Exception Quotes
714 quotes by 618 authors
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Communication Was never big in my house. We sat together over dinner, but the only sound you'd hear was crunching and chewing and the little…
— Ellen Hopkins
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Affection makes fools. Always, without exception, love digs a channel that's sooner or later flooded by the briny water of despair.
— Sonya Hartnett
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There is always something particularly delightful about exceptions to a rule.
— Elizabeth Goudge
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Everything is in constant flux on this earth. Nothing keeps the same unchanging shape, and our affections, being attached to things outside us, necessarily change…
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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It was a part of myself that was my enemy; I still had a childish illusion that the flesh on my own bones was somehow…
— MacDonald Harris
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The exception is I'm not going away. Don't ask me to do that ever again.
— Tammara Webber
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I'd made a long list of exceptions to cover the area between "ignoring her completely" and "abducting her at knifepoint.
— Dan Wells
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With the exception of love, friendship and the beauty of art, I don't see much else that can nurture human life.
— Muriel Barbery
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There is something powerfully beguiling about the excited eyes of a young woman. They can pull all manner of nonsense out of a foolish young…
— Patrick Rothfuss
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I have read a great deal of economic theory for over 50 years now, but have found only one economic "law" to which I can…
— Robert Anton Wilson
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don’t believe the war is simply the work of politicians and capitalists. Oh no, the common man is every bit as guilty; otherwise, people and…
— Anne Frank
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You will continue to read stories of crookedness and corruption - of policemen who lie and steal, doctors who reap where they do not sew,…
— Robert Fulghum
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Most people who do a lot of exercise, particularly in the form of competitive athletics, have unneurotic, extraverted, optimistic personalities to begin with. (Marathon runners…
— Robert M. Sapolsky
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Let's face it - with a few exceptions, nobody likes anybody.
— David Lubar
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Real change will come when powerful women are less of an exception. It is easy to dislike senior women because there are so few.
— Sheryl Sandberg
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I have a very simple philosophy of life: Kindness. Ferocious, unrelenting, ruthless, committed, passionate, kindness. Life is sacred everywhere. We all have better things to…
— David Gerrold
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You", he said, "are the single exception that rule". The oldest, deepest, most beautiful flaw in his Silence."Without you, I would be a monster.
— Nalini Singh
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Everyone knows history is written by the winners, but that cliche misses a crucial detail: Over time, the winners are always the progressives. Conservatism can…
— Chuck Klosterman
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You’re my exception,
— Abbi Glines
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You shouldn't focus on why you can't do something, which is what most people do. You should focus on why perhaps you can, and be…
— Steve Case
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