(verb) To exclude; to specify as being an exception.
"I haven't any right to criticize books, and I don't do it except when I hate them."
"There is no hope of joy except in human relations."
"None of us will ever accomplish anything excellent or commanding except when he listens to this whisper which is heard by him alone."
"Now the hour to part has come. I go to die, you go to live. Which of us goes to the better lot is known to no one, except the god."
"I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers."
"But nothing is so strange when one is in love (and what was this except being in love?) as the complete indifference of other people."
"Love is heavy and light, bright and dark, hot and cold, sick and healthy, asleep and awake- its everything except what it is!"
"We are like people looking for something they have in their hands all the time; we're looking in all directions except at the thing we want, which is probably why we haven't found it."
"There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread."
"Look to nothing, not even for a moment except to reason."
"There is nothing to fear except fear it's self."
"All people on the planet are children, except for a very few. No one is grown up except those free of desire."