Quotes with inevitable-except

Quotes 101 till 120 of 393.

  • René Descartes Except our own thoughts, there is nothing absolutely in our power.
    René Descartes
    French philosopher, scientist (1596 - 1650)
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  • Heywood Broun Except that right side up is best, there is not much to learn about holding a baby. There are one hundred and fifty-two distinctly different ways -and all are right! At least all will do.
    Heywood Broun
    American Journalist, Novelist (1888 - 1939)
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  • Alfred H. Barr Except the American woman, nothing interests the eye of American man more than the automobile, or seems so important to him as an object of aesthetic appreciation.
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  • B. F. Skinner Except when physically restrained, a person is least free or dignified when he is under threat of punishment, and unfortunately most people often are.
    B. F. Skinner
    American psychologist, behaviorist and author (1904 - 1990)
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  • Dorothy L. Sayers Except ye become as little children, except you can wake on your fiftieth birthday with the same forward-looking excitement and interest in life that you enjoyed when you were five, ''ye cannot enter the kingdom of God.'' One must not only die daily, but every day we must be born again.
    Dorothy L. Sayers
    British writer (1893 - 1957)
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  • Ann Landers Expect trouble as an inevitable part of life and repeat to yourself, the most comforting words of all; this, too, shall pass.
    Ann Landers
    American columnist (1918 - 2002)
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  • Helen Rowland Failing to be there when a man wants her is a woman's greatest sin, except to be there when he doesn't want her.
    Helen Rowland
    American journalist (1875 - 1950)
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  • Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Fame comes only when deserved, and then is as inevitable as destiny, for it is destiny.
    Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
    American poet (1807 - 1882)
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  • Natalie Clifford Barney Fatalism is the lazy man's way of accepting the inevitable.
    Natalie Clifford Barney
    American-born French author (1876 - 1972)
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  • John W. Foster Few are sufficiently sensible of the importance of that economy in reading which selects, almost exclusively, the very first order of books. Why, except for some special reason, read an inferior book, at the very time you might be reading one of the highest order?
    John W. Foster
    American diplomat and military (1836 - 1917)
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  • Aeschylus For know that no one is free, except Zeus.
    Aeschylus
    Greek dramatist (525 - 456)
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  • John Milton For neither man nor angel can discern hypocrisy, the only evil that walks invisible, except to God alone.
    John Milton
    English poet, polemicist and man of letters (1608 - 1674)
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  • Charles Kingsley He was one of those men who possess almost every gift, except the gift of the power to use them.
    Charles Kingsley
    British writer (1819 - 1875)
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  • Oscar Wilde His style is chaos illumined by flashes of lightning. As a writer he has mastered everything except language.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Thornton Wilder I am convinced that, except in a few extraordinary cases, one form or another of an unhappy childhood is essential to the formation of exceptional gifts.
    Thornton Wilder
    American writer and playwright (1897 - 1975)
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  • Anthony Collins I am obliged to believe certain opinions myself. No man's belief will save me except my own.
    Anthony Collins
    English philosopher (1676 - 1729)
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  • Samuel Johnson I am willing to love all mankind, except an American.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Mahatma Gandhi I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers.
    Mahatma Gandhi
    Indian politician (1869 - 1948)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson I can reason down or deny everything, except this perpetual Belly: feed he must and will, and I cannot make him respectable.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Oscar Wilde I can resist everything except temptation.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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