#except

When it is time to get to work, I go away completely and don't do anything except the work. And that can be 16 hours a day. ↗

— Jeanette Winterson

#away #completely #day #except #get

Nothing induces me to read a novel except when I have to make money by writing about it. I detest them. ↗

— Virginia Woolf

#detest #except #i #induces #make

I don't think voters give a hoot about the character of their political advisors, except to the extent that character reflects on the candidates. ↗

— Bob Woodward

#candidates #character #except #extent #give

Winston Churchill aroused this nation in heroic fashion to save civilisation in World War Two. We have everything we need except political will, but political will is a renewable resource. ↗

— Al Gore

#churchill #civilisation #everything #except #fashion

As human beings, we are vulnerable to confusing the unprecedented with the improbable. In our everyday experience, if something has never happened before, we are generally safe in assuming it is not going to happen in the future, but the exceptions can kill you and climate change is one of those exceptions. ↗

— Al Gore

#before #beings #change #climate #climate change

The truth is, I'd never seen a Cary Grant film. Since then I have watched his stuff and it's astounding, but I don't see any similarity between us. Except for the fact that I'm told he used to wear ladies' underwear, which is something I also do. ↗

— Hugh Grant

#any #astounding #between #cary #cary grant

Although a soldier by profession, I have never felt any sort of fondness for war, and I have never advocated it, except as a means of peace. ↗

— Ulysses S. Grant

#although #any #except #felt #fondness

I have never advocated war except as a means of peace. ↗

— Ulysses S. Grant

#advocated #except #i #means #never

If you're doing well, you're a target, nobody's interested in you except how you can be of use to them. ↗

— Richard Grant

#except #how #interested #nobody #target

Melancholy has ceased to be an individual phenomenon, an exception. It has become the class privilege of the wage earner, a mass state of mind that finds its cause wherever life is governed by production quotas. ↗

— Gunther Grass

#cause #ceased #class #earner #exception