Exception Quotes - page 2

Without exception, the dominance and coherence of culture proved to be an essential quality of the excellent companies. (Tom Peters)
The uneducated person perceives only the individual phenomenon, the partly educated person the rule, and the educated person the exception. View quote
Franz Grillparzer
Somerset Maugham ... wrote somewhere that "Nobody is any better than he ought to be." ... I carried it along with me as a working philosophy, but I suppose that finally I would have to take exception to the thought ... or else the universe is just an elaborate clock. View quote
Norman Mailer
The essence of immorality is the tendency to make an exception of myself. View quote
Jane Addams
My fellow Americans, people all over the world, we need to solve the climate crisis, it's not a political issue, it's a moral issue. We have everything we need to get started, with the possible exception of the will to act, that's a renewable resource, let's renew it. View quote
Al Gore
Freedom of mind and mind itself have been most fully developed in regions where trade developed at the same time. In all ages, without exception, every intense production of art, ideas, and spiritual values has occurred in some locality where a remarkable degree of economic activity was also manifest. View quote
Paul Valéry
Unforeseen surprises are the rule in science, not the exception. Remember: Stuff happens. View quote
Leonard Susskind
Everybody has to die, but I always believed an exception would be made in my case. Now what? View quote
William Saroyan
Monopoly controls have been the exception in free societies; they have been the rule in closed societies. View quote
Lawrence Lessig
Everyone thinks their own situation most tragic. I am no exception. View quote
Jeanette Winterson
Women's studies is a comfy, chummy morass of unchallenged groupthink . It is, with rare exception, totally unscholarly. Academic feminists have silenced men and dissenting women. (Camille Paglia)
The process begins with the individual woman's acceptance that American women, without exception, are socialized to be racist, classist and sexist, in varying degrees, and that labeling ourselves feminists does not change the fact that we must consciously work to rid ourselves of the legacy of negative socialization. View quote
Bell hooks
I wanted to be the exception to the other kids, but in the right way. We have a lot of suffering in our part of the world, but that suffering is, in a way, a blessing. Obviously, I could not afford to go to school without a scholarship, so that meant I had to excel in order to get one. View quote
Talal Abu-Ghazaleh
Genies rarely have nightmares, for the same reason that elephants don't usually worry about being trampled underfoot. With the possible exception of bottles, there's nothing in the cosmos large enough or malicious enough to frighten them, or stupid enough to try. View quote
Tom Holt
The Lord commands us to do good unto all men without exception, though the majority are very undeserving when judged according to their own merits. But scripture here helps us out with an excellent argument when it teaches us that we must not think of man's real value, but only of his creation in the image of God to which we owe all possible honor and love. View quote
John Calvin
For we are not all equally afflicted with the same disease or all in need of the same severe cure. This is the reason why we see different persons disciplined with different crosses. The heavenly Physician takes care of the well-being of all his patients; he gives some a milder medicine and purifies others by more shocking treatments, but he omits no one; for the whole world, without exception, is ill. View quote
John Calvin
Extinction is the rule. Survival is the exception. View quote
Carl Sagan
One of the things that kept most comics from being monthly was that very few artists could produce 24 pages per month. Jack Kirby was very much the exception to the rule, but his towering presence at Marvel started to dictate the whole shape of the industry-and that's where problems set in! View quote
John Byrne
There are no moderate Republicans left, with the exception of a few who would vote with us when it doesn't make any difference. It's the most rigid ideological party since before the Civil War. [...] The bumper sticker I'm going to have printed up for Democrats this year is, "We're not perfect, but they're nuts." View quote
Barney Frank
Political leaders, lacking documents that could be kept secret (apart from the occasional exception), lacking media they could control, were of necessity brought into a direct and immediate relationship with their constituents, and therefore under more and direct and immediate control. View quote
Moses I. Finley
The tradition of the oppressed teaches us that the "state of emergency" in which we live is not the exception but the rule. (Walter Benjamin)
It's mind-boggling to consider that movies this bad are actually committed to film. The poor quality of The Pest in almost every category - humor, intelligence, creativity, and just plain entertainment value - ranks it somewhere between a bad infomercial and a local cable newscast. Rarely do I consider the act of seeing a movie to be a chore, but this kind of experience is the exception. View quote
James Berardinelli
All creatures kill-there seems to be no exception; but of the whole list, man is the only one that kills for fun; he is the only one that kills in malice, the only one that kills for revenge. View quote
Mark Twain
Sovereign is he who decides on the exception. View quote
Carl Schmitt
Young gentlemen with literary aspirations usually start a new university magazine, which for wit and pungency is designed to eclipse all such previous efforts, and I was no exception in the matter of this popular gambit. View quote
E. F. Benson