I hate banks. They do nothing positive for anybody except take care of themselves. They're first in with their fees and first out when there's trouble.

People meet in bars after work all over the world and talk about the great problems of life and death and the world and politics and they don't take themselves seriously. They can do nothing else except chat about these things in bars after work.

American influence in the world is certainly considerable but the United States does not control directly or indirectly the politics and economics of other societies as empires have always done save for a few special cases that turn out to be the exceptions that prove the rule.

We are naive and moralistic women. We are human beings who find politics a blight upon the human condition. And do not know how one copes with it except through politics.

I've rarely kept my distance from kind of - I don't know if we can call it politics but kind of civic engagement and that kind of thing except I tended to think 'Well do it yourself before you start telling other people what they should be doing.'

I have no consistency except in politics and that probably arises from my indifference to the subject altogether.

Principles have no real force except when one is well-fed.

It is a happy thing that there is no royal road to poetry. The world should know by this time that one cannot reach Parnassus except by flying thither.

I see no reason for calling my work poetry except that there is no other category in which to put it.

I never think about poetry except when I'm writing it. I mean my poetry.

I've written for every medium except poetry at which I suck.

Environmentalists hate sprawl - except when it comes to the size of their expansive pet legislation on Capitol Hill.

Several studies and a number of public statements by senior military and political personalities testify that - except for disputes between the present nuclear states - all military conflicts as well as threats to peace can be dealt with using conventional weapons.

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.

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

I've become sort of an accidental advocate for attachment parenting which is a style of parenting that... basically the way mammals parent and the way people have parented for pretty much all of human history except the last 200 years or so.

Self-preservation nature's first great law all the creatures except man doth awe.

Women by their nature are not exceptional chess players: they are not great fighters.

Man has demonstrated that he is master of everything except his own nature.

We cannot command Nature except by obeying her.

Except during the nine months before he draws his first breath no man manages his affairs as well as a tree does.

Everywhere in the world music enhances a hall with one exception: Carnegie Hall enhances the music.

Everything makes me nervous - except making films.

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