#except

There are two Americas - separate, unequal, and no longer even acknowledging each other except on the barest cultural terms. In the one nation, new millionaires are minted every day. In the other, human beings no longer necessary to our economy, to our society, are being devalued and destroyed. ↗

— David Simon

#americas #being #beings #cultural #day

I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance. ↗

— Socrates

#fact #i #ignorance #know #nothing

Nothing in life is certain except death, taxes and the second law of thermodynamics. ↗

— Seth Lloyd

#death #except #law #life #nothing

Everybody at home speaks mandarin except me. ↗

— Rupert Murdoch

#except #home #me #speaks

A woman in love will do almost anything for a man, except give up the desire to improve him. ↗

— Nathaniel Branden

#anything #desire #except #give #him

No one can be great, or good, or happy except through the inward efforts of themselves. ↗

— Frederick William Robertson

#except #good #great #happy #inward

All ambitions are lawful except those which climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind. ↗

— Joseph Conrad

#climb #except #lawful #mankind #miseries

As children we recognized that we belonged to an unusual, even exceptional, family, but the effect was different on each of us. ↗

— David Rockefeller

#children #different #each #effect #even

I learned to draw everything except glamorous women. No matter how much I tried to make them look sexy, they always ended up looking silly... or like somebody's mother. ↗

— Norman Rockwell

#draw #ended #everything #except #glamorous

The thing that makes you exceptional, if you are at all, is inevitably that which must also make you lonely. ↗

— Lorraine Hansberry

#exceptional #inevitably #lonely #make #makes