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The other world is hidden in this world. The Buddha is asleep in the Zorba. It has to be awakened. And nobody can awaken you except life itself.
— Rajneesh
I'm no good for anything except taking the world apart and putting it together again (and I manage the latter less and less frequently).
— Jacques Derrida
The world was a merciless place. Hard and cruel. Except when you found someone to trust and love. Life, however fleeting, possessed meaning then.
— Sophie Jordan
Gringotts was the safest place in the world for something you wanted to hide - except perhaps Hogwarts.
— J.K. Rowling
There is nothing impossible in all the world except that the heart of man is wanting in resolution.
— Confucius
I didn't feel like I fit in anywhere, except with Alex. He was home; he was everything that was right with my world.
— Keary Taylor
There isn't any hell or heaven except for how we relate to our world. Hell is just resistance to life.
— Pema Chodron
This world is nothing except it tend to another.
— George Herbert
Everybody lives in this world, except lovers! They live in an isolated small place called 'You and I' planet!
— Mehmet Murat Ildan
I don't know if the music moves forward anymore. I haven't heard anything for years - except refinement - coming out of the jazz world.
— Paul Smoker
You can put up with everything in this world except not with a long stretch of beautiful days.
— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
It has never at any time been possible to fit the resurrection of Jesus into any world view except a world view of which it is the basis.
— Lesslie Newbigin
Oh all the world is a little queer, except thee and me, and sometimes, I wonder about thee.
— Keri Hulme
Polonium is, frankly, pretty useless, and no country in the world except Russia bothered to refine it by the late 2000s.
— Sam Kean
5Who is it that overcomes the world except the one who believes t that Jesus is the Son of God?
— Anonymous
Because I know you, Sarah. You can forgive everyone in the world except for yourself. I wanted the truth, not your rose-colored version of it.
— Anonymous
I have traveled to all the continents except for one, and I know what is going on out there ... The world is rapidly becoming Ahmadinejadized.
— Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
If I could get back my youth, I'd do anything in the world except get up early, take exercise or be respectable.
— Oscar Wilde
A person who thinks all the time has nothing to think about except thoughts. So he loses touch with Reality, and lives in a world of illusion.
— Alan Watts
I was never afraid of anything in the world except the dentist.
— Taylor Caldwell
You must pay for everything in this world one way and another. There is nothing free except the Grace of God. You cannot earn that or deserve it.
— Charles Portis
Thought is powerless, except it make something outside of itself: the thought which conquers the world is not contemplative but active.
— William Kingdon Clifford
Nihilists expend everything and everyone except themselves. They are the indispensable men, without whom the world might try to live almost happily.
— Helen Clark MacInnes
I know how to live here, I know how everything smells, and tastes, and is. What could I ever search for in the world, except this again?
— Peter S. Beagle
A picture-perfect moment, except for the fact that we were about to die and the world was going to end.
— Rick Riordan
I can smell you," he groaned against her ear as he ran his fangs up her throat. "The most beautiful thing in the world - except for your taste.
— J.R. Ward
Of all that was attempted this side of nothingness, is anything more pathetic than this world, except for the idea which conceived it?
— Emil Cioran
She could do anything with dynamite, except eat it.
— Clare Mulley
Christ cannot be seen except in the spiritual life which the world does not possess. No
— John Calvin
I always wanted to show the world that art is everywhere, except it has to pass through a creative mind.
— Louise Berliawsky Nevelson
I think 'The Lost World' could've been a successful movie except for the fact that it pre-dated the good special effects and computer graphics.
— John Rhys-Davies
Please, I know nothing of the world, except my father is lost in it.
— Gregory Maguire
I prefer reading to writing. Reading changes your world view. Writing changes absolutely nothing. Except, of course, when it makes you rich.
— Michel Houellebecq
The world can forgive practically anything except people who mind their own business.
— Margaret Mitchell
I have learned that everyone else in the world is boring except you.
— Julie Anne Long
Writing a story is like ruling the world. Except it's even better. How many rulers out there that you know can tell people what they say?
— VanillaCreamPie8888
A strange lot this, to be dropped down in a world of barbarians - men who see clearly enough the barbarity of all ages except their own.
— Ernest Howard Crosby
It is too little to call man a little world; Except God, man is a diminutive to nothing.
— John Donne
We possess nothing in the world - a mere chance can strip us of everything - except the power to say 'I.
— Simone Weil
So in the world of Enlightenment, things are just things, except they're not things. We're in nirvana. There is no debating team.
— Frederick Lenz
Reason was nowhere, time was an immovable object nailed high on the wall, except where the world kept shop.
— Mae West
Except the Christ be born again tonight
In dreams of all men, saints and sons of shame,
The world will never see his kingdom bright.
— Vachel Lindsay
In dreams of all men, saints and sons of shame,
The world will never see his kingdom bright.
— Vachel Lindsay
Everything in the world starts small and then becomes bigger - except bad things. They start big, and then get smaller.
— Warren St. John
There is no hope for the aching world except through the narrow and straight path of nonviolence.
