Except Quotes
4383 quotes by 2818 authors
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For the person with creative potential there is no wholeness except in using it.
— Robert K. Greenleaf
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We say and exclaim within ourselves without breaking silence, in a tumult where everything speaks except our mouths. The realities of the soul are none…
— Victor Hugo
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But women do not say 'We', except at some congress of feminists or similar formal demonstration; men say 'women', and women use the same word…
— Simone de Beauvoir
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There's no one with intelligence in this town except that man over there playing with the children, the one riding the stick horse. He has…
— Rumi
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What is bad? What is good? What should one love, what hate? Why live, and what am I? What is lie,what is death? What power…
— Leo Tolstoy
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So I guess you could say Neel owes me a few favors, except that so many favors have passed between us now that they are…
— Robin Sloan
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Nothing is irreversible except dying.
— Danielle Steel
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I know being with me is not easy. But I want you to understand no one has me, or has ever had me, except you.
— Abbi Glines
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There is little or no magic about them, except the ordinary everyday sort which helps them to disappear quietly and quickly when large stupid folk…
— J.R.R. Tolkien
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‎"Nothing binds you except your thoughts; nothing limits you except your fear; and nothing controls you except your beliefs.
— Marianne Williamson
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You can't insure against the future, except by really believing in the best bit of you, and in the power beyond it.
— D. H. Lawrence
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I know not to trust anyone," i say. "Except..." Holly studies my face. "You do fancy him, don't you? What a strange, wonderful, repressed place…
— Maggie Stiefvater
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In all the modern talk about energy, efficiency, social service and the rest of it, what meaning is there except "Get money, get it legally,…
— George Orwell
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Israeli occupation exposes us very young to the extremes of our emotions, until we cannot feel except in the extreme.
— Susan Abulhawa
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Bes had indeed put on his ugly outfit. He climbed onto the roof of the limbo and stood there, legs planted, arms akimbo, like superman-exept…
— Rick Riordan
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The wolf sniffed beneath the door to be sure this was a human cottage. The scent was undeniable. No pigs, except in bacon form. The…
— Vivian Vande Velde
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No doubt our love was still there, but quite simply it was unusable, heavy to carry, inert inside of us, sterile as crime or condemnation.…
— Albert Camus
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There's no honorable way to kill, no gentle way to destroy. There is nothing good in war. Except its ending.
— Abraham Lincoln
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I am not out to liberate anybody. You have to liberate yourself, and you are unable to do that. What I have to say will…
— U.G. Krishnamurti
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Assured her I’ve never loved anyone except myself and have no intention of starting now,
— David Mitchell
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