#except

We operate under a jury system in this country, and as much as we complain about it, we have to admit that we know of no better system, except possibly flipping a coin. ↗

— Dave Barry

#admit #better #coin #complain #country

Compromise, n. Such an adjustment of conflicting interests as gives each adversary the satisfaction of thinking he has got what he ought not to have, and is deprived of nothing except what was justly his due. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

#adversary #compromise #conflicting #deprived #due

Tightness gets in the way of everything, except tightness. ↗

— Jeff Bridges

#except #gets #way

In all the sciences except Psychology we deal with objects and their changes, and leave out of account as far as possible the mind which observes them. ↗

— Charles D. Broad

#as far as #changes #deal #except #far

Hemingway was a prisoner of his style. No one can talk like the characters in Hemingway except the characters in Hemingway. His style in the wildest sense finally killed him. ↗

— William Burroughs

#except #finally #hemingway #him #his

You can have a revolution wherever you like, except in a government office; even were the world to come to an end, you'd have to destroy the universe first and then government offices. ↗

— Karel Capek

#destroy #end #even #except #first

Nothing is a matter of life and death except life and death. ↗

— Angela Carter

#except #life #life and death #matter #nothing

I write my own quotes. Except this one. I obviously stole this from somebody really clever. ↗

— Brian Celio

#except #i #i write #my own #obviously

What is special about VOIP is that it's just another thing you can do on the Internet, whereas it is the only thing - or nearly the only thing with the exception of the dial-up modem and fax - that you can do on the public switched telephone network. ↗

— Vinton Cerf

#another #exception #fax #internet #just

'My country, right or wrong' is a thing no patriot would ever think of saying except in a desperate case. It is like saying 'My mother, drunk or sober.' ↗

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

#country #desperate #drunk #ever #except