Except Quotes
4383 quotes by 2818 authors
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You see, nothing matters except pleasure - which is the opposite of happiness, its tragic part, I expect.
— Lawrence Durrell
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Darken your room, shut the door, empty your mind. Yet you are still in great company - the Numen and your Genius with all their…
— Austin Osman Spare
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There isn't any real good reason for fighting except self-defense.
— S E Hinton
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glancing back I got my first clear look at the monster. He was seven feet tall, easy, his arms and legs like something from the…
— Rick Riordan
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There is no cure for the ills of the world except the gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ.
— Joseph Fielding Smith
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Why does a literary scholar study the world of "fiction"? To show us that the facts can never be understood except in communion with the…
— Parker J. Palmer
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I was generally pro-bat, except when I was trekking through the dark trying not to think about the dire fate of every horror movie character…
— Rosemary Clement-Moore
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Nothing forces us to know What we do not want to know Except pain
— Aeschylus
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After you have been unfair to him he will love you again, but he will never afterwards be quite the same boy. No one ever…
— James M. Barrie
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Hello, ladies," Joe Solomon said, but not before I snatched the piece of paper and crammed it in my mouth, which ordinarily would have been…
— Ally Carter
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He found himself remembering how on one summer morning they two had started from New York in search of happiness. They had never expected to…
— F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Every instance in my life, I've felt like the exact opposite of Superman. Except this time, this moment right now. I don't care. I don't…
— Craig Silvey
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So fine was the morning except for a streak of wind here and there that the sea and sky looked all one fabric, as if…
— Virginia Woolf
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I tell you, my friends,’ he said one day. ‘I tell you that I am the only sane man in the regiment. It’s the others…
— Michael Morpurgo
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There is no bleaker moment in life of the city than that one which crosses the boundary lines between those who have not slept all…
— Anais Nin
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There is nothing to fear except fear it's self.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
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Except...I do. Of course I do. Because as his hands gently cup my waist, I don't make a sound. As he swivels me around to…
— Sophie Kinsella
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When we grow up," she said, "we'll have amazing families. Our dens will be better than this. Your kids and my kids will play together…
— Peter Lerangis
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This is space. It's sometimes called the final frontier. (Except that of course you can't have a final frontier, because there'd be nothing for it…
— Terry Pratchett
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Dirt's a funny thing,' the Boss said. 'Come to think of it, there ain't a thing but dirt on this green God's globe except what's…
— Robert Penn Warren
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