Except Quotes
4383 Except quotes by 2703 unique authors
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It's a saying they have, that a man has a false heart in his mouth for the world to see, another in his breast to…
— James Clavell
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Time curses all, I thought, except the truth.
— Carlos Ruiz Zafon
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They were dancing around the fountain, arm in arm, in an old Dutch dance, their cheeks touching, their hands entwined. They had no music; they…
— Mark Helprin
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But even friendship like our heroes' Exist no more; for we've outgrown All sentiments and deem men zeroes-- Except of course ourselves alone. We all…
— Alexander Pushkin
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Worship isn't destructive, Martin. I know that. I don't. I only know it's the core of his life. What else has he got? He can…
— Peter Shaffer
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Always eyes watching you and the voice enveloping you. Asleep or awake, indoors or out of doors, in the bath or bed- no escape. Nothing…
— George Orwell
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Except even at the start, when we were in that can't-get-enough-of-you-phase, there was like some invisible wall between us. At first I tried to take…
— Gayle Forman
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I would have done the same thing I did. I would have put all my energy into loving someone that wasn't you. I would have…
— Jonathan Tropper
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The time when there is nothing at all in your soul except a cry for help may be just that time when God can't give…
— C.S. Lewis
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What do they say about meeting a bear in the woods? Oh right, you shouldn't. And to make sure you don't, you should make a…
— Charles de Lint
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Now if you’ll excuse me, Death waits for no man. Except me.
— Rachel Vincent
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I felt no shame in these activities, because I understood what almost no one else seemed to grasp: that there was only an infinitesimal difference,…
— Jennifer Egan
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That's great. Except for the fact that it's completely unimportant.
— Rick Riordan
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I wouldn't be able to do anything with my vampire horde except make it run around in a herd, but it would be a very…
— Ilona Andrews
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A nasty letter or a sarcastic one can make you righteously angry, but what can you do about a polite letter of rejection? Nothing, really,…
— E L Konigsburg
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I know it's late, but could you find a book for me? It's called The Slavs: Study of Pagan Tradition by Osvintsev." Barabas sighed dramatically.…
— Ilona Andrews
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Takes a lot of tries before you hit perfection." He paused to reconsider that. "Well, except for my parents. They got it on the first…
— Richelle Mead
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It doesn't hurt. Nothing hurts except the small smiles and blushes that flash across the room like tiny sparrows.
— Laurie Halse Anderson
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Except I didn't say eff
— Patrick Ness
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Her voice whispering love soothes him. They'd never done that before. Weren't that type of family. Except now he doesn't know what kind of family…
— Melina Marchetta
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and it’s all kind of moving and sweet except that you’re not completely there—a part of you is a few feet away, or above, thinking,
— Jennifer Egan
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He wasn't mine anywhere except in my heart.
— Lisa Kleypas
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Sharks have everything a scientist dreams of. They're beautiful―God, how beautiful they are! They're like an impossibly perfect piece of machinery. They're as graceful as…
— Peter Benchley
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The writer walks out of his workroom in a daze. He wants a drink. He needs it. It happens to be a fact that nearly…
— Roald Dahl
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They had picked up Julie's scent hit wolfsbane lost her and found her trail again at the crumbling Highway 23 except it was two hours…
— Ilona Andrews
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