Quotes 181 till 200 of 339.
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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.
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 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.
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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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Nowadays a citizen can hardly distinguish between a tax and a fine, except that the fine is generally much lighter.
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Of great wealth there is no real use, except in its distribution, the rest is just conceit.
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Of the significant and pleasurable experiences of life only the simplest are open indiscriminately to all. The rest cannot be had except by those who have undergone a suitable training.
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Oh, don't tell me of facts - I never believe facts: you know Canning said nothing was so fallacious as facts, except figures.
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