Except Quotes
4383 quotes by 2818 authors
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There are laws for everything except the harm families do.
— Sue Grafton
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Junie B. Jones. The B stands for Beatrice. Except, I don't like Beatrice. I just like B and that's all.
— Barbara Park
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As long as mankind shall continue to bestow more liberal applause on their destroyers than on their benefactors, the thirst of military glory will ever…
— Edward Gibbon
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I felt really compromised. I think legal marriage is unnecessary and I would not have formalised the relationship [with husband Peter Davis] except for going…
— Helen Clark
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I've never had a message for anyone in my entire life. Except maybe to give out my room number.
— Bon Scott
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To become effective men of God, then, we must know and acknowledge that every grace and every virtue proceeds from God alone, and that not…
— Aiden Wilson Tozer
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All the rights secured to the citizens under the Constitution are worth nothing, and a mere bubble, except guaranteed to them by an independent and…
— Andrew Jackson
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When I rest I feel utterly lifeless except that my throat burns when I draw breath... I can scarcely go on. No despair, no happiness,…
— Reinhold Messner
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Children are notoriously curious about everything, everything except... the things people want them to know. It then remains for us to refrain from forcing any…
— Floyd Dell
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Uprootedness uproots everything except the need for roots.
— Christopher Lasch
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I'm a registered Republican and consider socialism a violation of the American principle that you shouldn't stick your nose in other people's business except to…
— P.J. O'Rourke
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I have no concern for the common man except that he should not be so common.
— Angus Wilson
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I've never been drawn to the feminist movement. I was brought up to believe that men had little to do with the home or children…
— Beryl Bainbridge
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The attitude of wanting to win-doing everything in your power except cheating to win.
— Walt Frazier
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I've enjoyed being a famous writer-except that every once in a while you have to write something.
— Ken Kesey
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In the business world, allegations of accounting irregularities is tantamount to yelling fire in a crowded theater, except, today, in our Internet world, instead of…
— Jeffrey Skilling
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There is nothing I have to do, nowhere I have to go, and no way I have to be except exactly the way I am…
— Neale Donald Walsch
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One should never risk a joke, even of the mildest and most unexceptional charters, except among people of culture and wit.
— Jean de la Bruyere
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All things are possible, except skiing through a revolving door.
— Woody Allen
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What they were doing was extremely wrong as far as I was concerned, and to this day, I don't know what I was thinking except…
— Rick Monday
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