Except Quotes

'My country, right or wrong' is a thing no patriot would ever think of saying except in a desperate case. It is like saying 'My mother, drunk or sober.'

Grissom is pretty asexual. He's not that interested in anything other than work - except for Lady Heather. She's the closest to getting his heart of anyone.

Japanese naval officers in dress whites are frequent guests at Pearl Harbor's officers' mess and are very polite. They always were. Except, of course, for that little interval there between 1941 and 1945.

I looked below and saw my people there, and all were well and happy except one, and he was lying like the dead - and that one was myself.

I can honestly say this industry hasn't made me neurotic about my looks, except maybe my weight. I hope my clothes kind of reflect that. They're meant to make you feel good.

I say to you that the price of liberty is and always has been blood, human blood, and if our liberties are lost, we shall never regain them except at the price of blood. They must not be lost.

I will not use my legislative powers except in a very limited framework.

I'm not good at anything except writing jokes. I wasn't good at sports, I wasn't good at anything artsy, ever. I think there was a real worry for a while about what I would be good at. I was just this chubby little Indian kid who looked like a nerd.

Except our own thoughts, there is nothing absolutely in our power.

The question is not is there a God, but is there anything else except God? God is everyone and each of us is a little bit.

We idolized the Beatles, except for those of us who idolized the Rolling Stones, who in those days still had many of their original teeth.

I do not speak the minds of others except to speak my own mind better.

And time itself? Time was a never-ending medium that stretched into the future and the past - except there was no future and no past, but an infinite number of brackets, extending either way, each bracket enclosing its single phase of the Universe.

The lead car is unique, except for the one behind it which is identical.

We are all in this together. We will all make it or none of us will make it. If everyone cleans up their act except one big ole country, it isn't going to work.

There came into the world an unlimited abundance of everything people need. But people need everything except unlimited abundance.

Nothing exists except through language.

Nothing makes us more vulnerable than loneliness, except greed.

Money is like manure, of very little use except it be spread.

Libertarians argue that no normal adult has the right to impose choices on other normal adults, except in abnormal circumstances, such as when one person finds another unconscious and administers medical assistance or calls an ambulance.

The question is, are we happy to suppose that our grandchildren may never be able to see an elephant except in a picture book?

There is nothing to fear except the persistent refusal to find out the truth, the persistent refusal to analyze the causes of happenings.

To swear, except when necessary, is becoming to an honorable man.

Well, acting itself is a form of rebellion, always. Getting up there in front of people, telling stories - you're kind of going against the grain to begin with, wanting to do that, don't you think? Why else would you do it? Except maybe as kind of a way to affirm your very existence.

It's weird, I never wish anything bad upon anybody, except two or three old girlfriends.

Everything in the world may be endured except continual prosperity.

Mess is fairly good. It is like what is found in American hotels except for cake and pie.

It is probably safe to say that all the changes of factual knowledge which have led to the relativity theory, resulting in a very great theoretical development, are completely trivial from any point of view except their relevance to the structure of a theoretical system.

French design hardly exists, except as artificial modernism.

A woman in love will do almost anything for a man, except give up the desire to improve him.