Except Quotes

• Thou shalt not steal, except by majority vote.

  

  Gary North
  • Vote
  • Majority
  • Except

• The Path is not to be found anywhere except in human service

  

  Idries Shah
  • Service
  • Path
  • Human

• Nothing in this world is at it seems. Except, possibly, porridge.

  

  Stephen Fry
  • World
  • Seems
  • Possibly

• 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.

  

  Alonzo Mourning
  • Done
  • Star
  • Positive

• I could give all to Time except--except What I myself have held.

  

  Robert Frost
  • Time
  • Except

• You've got everything except one thing: madness! A man needs a little madness, or else...

  

  Anthony Quinn
  • Madness
  • Except

• 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.

  

  Will Durst
  • Women
  • America
  • Dream

• 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.

  

  Nicholas Mosley
  • Form
  • Knew
  • Narrative

• We can't hold on to anyone or anything, you know. We lose everything except that which we carry within us.

  

  Lisa Unger
  • Lose
  • Except

• 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.

  

  Wilfrid Sheed
  • Worry
  • Survival
  • Artistic

• I’m a very tolerant man, except when it comes to holding a grudge.

  

  Robin Williams
  • Except
  • Grudge
  • Tolerant

• I ought never to act except in such a way that I could also will that my maxim should become a universal law.

  

  Immanuel Kant
  • Except
  • Maxim
  • Universal Law

• Myrnin: "There is no drama so great as that of a teenage girl." Claire: "Except yours.

  

  Rachel Caine
  • Great
  • Girl
  • Drama

• I'm not scared of animals, except for rats. I'll break down in tears if I see a rat!

  

  Jeremy Irvine
  • Animals
  • Scared
  • Rats

• On Earth they've forgotten how to make everything except money. But what good is it, if there's nothing worthwhile left to buy?

  

  James P. Hogan
  • Money
  • Earth
  • Except

• 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.

  

  Michael Johnson
  • Control
  • Competition
  • Athlete

• 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.

  

  Katie MacAlister
  • More
  • Arrogant
  • Foot

• Everybody in boxing probably makes out well except for the fighter.

  

  Mike Tyson
  • Boxing
  • Fighter
  • Except

• 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.

  

  Eve Plumb
  • Always
  • Person
  • Something

• 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.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Men
  • Equal
  • Negroes

• 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.

  

  Katharine Hepburn
  • Life
  • Good
  • Reason

• We remind ourselves that it's a hobby The Esemblist; nobody is setting these deadlines for us, except us.

  

  Nikka Graff Lanzarone
  • Except
  • Hobby
  • Deadlines

• I cannot think of any character below the flatterer, except he who envies him.

  

  Richard Steele
  • Cannot
  • Except
  • Flatterer

• Except I didn't say eff.

  

  Patrick Ness
  • Say
  • Except
  • Eff

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