Exception famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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Every short statement about economics is misleading (with the possible exception of my present one).
-- Alfred Marshall -
I've always believed that humans are good at heart. But there's always the exception.
-- Amy Carlson -
In the U.S., with very few exceptions, actresses older than 35 are simply discarded.
-- Amy Irving -
In a quantum universe, magic is not the exception but the rule.
-- Arjuna Ardagh -
Individual goals never meant that much to me. The Heisman is no exception.
-- Barry Sanders -
Almost without exception alcoholics are tortured by loneliness.
-- Bill W. -
Everyone, without exception, is searching for happiness.
-- Blaise Pascal -
Aslan's instructions always work; there are no exceptions.
-- C. S. Lewis -
Those as don't eat, without exception, fail to survive.
-- Calamity Jane -
Sovereign is he who decides on the exception.
-- Carl Schmitt -
There are no exceptions to the rule that everybody likes to be an exception to the rule.
-- Charles Osgood -
Science admits no exceptions; otherwise there would be no determinism in science, or rather, there would be no science.
-- Claude Bernard -
There's no exception to the rule, yes, everybody's somebody's fool.
-- Connie Francis -
Blanket statements are always stupid. NO EXCEPTIONS!
-- Craig Benzine -
Let's face it - with a few exceptions, nobody likes anybody.
-- David Lubar -
All things must be examined, debated, investigated without exception and without regard for anyone's feelings.
-- Denis Diderot -
If you're going to generalize about women, you'll find yourself up to here in exceptions.
-- Dolores Hitchens -
I had a great career and I enjoyed all of it, with the exception of losing.
-- Drew Bledsoe -
I've made 30 movies and for the most part my movies work. In a business where success is an exception and not the rule, I've mostly been successful.
-- Eddie Murphy -
In the ocean, [bioluminescence] is the rule rather than the exception.
-- Edith Widder -
There is always something particularly delightful about exceptions to a rule.
-- Elizabeth Goudge -
If you feel like getting a divorce, you are no exception to the general rule.
-- Elizabeth Hawes -
There are no norms. All people are exceptions to a rule that doesn’t exist.
-- Fernando Pessoa -
It is true practically if not altogether without exception that the changes studied by any science tend to equilibrate or neutralize the forces which bring them about, and finally to come to rest.
-- Frank Knight -
As with most things in life, Lady Maccon preferred the civilized exterior to the dark underbelly (with the exception of pork products, of course.)
-- Gail Carriger -
In so complex a thing as human nature, we must consider it is hard to find rules without exception.
-- George Eliot -
That was the day that I promised I'd never sing of love that does not exist. but darling, You are the only exception
-- Hayley Williams -
A true New Yorker never backs down, and I'm no exception. Holla!
-- Heather Thomson -
All good poets of the past, almost without exception, were at least bilingual if not trilingual.
-- Helen Vendler -
Writers are always critical of themselves and I'm no exception. I always feel that maybe I could have done better.
-- Iris Johansen -
Systems are to be appreciated by their general effects, and not by particular exceptions.
-- James F. Cooper -
There is no exception to the rule that every rule has an exception.
-- James Thurber -
Remember that history always repeats itself. Every great bubble in history has broken. There are no exceptions.
-- Jeremy Grantham -
The emitters of the spectral series are without exception single atoms, not compounds of atoms.
-- Johannes Stark -
Nothing is absolute, with the debatable exceptions of this statement and death.
-- John Ralston Saul -
Most women have a distaste for guns, and I am no exception.
-- Judy LaMarsh -
If you know you're the best it only makes sense for you to surround yourself with the best. NO EXCEPTIONS
-- Kanye West -
So-called psychoanalysis is the occupation of lustful rationalists who trace everything in the world to sexual causes--with the exception of their occupation.
-- Karl Kraus -
Blogs are the main exception I make in my aversion to complex machinery.
-- Laurie R. King -
Monopoly controls have been the exception in free societies; they have been the rule in closed societies.
-- Lawrence Lessig -
Most writers adore their editors, and I'm no exception.
-- Linda Sue Park -
With a very few exceptions, every word in the French vocabulary comes straight from the Latin.
-- Lytton Strachey -
I have had a career in which, almost without exception, every single person Ive worked with has helped me.
-- Marian Seldes -
Fathers always play mahagurus to their children, and I am no exception.
-- Mithun Chakraborty -
Why are comedic parts for women the exception, not the rule?
-- Patricia Clarkson -
It is sad to be an exception. But not to be one is even sadder.
-- Peter Altenberg -
All parties without exception, when they seek for power, are varieties of absolutism.
-- Pierre-Joseph Proudhon -
No rule is so general, which admits not some exception.
-- Robert Burton -
Once I thought ideas were exceptions not the rule. That is not so. Ideas are so plentiful that they ride on air. You have only to reach out and snatch one.
-- Rod McKuen -
India always changes people, and I have been no exception
-- Ruth Prawer Jhabvala -
Life consists of nothing but exceptions.
-- Sergei Lukyanenko -
There are many exceptions, but New York is a great place to start a career.
-- Stephen Collins -
It's much more fun to be the exception, not the rule
-- T.A. Barron -
I went into the family business. To me, it was the norm and not the exception.
-- Tyne Daly -
Anyhow they’re always exceptions. But most women, their only relationship to a man is having. Either owning or being owned.
-- Ursula K. Le Guin -
To every rule there is an exception—and an idiot ready to demonstrate it. Don't be the one!
-- Vera Nazarian -
Almost without exception, blue refers to the domain of abstraction and immateriality.
-- Wassily Kandinsky -
Without Exception, Begin Every Day of your Life with Gratitude.
-- Wayne Dyer -
Of course there are always exceptions, but opinions are not to be feared.
-- Joseph Kosinski -
All human beings, without exception, are continually creating themselves with the life-energy that is flowing within them
-- Masami Saionji -
With rare exceptions, people are responsible for what they do.
-- Park Dietz -
Politics are a part of athletics now. Politics is a part of everything. And athletics is no exception.
-- Melissa Harris-Perry -
Believe firmly that in chess there are no rules without exceptions.
-- Reuben Fine -
I'm fully aware that things that resonate and become real hits are the exception to the rule, so much so that I've wired myself for failure.
-- Ron Perlman -
I hate to generalize because there are always so many exceptions to any rule.
-- Gish Jen -
It is hard for women not to be overly self critical, I am no exception!
-- Kim Lyons
