes, both economic and technological, SF hasn't done too badly. — Alan Dean Foster
I retired from everything except work. — Lee Friedlander
[Statistics] The science that can prove everything except the usefulness of statistics. — Evan Esar
The madman is the man who has lost everything except his reason... — Gilbert K. Chesterton

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