Exception Quotes · Page 42

With the exception of the instinct of self-preservation, the propensity for emulation is probably the strongest and most alert and persistent of…

— Thorstein Veblen

Perhaps no American family-with the possible exception of the Adams family-has had a more vivid and powerful impact on the life of…

— Doris Kearns Goodwin

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

— Carly Fiorina

With the exception of Obama's belated lame-duck behavior, the US has always, in practice, supported Israel unquestionably.

— Lawrence Davidson

If you think of the history, in the days of Brahms and Beethoven and all these guys, almost every concert was a…

— Esa-Pekka Salonen

Above all, there is no exception to this rule: that the idea of political superiority always resolves itself into the idea of…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

You shouldn't focus on why you can't do something, which is what most people do. You should focus on why perhaps you…

— Steve Case

The case of the Seminoles constitutes at present the only exception to the successful efforts of the Government to remove the Indians…

— Martin Van Buren

The exception does not prove the rule.

— Mark Suster

For true poetry, complete poetry, consists in the harmony of contraries. Hence, it is time to say aloud--and it is here above…

— Victor Hugo

There is a problem in America. An Irish or Polish American can write a story and it's an American story. When a…

— Gloria Naylor

All of the philosophers I studied were white (with a few Eastern exceptions), and, for that matter, they were all male. Africa,…

— Walter Mosley

Let us keep before us the fact that, almost without exception, every race or nation that has ever got upon its feet…

— Booker T. Washington

There is no flaw or vacuum in the amount of the truth - but all is truth without exception; And henceforth I…

— Walt Whitman

The more you put yourself out there, the more there is for people to take exception with.

— Lee Hammond

For more than 3,000 years, China and India accounted for half of the world's economic output. But then the Industrial Revolution gave…

— Paul Achleitner

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

perserverence w/o exception

— Andy Andrews

To ask people's permission to take their pictures? Sometimes it feels right to ask, but I will not ask, unless it is…

— Martin Parr

But even friendship like our heroes' Exist no more; for we've outgrown All sentiments and deem men zeroes-- Except of course ourselves…

— Alexander Pushkin

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

— Franz Grillparzer

The wonderful thing about Crystal in Mr. Sunshine is that she doesn't have any boundaries. She's not aware socially of what's correct…

— Allison Janney

To be a saint is the exception; to be a just person is the rule. Err, stumble, commit sin, but be one…

— Victor Hugo

Those moralists, on the other hand, who, following in the footsteps of Socrates, offer the individual a morality of self-control and temperance…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

I stand firm behind the belief that, for me, songwriting isn't something that I do or command, it happens to me. I…

— Brandi Carlile