Except Quotes

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.

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 unfortunate thing about working for yourself is that you have the worst boss in the world. I work every day of the year except at Christmas, when I work a half day.

I guess a small-town mayor is sort of like a community organizer, except that you have actual responsibilities.

My coach, Liang Chow, had one rule while I was training for the 2008 Olympics: no skiing. I could do anything I wanted outside the gym, he said, except ski.

I believe all life has value, from conception to natural death. And I believe the intentional taking of human life, except to save lives, should be a capital offense, as it is in most states in America today.

I've never been shocked by anything on television, except the news.

Sleep - the most beautiful experience in life - except drink.

Our society has lost confidence in the power of reason, except perhaps scientific reason.

When I was a very young lawyer, I had a senior partner who advised me never to get mad, except on purpose.

Wars have never hurt anybody except the people who die.

Greatest hits is easy because one has nothing to do - except that we both, Roger and I, felt that new songs should be there because I've been away for awhile.