Excepting Quotes

48 quotes by 45 authors

Money. A blessing that is of no advantage to us excepting when we part with it. — Ambrose Bierce
Outside our consciousness there lies the cold and alien world of actual things. Between the two stretches the narrow borderland of the senses. No communication… — Heinrich Hertz
No old Men (excepting Dr. Wallis) love Mathematicks. — Isaac Newton
People talk about the middle of the road as though it were unacceptable. Actually, all human problems, excepting morals, come into the gray areas. Things… — Dwight D. Eisenhower
With its hundred billion nerve cells, with their hundred trillion interconnections, the human brain is the most complex phenomenon in the known universe - always,… — Steven Rose
The purpose of writing is both to keep up with life and to run ahead of it. I am little comfort to myself, although I… — William Saroyan
In the world which we know, among the different and primitive geniuses that preside over the evolution of the several species, there exists not one,… — Maurice Maeterlinck
The preservation of the Jew was certainly not casual. He has endured through the power of a certain ideal, based on the recognition of a… — Cecil Roth
First shalt thou take out the Holy Pin. Then shalt thou count to three, no more-no less. Three shall be the number thou shalt count,… — Michael Palin
Imagine all human beings swept off the face of the earth, excepting one man. Imagine this man in some vast city, New York or London.… — Thomas Bailey Aldrich
Arizona presents no specific reason for excepting capital defendants from the constitutional protections extended to defendants generally, and none is readily apparent. — Ruth Bader Ginsburg
We are alone, absolutely alone on this chance planet; and amid all the forms of life that surround us, not one, excepting the dog has… — Max De Pree
The real truth of the matter is, as you and I know, that a financial element in the larger centers has owned the government ever… — Franklin D. Roosevelt
The God in whose hands are all our days and ways, did cast into my hand one day a book of Martin Luthers; it was… — John Bunyan
I cannot here avoid giving my most decided sufferage in favour of the moral qualities of maniacs. I have no where met, excepting in romances,… — Philippe Pinel
The tempest was terrible and separated me from my [other] vessels that night, putting every one of them in desperate straits, with nothing to look… — Christopher Columbus
I never give my real self. I have a hundred sides, and I turn first one way and then the other. I am playing a… — Mary MacLane
There is nothing on earth that I would not give up, excepting of course, two things and two things only, truth and nonviolence. — Mahatma Gandhi
"Ay," said the Captain, reverentially; "it's a almighty element. There's wonders in the deep, my pretty. Think on it when the winds is roaring and… — Charles Dickens
I see I have made myself a slave to Philosophy, but if I get free of Mr. Linus's business I will resolutely bid adew to… — Isaac Newton

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