#except

There are no limitations to the mind except those we acknowledge. ↗

— Napoleon Hill

#except #limitations #mind #those

Everything that everyone is afraid of has already happened: The fragility of capitalism, which we don't want to admit; the loss of the empire of the United States; and American exceptionalism. In fact, American exceptionalism is that we are exceptionally backward in about fifteen different categories, from education to infrastructure. ↗

— James Hillman

#admit #afraid #already #american #backward

A true heiress is never mean to anyone - except a girl who steals your boyfriend. ↗

— Paris Hilton

#boyfriend #except #girl #heiress #mean

It is a happy thing that there is no royal road to poetry. The world should know by this time that one cannot reach Parnassus except by flying thither. ↗

— Gerard Manley Hopkins

#except #flying #happy #know #poetry

In Europe life is histrionic and dramatized, and in America, except when it is trying to be European, it is direct and sincere. ↗

— William Dean Howells

#direct #europe #european #except #life

There is no failure except in no longer trying. ↗

— Elbert Hubbard

#failure #longer #trying

A woman will doubt everything you say except it be compliments to herself. ↗

— Elbert Hubbard

#doubt #everything #except #herself #say

The Haitian people are gentle and lovable except for their enormous and unconscious cruelty. ↗

— Zora Neale Hurston

#enormous #except #gentle #haitian #haitian people

The happiest people seem to be those who have no particular cause for being happy except that they are so. ↗

— William Ralph Inge

#being happy #cause #except #happiest #happiest people

A fact never went into partnership with a miracle. Truth scorns the assistance of wonders. A fact will fit every other fact in the universe, and that is how you can tell whether it is or is not a fact. A lie will not fit anything except another lie. ↗

— Robert Green Ingersoll

#anything #assistance #every #except #fact