Except Quotes

Nothing ever comes to one, that is worth having, except as a result of hard work.

The mere dates of my existence do not interest me, except in one connection. When the Great War started I was too old to be acceptable as a volunteer; when conscription followed I was too old to be conscripted.

The women's rights movement of the 1970s had not yet emerged; except for Bella Abzug, I had no women supporters.

A prophet is not without honor except in his own country among his own people.

Except for the young or very happy, I can't say I am sorry for anyone who dies.

I could have gone on to be an engineer full time, except that there was more demand for my playing. But the love of working the board never leaves you.

I don't think I know a Scientologist except when I see one or two of their actors on the Hollywood screen.

I lived in a country where I couldn't live where I wanted to live. I lived in a country where I couldn't go where I wanted to eat. I lived in a country where I couldn't get a job, except for those put aside for people of my colour or caste.

I've really been sick with this cold, but I think I might have kept the columns going anyhow except I was just so low in spirit, I didn't have the will to struggle against them when my deadline was so close and I felt so lousy.

I don't know that there is much the United States can do except work with the international community.

A radical generally meant a man who thought he could somehow pull up the root without affecting the flower. A conservative generally meant a man who wanted to conserve everything except his own reason for conserving anything.

Words began to appear in English and to make some kind of equivalent. For what satisfaction it is hard to say, except that something seems unusually piercing, living, handsome, in another language, and since English is yours, you wish it to be there too.

Why should I go into details, we have nothing that is not perishable except what our hearts and our intellects endows us with.

When a man has once loved a woman he will do anything for her except continue to love her.

When I'm on stage by myself, I don't have to think about anything. I don't have to worry about anything because I'm not responsible for anything except just opening my mouth and making sure music comes out.

No one has ever written, painted, sculpted, modeled, built, or invented except literally to get out of hell.

The actors are in control, getting outrageous amounts of money. The reason they're getting this kind of money is because the studios don't know what else to do. They don't have a clue about what to do except to pay an actor a lot of money.

Baseball is a game where a curve is an optical illusion, a screwball can be a pitch or a person, stealing is legal and you can spit anywhere you like except in the umpire's eye or on the ball.

I won't talk about what it was like in prison, except to say I'm glad I'm out and that I plan never to go back and to pay my taxes every day.

No battle is worth fighting except the last one.

So I had the opportunity to do what the kids in the Hershey program do, except that the Hershey program lets them do it on such a larger scale, with the regional and national competitions.

The battle is all over except the "shouting" when one knows what is wanted and has made up his mind to get it, whatever the price may be.

A man will give up almost anything except his suffering.

Never thank anybody for anything, except a drink of water in the desert - and then make it brief.

These days, it's really been uninteresting except when disasters occur.

'My country, right or wrong' is a thing no patriot would ever think of saying except in a desperate case. It is like saying 'My mother, drunk or sober.'

Grissom is pretty asexual. He's not that interested in anything other than work - except for Lady Heather. She's the closest to getting his heart of anyone.

Japanese naval officers in dress whites are frequent guests at Pearl Harbor's officers' mess and are very polite. They always were. Except, of course, for that little interval there between 1941 and 1945.

I looked below and saw my people there, and all were well and happy except one, and he was lying like the dead - and that one was myself.

I can honestly say this industry hasn't made me neurotic about my looks, except maybe my weight. I hope my clothes kind of reflect that. They're meant to make you feel good.