Except Quotes
4383 quotes by 2818 authors
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Practice can be stated very simply. It is moving from a life of hurting myself and others to a life of not hurting myself and…
— Joko Beck
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Take me to you, imprison me, for I, except you enthrall me, never shall be free, nor ever chaste, except you ravish me.
— John Donne
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Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book has been rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street building has been renamed,…
— George Orwell
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I believe that love cannot be bought except with love.
— John Steinbeck
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I get along with everyone except for men my age, who are bourgeois or retired or boring.
— Karl Lagerfeld
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You know, it was important for me to do something like that, because nobody ever really thought I could do anything except look sexy on…
— Pia Zadora
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In some ways, [the student anti-sweatshop movement] is like the anti-apartheid movement, except that in this case its striking at the core of the relations…
— Noam Chomsky
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Character cannot be made except by a steady, long-continued process.
— Phillips Brooks
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Nothing's riding on this, except the First Amendment to the Constitution, freedom of the press and maybe the future of the country. Not that any…
— Ben Bradlee
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Every rule in the book can be broken, except one - be who you are, and become all you were meant to be....
— Sydney J. Harris
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The man at the top of the intellectual pyramid contributes the most to all those below him, but gets nothing except his material payment, receiving…
— Ayn Rand
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We sit in calm, airy, silent rooms opening upon sunlit and embowered lawns, not a sound except of summer and of husbandry disturbs the peace;…
— Winston Churchill
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If there was no other motive in view [except] to have the privilege of reading over our journals and for our children to read, it…
— Wilford Woodruff
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We don't know what to do with our own pain, so what to do with the pain of others? We don't know what to do…
— Jean Vanier
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Man is in need if a symbolical life- badly in need. We only live banal, ordinary, rational or irrational things- but we have no symbolic…
— Carl Jung
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Except here it's more power, more energy, younger and also in Europe it's still not only entertainment. Theater or films are looked at as a…
— Maximilian Schell
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We thus see that the Greeks of the early ages knew little of any real people except those to the east and south of their…
— Thomas Bulfinch
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It may be tempting to look back and wring our hands over missed opportunities for change in the preceding decades. But, I'm not interested at…
— Jennifer Granholm
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I never felt a feeling that I knew or could know to be unlike the feelings of other people. I never consciously thought, except after…
— Josiah Royce
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I like the fact that Jack is always wearing a tie except when he's on a mission. I do like it when I get out…
— Victor Garber
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