Except Quotes

Segregation never brought anyone anything except trouble.

But the power of instruction is seldom of much efficacy, except in those happy dispositions where it is almost superfluous.

What 'multiculturalism' boils down to is that you can praise any culture in the world except Western culture - and you cannot blame any culture in the world except Western culture.

Woody Allen sets are very quiet. Extraordinary sense of power from a man who doesn't do anything except just stand there.

But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads?

I miss everything about Chicago, except January and February.

Sometimes people just want you to fail. Except your really good friends. I've always known who my best friends were.

It is a paradox that every dictator has climbed to power on the ladder of free speech. Immediately on attaining power each dictator has suppressed all free speech except his own.

During a political campaign everyone is concerned with what a candidate will do on this or that question if he is elected except the candidate; he's too busy wondering what he'll do if he isn't elected.

With the exception of certain rodents, no other vertebrate except Homo sapiens habitually destroys members of his own species.

I'm lucky. The best possible place in the world for training is Addis Ababa, so I am home all the time except when I am racing. I like to be there, near my family, my kids, also the real estate business I run with my wife.

All the gods are dead except the god of war.

Not much to be perfectly honest! I thought The Phantom Menace was terrible, except for the Pod Race.

There is no lonelier man in death, except the suicide, than that man who has lived many years with a good wife and then outlived her. If two people love each other there can be no happy end to it.

Failing to be there when a man wants her is a woman's greatest sin, except to be there when he doesn't want her.

Except for a few small presses, most publishers are north of Ground Zero.

Just like those who are incurably ill, the aged know everything about their dying except exactly when.

Police in China can do whatever they want; after 81 days in arbitrary detention you clearly realise that they don't have to obey their own laws. In a society like this there is no negotiation, no discussion, except to tell you that power can crush you any time they want - not only you, your whole family and all people like you.

As a small child in England, I had this dream of going to Africa. We didn't have any money and I was a girl, so everyone except my mother laughed at it. When I left school, there was no money for me to go to university, so I went to secretarial college and got a job.

All ambitions are lawful except those which climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind.

I did not think much what I was writing them for, except that I knew I wanted my next novel to be in some less conventional form than straight narrative.

Self-preservation, nature's first great law, all the creatures, except man, doth awe.

The guy keeps making speeches about redistribution and maybe we ought to do something to businesses that don't invest, their holding too much money. We haven't heard that kind of talk except from pure socialists. Everybody's afraid of the government and there's no need soft peddling it, it's the truth. It is the truth.

A car to pick me up every day, a chair with my name on it, everybody being very polite... what can you do except sit back and watch it all, try to take it all in?

I write my own quotes. Except this one. I obviously stole this from somebody really clever.

Use those talents you have. You will make it. You will give joy to the world. Take this tip from nature: The woods would be a very silent place if no birds sang except those who sang best.

It's a great country, where anybody can grow up to be president... except me.

On most things except witch trials, Virginia will always have been first.

As far as I knew white women were never lonely, except in books. White men adored them, Black men desired them and Black women worked for them.

It is interesting to be here and to see that for certain actors they have to live in a way that you think of nobody living anymore except for in small towns. They have such elaborate double lives.