Except Quotes
4383 quotes by 2818 authors
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Big Government is erecting a panopticon state - one that sees everything, and regulates everything. It’s great “customer service,†except that you can never get…
— Mark Steyn
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When spring came, even the false spring, there were no problems except where to be happiest.
— Ernest Hemingway
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I believe all God's creatures have a soul... except bears, bears are Godless killing machines!
— Stephen Colbert
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I mean, what is prison, really, except a good bar without the liquor?
— John Waters
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Irish Alzheimer's: you forget everything except the grudges
— Judy Collins
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Except in pure mathematics, nothing is known for certain (although much is certainly false).
— Carl Sagan
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From the metaphysical point of view there is nothing that can touch the formless except the art of music which in itself is formless.
— Hazrat Inayat Khan
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Very little changed fundamentally, except that the proud German soldier had turned into a defeated bundle of misery and the great German army had disintegrated.
— George Grosz
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An Englishman never enjoys himself, except for a noble purpose.
— A. P. Herbert
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Truly in the heart there is a void that can not be removed except with the company of Allah. And in it there is a…
— Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya
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The soul will never become pious and purified except through undergoing afflictions. It is the same as gold that can never be pure except after…
— Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya
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Except for me, no one in my family could draw.
— Joseph Barbera
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To paraphrase Winston Churchill, capitalism is the worst economic system except for all the other forms.
— Ha-Joon Chang
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From authors whom I read more than once I learn to value the weight of words and to delight in their meter and cadence --…
— Lewis H. Lapham
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A quality is something capable of being completely embodied. A law never can be embodied in its character as a law except by determining a…
— Charles Sanders Peirce
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No one can be great, or good, or happy except through the inward efforts of themselves.
— Frederick William Robertson
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Where can you go from nowhere, except deeper into nowhere?
— Aleksandar Hemon
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Obviously, I believe that to pursue the American Dream is not only futile but self-destructive because ultimately it destroys everything and everyone involved with it.…
— Hubert Selby, Jr.
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Everything is impermanent, except the love of God.
— Neem Karoli Baba
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It takes courage and intelligence, you know, to do the stages of Yoga right, and to start with this Hatha Yoga… It’s just you and…
— Bikram Choudhury
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