#except

Scientists and scholars should constitute themselves as an international NGO of exceptional authority. ↗

— John Charles Polanyi

#constitute #exceptional #international #scholars #scientists

If you are going to achieve excellence in big things, you develop the habit in little matters. Excellence is not an exception, it is a prevailing attitude. ↗

— Colin Powell

#achieve #big #big things #develop #excellence

I don't know that there is much the United States can do except work with the international community. ↗

— Colin Powell

#except #i #international #international community #know

Now between the meanings of words and their sounds there is ordinarily no discoverable relation except one of accident; and it is therefore miraculous, to the mystic, when words which make sense can also make a uniform objective structure of accents and rhymes. ↗

— John C. Ransom

#accident #also #between #discoverable #except

My daughter is exceptionally chatty. I'm not a braggy mother but she is gifted - with the personality of a Russian gymnastics coach. ↗

— Caroline Rhea

#daughter #exceptionally #gifted #gymnastics #i

We seldom find any person of good sense, except those who share our opinions. ↗

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

#except #find #good #good sense #opinions

The federal government has sponsored research that has produced a tomato that is perfect in every respect, except that you can't eat it. We should make every effort to make sure this disease, often referred to as 'progress', doesn't spread. ↗

— Andy Rooney

#eat #effort #every #except #federal

There is nothing deep down inside us except what we have put there ourselves. ↗

— Richard Rorty

#deep #deep down #down #except #inside

I must confess, my Spanish is not so good - except I read a little, so I started with the English but then determined that it would have to be in Spanish. ↗

— George Crumb

#determined #english #except #good #i

A politician is an arse upon which everyone has sat except a man. ↗

— e. e. cummings

#everyone #except #man #politician #sat