Exceptionally Quotes (page 67)

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• future
• past
• little

For many of us, the happiest future is one that's precisely like the past, except a little better Seth Godin

• world
• except
• exceptional

Gringotts was the safest place in the world for something you wanted to hide? except perhaps Hogwarts. J. K. Rowling

• moments
• evening
• look

Look to nothing, not even for a moment except to reason. Marcus Aurelius

• humanity
• animal
• animals

What is human behavior, except trying to prove that we're not animals? Doug Coupland

• love
• boys
• use

My boy, that was a TV show. I used a stunt double. I always use a stunt double. Except in love scenes. I insist on doing those myself. William Shatner

• forgiveness
• unhappy
• die

Forgive me, I guess I am off in the head, but I mean, except for a quickie piece of ass it wouldn't matter to me if all the people in the world died. Yes, I know it's not nice. But I'd be as contended as a snail; it was, after all, the people who had made me unhappy. Charles Bukowski

• drinking
• fate
• support

There is a huge body of evidence to support the notion that me and the police were put on this earth to do extremely different things and never to mingle professionally with each other, except at official functions, when we all wear ties and drink heavily and whoop it up like the natural, good-humored wild boys that we know in our hearts that we are..These occasions are rare, but they happen? despite the forked tongue of fate that has put us forever on different paths... Hunter S. Thompson

• learning
• warrior
• evening

We learned not to waste ammo even on warriors except in self-protection Robert A. Heinlein

• made
• exceptional
• contain

I have never been contained except I made the prison. Mari Evans

• business
• evening
• comforting

I won't close down a business of subnormal profitability merely to add a fraction of a point to our corporate returns. I also feel it inappropriate for even an exceptionally profitable company to fund an operation once it appears to have unending losses in prospect. Adam Smith would disagree with my first proposition and Karl Marx would disagree with my second; the middle ground is the only position that leaves me comfortable. Warren Buffett

• eating
• hardships
• hardship

There is hardship in everything except eating pancakes. Charles Spurgeon

• love
• true
• hope

It's a lovely day today. So whatever you've got to do. You've got a lovely day to do it in, that's true. And I hope whatever you've got to do. Is something that can be done by two. For I'd really like to stay. It's a lovely day today. And whatever you've got to do. I'd be so happy to be doing it with you. But if you've got something that must be done. And it can only be done by one. There is nothing more to say. Except it's a lovely day for saying. It's a lovely day! Irving Berlin

• mindfulness
• lost
• personality

If one has given oneself utterly, watching the beloved sleep can be a vile experience. Perhaps some of you have known that paralysis, staring down at features closed to your enquiry, locked away from you where you can never, ever go, into the other’s mind. As I say, for us who have given ourselves, that is a horror. One knows, in those moments, that one does not exist, except in relation to that face, that personality. Therefore, when that face is closed down, that personality is lost in its... Clive Barker

• learning
• black
• love

I may repeat 'Do as you would be done by' till I am black in the face, but I cannot really carry it out till I love my neighbor as myself: and I cannot learn to love my neighbor as myself till I learn to love God; and I cannot learn to love God except by learning to obey him. C. S. Lewis

• small
• good
• greatness

Never give in, never, never, never, in nothing great or small, large or petty, never give in except to convictions of honour and good sense. Never Yield to a force; never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy. Winston Churchill