Except Quotes

The past history of our globe must be explained by what can be seen to be happening now. No powers are to be employed that are not natural to the globe, no action to be admitted except those of which we know the principle.

Life has no limitations, except the ones you make.

I grew up in a very small, close-knit, Southern Baptist family, where everything was off-limits. So I couldn't wait to get to college and have some fun. And I did for the first two years. And I regret a lot of it, because my grades were in terrible shape. I never got in serious trouble, except for my grades.

Except here it's more power, more energy, younger and also in Europe it's still not only entertainment. Theater or films are looked at as a moral institution. That's why maybe they're so poetic. Here it's clear entertainment.

Art teaches nothing, except the significance of life.

A successful woman preacher was once asked what special obstacles have you met as a woman in the ministry? Not one, she answered, except the lack of a minister's wife.

A rich poet from Harvard has no sense in his mind, except the aesthetic.

A self-respecting nation is ready for anything, including war, except for a renunciation of its option to make war.

Highly educated young people are tutored, taught and monitored in all aspects of their lives, except the most important, which is character building. When it comes to this, most universities leave them alone.

True love is quiescent, except in the nascent moments of true humility.

There is no failure except in no longer trying. There is no defeat except from within, no really insurmountable barrier save our own inherent weakness of purpose.

An autobiography usually reveals nothing bad about its writer except his memory.

Except on their southern borders the great northern forests are not good as a permanent home for man.

No one ever became great except through many and great mistakes.

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 there and dress up, or dress down, a little bit.

I honor religion except when it gets into shedding blood.

I am obliged to believe certain opinions myself. No man's belief will save me except my own.

Americans detest all lies except lies spoken in public or printed lies.

I have a small house so I borrow everything except art, that's what I love.

Now it is established in the sciences that no knowledge is acquired save through the study of its causes and beginnings, if it has had causes and beginnings; nor completed except by knowledge of its accidents and accompanying essentials.

I have, indeed, no abhorrence of danger, except in its absolute effect - in terror.

Time changes everything except something within us which is always surprised by change.

The only thing I understand deeply, because in my teens I was thinking about it, and every year of my life, is software. So I'll never be hands-on on anything except software.

Well, they just don't know anything else except that one form of their business, acting, and they don't really want to learn any other part of it, or they would. Directing and producing and putting a show together is very creative, for me.

There is an abiding beauty which may be appreciated by those who will see things as they are and who will ask for no reward except to see.

It was a woman's bedroom, actually a boudoir, and no man belonged in it except by invitation.

I love dogs. They live in the moment and don't care about anything except affection and food. They're loyal and happy. Humans are just too damn complicated.

A life is not important except in the impact it has on other lives.

I like all things grammatical, and I had already written several books about parts of speech, and even the alphabet, so everything that makes up a sentence and even a word was covered except for punctuation.

Love is the same as like except you feel sexier.