#except

If you're doing well, you're a target, nobody's interested in you except how you can be of use to them. ↗

— Richard Grant

#except #how #interested #nobody #target

Melancholy has ceased to be an individual phenomenon, an exception. It has become the class privilege of the wage earner, a mass state of mind that finds its cause wherever life is governed by production quotas. ↗

— Gunther Grass

#cause #ceased #class #earner #exception

They say I am a regulator and I think it is just an effort not to comply with the decree. I do not do anything except what the decree requires me to do. ↗

— Harold H. Greene

#anything #comply #decree #effort #except

Probably the only place where a man can feel really secure is in a maximum security prison, except for the imminent threat of release. ↗

— Germaine Greer

#feel #imminent #imminent threat #man #maximum

Don't listen to what anybody says except the people who encourage you. If it's what you want to do and it's within yourself, then keep going and try to do it for the rest of your life. ↗

— Jake Gyllenhaal

#encourage #except #going #keep #keep going

A wedding is just like a funeral except that you get to smell your own flowers. ↗

— Grace Hansen

#except #flowers #funeral #get #just

Actually, I don't think there's anyone that represents the artists, except the artists themselves. ↗

— Isaac Hanson

#anyone #artists #except #i #represents

No man can be a politician, except he be first a historian or a traveller; for except he can see what must be, or what may be, he is no politician. ↗

— James Harrington

#first #historian #man #may #must

Segregation never brought anyone anything except trouble. ↗

— Paul Harris

#anything #brought #except #never #segregation

Every man, in his own opinion, forms an exception to the ordinary rules of morality. ↗

— William Hazlitt

#every man #exception #forms #his #man