Exception Quotes · Page 17

People who don't normally read make an exception for my books, possibly because they're short.

— Mitch Albom

If you know you're the best it only makes sense for you to surround yourself with the best.

— Kanye West

So-called psychoanalysis is the occupation of lustful rationalists who trace everything in the world to sexual causes--with the exception of their occupation.

— Karl Kraus

“Being the exception was no longer a mysterious, special thing. I had become his weakness.”

— Jamie McGuire

With relatively few exceptions, the novel sacrifices too much, for me, on the altar of plot.

— David Shields

I have had a career in which, almost without exception, every single person I've worked with has helped me.

— Marian Seldes

Sometimes I read reviews, and without exception I will read critical essays that are sent to me. The critical essays are interesting…

— Joyce Carol Oates

To be committed means you are willing to make a promise with no exception of return.

— Peter Block

There seems to be one quality of mind which seems to be of special and extreme advantage in leading him to make…

— Francis Darwin

I don't think writers - in general - ever achieve the fame of movie stars. For the simple reason that only a…

— Augusten Burroughs

With the exception of weapons of mass destruction, there is no other type of attack that is more effective than suicide terrorism.…

— Bruce Hoffman

Libertarians are believers in small government who really mean it -- no excuses, no exceptions. [For Libertarians], the excesses of government are…

— Richard Brookhiser

There are exceptions of course, like for instance the Baltic States, which are members of the European Union, together with Ukraine and…

— Garry Kasparov

In discussing these exceptions from the course of nature, the first question is, whether the fact be justly stated. That which is…

— Samuel Johnson

There is something powerfully beguiling about the excited eyes of a young woman. They can pull all manner of nonsense out of…

— Patrick Rothfuss

The old man, especially if he is in society in the privacy of his thoughts, though he may protest the opposite, never…

— Giacomo Leopardi

Many books on communication are strong on theory but impractical on application. Marshall Rosenberg's instant classic is the stand-out exception. It is…

— Hugh Prather

Every political race I've started, I've entered as an underdog and a long shot. This is certainly no exception. But I happen…

— Tom Vilsack

My situation is a solemn one: life is offered to me on the condition of eating beefsteaks. But death is better than…

— George Bernard Shaw

I suspect that the peer-review system carries a good part of blame for the fact that something like sixty percent or more…

— Zygmunt Bauman

One of the things that sets the Bible apart from all other ancient religious writings is its scientific accuracy. Without exception, every…

— Charlie Campbell

In reading over the Constitutions of all fifty of our states, I discovered something which some of you may not know: there…

— D. James Kennedy

“Let me take once again a rough parable. Suppose I advertised in the papers that I had a place for any one…

— G. K. Chesterton

Part of buying the groceries is having a philosophy and trying to stick to it as best you can, knowing that occasionally…

— Bill Parcells

I grew up in a world where the social democratic state was the norm, not the exception.

— Tony Judt

The exceptions of the scrupulous put one in mind of some general pardons where everything is forgiven except crimes.

— Henry Fielding

I've gotten into this nasty habit of running away from love, but maybe one day I can find the exception to that.

— Taylor Swift

You", he said, "are the single exception that rule". The oldest, deepest, most beautiful flaw in his Silence."Without you, I would be…

— Nalini Singh

Unforeseen surprises are the rule in science, not the exception. Remember: Stuff happens.

— Leonard Susskind

Hollywood has more than its share of harsh and crewel stories. In fact, it's probably more the norm than the exception.

— Brent Spiner

I've made 30 movies and for the most part my movies work. In a business where success is an exception and not…

— Eddie Murphy

Once I thought ideas were exceptions not the rule. That is not so. Ideas are so plentiful that they ride on air.…

— Rod McKuen

Marnie loved her better and more honestly than anyone else in the world, with the possible exception of her mother, who loved…

— Ann Brashares

The best leaders... almost without exception and at every level, are master users of stories and symbols.

— Tom Peters

With the exception of women, there is nothing on earth so agreeable or necessary to the comfort of man as the dog.

— Edward Jesse

All men seek happiness. There are no exceptions… This is the motive of every act of every man, including those who go…

— Blaise Pascal

The mind's ability to rationalize it's own shortcomings is unlimited; I am no exception.

— Robert A. Heinlein

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

— Penn Jillette

All men have happiness as their object: there is no exception. However different the means they employ, they all aim at the…

— Blaise Pascal

As technology changes the way we communicate, connect, create, consume and innovate, it is democratizing access to opportunity. Education is no exception.

— Anonymous