Nothing is black-and-white, except for winning and losing, and maybe that's why people gravitate to that so much.
Our friends are generally ready to do everything for us, except the very thing we wish them to do.
Sometimes people just want you to fail. Except your really good friends. I've always known who my best friends were.
If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew to serve your turn long after they are gone, and so hold on when there is nothing in you except the will which says to them: 'Hold on!'
I don't have nothing to regret at all in the past, except that I might've unintentionally hurt somebody else or something.
My high school career was undistinguished except for math and science. However, having barely been admitted to Rice University, I found that I enjoyed the courses and the elation of success and graduated with honors in physics. I did a senior thesis with C.F. Squire, building a regulator for a magnet for use in low-temperature physics.
Every President I think I've ever known, except Truman, has thought they didn't quite get done what they wanted done. And toward the end of their Administrations, they were disappointed and wished they had done some things differently.
Congress seems to want to cure every ill known to man except unconstitutional government and high taxes.
There is no meaning to life except the meaning man gives his life by the unfolding of his powers.
We procured from an Indian a weasel perfectly white except the extremity of the tail which was black: great numbers of wild geese are passing to the south, but their flight is too high for us to procure any of them.
There is nothing on earth divine except humanity.
Everything about aging in my experience so far has been a plus. Except the death part!
But the vast majority of books ever written are not accessible to anyone except the most tenacious researchers at premier academic libraries. Books written after 1923 quickly disappear into a literary black hole.
I am a nerd, but I don't dive head-first into any fiefdom of nerdiness, except for maybe 'Star Trek.'
My father never raised his hand to any one of his children, except in self-defense.
In Judaism or Christianity and so forth, you invent rules that don't exist anywhere except in your imagination. You spend your life trying to gain points and to avoid all kinds of things that detract from your points. And if by the time you die you gather enough points, then you pass on to the next level, in Heaven.
Nothing in life is promised except death.
I've never really been a confident person, except from a musical standpoint. I had to push myself early on, but it got easier with each gig.
The original judgment of the FBI, the Secret Service, and the CIA was that there were three shots. I don't think that convinced us except as a statement by people, many of them who were familiar with ballistics. This question troubled me greatly.
Pretty much I love all types of fish; I pretty much stick with that. I love vegetables. I don't eat too much carbs, but I love salads, though. I'll usually have a salad, except for breakfast.
The other saxophones, except as solo instruments, really don't have much point in the orchestra.
Once I got to college, it seemed that the Hamptons were a little bit too posh for me and didn't represent the kind of values I was embracing in my late teens. So, I didn't go out there, except to visit my parents, for a long time. And then, after 9/11, I discovered it was a nice, mellow place to hang out.
True love is quiescent, except in the nascent moments of true humility.
We seldom praise anyone in good earnest, except such as admire us.
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 have absolutely no concept of work, except for university. But I like to talk to people a lot about their jobs.
Anthropology is the science which tells us that people are the same the whole world over - except when they are different.
The power of man has grown in every sphere, except over himself.
The Homeland Security department doesn't have tasking authority in the intelligence community. They can ask for stuff, but they can't direct anything except inside their bureau.
A woman will doubt everything you say except it be compliments to herself.
When I started walking and I looked down and I saw on the floor this water, which looked like, you know, water in your basement except it happened to be in the auxiliary building of a nuclear power plant.
No matter how many obstacles that are thrown in our path, there are ways to except them and to live through them.
Except when war is waged in a desert, noncombatants, also known as civilians or 'the people,' constitute the great majority of those affected.
Venice has always fascinated me. Every country in Europe then was run by kings and the Vatican except Venice, which was basically run by councils. I've always wondered why.
Who, except the gods, can live time through forever without any pain?
Humility is the foundation of all the other virtues hence, in the soul in which this virtue does not exist there cannot be any other virtue except in mere appearance.
