Exception Quotes · Page 10

I am a historian. With the exception of being a wife and mother, it is who I am. And there is nothing…

— Doris Kearns Goodwin

Chirren [children] is the most dangerous creatures on the earth, with the exception of young girls between the ages of fifteen and…

— Walter Mosley

There is nothing about an individual as important as his IQ, except possibly his morals,

— Lewis Terman

Equality means equality for all- no exceptions, no 'yes, buts', no asterisked footnotes imposing limits.

— Hubert H. Humphrey

As you get older, you suffer fools less easily. That's why there's all those cranky character actors. I'm an exception. I'm a…

— Willem Dafoe

Of all the wonders of nature, a tree in summer is perhaps the most remarkable; with the possible exception of a moose…

— Woody Allen

If you're going to generalize about women, you'll find yourself up to here in exceptions.

— Dolores Hitchens

The pace of Swedish crime fiction is slower - Stieg Larsson's the exception. And I think we use the environment more.

— Camilla Lackberg

The lives of most authors - even, or perhaps especially, the great ones - are necessarily a catalogue of tedious inwardness and…

— Paul Di Filippo

You know, I get frustrated with our country's administration, which is really the people who are not acknowledging global warming. I mean,…

— Jerry Greenfield

I like extremely effeminate dogs like terriers or schnauzers. I make an exception for giant schnauzers and big poodles. Basically, I like…

— Jonathan Meades

My patriotism is not an exclusive thing. It is all embracing. The conception of my patriotism is nothing if it is not…

— Mahatma Gandhi

It will be enough to recall in th is sense that almost all the Countries arose, centuries ago, through cruel conquests. With…

— Chico Xavier

The one great exception to the apathy on reunification is, naturally enough, Berlin. Encircled by the hostile Soviet Zone for ten years,…

— J. Anthony Lukas

Few husbands (and the longer I observe, the more I am convinced of the truth of what I am about to say,…

— Fanny Fern

That's kind of the nature of the profession I'm in. It's frustrating. Things don't go your way, and I was no exception,…

— Will Arnett

The main reason for civilization is that life is more comfortable. In a way, houses are there to protect us from rain,…

— Pipilotti Rist

In truth, philosophy is the mode of thought shaped by the most radical form of prejudice: the passion of being-in-the-world. With the…

— Peter Sloterdijk

A lot of people fear death because they think that so overwhelming an experience has to be painful, but I've seen quite…

— Lewis Thomas

Everyone knows how to love,because we are all born with that gift.Some people have a natural talent for it but the majority…

— Paulo Coelho

In printmaking, I essentially use the same process as in painting with one important exception ... to try, with sensitivity to the…

— Robert Motherwell

The greatest economic minds of the 19th century, all of them without exception, considered economic growth as a temporary necessity. When all…

— Zygmunt Bauman

Instead of recognizing the State as ‘the common enemy of all well-disposed, industrious and decent men,’ the run of mankind, with rare…

— Albert J. Nock

... we have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing…

— Hannah Arendt

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

There are no exceptions to the rule that everybody likes to be an exception to the rule.

— Charles Osgood

If somebody sent me a good script, I would do it, and I mean that, but it never happens. Not once. I…

— Steven Shainberg

Women don't paint very well. It's a fact. There are, of course, exceptions. Agnes Martin or, from the past, Paula Modersohn-Becker.

— Georg Baselitz

One market paradigm that I take exception to is: Buy low and sell high. I believe far more money is made by…

— Richard Driehaus

Everybody has got to die, but I have always believed an exception would be made in my case.

— William Saroyan

The instruction at Edinburgh was altogether by lectures, and these were intolerably dull, with the exception of those on chemistry.

— Charles Darwin

You can bring your enemies to their knees with the possible exception of the North Vietnamese.

— James Taylor

If you don't handle [exceptions], we shut your application down. That dramatically increases the reliability of the system.

— Anders Hejlsberg

“An exceptional woman with all the desired qualities exists only in a man's imagination.”

— Michael Bassey Johnson

As you love yourself, so shall you love others. Strange but true, with no exceptions.

— Harry Stack Sullivan

Anyhow they’re always exceptions. But most women, their only relationship to a man is having. Either owning or being owned.

— Ursula K. Le Guin

As a general rule, I don't plan to travel with my Oscars, but we may have to make an exception.

— Paul Haggis

The science of government is only a science of combinations, of applications, and of exceptions, according to times, places and circumstances.

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

As a rule, I don't like to laugh at the misfortune of others. The exception to that rule is if it's really,…

— Scott Adams

I was wrong about [Jack] Keane. He is the exception that proves the rule. I was certainly right about the fact that…

— Carly Fiorina