#except

There is an abiding beauty which may be appreciated by those who will see things as they are and who will ask for no reward except to see. ↗

— Vera Brittain

#ask #beauty #except #may #reward

I am in an adolescence in reverse, as mysterious as the first, except that this time I feel it as a decay of the odds that I might live for a while, that I can sleep it off. ↗

— Harold Brodkey

#am #decay #except #feel #first

But you've got to understand what the other guy is about, even if at the end of the process you decide that there is no ground with this man or woman except to fight them. ↗

— Lakhdar Brahimi

#decide #end #even #except #fight

I apologize for lying to you. I promise I won't deceive you except in matters of this sort. ↗

— Spiro T. Agnew

#deceive #except #i #lying #matters

Highly educated young people are tutored, taught and monitored in all aspects of their lives, except the most important, which is character building. When it comes to this, most universities leave them alone. ↗

— David Brooks

#aspects #building #character #comes #educated

I don't think I know a Scientologist except when I see one or two of their actors on the Hollywood screen. ↗

— Jerry Falwell

#hollywood #i #i see #know #scientologist