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Don’t let this choice [of a marriage partner] ever be made except with earnest, searching, prayerful consideration, confiding in parents, [and] in faithful, mature, trustworthy friends. Richard L. Evans
There was nowhere to sit except the bunk, which was covered with rotting food, and a wooden stool, upon which sat a large fur-covered lump—an old cheese, perhaps, or a dead cat. Dave Barry
After...The seas have dried out. The trains have come to a shrieking holt. The hounds of the abyss cease to howl. The prisons have closed their doors. The pigs have no one to arrest except themselves. The drugs no longer have an effect. When it's all over. All I'll remember is you Henry Rollins
The time when there is nothing at all in your soul except a cry for help maybe just the time wheb God can't give it... Perhaps your own reiterated cries deafen you to the voice you hoped to hear. C. S. Lewis
I have no advice for anybody; except to, you know, be awake enough to see where you are at any given time, and how that is beautiful, and has poetry inside. Even places you hate. Jeff Buckley
I do not believe, from what I have been told about this people, that there is anything barbarous or savage about them, except that we all call barbarous anything that is contrary to our own habits. Michel de Montaigne
Oscar Wilde quote: "All sins, except a sin against itself, Love should forgive...."
All sins, except a sin against itself, Love should forgive. All lives, save loveless lives, true Love should pardon. Oscar Wilde
Why be uptight about bowel movements and sex? We all have sex. We all have penises -- except for those of us who have vaginas. Howard Stern
John Wooden quote: "Five years from now, you’re the same person except for the..."
Five years from now, you’re the same person except for the people you’ve met and the books you’ve read. John Wooden
I don't know. I only think the Austrians will not stop when they have won a victory. It is in defeat that we become Christian."The Austrians are Christians-- except for the Bosnians."I don't mean technically Christian. I mean like Our Lord."He said nothing."We are all gentler now because we are beaten. How would our Lord have been f Peter had rescued him in the Garden? Ernest Hemingway
Only then does he realize what he has done to Mirabelle, how wanting a square inch of her and not all of her has damaged them both, and how he cannot justify his actions except that, well, it was life. Steve Martin
Who what am I? My answer: I am everyone everything whose being-in-the-world affected was affected by mine. I am anything that happens after I’ve gone which would not have happened if I had not come. Nor am I particularly exceptional in this matter; each ‘I’, every one of the now-six-hundred-million-plus of us, contains a similar multitude. I repeat for the last time: to understand me, you’ll have to swallow the world. Salman Rushdie
Oscar Wilde quote: "I must say... that I ruined myself: and that nobody, great or..."
I must say... that I ruined myself: and that nobody, great or small, can be ruined except by his own hand. Oscar Wilde
Evelyn Waugh quote: "These memories, which are my life--for we possess nothing..."
These memories, which are my life--for we possess nothing certainly except the past--were always with me. Evelyn Waugh
There are some good things to be said about walking. Not many, but some. Walking takes longer, for example, than any other known form of locomotion except crawling. Thus it stretches time and prolongs life. Life is already too short to waste on speed. I have a friend who's always in a hurry; he never gets anywhere. Walking makes the world much bigger and thus more interesting. You have time to observe the details. The utopian technologists foresee a future for us in which distance is... Edward Abbey

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