Exception Quotes · Page 7

“He was't just my exception. He was my reason.”

— S.L. Jennings

Great leaders always have self-discipline -without exception.

— John C. Maxwell

Unexpected results are the rule rather than the exception.

— Plautus

Usually I have a "never say never" policy, but for you I'll make an exception.

— Blair Waldorf

How glorious it is - and also how painful - to be an exception.

— Alfred de Musset

Borrowing to pay for college used to be the exception; now it's the rule.

— Arne Duncan

“One can gain more truth from the exception than from the rule”

— Italo Calvino

Individual goals never meant that much to me. The Heisman is no exception.

— Barry Sanders

Almost without exception, blue refers to the domain of abstraction and immateriality.

— Wassily Kandinsky

An effective leader allows exceptions to the rule for exceptional results or when circumstance demands.

— John Wooden

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

— Boris Spassky

We usually have margaritas on Thursdays but since it's Tuesday I'll make an exception.

— Chelsea Handler

With some notable exceptions, businessmen favor free enterprise in general but are opposed to it when it comes to themselves.

— Milton Friedman

With the exception of lingerie and theater I'm interested in everything to do with clothes and perfumes: everything which is an extension…

— Sonia Rykiel

We all have the chance to create a world where extreme poverty is the exception rather than the rule.

— Bill Gates

Today the whole world depends on communism for its salvation, and China is no exception.

— Mao Zedong

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

Don't make promises unless you will keep them. Not plan to keep them. Will keep them. Reliability is one of the keys…

— Susan Ward

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

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

— Paul Di Filippo

To the extent that this world surrenders its richness and diversity, it surrenders its poetry; to the extent that it relinquishes its…

— Tom Robbins

If you want to cultivate a habit, do it without any reservation, till it is firmly established. Until it is so confirmed,…

— Mahavira

I'm a vegetarian now, but I'm willing to make an exception in the event I'm presented with people. Because I've always been…

— John S. Hall

In a government such as ours we have vigorous contests to determine who should lead. The recent election was no exception. Now…

— Matt Blunt

Donald Trump wins 2,623 counties and Hillary Clinton with 489. You know how many counties independents won? Zero. Just like they always…

— Rush Limbaugh

In some ways, it's easier to go from short form to long form than vice versa. I used to make 30 second…

— Joe Sedelmaier

[The works of Archimedes] are without exception, monuments of mathematical exposition; the gradual revelation of the plan of attack, the masterly ordering…

— Thomas Little Heath

Most of us live in a condition of secrecy: secret desires, secret appetites, secret hatreds and relationship with the institutions which is…

— John le Carre

The hegemony of finance and the banks has produced the indebted. Control over information and communication networks has created the mediatized. The…

— Michael Hardt

With software products, it is usual to find that the software has major 'bugs' and does not work reliably for some users...…

— David Parnas

The whole intelectual culture has a filtering system, starts as a child in school. You're expected to accept certain beliefs, styles, behavioral…

— Noam Chomsky

“Is it odd, my love, that I envy others who have not met you for the intoxication they have yet to experience?…

— Kamand Kojouri

Blogs are the main exception I make in my aversion to complex machinery.

— Laurie R. King

Torture must only be hypothetical exception, not US policy.

— William J. Clinton

All generalizations, with the possible exception of this one, are false.

— Kurt Gödel

Everyone thinks their own situation most tragic. I am no exception.

— Jeanette Winterson

The first exception [to the First Amendment] will not be the last.

— Ira Glasser

I never forget a face, but in your case I'll make an exception.

— Anonymous

Sustaining Peace is happening. But it is the exception - not the norm.

— Miroslav Lajcak

The male ego with few exceptions is elephantine to start with.

— Bette Davis