Except When Quotes
146 quotes by 132 authors
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Mathematicians use intuition, conjecture and guesswork all the time except when they are in the classroom.
— Joseph Warren
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Socrates didn't care to visit the theater, as a rule, except when the plays of Euripides (which some think, he himself had helped to compose),…
— Moses Mendelssohn
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Sympathy is never waisted except when you give it to yourself.
— John W. Roper
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Fantasies aren't reality, I know, I know, I know. Except when they are. Except when you make them into reality.
— Laura Antoniou
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I prefer rugby to soccer. I enjoy the violence in rugby, except when they start biting each other's ears off.
— Elizabeth Taylor
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Never refuse an assignment except when there is a conflict of interest, a potential of danger to you or your family, or you hold a…
— Jessica Savitch
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This doctrine of prenatal influence is now slowly being recognized, and science as well as religion calls out: 'Keep yourself holy, and pure.' So deeply…
— Swami Vivekananda
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The heart does heal and you will love like this again- except when you do, you'll deny that you ever loved like this before.
— Martin Niemoller
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I just really wanted to do art, except when I was taking those photographs of people I would make the clothes that I would photograph…
— Stephen Sprouse
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The number and richness of man's signifiers always surpasses the set of defined objects that could be termed signifieds. The symbolic function must always precede…
— Maurice Merleau-Ponty
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Every mind has a new compass, a new direction of its own, differencing its genius and aim from every other mind.--We call this specialty the…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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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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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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I honor religion except when it gets into shedding blood.
— Rip Torn
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Girls, like men, want to be petted, pitied, and made much of, when they are diffident, in low spirits, or in unrequited love. These are…
— George Bernard Shaw
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Except when physically restrained, a person is least free or dignified when he is under threat of punishment, and unfortunately most people often are.
— B.F. Skinner
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Half an hour's meditation each day is essential, except when you are busy. Then a full hour is needed.
— Saint Francis de Sales
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I don't think I know a Scientologist except when I see one or two of their actors on the Hollywood screen.
— Jerry Falwell
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I never think about poetry except when I'm writing it. I mean my poetry.
— Norman MacCaig
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The French don't seek out alliances except when there are difficulties.
— Eric Rohmer
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