Exception Quotes
714 quotes by 604 authors
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Do everything calmly and peacefully. Do as much as you can as well as you can. Strive to see God in all things without exception,…
— Saint Francis de Sales
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Every truth without exception- and whoever may utter it- is from the Holy Spirit.
— Thomas Aquinas
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One of the fundamental demonstrations of our natural instinct to Bond with each other is a will to give. Rather than domination, our most basic…
— Lynne McTaggart
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A treaty cannot be made which alters the Constitution of the country, or which infringes and express exceptions to the power of the Constitution.
— Alexander Hamilton
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I wasn't into fairytales when I was little. I was of the generation of the earlier Disney films where many of the female characters, with…
— Angelina Jolie
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Women don't paint very well. It's a fact. There are, of course, exceptions. Agnes Martin or, from the past, Paula Modersohn-Becker.
— Georg Baselitz
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In spite of overwhelming evidence, it is most difficult for a citizen of western Europe to bring thoroughly home to himself the truth that the…
— Henry James Sumner Maine
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To forgive the incessant provocations of daily life - to keep on forgiving the bossy mother-in-law, the bullying husband, the nagging wife, the selfish daughter,…
— C.S. Lewis
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Morality is: the mediocre are worth more than the exceptions ... I abhore Christianity with a deadly hatred.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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Unpleasant, even dangerous, qualities can be found in every nation and every individual: it is cruel to demand that the Jew be an exception. In…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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One of the things that sets the Bible apart from all other ancient religious writings is its scientific accuracy. Without exception, every other ancient religious…
— Charlie Campbell
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Nature knows nothing but solid bodies; your science deals only with combinations of surfaces. And so nature constantly gives the lie to all your laws;…
— Honore de Balzac
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Freedom of mind and mind itself have been most fully developed in regions where trade developed at the same time. In all ages, without exception,…
— Paul Valery
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Every declaration of love contains an unstated list of exceptions and demands.
— Mason Cooley
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In science, modesty and genius do not coexist well together. (In Washington, modesty and cleverness don't.) Einstein is perhaps the most famous exception to the…
— Charles Krauthammer
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Without exception, the dominance and coherence of culture proved to be an essential quality of the excellent companies.
— Tom Peters
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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, in that I…
— Will Arnett
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Nature provides exceptions to every rule.
— Margaret Fuller
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There are few ironclad rules of diplomacy but to one there is no exception. When an official reports that talks were useful, it can safely…
— John Kenneth Galbraith
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Mediocrity is now, as formerly, dangerous, commonly fatal, to the poet; but among even the successful writers of prose, those who rise sensibly above it…
— William E. Gladstone
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