Exception Quotes

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I think with one exception I've never changed an opening sentence after a book was completed. — William Gibson
As human beings, we are vulnerable to confusing the unprecedented with the improbable. In our everyday experience, if something has never happened before, we are… — Al Gore
The uneducated person perceives only the individual phenomenon, the partly educated person the rule, and the educated person the exception. — Franz Grillparzer
All knowledge which ends in words will die as quickly as it came to life, with the exception of the written word: which is its… — Leonardo da Vinci
Last year my boyfriend gave me a painting - a very personal one. I really prefer personal gifts or ones made by someone for me.… — Minnie Driver
Borrowing to pay for college used to be the exception; now it's the rule. — Arne Duncan
Positive, healthy, loving relationships in your twenties... I don't know if anyone would disagree with it: I think they're the exception, not the norm. People… — Lena Dunham
Exceptions are not always the proof of the old rule; they can also be the harbinger of a new one. — Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
I always thought the biggest failing of Americans was their lack of irony. They are very serious there! Naturally, there are exceptions... the Jewish, Italian,… — Colin Firth
Every man, in his own opinion, forms an exception to the ordinary rules of morality. — William Hazlitt
But your questions, which are unanswerable without exception, all spring from the same erroneous thinking. — Hermann Hesse
Jesus said, 'Except a man be born of water and of the spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God.' There are no exceptions.… — Gordon B. Hinckley
I'm here as a product of process of evolution, which doesn't make very many exceptions. And which rates life relatively cheaply. — Christopher Hitchens
I will forever stick up for Catholics and Christians in general. With a small number of very horrible exceptions, they do play by the rules. — Penn Jillette
I grew up in a world where the social democratic state was the norm, not the exception. — Tony Judt
I think this is the most extraordinary collection of talent, of human knowledge, that has ever been gathered at the White House - with the… — John F. Kennedy
You can only govern men by serving them. The rule is without exception. — Victor Kiam
Everyone knows what a curve is, until he has studied enough mathematics to become confused through the countless number of possible exceptions. — Felix Klein
Hypersegregated inner-city schools - in which one finds no more than five or ten white children, at the very most, within a student population of… — Jonathan Kozol
With the possible exception of the equator, everything begins somewhere. — C.S. Lewis

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