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When I was growing up, I didn't see me in the movies except in certain lesser roles. If it wasn't funny, I wasn't there. Then… — Morgan Freeman
A small artist is content with art; a great artist is content with nothing except everything. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
The modern world... has no notion except that of simplifying something by destroying nearly everything. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
Many a writer seems to think he is never profound except when he can't understand his own meaning. — George D. Prentice
Teaching causes people to go into situations from which they cannot escape, except by thinking. Do not handicap children by making their lives easy. — Robert A. Heinlein
I never sleep comfortably except when I am at sermon or when I pray to God. — Francois Rabelais
When we accept any discipline for ourselves, we try to avoid everything except that which is necessary for our purpose; it is this purposefulness, which… — Rabindranath Tagore
Reality cannot be ignored except at a price; and the longer the ignorance is persisted in, the higher and more terrible becomes the price that… — Aldous Huxley
I see no reason for calling my work poetry except that there is no other category in which to put it. — Marianne Moore
Men will forgive a man anything except bad prose. — Winston Churchill
A man who is not a fool can rid himself of every folly except vanity. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Art itself is essentially ethical; because every true work of art must have a beauty or grandeur of some kind, and beauty and grandeur cannot… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Our Lord God doesn't do great things except by violence, as they say — Martin Luther
There is probably a smell of roasted chestnuts and other good comfortable things all the time, for we are telling Winter Stories - Ghost Stories,… — Charles Dickens
Long ago, I made up my mind that when things were said involving only me, I would pay no attention to them, except when valid… — Eleanor Roosevelt
Wherever we find orderly, stable systems in Nature, we find that they are hierarchically structured, for the simple reason that without such structuring of complex… — Arthur Koestler
My spirituality is parochial, terrestrial. I do qualify as a W.I.T.C.H. , but my irrecular practice and impromptu rituals don't aim at producing any dramatic… — Stephanie Mills
Except thou desire to hasten thine end, take this for a general rule, that thou never add any artificial heat to thy body by wine… — Walter Raleigh
No great, inspiring culture of the future can be built upon the moral principle of relativism. For at its bottom such a culture holds that… — Michael Novak
No labourer in the world is expected to work for room, board, and love -except the housewife. — Letty Cottin Pogrebin
All constraint, / Except what wisdom lays on evil men, / Is evil. — William Cowper
We began as mineral. We emerged into plant life, and into the animal state, and then into being human, and always we have forgotten our… — Unknown Author
Nothing in this world is at it seems. Except, possibly, porridge. — Stephen Fry
The man who is completely wise and virtuous has no need of glory, except so far as it disposes and eases his way to action… — Plutarch
To the modern spirit nothing is, or can be rightly known, except relatively and under conditions. — Walter Pater

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