Except Quotes
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Thou shalt not steal, except by majority vote.
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I could give all to Time except--except What I myself have held.
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All I know is we're going into the All-Star beak on a positive note. But we haven't achieved anything. Nobody has done anything except gotten to the All-Star break.
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You've got everything except one thing: madness! A man needs a little madness, or else...
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I’m a very tolerant man, except when it comes to holding a grudge.
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Nothing in this world is at it seems. Except, possibly, porridge.
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We can't hold on to anyone or anything, you know. We lose everything except that which we carry within us.
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Myrnin: "There is no drama so great as that of a teenage girl." Claire: "Except yours.
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I'm not scared of animals, except for rats. I'll break down in tears if I see a rat!
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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.
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For now, I'm supposing that all movements are equal, which they're not, except in this respect: that none of them gives a damn about artists beyond their immediate utility. Good movements will use a writer just as ruthlessly as bad ones; since they all fancy they have better things to do than worry about one man's artistic survival.
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You can't control what the other athlete is going to do; you can't control anything except for your competition and how you execute the race or how you execute the task.
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I don't find that writing about parts of my life had much effect except in some cases to improve my memory. To get into parts of the past I want to recall very vividly, I use a form of directed meditation.
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I ought never to act except in such a way that I could also will that my maxim should become a universal law.
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You can't kill America. We're more than a nation. We're a notion. We're an idea. The American Dream. You never heard of the Afghanistani Dream have you. Except by bearded hermetic recluses with a fetish for uneducated women dressed as giant shuttlecocks.
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As a nation, we began by declaring that 'all men are created equal.' We now practically read it 'all men are created equal, except negroes.' When the Know-Nothings get control, it will read 'all men are created equal, except negroes, and foreigners, and Catholics.' When it comes to this I should prefer emigrating to some country where they make no pretense of loving liberty – to Russia, for instance, where despotism can be taken pure, and without the base alloy of hypocrisy.
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I walked over to Drake and stomped on his foot. Hard. "What will I give you to help me? What will I give you?" He stood on one leg rubbing his foot, grinning a grin so steamy, it almost melted my underwear. "I never doubted you would defeat her. You are my mate. You could do no less." I pointed a finger at him. "You are too arrogant for your own good. I officially de-mate you. Go away. I never want to see you again. Except maybe tonight. Naked. Your place. But after that, no more.
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People always brand me as this person who is anti-Brady, and I don't think that I ever have been, except that occasionally I would like to talk about something else that I'm doing.
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On Earth they've forgotten how to make everything except money. But what good is it, if there's nothing worthwhile left to buy?
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I thought, can you think of any really good reason not to do it? Except that, oh, I'm so shy, or oh, my private life, or oh, are they going to find out how boring I am? You know? And that was the only reason now, in a sense, not to do television. Because it certainly is a method of expression, which has to be accepted as these things come along.
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In the fashion world if you're successful, everyone loves you, and you have available every service. It's hard to walk away, except it wasn't hard for me. I had my mind completely made up.
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One can stand anything except a succession of ordinary days.
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Everybody in boxing probably makes out well except for the fighter.
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There is no order of things except in the human mind.
