Top 100 World Except Quotes
#1. Marriage is all about knowing the ins and outs and the intimate details, and your wife is supposed to be the person you know best. But my brother and I think alike, know everything about one another, and when we get together, we block everything else out. Nothing exists in our world except for us.
Jon Heder
#2. A banquet is probably the most fatiguing thing in the world except ditch digging.
Mark Twain
#3. Music is the only form of magic in this world, except maybe for love. Not that I'd know much about love.
J.J. Knight
#4. Sonny, don't you tell me what's worthwhile
true love is the best thing in the world, except for cough drops. Everybody knows that.
William Goldman
#5. You can't control anything in this world except your perception and emotion.
Debasish Mridha
#6. It's neat how money smells nothing like anything in the world except money, just like cardboard.
Augusten Burroughs
#7. But Americans are different from everyone else in the world - except the Canadians, and Americans are more different from the Canadians than they often think.
William Pfaff
#8. It is too little to call man a little world; Except God, man is a diminutive to nothing.
John Donne
#9. There is no hope for the aching world except through the narrow and straight path of nonviolence.
Mahatma Gandhi
#10. Their reputation of being the spurners of all useless worldly trivia, prejudices and almost everything else in the world except their own interests.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#11. Because I know you, Sarah. You can forgive everyone in the world except for yourself. I wanted the truth, not your rose-colored version of it.
Anonymous
#12. A community narrows down and grows dreadful ignorant when it is shut up to its own affairs, and gets no knowledge of the outside world except from a cheap, unprincipled paper.
Sarah Orne Jewett
#13. He sighed and then focused his eyes right on me. It was like drowning, drowning in seas of green. There was nothing in the world except for those eyes.
"I want to kiss you, Rose," he said softly. "And I want you to want me too.
Richelle Mead
#14. I believe it is impossible to make sense of life in this world except through art.
Daniel Pinkwater
#15. We now know most things that can be measured in this world, except the bounds of human ambition!
Jules Verne
#16. Every monarch in the world, except the Emperor of China, wears a military uniform, and bestows the greatest rewards on the man who kills the greatest number of his fellow-creatures.
Leo Tolstoy
#17. I ignore people who need me and latch on to people who don't. I dive into every other world except my own just because I want something more glamorous than my real life. I do destructive shit so a stupid hypocritical fish will like me.
I fall for fish instead of girls.
Hannah Moskowitz
#18. To get back my youth I would do anything in the world, except take exercise, get up early, or be respectable.
Oscar Wilde
#19. Throughout the Arab and Islamic world the feeling is that we are now in top gear for a war of civilizations, a clash of civilizations. Support for the United States is very low and there are no voices within the Muslim world, except for a very few.
Husain Haqqani
#20. I care nothing for all the political parties in the world except as they stand for justice.
Anna Howard Shaw
#22. Everybody lives in this world, except lovers! They live in an isolated small place called 'You and I' planet!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#23. The disciples wanted a kingdom without a cross. Many would-be "orthodox" or "conservative" Christians in our world have wanted a cross without a kingdom, an abstract "atonement" that would have nothing to do with this world except to provide the means of escaping it.
N. T. Wright
#24. 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.
Thomas Sowell
#25. Writing a story is like ruling the world. Except it's even better. How many rulers out there that you know can tell people what they say?
VanillaCreamPie8888
#26. There is nothing impossible in all the world except that the heart of man is wanting in resolution.
Confucius
#27. For him all the girls in the world were divided into two classes: one class - all the girls in the world except her, and those girls with all sorts of human weaknesses, and very ordinary girls: the other class - she alone, having no weaknesses of any sort and higher than all humanity.
Leo Tolstoy
#28. Like a midwife, I make my living bringing new babies into the world, except that mine are new advertising campaigns.
David Ogilvy
#29. What is the world, except that which we feel? Love, and hope, and delight, or sorrow and tears; these are our lives, our realities, to which we give the names of power, possession, misfortune, and death.
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
#30. I'm part of nobody's world except Brezhnev's.
Dan Rather
#31. I came back because I had to. Because there was nothing wrong in the world except that I was getting older in it. Because Sam and Grace had told me I should go if that was what I
wanted.
What I wanted was:
I wanted.
Isabel -
Maggie Stiefvater
#32. Death is the Santa Claus of the adult world. Except Santa Claus in reverse. The guy who takes all the presents away.
Maria Dahvana Headley
#33. The problem is that Americans would like to be independent of the rest of the world ... Except the world ain't that way. Trying to be independent of the rest of the world is to commit suicide.
Ben Bova
#34. There is nothing permanent in the world except change.
Heraclitus
#35. There was nothing in her world except waiting to be allowed to breathe, then breathing until he decided it was time for her to stop breathing again.
