Exception Quote by Fernando Pessoa Download Open image “There are no norms. All people are exceptions to a rule that doesn’t exist.” — Fernando Pessoa ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.6 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Exception Norm People
I think there's a huge difference between describing norms in a vivid way and singling out individual people. — Susan Fiske Copy Share Image
The way that social norms become social norms is not through any systematic process. It is through a flowering of an understanding within a… — Charles Murray Copy Share Image
People are going to behave however the social norms permit, and beyond that. — Max Cannon Copy Share Image
There are no rules in life. It’s a mind-set that limits people dramatically. — Tara Stiles Copy Share Image
rules exist for a reason. Rules exist because when people don't follow them, people get hurt. — Ally Carter Copy Share Image
Not everyone has it in them to go against the norms.. Not everyone has it in them to go by their feelings... Not everyone… — Nidhi Saini Copy Share Image
No, traditions and norms aren't rules in the Constitution. There's a difference between a tradition and a law. — Rick Santelli Copy Share Image
Why do there have to be rules for everything? It's gotten to the point that rules dominate just about every aspect of our lives.… — Jack Handey Copy Share Image
If we only obey those rules that we think are just and reasonable, then no rule will stand, for there is no rule that… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
“If only, I feel now, if only I could be someone able to see all this as if he had no other relation with it than that of seeing it, someone able to observe everything as if he were an adult traveler newly arrived today on the surface of life! If only one had not learned, from birth onwards, to… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share
What's given, in fact, always depends on the person or thing it's given to. A minor incident in the street brings the cook to the door and entertains him more than I would be entertained by contemplating the most original idea, by reading the greatest book, or by having the most gratifying of useless dreams. If life is basically monotony,… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share
Smell is a strange sight. It evokes sentimental landscapes through a sudden sketching of the subconscious. — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
“no nostalgia hurts as much as nostalgia for things that never existed!” — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
pg.9 "In my heart there's a peaceful anguish, and my calm is made of resignation. — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
“The feelings that hurt most, the motions that sting most, are those that are absurd; the longing for impossible things, precisely because they are impossible; nostalgia for what never was; the desire for what could have been; regret over not being someone else; dissatisfaction with the world's existence. All these half-tones of the soul's consciousness create in us a painful… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share
“I try to say what I feel Without thinking about what I feel. I try to place words right next to my idea So… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
Have you ever considered, beloved other, how invisible we are to each other? We look at each other without seeing. We listen to each… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
“To associate is to die. Only my consciousness of myself is real for me; other people are hazy phenomena in this consciousness, and it… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
“When it comes to dreams, I’m no different from the errand boy and the seamstress. The only thing that distinguishes me from them is… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
I've always believed that humans are good at heart. But there's always the exception. — Amy Carlson Copy Share Image
Society understands the architecture of academia and knows there are relevant qualifications in different fields, and the media accepts the idea of specialisations and… — Jay Griffiths Copy Share Image
I really can't live without my In-N-Out burgers. Honestly, I can't. Even when I'm doing the whole no-carb thing occasionally, I make an exception for these. They're too delicious to count. — Nate Berkus Copy Share
Alright, all right," I said. "What if I tell you a story, instead?" Highlanders loved stories, and Jamie was no exception. "Oh, aye, "… — Diana Gabaldon Copy Share Image
No physiologist who calmly considers the question in connection with the general truths of his science, can long resist the conviction that different parts of the cerebrum subserve different kinds of mental action. Localization of function is the law of all organization whatever: separateness of duty is universally accompanied with separateness of structure: and it would be marvellous were an… — Herbert Spencer Copy Share
But Margaret went less abroad, among machinery and men; saw less of power in its public effect, and, as it happened, she was thrown… — Elizabeth Gaskell Copy Share Image
My Chinese zodiac is a dog. But I'm an exception because of how much I love cats. — Jason Wu Copy Share Image
I don't know if I know anyone, with the exception of the early inventors of rock music [who wasn't influenced by something]. — Bruce Springsteen Copy Share Image
Child actors going on to become adult actors never really works, apart from a few. Jodie Foster was the exception. — Mark Lester Copy Share Image
I have no admiration for culture. I have no reserve knowledge, no provisional knowledge. And everything that I learn, I learn for a particular task, and once it's done, I immediately forget it, so that if ten years later, I have to get involved with something close to or directly within the same subject, I would have to start again… — Gilles Deleuze Copy Share
I have become convinced, through my studies, that the only way to achieve a safe, just and viable world is to live by the Golden Rule. This is what drives my writing. I want to point out this interconnectedness, point out the beauty of the faith in all traditions without exception, show the complexity of the atrocities that we have… — Karen Armstrong Copy Share
I will forever stick up for Catholics and Christians in general. With a small number of very horrible exceptions, they do play by the… — Penn Jillette Copy Share Image