But the power of instruction is seldom of much efficacy except in those happy dispositions where it is almost superfluous.

I say the law should be blind to race gender and sexual orientation just as it claims to be blind to wealth and power. There should be no specially protected groups of any kind except for children the severely disabled and the elderly whose physical frailty demands society's care.

Power is no blessing in itself except when it is used to protect the innocent.

It is a paradox that every dictator has climbed to power on the ladder of free speech. Immediately on attaining power each dictator has suppressed all free speech except his own.

Except our own thoughts there is nothing absolutely in our power.

The power of man has grown in every sphere except over himself.

There is no meaning to life except the meaning man gives his life by the unfolding of his powers.

The World Cup tournament overall and naturally the new stadiums at its heart are the ideal platform to portray Germany as a positive and exceptional location and above all of course as a highly capable economic location.

A lasting solution to this problem will have an exceptionally positive influence foremost on the peoples of Palestine and Israel as well as on the region and the international community.

Positive healthy loving relationships in your twenties... I don't know if anyone would disagree with it: I think they're the exception not the norm. People are either playing house really aggressively because they're scared of what an uncertain time it is or they're avoiding commitment altogether.

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.

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.

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.