Extinction is the rule. Survival is the exception.

“Coincidence is the exception, not the rule.”

— Soheir Khashoggi

I've always believed that humans are good at heart. But there's always the exception.

— Amy Carlson

Society understands the architecture of academia and knows there are relevant qualifications in different fields, and the media accepts the idea of specialisations and…

— Jay Griffiths

I really can't live without my In-N-Out burgers. Honestly, I can't. Even when I'm doing the whole no-carb thing occasionally, I make an exception…

— Nate Berkus

Alright, all right," I said. "What if I tell you a story, instead?" Highlanders loved stories, and Jamie was no exception. "Oh, aye, "…

— Diana Gabaldon

No physiologist who calmly considers the question in connection with the general truths of his science, can long resist the conviction that different parts…

— Herbert Spencer

But Margaret went less abroad, among machinery and men; saw less of power in its public effect, and, as it happened, she was thrown…

— Elizabeth Gaskell

My Chinese zodiac is a dog. But I'm an exception because of how much I love cats.

— Jason Wu

I don't know if I know anyone, with the exception of the early inventors of rock music [who wasn't influenced by something].

— Bruce Springsteen

Child actors going on to become adult actors never really works, apart from a few. Jodie Foster was the exception.

— Mark Lester

I have no admiration for culture. I have no reserve knowledge, no provisional knowledge. And everything that I learn, I learn for a particular…

— Gilles Deleuze

I have become convinced, through my studies, that the only way to achieve a safe, just and viable world is to live by the…

— Karen Armstrong

I will forever stick up for Catholics and Christians in general. With a small number of very horrible exceptions, they do play by the…

— Penn Jillette

“There never has been an artistic age, or an artistic people, since the beginning of the world. The artist has always been, and will…

— Oscar Wilde

Melancholy has ceased to be an individual phenomenon, an exception. It has become the class privilege of the wage earner, a mass state of…

— Gunter Grass