Exceptions Quotes

229 quotes by 215 authors

I shortly will introduce legislation banning the sale, manufacture or possession of handguns (with exceptions for law enforcement and licensed target clubs)... . It is… — John Chafee
Reviewers, with some rare exceptions, are a most stupid and malignant race. As a bankrupt thief turns thief-taker in despair, so an unsuccessful author turns… — Percy Bysshe Shelley
With some exceptions, the wrong people are running U.S. companies. It's been that way for years, and it hasn't gotten much better. — Carl Icahn
You are in physical existence to learn and understand that your energy, translated into feelings, thoughts and emotions, causes all experience. There are no exceptions. — Jane Roberts
There seems to be one quality of mind which seems to be of special and extreme advantage in leading him to make discoveries. It was… — Francis Darwin
It seems to me as I reviewed the literature that, with few exceptions, the more confident were the prescriptions about how to behave with ethics… — Steve Kerr
Nature is not benevolent; Nature is just, gives pound for pound, measure for measure, makes no exceptions, never tempers her decrees with mercy, or winks… — John Burroughs
The devotion of thought to an honest achievement makes the achievement possible. Exceptions only confirm this rule, proving that failure is occasioned by a too… — Mary Baker Eddy
The same divine authority that forbids the killing of a human being establishes certain exceptions, as when God authorizes killing by a general law or… — Saint Augustine
I am sometimes perplexed by people who refer to defensive rifles, or defensive rifle shooting. The defensive arm is the pistol, since you have it… — Jeff Cooper
I go further, and affirm that bills of rights, in the sense and to the extent in which they are contended for, are not only… — Alexander Hamilton
The book which the reader now holds in his hands, from one end to the other, as a whole and in its details, whatever gaps,… — Victor Hugo
An effective leader allows exceptions to the rule for exceptional results or when circumstance demands. — John Wooden
Most book things now (with a few exceptions) are just built around nice, safe books written for nice and safe book club readers. These are… — Scott McClanahan
The male ego with few exceptions is elephantine to start with. — Bette Davis
The complete independence of the courts of justice is peculiarly essential in a limited Constitution. By a limited Constitution, I understand one which contains certain… — Alexander Hamilton
England [sic] is just a small island. Its roads and houses are small. With few exceptions, it doesn't make things that people in the rest… — Mitt Romney
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
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
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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