Why borrow if you are not in need of it? You must lend feet to the maximum of your bed only, and not to borrow except in the case of necessity.
I am not scared of anyone except the Almighty.
I didn't know anything about Opus Die except from pop culture, like Dan Brown novels, which I knew wasn't really knowing anything about Opus Die.
I honor religion except when it gets into shedding blood.
Love conquers all things except poverty and toothache.
When you're writing fiction or poetry... it really comes down to this: indifference to everything except what you're doing... A young writer could do worse than follow the advice given in those lines.
No true and permanent fame can be founded except in labors which promote the happiness of mankind.
I love getting up in the morning with nothing else to do except write.
What if God exists except it turns out he doesn't really like people very much?
One should never criticize his own work except in a fresh and hopeful mood. The self-criticism of a tired mind is suicide.
Love is the same as like except you feel sexier.
I have never described the time I was in Doctor Who as anything except a kind of ecstatic success, but all the rest has been rather a muddle and a disappointment. Compared to Doctor Who, it has been an outrageous failure really - it's so boring.
There are many different aspects to a formal meditation practice. But the real meditation practice is how you interface with life from moment-to-moment, no matter what's happening. Especially when you are awake, which is pretty much most of the time except for deep sleep.
I was fine with everything except Maths. I was terrible at Maths.
In the first years after 1989, films were partly financed from the state's budget as well as by public television. Still, except for a few special cases, most films are made this way.
Calling on each molecule one by one? No way. I just told all of them to be quiet - except for a selected few.
The American people have a right to except that the rule of law will guarantee that even if we don't like the policy, that it's done properly.
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.
I never think about poetry except when I'm writing it. I mean my poetry.
It's important to be a divergent musician and do a little bit of everything, except you have to make sure your fans are aware of it and that you string them along the right way.
Power is no blessing in itself, except when it is used to protect the innocent.
At one point I learned transcendental meditation. This was 30-something years ago. It took me back to the way that I naturally was as a child growing up way in the country, rarely seeing people. I was in that state of oneness with creation and it was as if I didn't exist except as a part of everything.
For know that no one is free, except Zeus.
I tend not to trust people who live in very tidy houses. I know that on the surface there is nothing wrong with a person being well-ordered and disciplined. Nothing, except that it leaves the impression of that person having lived in the confines of a stark institution which, although he or she has long since left, remains within.
As far as I knew white women were never lonely, except in books. White men adored them, Black men desired them and Black women worked for them.
I wouldn't do really gratuitous nudity. When I was in my late teens, you'd read stuff and be like, 'That character serves no purpose except being naked', so that would not be something I'd want to do. It's pointless for me.
Growing up, it was kind of a struggle being small, since everyone would make fun of you - except for when it came to hide and seek: that's the only advantage I ever had!
With a disaster like global warming, it's too late to worry about when it's looming except to figure out how to adapt to it.
If everyone's ready for a shot to start, except for one actor who's intent on getting to the bottom of their soul, it can be a bit annoying.
All ambitions are lawful except those which climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind.
I will place no value on anything I have or may possess except in relation to the kingdom of Christ.
Something that's seldom appreciated about me is that I am in sympathy with a great deal of what Marx wrote, except that I'm on the side of the bourgeoisie.
Now I listen to all kinds of music except rap, which all sounds the same to me.
What the devil does the plot signify, except to bring in fine things?
I forgive all personal weaknesses except egomania and pretension.
I perceived how that it was impossible to establish the lay people in any truth except the Scripture were plainly laid before their eyes in their mother tongue.
