Except Quotes
4383 quotes by 2785 authors
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Look to nothing, not even for a moment except to reason.
— Marcus Aurelius
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I am afraid that our eyes are bigger than our stomachs, and that we have more curiosity than understanding. We grasp at everything, but catch…
— Michel de Montaigne
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I do not believe, from what I have been told about this people, that there is anything barbarous or savage about them, except that we…
— Michel de Montaigne
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There's nothing wrong with enjoying looking at the surface of the ocean itself, except that when you finally see what goes on underwater,you realize that…
— Dave Barry
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There is one vice of which no man in the world is free; which every one in the world loathes when he sees it in…
— C.S. Lewis
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I'm not stupid!" In Bean's experience, that was a sentence never uttered except to prove its own inaccuracy.
— Orson Scott Card
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I've changed my ways a little, I cannot now Run with you in the evenings along the shore, Except in a kind of dream, and…
— Robinson Jeffers
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Perhaps a creature of so much ingenuity and deep memory is almost bound to grow alienated from his world, his fellows, and the objects around…
— Loren Eiseley
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Every man's death is standing in for every other. And since death comes to all there is no way to abate the fear of it…
— Cormac McCarthy
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You've probably all had those kinds of dreams that are like usual life, except that a lot of things are not the same, and you…
— Diana Wynne Jones
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Hello toes," I say. They're good toes. I like that they're long and slender and not the slightest bit stubby. I wiggle them, ten unstubby…
— Lauren Myracle
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Restlessness and impatience change nothing except our peace and joy. Peace does not dwell in outward things, but in the heart prepared to wait trustfully…
— Elisabeth Elliot
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Except for a couple of hours in the morning which I passed in the company of a sage I stayed in bed without food only…
— Leonard Cohen
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I have been a writer since 1949. I am self-taught. I have no theories about writing that might help others. When I write, I simply…
— Kurt Vonnegut
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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
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I wish he hadn't gone and cut his hair. He looks about eight years old. His ears have tripled in size. Everyone's started calling him…
— Sonya Sones
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Mine" he said. Adam's eyes narrowed. "I don't think so. She is mine." It would of been flattering,I thought,except that at least one of them…
— Patricia Briggs
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It's no wonder we don't defend the land where we live. We don't live here. We live in television programs and movies and books and…
— Derrick Jensen
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Please allow me to wipe the slate clean. Age has no reality except in the physical world. The essence of a human being is resistant…
— Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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It sucked, but it was way cool at the same time," Gazzy said. "I felt like the Blue Angels!" "Yeah, except the blue Angels are…
— James Patterson
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