Except Quotes

True love is quiescent, except in the nascent moments of true humility.

There is no failure except in no longer trying. There is no defeat except from within, no really insurmountable barrier save our own inherent weakness of purpose.

An autobiography usually reveals nothing bad about its writer except his memory.

Except on their southern borders the great northern forests are not good as a permanent home for man.

No one ever became great except through many and great mistakes.

I like the fact that Jack is always wearing a tie except when he's on a mission. I do like it when I get out there and dress up, or dress down, a little bit.

I honor religion except when it gets into shedding blood.

I am obliged to believe certain opinions myself. No man's belief will save me except my own.

Americans detest all lies except lies spoken in public or printed lies.

I have a small house so I borrow everything except art, that's what I love.

Now it is established in the sciences that no knowledge is acquired save through the study of its causes and beginnings, if it has had causes and beginnings; nor completed except by knowledge of its accidents and accompanying essentials.

I have, indeed, no abhorrence of danger, except in its absolute effect - in terror.

Time changes everything except something within us which is always surprised by change.

The only thing I understand deeply, because in my teens I was thinking about it, and every year of my life, is software. So I'll never be hands-on on anything except software.

Well, they just don't know anything else except that one form of their business, acting, and they don't really want to learn any other part of it, or they would. Directing and producing and putting a show together is very creative, for me.

There is an abiding beauty which may be appreciated by those who will see things as they are and who will ask for no reward except to see.

It was a woman's bedroom, actually a boudoir, and no man belonged in it except by invitation.

I love dogs. They live in the moment and don't care about anything except affection and food. They're loyal and happy. Humans are just too damn complicated.

A life is not important except in the impact it has on other lives.

I like all things grammatical, and I had already written several books about parts of speech, and even the alphabet, so everything that makes up a sentence and even a word was covered except for punctuation.

Love is the same as like except you feel sexier.

Except that awards are competitive, which is a negative thing, they are wonderful for singling out deserving individuals and bringing their work to the attention of many potential readers who might otherwise have been totally unaware of them.

Now between the meanings of words and their sounds there is ordinarily no discoverable relation except one of accident; and it is therefore miraculous, to the mystic, when words which make sense can also make a uniform objective structure of accents and rhymes.

A straight path never leads anywhere except to the objective.

The British soldier can stand up to anything except the British War Office.

Show business is just like high school, except you get paid.

I apologize for lying to you. I promise I won't deceive you except in matters of this sort.

Nobody will ever deprive the American people of the right to vote except the American people themselves and the only way they could do this is by not voting.

Jon Stewart is exactly the same guy he's always been, only with money. He knows that the moment he really believes he's important, the funny goes away and he becomes Bill O'Reilly, except shorter and Jewish.

No one is to be called an enemy, all are your benefactors, and no one does you harm. You have no enemy except yourselves.