#except

Some genres I'm not a huge fan of but there are always exceptions that break the rules. There are always a few people doing it in a way weird enough to grab my attention. ↗

— Ville Valo

#attention #break #doing #enough #exceptions

In the first years after 1989, films were partly financed from the state's budget as well as by public television. Still, except for a few special cases, most films are made this way. ↗

— Andrzej Wajda

#budget #cases #except #few #films

What is youth except a man or woman before it is ready or fit to be seen? ↗

— Evelyn Waugh

#except #fit #man #ready #seen

Nothing except a battle lost can be half so melancholy as a battle won. ↗

— Arthur Wellesley

#except #half #lost #melancholy #nothing

There's no reality except the one contained within us. That's why so many people live an unreal life. They take images outside them for reality and never allow the world within them to assert itself. ↗

— Hermann Hesse

#assert #contained #except #images #itself

Exceptional men do not hold their experiences to be out of the ordinary or of interest to anyone else. Unlike the trodden fungus-men, they are not so ignorantly and presumptuously self-absorbed. They are nobody and they know it. They shun notice. They are exceedingly rare. ↗

— Nick Tosches

#humility #men #experience

The Open Road goes to the used-car lot. ↗

— Louis Simpson

#capitalism #freedom #frontier #individualism #liberalism

Jealousy shows weakness and we must be strong to except ourselves for who we truly are. ↗

— Sarah van Waterschoot

#strength #jealousy

So much American science fiction is parochial -- not as true now as it was years ago, but the assumption is one culture in the future, more or less like ours, and with the same ideals, the same notions of how to do things, just bigger and flashier technology. Well, you know darn well it doesn't work that way... ↗

— Poul Anderson

#future #science-fiction #science

There are always exceptions to every generalization. [A Christian Epilogue] ↗

— John B. Cobb Jr.

#generalizations #r-alan-woods #r-alan-woods