Sophie Kisker
#36. In my plain thoughts I don't know what else is needed to make this the happiest as well as the most respect-worthy situation in the world - except
for a taste for literature, to throw a little variety and interest into conversation, and some surplus money to give to the needy and to buy books ...
Mary Wollstonecraft
#37. If I could get back my youth, I'd do anything in the world except get up early, take exercise or be respectable.
Oscar Wilde
#38. Please, I know nothing of the world, except my father is lost in it.
Gregory Maguire
#39. It was like drowning, drowning in seas of green. There was nothing in the world except for those eyes.
Richelle Mead
#40. Success is having to worry about every damn thing in the world, except money.
Johnny Cash
#41. True love is the best thing in the world, except for cough drops.
William Goldman
#42. Nothing is really new in this high-tech, globally wired world, except how frequently it is.
David Allen
#43. I can smell you," he groaned against her ear as he ran his fangs up her throat. "The most beautiful thing in the world - except for your taste.
J.R. Ward
#44. There is nothing new in the world except the history you do not know.
Harry S. Truman
#45. There is little for the great part of the history of the world except the bitter tears of pity and the hot tears of wrath.
Woodrow Wilson
#47. What makes you so arrogant to think that Christ's Atonement is for everyone else in the history of the world except you?
Carla Kelly
#48. My mom was the best mom in the world. Except for when she wasn't. I hated her the same way I loved her: deeply.
Brittainy C. Cherry
#49. Exactly!' The pandit beamed again. 'So think about the colour of that leaf from the perspective of the leaf itself, the colours it absorbs and the one it rejects. Is its colour green? Or is it every single colour in the world except green?
Amish Tripathi
#50. Life is in one of its smoother phases ... I've no responsibilities in the world except friends and students and cherishing the life of the world
and the belief that there is enough love to go round.
Margaret Mead
#52. Of all that was attempted this side of nothingness, is anything more pathetic than this world, except for the idea which conceived it?
Emil Cioran
#53. 5Who is it that overcomes the world except the one who believes t that Jesus is the Son of God?
Anonymous
#54. We all know that America is the worst country in the world, except for all the others.
Mort Sahl
#55. He brooded on how close destruction always was to all creatures, animals as well as humans, and he realized that there is nothing we can predict or know for certain in this world except death.
Hermann Hesse
#56. We can't change the world except insofar as we change the way we look at the world - and, in fact, any one of us can make that change, in any direction, at any moment.
Pico Iyer
#57. Present-moment awareness creates a gap not only in the stream of mind but also in the past-future continuum. Nothing truly new and creative can come into this world except through that gap, that clear space of infinite possibility.
Eckhart Tolle
#58. - What ... what are you doing here? I thought you had to run some
errands.
- And let an opportunity like this slip by? No chance. Everything in
the world, except you, can wait 'til tomorrow.
J.M. Colail
#59. We know of no other event like it in the history of the world, except perhaps the first confrontation in Europe between the neolithic peoples who came from the East and the primitive hunters. But no witness ever wrote of that great drama.
Jean-Marie G. Le Clezio
#60. I go out and break my leg next year and can't play ever again, I got 40 million dollars. Nothing's guaranteed in this world, except that 40 million dollars.
Dustin Pedroia
#61. All the girls in the world were divided into two classes: one class included all the girls in the world except her, and they had all the usual human feelings and were very ordinary girls; while the other class -herself alone- had no weaknesses and was superior to all humanity.
Leo Tolstoy
#62. We feel too much. React too much. Say too much. Need too much. So says the world. Except the world is wrong.
Anonymous
#63. I've heard it said that if you know English, Spanish, Italian, and I think it's French, you can go just about anywhere in this world ... except for China where they have all those derelicts.
Mike Shannon
#64. Like, a flood seems like a great way to punish every living creature in the world except for fish. What the hell is a god supposed to do when all the FISH start being assholes?
Cory O'Brien
#65. There is no cure for the ills of the world except the gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ.
Joseph Fielding Smith
#66. I do not see Windows Phones anywhere in the world except Seattle.
Robert Scoble
#67. They really showed very little understanding for a man and woman who were in the process of forgetting that there was anything or anyone else in the world except the two of them
Nicolas Barreau
#68. Quacks are the greatest liars in the world except their patients.
Benjamin Franklin
#69. I was never afraid of anything in the world except the dentist.
Taylor Caldwell
#70. So think about the colour of that leaf from the perspective of the leaf itself. What colour it absorbs and what it rejects. Is its colour green? Or is it every single colour in the world, except green?' Shiva
Amish Tripathi
#71. There's not much you need to know about the world. Except how to use a sword and trust very few.
