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What would I do with starry crowns except to cast them at His feet? — Mary Slessor
A prophet is not without honor except in his own country among his own people. — Sun Ra
Sleep is pain's easiest salve, and doth fulfill all the offices of death, except to kill — John Donne
How come every other organ in your body can get sick and you get sympathy, except the brain? — Ruby Wax
We have power over nothing except our will. — Michel de Montaigne
But whoever gives birth to useless children, what would you say of him except that he has bred sorrows for himself, and furnishes laughter for… — Sophocles
Government can't do anything for you except in proportion as it can do something to you. — William F. Buckley, Jr.
We have got to accept Big Government for the duration-for neither an offensive nor a defensive war can be waged, given our present government skills,… — William F. Buckley, Jr.
I mean, Eighteen years old is the age of consent in Europe and you can go anywhere and do anything you like. In America, it… — John Entwistle
Is there something in trade that desiccates and flattens out, that turns men into dried leaves at the age of forty? Certainly there is. It… — John Jay Chapman
The only way out is the way through, just as you cannot escape death except by dying. Being unable to write, you must examine in… — Howard Nemerov
Once the cells in a biological machine stop working, it can never be started again. It goes into a cascade of decay, falling toward disorder… — Richard Preston
Memories are made of peculiar stuff, elusive and yet compelling, powerful and fleet. You cannot trust your reminiscences, and yet there is no reality except… — Klaus Mann
We Poor Cousins donâ€™t care at all though, exceptÂ for when weâ€™re on welfare, broke, starving, unable to buy coolÂ high-tops for our children or… — Miriam Toews
Everyone except the far right wing of the Republican Party realizes that oil, gas and coal burning are the main activities that have sent the… — Donella Meadows
Nobody knows what you want except you. And nobody will be as sorry as you if you don't get it. Wanting some other way to… — Lillian Hellman
The two most common charges against the older fiction, that it pleased wickedly and that it taught nothing, had broken down before the discovery, except… — Carl Clinton Van Doren
Men do not know how to appreciate and measure luck except that of others. Their own never. — Indro Montanelli
Ultimately I wanted to be a pioneer swimmer, a distant descendant of Scott, Amundsen and Hillary, except that I would be an explorer of the… — Lewis Gordon
We don't have a single point of view for a road at all, except a moving one, moving along it. — Carl Andre

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