Except Quotes
4383 quotes by 2818 authors
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How dare the smooth talkers, the clever official blabbers, open their mouths and boast of progress. . . . Here they hold jubilant peace conferences…
— Max Nordau
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For Christians, the first priority may be theological self-understanding. For Jews it is, and after Auschwitz must be, simple safety for their children. In pursuit…
— Emil Fackenheim
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We have no idea where the world is going, except that it's going there very fast.
— Jonathan Sacks
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I had fun, but I didn't really have anyone i particularly loved except for loving friends. But I have a certain amount of faith that…
— Edie Sedgwick
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I am not merely a habitual quoter but an incorrigible one. I am, I may as well face it, more quotatious than an old stock-market…
— Joseph Epstein
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Anyone could learn Lisp in one day, except that if they already knew Fortran, it would take three days.
— Marvin Minsky
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I learned to draw everything except glamorous women. No matter how much I tried to make them look sexy, they always ended up looking silly...…
— Norman Rockwell
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It is inconceivable that the God who gives Himself in His Son to save us, should have created some people ordained to evil and damnation.…
— Jacques Ellul
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The truth is that schools don't really teach anything except how to obey orders.
— John Taylor Gatto
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The mystic cannot wholly do without symbol and image, inadequate to his vision though they must always be: for his experience must be expressed if…
— Evelyn Underhill
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I never thought I want to do anything, really, except not go to work properly and turn up at the same place every day and…
— Dylan Moran
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I had not taken a bath in a year nor changed my clothes or removed them except to stick a needle every hour in the…
— William S. Burroughs
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Story of O is a fairy tale for another world, a world where some part of me lived for a long time, a world that…
— Anne Desclos
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I will do anything to look like him - except, of course, exercise or eat right.
— Steve Martin
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Nobody really needs a mink coat... Except the mink.
— Glenda Jackson
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As long as anyone believes that his ideal and purpose is outside him, that it is above the clouds, in the past or in the…
— Erich Fromm
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Knowledge and belief are two seperate tracks that run parallel to each other and never meet, except in the child.
— Godfried Bomans
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Around age 40 I put on twenty pounds. I had always had a perfect metabolism. But, my metabolism betrayed me as it does most people,…
— Suzanne Somers
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I can love the whole world except my neighbor.
— Dada Dharmadhikari
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We love the old saints, missionaries, martyrs, and reformers. Our Luthers, Bunyans, Wesleys and Asburys, etc... We will write their biographies, reverence their memories, frame…
— Aiden Wilson Tozer
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