Except Quotes
4383 quotes by 2818 authors
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Nothing should be permanent except struggle with the dark side within ourselves.
— Shirley MacLaine
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Except a person be part coward, it is not a compliment to say he is brave.
— Mark Twain
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Would that men might come at last to see that it is quite impossible to reach the thicket of the riches and wisdom of God…
— John of the Cross
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When I am dead, let it be said of me: he belonged to no school, to no church, to no institution, to no academy, and…
— Gustave Courbet
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I have made a great discovery. I no longer believe in anything. Objects don't exist for me except in so far as a rapport exists…
— Georges Braque
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We are ignorant of the Beyond because this ignorance is the condition of our own life. Just as ice cannot know fire except by melting…
— Jules Renard
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Some theories are good for nothing except to be argued about.
— Georg C. Lichtenberg
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Some people never have anything except ideals.
— E. W. Howe
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Orchestras only need to be sworn at, and a German is consequently at an advantage with them, as English profanity, except in America, has not…
— George Bernard Shaw
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They have exiled me now from their society and I am pleased, because humanity does not exile except the one whose noble spirit rebels against…
— Khalil Gibran
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Don't simply dismiss a coincidence and let it drift away. Life is totally interconnected. These unusual 'things' are simply connections that surprise you because you…
— Deepak Chopra
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We should manage our fortune as we do our health - enjoy it when good, be patient when it is bad, and never apply violent…
— Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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There are no limits to either time or distance, except as man himself may make them. I have but to touch the wind to know…
— Hal Borland
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Nothing endures but change. There is nothing permanent except change. All is flux, nothing stays still.
— Heraclitus
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Were you to live three thousand years, or even thirty thousand, remember that the sole life which a man can lose is that which he…
— Marcus Aurelius
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There is no difference between communism and socialism, except in the means of achieving the same ultimate end: communism proposes to enslave men by force,…
— Ayn Rand
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Death: There's nothing bad about it at all except the thing that comes before it-the fear of it.
— Seneca the Younger
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About Mike the construction worker, friend of Roark: "He worshipped expertness of any kind. He loved his work passionately and had no tolerance for anything…
— Ayn Rand
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Nothing in life has any meaning except the meaning you give it.
— Tony Robbins
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Do not try to convert others to your point of view, except by holding it and living accordingly.
— Wallace D. Wattles
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