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No battle is worth fighting except the last one.

So I had the opportunity to do what the kids in the Hershey program do, except that the Hershey program lets them do it on such a larger scale, with the regional and national competitions.

The battle is all over except the "shouting" when one knows what is wanted and has made up his mind to get it, whatever the price may be.

A man will give up almost anything except his suffering.

Never thank anybody for anything, except a drink of water in the desert - and then make it brief.

These days, it's really been uninteresting except when disasters occur.

'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.

The genre has moved into this commercial aspect of itself, and ignored this extraordinarily rich literature that's filed everywhere else except under travel.

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.

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.

In matters of the heart, nothing is true except the improbable.

Permanent success cannot be achieved except by incessant intellectual labour, always inspired by the ideal.

Really, we don't know what to make of it except that we're delighted about it. We have all these fans thirty years later and they're still around and will probably be around for a long time to come.

I don't think voters give a hoot about the character of their political advisors, except to the extent that character reflects on the candidates.

I've always remembered something Sanford Meisner, my acting teacher, told us. When you create a character, it's like making a chair, except instead of making someting out of wood, you make it out of yourself. That's the actor's craft - using yourself to create a character.