#except

What if God exists except it turns out he doesn't really like people very much? ↗

— Doug Coupland

#exists #god #like #much #out

After two years of fighting, government shutdowns and little to no agreement on anything except welfare reform in 1996, President Clinton was re-elected and decided it was time for compromise. ↗

— Ari Fleischer

#agreement #anything #clinton #compromise #decided

The genuine truth, and I do think about this a lot, is that I'm one of the least competitive people you'll ever meet. Except with myself. ↗

— Daniel Craig

#competitive #ever #except #genuine #i

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

#book #books #economy #except #exclusively

If you go on TV and say there's no other country in the world where you can be born poor and become rich, you get a huge megaphone. If you tell the truth, which is that most of the studies show actually the United States is worse than anybody except Britain in upward mobility, there is no audience for you. ↗

— David Frum

#anybody #audience #become #born #britain

There is no reason for anyone in this country, anyone except a police officer or a military person, to buy, to own, to have, to use a handgun... and the only way to do that is to change the Constitution. ↗

— Michael Gartner

#buy #change #constitution #country #except

The REM and Nirvana successes don't mean much to me except as a potential distraction for bands who want to cash in on the trend. Don't try to sound like someone else. REM and Nirvana don't sound like anyone else. ↗

— Greg Ginn

#bands #cash #distraction #else #except

On most things except witch trials, Virginia will always have been first. ↗

— Morgan Griffith

#been #except #first #most #things

I grew up in a very small, close-knit, Southern Baptist family, where everything was off-limits. So I couldn't wait to get to college and have some fun. And I did for the first two years. And I regret a lot of it, because my grades were in terrible shape. I never got in serious trouble, except for my grades. ↗

— John Grisham

#because #college #did #everything #except

He knew everything about literature except how to enjoy it. ↗

— Joseph Heller

#enjoy #everything #except #how #knew