Except When Quotes

146 quotes by 132 authors

I never force myself to be devout except when I feel so inspired, and never compose hymns of prayers unless I feel within me real… — Franz Schubert
Woodstock - I didn't see anybody play, except when I was standing backstage waiting to go on, because it was so muddy. And the weather… — Grace Slick
Legally speaking, the term 'public rights' is as vague and indefinite as are the terms 'public health,' 'public good,' 'public welfare,' and the like. It… — Lysander Spooner
Power is no blessing in itself, except when it is used to protect the innocent. — Jonathan Swift
Principles have no real force except when one is well-fed. — Mark Twain
My life is really quite conservative. I've been married nearly 50 years. I don't have hobbies or children. I don't much care to travel. I've… — Christopher Walken
Nothing induces me to read a novel except when I have to make money by writing about it. I detest them. — Virginia Woolf
I haven't any right to criticize books, and I don't do it except when I hate them. I often want to criticize Jane Austen, but… — Mark Twain
I do not like an injurious lie, except when it injures somebody else. — Mark Twain
Human beings are free except when humanity needs them. Maybe humanity needs you. To do something. Maybe humanity needs meâ€”to find out what you're good… — Orson Scott Card
My mother is a big fan of precision, and tries her best to maintain it. Unfortunately, her own incompetence gets in the way. Dinner is… — Gregory Galloway
Don't you think it's rather nice to think that we're in a book that God's writing? If I were writing a book, I might make… — E. Nesbit
They don't really pay attention to me, except when they need my blood or something. I wouldn't even be alive, if it wasn't for Kate… — Jodi Picoult
Now, five years is nothing in a man's life except when he is very young and very old... - Wang Lung — Pearl S. Buck
Fame you'll be famous, as famous as can be, with everyone watching you win on TV, Except when they don't because sometimes they won't.. — Dr. Seuss
Ideas come at any moment -- except when you demand them. Most ideas come while I'm physically active, at the gym, with friends, gardening, so… — Chuck Palahniuk
We came to the comforting conclusion that the Creator probably knew how to run His universe quite as well as we do, and that, after… — Lucy Maud Montgomery
Women can always put things in fewest words. Except when it's blowing up; and then they lengthens it out. — Charles Dickens
I am struck by how, except when you're young, you really need to prioritize in life, figuring out in what order you should divide up… — Haruki Murakami
Honesty is always good, except when it's better to lie. — James Patterson

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