Exception Quotes · Page 22

They wrongly believe that good intentions move mountains. Bulldozers move mountains. But there are exceptions.

— Peter Drucker

There is a beginning and end to all life - and to all human endeavors. Species evolve and die off. Empires rise,…

— Yvon Chouinard

The fact remains that books that really put gay people in the center, and especially books that do so in a way…

— Garth Greenwell

The naturalists of our own time hold equal faith in the wonders of the sea, but seek therein rather for the links…

— Edward Forbes

Be the exception to the rule. It's the surest way to become exceptional.

— Ron Kaufman

My answer is that [Donald] Trump would not be permitted to win. Why do I say that? Because he's had every establishment…

— Julian Assange

I now understand that my welfare is only possible if I acknowledge my unity with all the people of the world without…

— Leo Tolstoy

Generally the first week in September brings the hottest weather of the year, and this was no exception. Overhead the fans turned…

— Shelby Foote

In spite of overwhelming evidence, it is most difficult for a citizen of western Europe to bring thoroughly home to himself the…

— Henry James Sumner Maine

England [sic] is just a small island. Its roads and houses are small. With few exceptions, it doesn't make things that people…

— Mitt Romney

There were no exceptions for the aged, the ill, the women in pregnancy.

— Herbert Adams Gibbons

It's fine to criticize somebody else's crimes and misdeeds, but you don't talk about your own. The only exception is a country…

— Noam Chomsky

All good poets of the past, almost without exception, were at least bilingual if not trilingual.

— Helen Vendler

In the initiative that we issued at the beginning of year 2013 we said every party with no exceptions as long as…

— Bashar al-Assad

Most scientists are without exception adorably quirky, and one of the ways of making it more accessible was to try to get…

— Bill Bryson

Game over," you say, and I don't know which I take more exception to-- the fact that you say its over, or…

— David Levithan

Morality is: the mediocre are worth more than the exceptions ... I abhore Christianity with a deadly hatred.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

I never yet have heard of a good man having fallen when he was trying to do Christ's will and trusting on…

— Theodore L. Cuyler

The Soviet Union was an exception, but even there chess players were not rich. Only Fischer changed that.

— Boris Spassky

I did interviews with most of the TechCrunch50 experts backstage and there was a common gripe about the companies launching there: Not…

— Sarah Lacy

The happy are an exception who enjoy innocently their simple happiness.

— Baltasar Gracian

Unselfish love for all people without exception is the most important point of convergence among all significant spiritualities and religions.

— Stephen G. Post

I understand that most ladies tend to prefer lap dogs.... Perhaps I am an exception.

— Emily Bronte

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

— Marian Seldes

Thousands of years and many civilizations have defined a marriage as the union between one man and one woman. With few exceptions,…

— Randy Neugebauer