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During a political campaign everyone is concerned with what a candidate will do on this or that question if he is elected except the candidate; he's too busy wondering what he'll do if he isn't elected.
Everett Dirksen
Political Campaign
Political
Will
Busy
Too
Everyone
Except
He
Concerned
Question
Campaign
Wondering
Candidate
Elected
The only things standing between you and the compassionate, wise, and creative person you want to be are matters of choice. Your choice. No one can occupy your generosity except you.
Gary Zukav
You
Wise
Creative
Matters
Only
Except
No-One
Generosity
Between
Occupy
Person
Want
Choice
Your
Standing
Creative Person
Compassionate
Things
The dreamer can know no truth, not even about his dream, except by awaking out of it.
George Santayana
Truth
Dreams
Out
Dream
Dreamer
About
Except
Know
His
Even
Even though this is late in an election year, there is no way we can go forward except together and no way anybody can win except by serving the people's urgent needs. We cannot stand still or slip backwards. We must go forward now together.
Gerald R. Ford
Needs
Together
People
Win
Election
Backwards
Year
Late
Way
We Cannot
Slip
Though
Must
Except
Still
Go
Anybody
Cannot
Urgent
Stand
Forward
Even
Now
Serving
Every kind of music is good, except the boring kind.
Gioachino Rossini
Music
Good
Every
Kind
Boring
Except
Of the love or hatred God has for the English, I know nothing, but I do know that they will all be thrown out of France, except those who die there.
Joan of Arc
Love
God
Will
Hatred
Nothing
France
Those
Out
Except
Thrown
Know
Die
English
Who
There are certain wicked people in the world that you can't deal with except by force.
John Keegan
You
People
World
Wicked
Except
Force
Deal
Certain
All parts of the human body get tired eventually - except the tongue.
Konrad Adenauer
Tired
Except
Parts
Get
Human
Human Body
Body
Eventually
Tongue
In all my life, I have never been free. I have never been able to do anything with freedom, except in the field of my writing.
Langston Hughes
Life
Freedom
Writing
Free
My Life
Field
All My Life
Able
Except
Never
Been
Anything
The terrorists thought they would change my aims and stop my ambitions, but nothing changed in my life except this: weakness, fear and hopelessness died. Strength, power and courage were born.
Malala Yousafzai
Life
Strength
Change
Courage
Fear
Thought
My Life
Power
Ambition
Nothing
Changed
Aims
Weakness
Would
Hopelessness
Born
Except
Terrorists
Were
Died
Stop
Show business is just like high school, except you get paid.
Martin Mull
You
Business
School
High
High School
Except
Like
Get
Just
Paid
Show
Show Business
You can put anything into words, except your own life.
Max Frisch
Life
You
Words
Own
Except
Put
Anything
Your
I did used to have nightmares about the idea that when I die, there is a spark of consciousness which basically creates the world. 'Is the world going to disappear if this spark of consciousness disappears? And how do I know it won't? How do I know there's anything there except what I'm conscious of?'
Noam Chomsky
World
About
Except
Disappear
Disappears
Idea
Know
How
Did
Die
Going
Anything
Which
Spark
Creates
Used
Conscious
Consciousness
Basically
Nightmares
People seem to know about May Day everywhere except where it began, here in the United States of America. That's because those in power have done everything they can to erase its real meaning.
Noam Chomsky
Day
People
Power
Everything
Everywhere
States
Those
About
Seem
Except
Know
Because
Real
Erase
Began
Real Meaning
America
Done
May
Where
Meaning
United
United States
United States Of America
Here
I think I am typical in believing that the Peace Corps trained us brilliantly and then did little more except send us into the bush. It was not a bad way of running things.
Paul Theroux
Peace
Think
Typical
Way
Corps
Bad
Running
More
Except
Bad Way
Am
Trained
Did
Send
Little
Bush
Then
Us
Peace Corps
Believing
Things
Brilliantly
The one thing I could do was voices and impersonations and weird characters, and there was really no call for that, except on Saturday Night Live.
Phil Hartman
Live
Characters
One Thing
Voices
Except
Could
Weird
Call
The One Thing
Really
Saturday
Thing
Saturday Night
Saturday Night Live
Night
Everything is ironic to me. There are moments I find hysterical, but I'm probably the only one who would find that, except for a few people.
River Phoenix
Me
People
Few
Everything
Would
Find
Only
Except
Hysterical
Ironic
Few People
Who
Moments
The Gross National Product measures neither our wit nor our courage, neither our wisdom nor our learning, neither our compassion nor our devotion to our country. It measures everything, in short, except that which makes life worthwhile, and it can tell us everything about America - except whether we are proud to be Americans.
Robert Kennedy
Life
Wisdom
Learning
Courage
Compassion
Country
National
Our
Everything
Tell
Neither
Worthwhile
About
Except
Wit
Devotion
Makes
Proud
Nor
America
American
Short
Whether
Which
Us
Product
Gross
Measures
No man but a blockhead ever wrote except for money.
Samuel Johnson
Man
Money
Except
Wrote
Blockhead
Ever
The Haitian people are gentle and lovable except for their enormous and unconscious cruelty.
Zora Neale Hurston
People
Cruelty
Enormous
Except
Unconscious
Haitian
Gentle
Lovable
I have nothing to declare except my genius.
Oscar Wilde
Genius
Nothing
Except
Declare
I've never seen the point of the sea, except where it meets the land. The shore has a point. The sea has none.
Alan Bennett
Seen
Meets
Point
Except
Never
None
Shore
Where
Land
Sea
When I was younger, I wasn't concentrating on good days. I was managing a career and trying to have a good year. It would always 'lead' to something, which never leads to anything except death, where everything leads to. And then as I got older, and then I had my kids and everything, I began to appreciate a great Wednesday.
Albert Brooks
Death
Good
Great
Year
Older
Everything
Kids
Would
Something
Wednesday
Except
Lead
Never
Had
Leads
Days
Concentrating
Always
Got
Began
Trying
Managing
Where
Anything
Which
Younger
Then
Career
Appreciate
Nothing seems at first sight less important than the outward form of human actions, yet there is nothing upon which men set more store: they grow used to everything except to living in a society which has not their own manners.
Alexis de Tocqueville
Men
First
Important
Own
Nothing
Manners
Living
Society
Everything
Sight
Seems
More
Except
Outward
Than
Human
Human Actions
Store
Form
Which
Used
Less
Actions
Grow
Set
I put myself on the same level as everyone else around me - from the directrice to the workman, everyone. Except my pets - they are the Kings; you must treat them like royalty.
Azzedine Alaia
Myself
Me
You
Treat
Else
Everyone
Everyone Else
Must
Kings
Except
Put
Like
Around
Same
Same Level
Them
Workman
Pets
Level
Royalty
Two kinds of ballplayers aren't worth a darn: One that never does what he's told, and one who does nothin' except what he's told.
Bum Phillips
Worth
Kinds
Darn
Except
Never
He
Does
Nothin
Who
Two
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