#except

Of what does politics consist except the making of imperfect decisions, many of them unjust and quite a few of them deadly? ↗

— Lewis H. Lapham

#deadly #decisions #does #except #few

I have been up to see the Congress and they do not seem to be able to do anything except to eat peanuts and chew tobacco, while my army is starving. ↗

— Robert E. Lee

#anything #army #been #chew #congress

America is exceptional: but because it yields the likes of Obama, not the likes of Bush. ↗

— Eric Liu

#because #bush #exceptional #likes #obama

Unfortunately, goodness and honor are rather the exception than the rule among exceptional men, not to speak of geniuses. ↗

— Cesare Lombroso

#exception #exceptional #geniuses #goodness #honor

The State Film Authority will be there for film as industry only, as is the case in all the other states, except Victoria. Victoria is moving more now into supporting non-commercial films. ↗

— Ann Macbeth

#case #commercial films #except #film #films

When I recall today my early youth, I should take the boy that I then was, with the exception of a few individual features, for a different person, were it not for the existence of the chain of memories. ↗

— Ernst Mach

#chain #different #different person #early #exception

People in the fashion industry have used the press a lot more than people in the film industry, because you have nothing to sell except for the image: The image is everything. ↗

— Elle Macpherson

#everything #except #fashion #fashion industry #film

I ask, sir, what is the militia? It is the whole people except for a few public officials. ↗

— George Mason

#except #few #i #militia #officials

The first nine albums there was never a Synthesiser, never any Orchestra. There was never any other player except us on the albums. ↗

— Brian May

#any #except #first #never #nine

There's nothing particularly unique about my experiences except that they're my experiences. ↗

— Sarah McLachlan

#except #experiences #nothing #particularly #unique