— Mahatma Gandhi
I believe it is impossible to make sense of life in this world except through art.
— Daniel Pinkwater
Nothing is really new in this high-tech, globally wired world, except how frequently it is.
— David Allen
Doubt everything except your conscience, even then test the waters, for much brainwashing has gone out into the world
— Dara Reidyr
In this world everything changes except good deeds and bad deeds; these follow you as the shadow follows the body.
— Bhikkhu Bodhi
I care nothing for all the political parties in the world except as they stand for justice.
— Anna Howard Shaw
[E]ven if the whole world should rise up to destroy us, nothing will happen except that God, in whom we have put our hope, will allow.
— Vincent De Paul
Death is the Santa Claus of the adult world. Except Santa Claus in reverse. The guy who takes all the presents away.
— Maria Dahvana Headley
We feel too much. React too much. Say too much. Need too much. So says the world. Except the world is wrong.
— Anonymous
Nothing in the world is certain except for death and taxes.
— Benjamin Franklin
What makes you so arrogant to think that Christ's Atonement is for everyone else in the history of the world except you?
— Carla Kelly
My parents didn't treat me as if there was anything in the world I couldn't do, except be unkind.
— Kristin Hersh
Music is the only form of magic in this world, except maybe for love. Not that I'd know much about love.
— J.J. Knight
I'm part of nobody's world except Brezhnev's.
— Dan Rather
Mum is a photographer, and Dad does world music and plays almost every instrument except for drums.
— Lykke Li
Nowadays are the world doesn't need words, but lives which cannot be explained except through faith & love for Christ's poor
— Pedro Arrupe
There came into the world an unlimited abundance of everything people need. But people need everything except unlimited abundance.
— Karel Capek
Sonny, don't you tell me what's worthwhile
true love is the best thing in the world, except for cough drops. Everybody knows that. — William Goldman
true love is the best thing in the world, except for cough drops. Everybody knows that. — William Goldman
My migraine aura was now so severe that the world on the left had ceased to exist, except as an intermittent yellow flash.
— Hilary Mantel
Nowhere was good. Except with Eric. He had both perfumed and poisoned her entire world.
— Maureen Johnson
Why, except as a means of livelihood, a man should desire to act on the stage when he has the whole world to act in, is not clear to me.
— George Bernard Shaw
Anthropology is the science which tells us that people are the same the whole world over - except when they are different.
— Nancy Banks-Smith
I didn't know how I felt, except confused and bewildered, and very, very young. And the world all about us was wise, and old, so old.
— V.C. Andrews
I can love the whole world except my neighbor.
— Dada Dharmadhikari
Naked a man comes into the world and naked he leaves it, after all is said and done he leaves nothing except the good deeds he leaves behind.
— Rashi
I look at the world and my own life as if I were a stranger. I wish for nothing, except perhaps that time would stop.
— Amin Maalouf
Life is the unknown and the unknowable, except that we are put into this world to eat, to stay alive as lone as we possibly can.
— Richard Bach
The world of literature is a world where there is no reality except that of the human imagination.
— Northrop Frye
The nation state is a relatively modern idea, and I don't think we're getting a lot out of it except for flags and World Cups.
— Russell Brand
This time the destruction was so complete ...
That nothing at all was left in the world
Except one man
And one woman
And one flower — James Thurber
That nothing at all was left in the world
Except one man
And one woman
And one flower — James Thurber
I don't want the world to give me anything for my books except money enough to save me from the temptation to write only for money.
— George Eliot
"I do not ask for any crown
But that which all may win;
Nor try to conquer any world
Except the world within." — Louisa May Alcott
But that which all may win;
Nor try to conquer any world
Except the world within." — Louisa May Alcott
Most big companies don't like you very much, except hotels, airlines and Microsoft, which don't like you at all.
— Bill Bryson
There are two worlds: the world where nothing is sacred except money, an the other world, where everything is sacred.
— Ron Kauk
There is no stronger craving in the world than that of the rich for titles, except that of the titled for riches.
— Hesketh Pearson
When I shot the movie, I wasn't gonna think about anything except for being the biggest knucklehead in the world.
— Pauly Shore
It's neat how money smells nothing like anything in the world except money, just like cardboard.
— Augusten Burroughs
There is little for the great part of the history of the world except the bitter tears of pity and the hot tears of wrath.
— Woodrow Wilson
Writing is communication, not self-expression. Nobody in this world wants to read your diary except your mother.
— Richard Peck
No labourer in the world is expected to work for room, board, and love -except the housewife.
— Letty Cottin Pogrebin
By the time I was 9, I had the conviction that everybody in the world was an artist except plumbers or people who delivered groceries.
— Jacques Barzun
Like a midwife, I make my living bringing new babies into the world, except that mine are new advertising campaigns.
— David Ogilvy
For the moment I can think of nothing - except that I am a sentient being stabbed by the miracle of these waters that reflect a forgotten world.
— Henry Miller
God is never in the world in any way except in his absolute transcendence of it.
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer