Exception Quotes · Page 15

As with most things in life, Lady Maccon preferred the civilized exterior to the dark underbelly (with the exception of pork products,…

— Gail Carriger

I stress that we unambiguously support strengthening the non-proliferation regime, without any exceptions, on the basis of international law.

— Vladimir Putin

Nature goes her own way, and all that to us seems an exception is really according to order.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Almost without exception, everything society has considered a social advance has been prefigured first in some utopian writing.

— David Cooperrider

Never does any pride enter the heart of a man except that his intelligence decreases by the same amount.

— Muhammad al-Baqir

We must make organic the conventional choice and not the exception available only to the rich and educated.

— Maria Rodale

“That everything exceptional is doomed to be destroyed derives from the symbolic rule that no player must be bigger than the game…

— Jean Baudrillard

One should fight like the devil the temptation to think well of editors. They are all, without exception - at least some…

— John Gardner

All will surely realize God. All will be liberated. It may be that some get their meal in the morning, some at…

— Ramakrishna

You must all be aware that modern war is not a mere matter of military operations. It involves the whole strength and…

— Chiang Kai-shek

The whole point of Jesus's life was not that we should become exactly like him, but that we should become ourselves in…

— Carl Jung

Somerset Maugham ... wrote somewhere that "Nobody is any better than he ought to be."... I carried it along with me as…

— Norman Mailer

God is a meticulous clockmaker. So precise is His order that everything on earth happens in its own time. Neither a minute…

— Anonymous

In terms of column writing, with the exception of one or two others, I am probably paid as well as you can…

— Giles Coren

“I research moonlight effects on sleeping humans. The research goes well with the exception of causing excessive body hair growth, a pointy…

— Steven Magee

All things must be examined, debated, investigated without exception and without regard for anyone's feelings... We must run roughshod over all these…

— Denis Diderot

“As is well known, what characterizes both the Fascist and Nazi regimes is that they allowed the existing constitutions (the Albertine Statute…

— Giorgio Agamben

If I may throw out a word of counsel to beginners, it is: Treasure your exceptions! When there are none, the work…

— William Bateson

Then there came a faraway, booming voice like a low, clear bell. It came from the center of the bowl and down…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

don’t believe the war is simply the work of politicians and capitalists. Oh no, the common man is every bit as guilty;…

— Anne Frank

People are frightened of death, and the central lie of all religion is that there’s a cure for this and an exception…

— Christopher Hitchens

If cruelty is no longer declared unlawful, but instead is applied as a matter of policy, it alters the fundamental relationship of…

— Alberto J. Mora

Candidates rarely win battles with the media, and unless you really know what you're doing you should not tangle with them. The…

— Roger Ailes

The constitution has divided the powers of government into three branches, Legislative, Executive and Judiciary, lodging each with a distinct magistracy. The…

— Thomas Jefferson

To every rule there is an exception—and an idiot ready to demonstrate it. Don't be the one!

— Vera Nazarian

Every short statement about economics is misleading (with the possible exception of my present one).

— Alfred Marshall

There is the odd exception, like Albert Einstein, but as a breed, scientists tend not be very good at presenting themselves.

— Bill Bryson

Every truth without exception- and whoever may utter it- is from the Holy Spirit.

— Thomas Aquinas

The uneducated person perceives only the individual phenomenon, the partly educated person the rule, and the educated person the exception.

— Franz Grillparzer

Nature goes on her way, and all that to us seems an exception is really according to order.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Where love and wisdom drink out of the same cup, in this everyday world, it is the exception.

— Anonymous

We each owe a death, there are no exceptions, I know that, but sometimes, oh God, the Green Mile is so long.

— Stephen King

All parties without exception, when they seek for power, are varieties of absolutism.

— Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

Science admits no exceptions; otherwise there would be no determinism in science, or rather, there would be no science.

— Claude Bernard

In Africa through the 1990s, with notable exceptions in Senegal and Uganda, nearly all the ruling powers denied they had a problem…

— Barton Gellman

I dream about finding an exception and finding someone who would make me believe in love and realize that it can work…

— Taylor Swift

I am certainly not a blogger. Quite a large proportion of them are nuts and extremists - with the honourable exception of…

— Kenneth Clarke

With the exception of my wife and children, there's nothing I value more than my Oklahoma heritage.

— James Garner

With some exceptions, the wrong people are running U.S. companies. It's been that way for years, and it hasn't gotten much better.

— Carl Icahn

Nothing drives progress like the imagination. The idea precedes the deed. The only exceptions are accidents and natural selection.

— Theodore Levitt