Exception Quotes

714 quotes by 618 authors

People who seek political power are, with exceptions too rare to matter, never to be trusted; at best, such people are vain and officious busybodies.… — Donald J. Boudreaux
If I had the power, I would insist on all oratorios being sung in the costume of the period, with the possible exception of The… — Ernest Newman
Every man that ever lived craved perfect happiness, the detective poignantly reflected. But how can we have it when we know weâ€™re going to die?… — William Peter Blatty
All good poets of the past, almost without exception, were at least bilingual if not trilingual. — Helen Vendler
Many people take exception to me and say that I'm doing black magic and things they can't do at church. But I'm doing magic that… — Tony Andruzzi
For too long we have occupied ourselves with responding to the consequences of cruelty and abuse and have neglected the important task of building up… — John Hoyt
The evidence of history speaks with a single voice. I do not know any exception to the proposition that if you compare like with like,… — Milton Friedman
Simply put, I believe we should not seek the lowest common denominator when it comes to wilderness and saddle a wilderness designation with exceptions, exclusions,… — Nick Rahall
You know, with the exception of one deadly and unpredictable midget, this girl is the smallest cargo I've ever had to transport. Yet by far… — Jubal Early
All of the philosophers I studied were white (with a few Eastern exceptions), and, for that matter, they were all male. Africa, the cradle of… — Walter Mosley
Chirren [children] is the most dangerous creatures on the earth, with the exception of young girls between the ages of fifteen and forty-two. — Walter Mosley
The aggressive spirit, the offensive, is the chief thing everywhere in war, and the air is no exception. — Manfred von Richthofen
The role of Ronald Reagan had been deliberately diminished; the role of the Europeans, who, with the exception of Helmet Kohl, were often keen to… — Margaret Thatcher
In a government such as ours we have vigorous contests to determine who should lead. The recent election was no exception. Now we inaugurate a… — Matt Blunt
Systems are to be appreciated by their general effects, and not by particular exceptions. — James F. Cooper
The outstretched arms of Jesus exclude no one, not the drunk in the doorway, the panhandler on the street, gays and lesbians in their isolation,… — Brennan Manning
Music is the only thing in this world, with the exception of sneezing and looking at the sunset, that takes you to a place that's… — Stephan Jenkins
With the exception of the instinct of self-preservation, the propensity for emulation is probably the strongest and most alert and persistent of the economic motives… — Thorstein Veblen
Unlike the Reagan and Bush Administrations, with but one exception, the Clinton administration failed to reach out to Republicans in creating a new team, and… — Richard V. Allen
But I'm in favor of every religion with the possible exception of snake-chunking. Anybody that so presumes on how he stands with Providence that he… — Earl Long

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