Exception Quotes
Real change will come when powerful women are less of an exception. It is easy to dislike senior women because there are so few.
As a footballer's wife, I take great exception to the way we are portrayed in Footballers' Wives.
We all have the chance to create a world where extreme poverty is the exception rather than the rule.
The most common lie is that which one lies to himself; lying to others is relatively an exception.
European standards of beauty are something that plague the entire world - the idea that darker skin is not beautiful, that light skin is the key to success and love. Africa is no exception.
With the exception only of the period of the gold standard, practically all governments of history have used their exclusive power to issue money to defraud and plunder the people.
Remember that history always repeats itself. Every great bubble in history has broken. There are no exceptions.
Most People have a desire to look for the exception instead of the desire to become exceptional.
Jesus stands absolutely alone in history; in teaching, in example, in character, an exception, a marvel, and He is Himself the evidence of Christianity.
The one thing the media abhors almost without exception is anyone who takes a firm stand on any issue out of religious principle, unless their stand happens to coincide with their expressed views.
Sooner or later a rider will emerge who will win more Tours. In every sport we have seen how the records eventually get broken and cycling is no exception.
We normally consider stability to be the constant in life and accidents to be the exception, but it's exactly the opposite. In reality, the accident is the rule and stability is the exception.
The American people are a very generous people and will forgive almost any weakness, with the possible, exception of stupidity.
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.
It is not easy to imagine how little interested a scientist usually is in the work of any other, with the possible exception of the teacher who backs him or the student who honors him.
Politics are a part of athletics now. Politics is a part of everything. And athletics is no exception.
In the human mind, one-sidedness has always been the rule, and many-sidedness the exception. Hence, even in revolutions of opinion, one part of the truth usually sets while another rises.
When told that man lives in delusion everyone thinks of himself as the exception; hence his delusion.
I continually find it necessary to guard against that natural love of wealth and grandeur which prompts us always, when we come to apply our general doctrine to our own case, to claim an exception.
Most Sunday magazines, with the New York Times as an exception, are kind of sleepy, weekend service vehicles to move living room products.
The truth is that the United States doesn't need, and shouldn't have, a debt ceiling. Every other democratic country, with the exception of Denmark, does fine without one.
The Soviet Union was an exception, but even there chess players were not rich. Only Fischer changed that.
Almost without exception, everything society has considered a social advance has been prefigured first in some utopian writing.
One of the things that upset me was some of the criticism leveled at Simon and Garfunkel. I always took exception to it, but actually I agree with a lot of it.
So-called psychoanalysis is the occupation of lustful rationalists who trace everything in the world to sexual causes--with the exception of their occupation.
I am certainly not a blogger. Quite a large proportion of them are nuts and extremists - with the honourable exception of the culture secretary.
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 proper.
As you get older, you suffer fools less easily. That's why there's all those cranky character actors. I'm an exception. I'm a sweetheart.
We need nearly every department, with the exception of police, fire and rescue, to look at what they can cut. Maybe there are some projects we need to put on hold.
The emitters of the spectral series are without exception single atoms, not compounds of atoms.
There are few ironclad rules of diplomacy but to one there is no exception. When an official reports that talks were useful, it can safely be concluded that nothing was accomplished.
Sometimes I read reviews, and without exception I will read critical essays that are sent to me. The critical essays are interesting on their own terms.
I am the exception to the rule that all senators see themselves in the Oval Office.
Coping with rejection is an important skill to learn and understand when navigating the Art World. Rejection and disinterest is the rule, not the exception.
Every man, in his own opinion, forms an exception to the ordinary rules of morality.
I've gotten into this nasty habit of running away from love, but maybe one day I can find the exception to that.
There are very few men of genius in advertising agencies. But we need all we can find. Almost without exception they are disagreeable. Don't destroy them. They lay golden eggs.
But I will argue that knowing complete product requirements up front is a quite rare exception, not the norm.
