Sentence examples for except yourself from inspiring English sources
Always remember: you've nothing to give the world that anyone else can't give... except yourself.
Mystery-free, they leave you nothing to be conscious of except yourself, affected by their presence.
But the punk stance – that everyone else deals in bullshit except yourself – rarely stands up to scrutiny.
Her letters are marvels of frankness and self-abasement: "God knows I never sought anything in you except yourself; I wanted simply you, nothing of yours.
Isn't it a fact that in the circle around Hitler there was almost no one who would stand up and tell him that the war was lost, except yourself?
We all like to believe that narcissistic qualities are evident in others, never ourselves (bear in mind that a classic narcissistic trait is to attribute a fault to everyone except yourself).
"Of all my favorite authors, not one has drawn a tear in favour of my miserable black brethren," Ignatius Sancho wrote in a letter to the novelist Laurence Sterne, "excepting yourself...
The huge number of people who wept, she thinks, was brought on by this staged situation in which "there is nowhere to go except in yourself.
Joyce Carol Oates 1 Don't try to anticipate an "ideal reader" – there may be one, but he/she is reading someone else. 2 Don't try to anticipate an "ideal reader" – except for yourself perhaps, sometime in the future.
She had begun seeing a psychiatrist, Dr. Boigon, and "one fascinating thing I am beginning to get through my thick head," she wrote ambiguously to Allan and Mariclare about her therapy sessions, "is that it doesn't matter what you do... except to yourself".
