Nothing induces me to read a novel except when I have to make money by writing about it. I detest them. Virginia Woolf
Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside them was superior to circumstance. Bruce Barton
Offense cuts you off from God. We separate ourselves from the pipeline. I've never seen anything block blessings from Heaven except offense. John Bevere
One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good reputation. Oscar Wilde
So I had the opportunity to do what the kids in the Hershey program do, except that the Hershey program lets them do it on such a larger scale, with the regional and national competitions. Rafer Johnson
Social media has lots of benefits, but compared to Christianity, it tends to group people by interests. Religion puts you with people who have nothing in common except that you're human. Alain de Botton
Tasmanian history is a study of human isolation unprecedented except in science fiction - namely, complete isolation from other humans for 10,000 years. Jared Diamond
The function of muscle is to pull and not to push, except in the case of the genitals and the tongue. Leonardo Da Vinci
The human body is strange and flawed and unpredictable. The human body has many secrets, and it does not divulge them to anyone, except those who have learned to wait. Paul Auster
The only thing that could spoil a day was people. People were always the limiters of happiness except for the very few that were as good as spring itself. Ernest Hemingway
The unfortunate thing about working for yourself is that you have the worst boss in the world. I work every day of the year except at Christmas, when I work a half day. David Eddings
There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread. Mahatma Gandhi
There is no lonelier man in death, except the suicide, than that man who has lived many years with a good wife and then outlived her. If two people love each other there can be no happy end to it. Ernest Hemingway