Quotes 241 till 260 of 461.
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Nobody ever did anything very foolish except from some strong principle.
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Nothing can work me damage except myself. The harm that I sustain I carry about with me, and never am a real sufferer but by my own fault.
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Nothing except a battle lost can be half so melancholy as a battle won.
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Nothing exists except by virtue of a disequilibrium, an injustice. All existence is a theft paid for by other existences; no life flowers except on a cemetery.
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Nothing in life is sure, my son. Except the promise of death.
Source: The King Beyond the Gate (1985) 4 -
Nothing induces me to read a novel except when I have to make money by writing about it. I detest them.
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Nothing is a matter of life and death except life and death.
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Nothing is accidental in the universe - this is one of my Laws of Physics - except the entire universe itself, which is Pure Accident, pure divinity.
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Nothing is necessary except God, and nothing is less necessary than pain.
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Nothing is new except arrangement.
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Nothing is so galling to a people not broken in from the birth as a paternal, or in other words a meddling government, a government which tells them what to read and say and eat and drink and wear.
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Nothing mattered except states of mind, chiefly our own.
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Nothing remains beautiful and interesting except thought, because the thought is the life.
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Nothing seems at first sight less important than the outward form of human actions, yet there is nothing upon which men set more store: they grow used to everything except to living in a society which has not their own manners.
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Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside them was superior to circumstance.
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Nothing was your own except the few cubic centimetres inside your skull.
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Nothing wholly admirable ever happens in this country except the migration of birds.
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Nothing would astonish me more, after all these years, except to be understood.
Source: Letters of Ellen Glasgow -
Now it is established in the sciences that no knowledge is acquired save through the study of its causes and beginnings, if it has had causes and beginnings; nor completed except by knowledge of its accidents and accompanying essentials.
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