Except Quotes
4383 quotes by 2703 authors
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Except for the point, the still point, There would be no dance, and there is only the dance
— Thomas Stearns Eliot
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Nothing can work damage to me except myself; the harm that I sustain I carry about with me and never am a real sufferer except…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Nothing is wonderful except in the abnormal, and nothing is abnormal until we have grasped the norm.
— C.S. Lewis
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there was no crime in unconscious plagiarism; that I committed it everyday, that he committed it everyday, that every man alive on earth who writes…
— Mark Twain
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We cross our bridges when we come to them and burn them behind us, with nothing to show for our progress except a memory of…
— Tom Stoppard
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I ask not for any crown But that which all may win; Nor try to conquer any world Except the one within.
— Louisa May Alcott
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Dad himself used to tell a story about one time when Mother went off to fill a lecture engagement and left him in charge at…
— Frank B. Gilbreth Jr.
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There’s nothing as significant as a human face. Nor as eloquent. We can never really know another person, except by our first glance at him.…
— Ayn Rand
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Taking a thing apart is always faster than putting something together. This is true of everything except marriage.
— Joe Hill
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I'm not trying to counsel any of you to do anything really special except dare to think. And to dare to go with the truth.…
— R. Buckminster Fuller
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All children, except one, grow up.
— James M. Barrie
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There could not have been a lovelier sight; but there was none to see it except a little boy who was staring in at the…
— James M. Barrie
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One Christmas was so much like another, in those years around the sea-town corner now and out of all sound except the distant speaking of…
— Dylan Thomas
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The release of atomic power has changed everything except our way of thinking ... the solution to this problem lies in the heart of mankind.…
— Albert Einstein
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He was dressed as if everything he wore had come from different stores or from a rummage sale, except that the crease in his trousers…
— Beverly Cleary
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Weaseling out of things is important to learn. It's what separates us from the animals ... except the weasel.
— Matt Groening
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Someone Hot is sometimes can't be the person they appear to be- except for their hotness... that cannot be denied.
— Meg Cabot
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This is how humans are: We question all our beliefs, except for the ones that we really believe in, and those we never think to…
— Orson Scott Card
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Don't believe anything you read on the net. Except this. Well, including this, I suppose.
— Douglas Adams
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I really don't know why it is that all of us are so committed to the sea, except I think it is because in addition…
— John F. Kennedy
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