Melina Marchetta
#72. True love is the greatest thing in the world-except for a nice MLT - mutton, lettuce and tomato sandwich, where the mutton is nice and lean and the tomato is ripe." -The Princess Bride
Madelyn Hill
#73. We convince ourselves that even our shameless waste, our unchecked consumption and our appalling ignorance of anyplace in the world except our own little corner must continue
or they win! No, when you become smarter and less gluttonous, you win. We all win!
Bill Maher
#74. Polonium is, frankly, pretty useless, and no country in the world except Russia bothered to refine it by the late 2000s.
Sam Kean
#75. There is cheese from just about every country in the world except China. No cheese from China? Maybe tofu is Chinese cheese. No wonder there was a cultural revolution.
Jim Gaffigan
#76. There is no communication in this world except between equals.
Ken Burns
#77. I know how to live here, I know how everything smells, and tastes, and is. What could I ever search for in the world, except this again?
Peter S. Beagle
#78. There is a widespread understanding among the people of this nation, and probably among the people of the world, that there is no safety except through the prevention of war.
Eleanor Roosevelt
#79. He had tried to shed his pain, to rise from the ashes like a drab phoenix with no hope except the cold peace of indifference. Now that events forced him to open himself to the world again, he was swamped by emotion as a novice surfer was overwhelmed by each cresting wave.
Dean Koontz
#80. The nation state is a relatively modern idea, and I don't think we're getting a lot out of it except for flags and World Cups.
Russell Brand
#81. The other world is hidden in this world. The Buddha is asleep in the Zorba. It has to be awakened. And nobody can awaken you except life itself.
Rajneesh
#82. PRINCIPLE is likewise such a law for action, except that it has not the formal definite meaning, but is only the spirit and sense of law in order to leave the judgment more freedom of application when the diversity of the real world cannot be laid hold of under the definite form of a law.
Carl Von Clausewitz
#83. It's a saying they have, that a man has a false heart in his mouth for the world to see, another in his breast to show to his special friends and his family, and the real one, the true one, the secret one, which is never known to anyone except to himself alone, hidden only God knows where.
James Clavell
#84. He has forgotten how to laugh except in bitterness; there are no tears left in him. Unless he finds laughter and tears again, the world faces disaster. He
Robert Jordan
#85. Gods need take no responsibility for anything except genesis. Gods accept everything and thus accept nothing. Gods must be identifiable yet remain anonymous. Gods do not need a spirit world.
Frank Herbert
#87. Nature has always been and always will be, as far as my tiny brain can understand, miraculous. Except, nature won't last because the world won't.
Patrick Downes
#88. Nowhere was good. Except with Eric. He had both perfumed and poisoned her entire world.
Maureen Johnson
#89. The truth is that solitude is the creative condition of genius, religious or secular, and the ultimate sterilising of it. No human soul can long ignore "the giant agony of the world" and live, except indeed the mollusc life, a barnacle upon eternity.
Helen Waddell
#90. Most big companies don't like you very much, except hotels, airlines and Microsoft, which don't like you at all.
Bill Bryson
#91. ( ... ) Trying to think of how to take the least crowded ways to class, so the least amount of people will stare at the hole in my neck. Sometimes it feels like it has a beacon in it, flashing for the entire world to see, except it's not cool like the Bat signal.
Keary Taylor
#92. The structure of your organism, of your senses and nerves, endows the world with all its sensible and measurable properties - for rocks cannot seem to be hard except in relation to soft skin.
Alan W. Watts
#93. We possess nothing in the world - a mere chance can strip us of everything - except the power to say 'I.
Simone Weil
#94. Well I haven't seen any free elections in the Arab world. They may be coming someday, except for in Israel. In Israel, Arabs have a chance to participate in free elections. Nowhere else really.
Moshe Arens
#95. Everything in the world starts small and then becomes bigger - except bad things. They start big, and then get smaller.
Warren St. John
#96. We haven't been too bad, have we?"
"No, nor enormously good. I suppose that's the trouble - we haven't been much of anything except us, while a big part of the world was busy being lots of awful things.
Ray Bradbury
#97. Everything is different - except for publishing itself: getting hold of an amazing author, working to make his or her book the best and best-looking it can be, telling the world.
Jonathan Galassi
#98. I must say to myself that I ruined myself, and that nobody great or small can be ruined except by his own hand. I am quite ready to say so ... Terrible as was what the world did to me, what I did to myself was far more terrible still.
Oscar Wilde
#99. I've never ... when I was having songs on the airwaves, and that sort of thing, I never felt a sense of pressure anywhere except from myself, to do things the way I wanted to do them; to feel authentic; to feel like I was presenting my true self to the world.
Mary Chapin Carpenter
#100. The world was beautiful, but nobody looked at it except tourists ... a kind of perfection of existence was always close at hand, and no one reached for it.
Craig L. Rice
