Except Quotes

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.

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.

Nothing could be recorded in those days except by aiming a movie camera at the television screen. It was at least another 10 years before they had any kind of recording medium.

No one ever approaches perfection except by stealth, and unknown to themselves.

Who, except the gods, can live time through forever without any pain?

And when I'm on set, I'm just thinking about the script and of working. I think I've stayed focused on the work so much that I haven't really noticed my life start to change except for I've gotten busier.

Beauty is an outward gift, which is seldom despised, except by those to whom it has been refused.

He knew everything about literature except how to enjoy it.

Hungry people cannot be good at learning or producing anything, except perhaps violence.

If thou must love me, let it be for naught except for love's sake only.

A quality is something capable of being completely embodied. A law never can be embodied in its character as a law except by determining a habit. A quality is how something may or might have been. A law is how an endless future must continue to be.

It could probably be shown by facts and figures that there is no distinctly native criminal class except Congress.

With the end of the cold war, all the 'isms' of the 20th century - Fascism, Nazism, Communism and the evil of apartheid-ism - have failed. Except one. Only democracy has shown itself true the help of all mankind.

There is no state with a democracy except Libya on the whole planet.

I never regarded my pictures as very much to be proud of, except in this, the craft, the style.

Wealth, beauty, and fame are transient. When those are gone, little is left except the need to be useful.

There's not too much difference between writing a picture book and writing a collection of a hundred poems or so, except that the bigger books take a lot longer to do.

The educated Southerner has no use for an 'R', except at the beginning of a word.

The manner of the country makes the usage of life there, and the land will not be lived in except in its own fashion.

College had little effect on me. I'd have been the same writer if I'd gone to MIT, except I'd have flunked out sooner.

To be immortal is commonplace; except for man, all creatures are immortal, for they are ignorant of death; what is divine, terrible, incomprehensible, is to know that one is immortal.

The fifties - they seem to have taken place on a sunny afternoon that asked nothing of you except a drifting belief in the moment and its power to satisfy.

'Be comfortable with who you are', reads the headline on the Hush Puppies poster. Are they mad? If people were comfortable with who they were, they'd never buy any products except the ones they needed, and then where would the advertising industry be?

Winston Churchill aroused this nation in heroic fashion to save civilisation in World War Two. We have everything we need except political will, but political will is a renewable resource.

Here I found those who had set out before me, both by sea and land, except those who have died.