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Tag Name "Except" (2974)

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Except a living man there is nothing more wonderful than a book! A message from the dead - from human souls we never saw, who lived, perhaps, thousands of miles away. And yet these, in those little sheets of paper, speak to us, arouse us, terrify us, comfort us, open their hearts to us as brothers.
Charles Kingsley
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Except to heaven, she is nought Except for angels, lone Except to some wide-wandering bee, A flower superfluous blown Except for winds, provincial Except by butterflies, Unnoticed as a single dew That on the acre lies
Howard Mumford Jones
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Except from the Americans—but every pearl has its oyster.
Randall Jarrell
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Except for half a dozen in each town the citizens are proud of that achievement of ignorance which is so easy to come by. To be 'intellectual' or 'artistic' or, in their own word, to be 'highbrow,' is to be priggish and of dubious virtue.
Sinclair Lewis
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Except ye become as little children, except you can wake on your fiftieth birthday with the same forward-looking excitement and interest in life that you enjoyed when you were five, ye cannot enter the kingdom of God. One must not only die daily, but every day we must be born again.
Dorothy L. Sayers
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Except for Carrie Bradshaws in the opening credits of Sex and the City, I dont know if the tutu has ever really been trendy, but I want to wear one. I want to dance around in it, and I want that to be socially acceptable.
Devin Kelley
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Except our own thoughts, there is nothing absolutely in our power.
Rene Descartes
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Except for our bodies there are no other temples in the world
Rajneesh
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Except for a few small presses, most publishers are north of Ground Zero.
Richard Curtis
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Except among those whose education has been in the minimalist style, it is understood that hasty moral judgments about the past are a form of injustice.
Jacques Barzun
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Except a man be born again, he will wish one day he had never been born at all.
J. C. Ryle
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Except a person be part coward, it is not a compliment to say he is brave.
Mark Twain
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Except for an occasional heart attack I feel as young as I ever did.
Robert Benchley
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Except wind stands as it never stood It is an ill wind turns none to good.
Thomas Tusser
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Except for Ali, fighters had never been marketable.
Sugar Ray Leonard
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Except for a God who sits down after the universe begins, all other gods conflict with the assumptions of science.
Alan Lightman
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Except when you're marching to war, it's not a very optimistic thought, is it? In other words, it's the opposite of optimistic when you're thinking you're going to war.
George W. Bush
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Except in mathematics, the shortest distance between point A and point B is seldom a straight line. I don't believe in mathematics.
Albert Einstein
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Except for children (who don't know enough not to ask the important questions), few of us spendtime wondering why nature is the way it is . . .
Carl Sagan
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Except in pure mathematics, nothing is known for certain (although much is certainly false).
Carl Sagan
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Except, I think, it's more about me growing up and becoming an adult that I have this new best-friend type of relationship with my mom.
Ashley Greene
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Except for the violin pieces and a few of my orchestra pieces, all of my works from the Passacaglia on relate to the death of my mother.
Anton Webern
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Except two breeds - the stupid and the narrowly feline - all women have a touch of the Lesbian: an assertion all good non-analytic creatures refute with horror, but quite true: there is always the poignant intensive personal taste, the flair of inner-sex, in the tenderest friendships of women.
Mary MacLane
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Except for some effects that I attribute mostly to age, my intuitive thinking is just as prone to overconfidence, extreme predictions, and the planning fallacy as it was before I made a study of these issues.
Daniel Kahneman
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