#except

And time itself? Time was a never-ending medium that stretched into the future and the past - except there was no future and no past, but an infinite number of brackets, extending either way, each bracket enclosing its single phase of the Universe. ↗

— Clifford D. Simak

#brackets #each #either #enclosing #except

Anthropology is the science which tells us that people are the same the whole world over - except when they are different. ↗

— Nancy Banks Smith

#different #except #over #people #same

Writing is the only thing I've ever done with persistence, except for being married. ↗

— Richard Ford

#done #ever #except #i #married

Except for the young or very happy, I can't say I am sorry for anyone who dies. ↗

— William Makepeace Thackeray

#anyone #dies #except #happy #i

You can do anything with bayonets except sit on them. ↗

— Thomas Hardy

#bayonets #except #sit #them #you

I am, I think the only surviving member of the original Battle Creek church. The church was disbanded, with the exception of thirteen members, in 1870. ↗

— John Harvey Kellogg

#battle #church #creek #disbanded #exception

I had nothing to offer anybody except my own confusion. ↗

— Jack Kerouac

#confusion #except #had #i #my own

Whenever someone dies everyone says, I love that guy, except for Jeffrey Dahmer. ↗

— Pauly Shore

#everyone #except #guy #i #i love

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