Exception Quotes
714 quotes by 618 authors
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Most of us live in a condition of secrecy: secret desires, secret appetites, secret hatreds and relationship with the institutions which is extremely intense and…
— John le Carre
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I am a historian. With the exception of being a wife and mother, it is who I am. And there is nothing I take more…
— Doris Kearns Goodwin
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And they know neither sect nor idolatry, with the exception that all believe that the source of all power and goodness is in the sky,…
— Christopher Columbus
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Because I don`t think it`s true. I don`t think corruption is endemic to the process in Annapolis at all. It`s the exception, not the rule.
— Brian E. Frosh
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No other natural bodily function is painful and childbirth should not be an exception
— Grantly Dick-Read
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There are one hundred and ninety-three living species of monkeys and apes. One hundred and ninety-two of them are covered with hair. The exception is…
— Desmond Morris
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If anyone, no matter who, were given the opportunity of choosing from amongst all the nations in the world the set of beliefs which he…
— Herodotus
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Kindness should become the natural way of life,not the exception.
— Gautama Buddha
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But I find that for myself, without exception, the more I deal with the work as something that is my own, as something that is…
— Marian Bantjes
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Your teaching must have the integrity of serious, sound words to which no one can take exception. If it does, no opponent will be able…
— Paul the Apostle
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Everyone, without exception, is searching for happiness.
— Blaise Pascal
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The camp is the space that is opened when the state of exception begins to become the rule.
— Giorgio Agamben
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Salvation in its true and full meaning is synonymous with exaltation or eternal life and consists in gaining an inheritance in the highest of the…
— Bruce R. McConkie
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The skin is a variety of contingency: in it, through it, with it, the world and my body touch each other, the feeling and the…
— Michel Serres
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In truth, philosophy is the mode of thought shaped by the most radical form of prejudice: the passion of being-in-the-world. With the sole exception of…
— Peter Sloterdijk
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But in this world of morally-warped phenomena there are rare and happy exceptions of truly great magnitude, which always pay dearly for their exclusiveness and…
— Vissarion Belinsky
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I'm saying with very few exceptions nothing lasts forever, and among those exceptions, no work or thought of man is numbered.
— Iain Banks
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Pornographic or erotic stories and pictures are worse than filthy or polluted food. The body has defenses to rid itself of unwholesome food. With a…
— Dallin H. Oaks
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Most people who deal in words don't have much faith in them and I am no exception.
— Hunter S. Thompson
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Every mother I've ever met, pretty much without exception, is doing the best job she can ever do.
— Jennifer Weiner
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