#except

None of us will ever accomplish anything excellent or commanding except when he listens to this whisper which is heard by him alone. ↗

— Thomas Carlyle

#alone #anything #commanding #ever #excellent

Nature gives us all, including Prof. Lorentz, surprises. It was very quickly found that there are many exceptions to the rule of splitting of the lines only into triplets. ↗

— Pieter Zeeman

#found #gives #including #into #lines

My father never raised his hand to any one of his children, except in self-defense. ↗

— Fred Allen

#any #children #except #father #hand

These days, it's really been uninteresting except when disasters occur. ↗

— James Van Allen

#days #disasters #except #occur #really

There is nothing final about a mistake, except its being taken as final. ↗

— Phyllis Bottome

#being #except #final #mistake #nothing

War is not its own end, except in some catastrophic slide into absolute damnation. ↗

— Lois McMaster Bujold

#catastrophic #damnation #end #except #into

You can conquer almost any fear if you will only make up your mind to do so. For remember, fear doesn't exist anywhere except in the mind. ↗

— Dale Carnegie

#any #anywhere #conquer #except #exist

I've never... when I was having songs on the airwaves, and that sort of thing, I never felt a sense of pressure anywhere except from myself, to do things the way I wanted to do them; to feel authentic; to feel like I was presenting my true self to the world. ↗

— Mary Chapin Carpenter

#anywhere #authentic #except #feel #felt

There is a time for all things - except marriage, my dear. ↗

— Thomas Chatterton

#dear #except #marriage #things #time

We are having Internet Governance discussions and meetings and a very large number of people are discussing the future of the Internet who have no clue as to what the Internet is except that it is important and that they have to be involved. ↗

— Steve Crocker

#discussing #discussions #except #future #governance