Quotes with inevitable-except

Quotes 261 till 280 of 393.

  • G. C. Lichtenberg Some theories are good for nothing except to be argued about.
    G. C. Lichtenberg
    German writer and physicist (1742 - 1799)
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  • Anna Pavlova Success depends in a very large measure upon individual initiative and exertion, and cannot be achieved except by a dint of hard work.
    Anna Pavlova
    Russian prima ballerina of the late 19th and the (1881 - 1931)
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  • John W. Draper Sympathy is never wasted except when you give it to yourself.
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  • Joseph Rudyard Kipling Take everything you like seriously, except yourselves.
    Joseph Rudyard Kipling
    English writer (1865 - 1936)
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  • John Donne Take me to you, imprison me, for I, except you enthrall me, never shall be free, nor ever chaste, except you ravish me.
    John Donne
    English poet (1572 - 1631)
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  • Cullen Hightower Talk is cheap, except when Congress does it.
    Cullen Hightower
    American quotation and quip writer (1923 - 2008)
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  • Calvin Trillin The average trade book has a shelf life of between milk and yogurt, except for books by any member of the Irving Wallace family - they have preservatives.
    Calvin Trillin
    American journalist, humorist, food writer and poet (1935 - )
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  • Napoleon Hill The battle is all over except the ''shouting'' when one knows what is wanted and has made up his mind to get it, whatever the price may be.
    Napoleon Hill
    American self-help author (1883 - 1970)
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  • Carroll Quigley The brainwashing which has been going on for 150 years has also resulted in the replacement of intellectual activities and religion by ideologies and science....I have nothing against Marx, except that his theories do not explain what happened.
    Oscar Iden Lecture Series, Lecture 3: The State of Individuals (1976)
    Carroll Quigley
    American historian and theorist (1910 - 1977)
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  • George Bernard Shaw The British soldier can stand up to anything except the British War Office.
    The Devil's Disciple (1901)
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Richard W. Livingston The difference between a professional person and a technician is that a technician knows everything about his job except its ultimate purpose and his place in the scheme of things.
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  • Arthur Henderson The Disarmament Conference has become the focal point of a great struggle between anarchy and world order... between those who think in terms of inevitable armed conflict and those who seek to build a universal and durable peace.
    Arthur Henderson
    British Labour politician
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  • A. P. Herbert The Englishman never enjoys himself except for a noble purpose.
    A. P. Herbert
    English humorist, novelist and playwright (1890 - 1971)
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  • Bob Beauprez The examples of the Obama Administration 'stimulating' jobs everywhere on the planet except here in America are endless.
    Bob Beauprez
    American politician and member (1948 - )
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  • Andy Rooney The federal government has sponsored research that has produced a tomato that is perfect in every respect, except that you can't eat it. We should make every effort to make sure this disease, often referred to as 'progress', doesn't spread.
    Andy Rooney
    American radio and television writer (1919 - 2011)
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  • Elizabeth Hardwick The fifties - they seem to have taken place on a sunny afternoon that asked nothing of you except a drifting belief in the moment and its power to satisfy.
    Elizabeth Hardwick
    American literary critic, novelist, and short story writer (1916 - 2007)
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  • Augustus William Hare The first step to self-knowledge is self-distrust. Nor can we attain to any kind of knowledge, except by a like process.
    Augustus William Hare
    British writer (1792 - 1834)
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  • Leonardo Da Vinci The function of muscle is to pull and not to push, except in the case of the genitals and the tongue.
    Leonardo Da Vinci
    Italian painter, engineer and musician (1452 - 1519)
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  • Henry Miller The great work must inevitably be obscure, except to the very few, to those who like the author himself are initiated into the mysteries. Communication then is secondary: it is perpetuation which is important. For this only one good reader is necessary.
    Henry Miller
    American writer (1891 - 1980)
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  • Amelia Barr The inevitable has always found me ready and hopeful.
    Amelia Barr
    British novelist and teacher (1831 - 1919)
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