Exception Quotes

Manage by exception.Only require reporting when there is a deviation from the plan.

With the exception of weapons of mass destruction, there is no other type of attack that is more effective than suicide terrorism. The perception is that it's impossible to guard against.

I don't know if I know anyone, with the exception of the early inventors of rock music [who wasn't influenced by something].

The pace of Swedish crime fiction is slower - Stieg Larsson's the exception. And I think we use the environment more.

I was wrong about [Jack] Keane. He is the exception that proves the rule. I was certainly right about the fact that he is a member of the warrior class.

But Truth is that besides which there is nothing: nothing to modify it, nothing to question it, nothing to form an exception: the all-inclusive, the complete - By Truth, I mean the Universal.

You tell yourself that noise is what defines silence. Without noise, silence would not be golden. Noise is the exception.

Science admits no exceptions; otherwise there would be no determinism in science, or rather, there would be no science.

There's no exception to the rule, yes, everybody's somebody's fool.

I think especially in her position, a highly successful professional woman, it would be a real exception to have an unwed child.

Normally it is not polite to go into somebody’s room without knocking, but you can make an exception if the person is dead, or pretending to be dead.

Just about everything in this world is easier said than done, with the exception of 'systematically assisting Sisyphus's stealthy, syst-susceptible sister,' which is easier done than said.

In the nineteenth century, government agencies in Washington had, almost without exception, flatly refused to hire even one female.

Keep in mind that every single generation before us has worked under the assumption that they possessed all the major tools for understanding the universe, and they were all wrong, without exception.

Alright, all right," I said. "What if I tell you a story, instead?" Highlanders loved stories, and Jamie was no exception. "Oh, aye, " he said, sounding much happier. "What sort of story is it?

I had a great career and I enjoyed all of it, with the exception of losing.

The denial of contemporary genius is the rule rather than the exception. No one counts the eagles in the nest, till there is a rush of wings; and lo! they are flown.

There is always something particularly delightful about exceptions to a rule.

If you feel like getting a divorce, you are no exception to the general rule.

I won't read a book that starts with a description of the weather. I don't read books over 300 pages, though I'll make an exception for Don Delillo.

I understand that most ladies tend to prefer lap dogs.... Perhaps I am an exception.

...That genius is a rare exception (:) It's not true. Talent and genius have been wasted on enormous scale throughout our history; this is all I know for sure.

For my part, if I had the power I would insist on all oratorios being sung in the costume of the period - with a possible exception in the case of the Creation.

If you think of the history, in the days of Brahms and Beethoven and all these guys, almost every concert was a new music concert. To play something old was really an exception.

The quality of a marriage is proven by its ability to tolerate an occasional "exception.

Madness is the exception in individuals but the rule in groups.

I imagine that no art has ever been learned from books. fly-fishing is no exception.

Our marriage has always been a 50-50 proposition - with the possible exception of closet space.

As we all know, poets are born brain-wired a certain way and every poet I know wrote as a child. I'm no exception.

Military missions cannot be a normal tool of politics, but instead must remain the great exception.

A true New Yorker never backs down, and I'm no exception. Holla!

The first exception [to the First Amendment] will not be the last.

Most people who aspire to be president don't have a foreign policy andnational security background. The exception was certainly Hillary Clinton.

You can bring your enemies to their knees with the possible exception of the North Vietnamese.

With the exception of dessert, food is food.

Everyone thinks their own situation most tragic. I am no exception.

Every mother I've ever met, pretty much without exception, is doing the best job she can ever do.

Great leaders always have self-discipline -without exception.

I'm against the partial-birth abortion, but you've got to have an exception for the life of the mother and the health of the mother under the strictest test of bodily injury to the mother.

Nothing is absolute, with the debatable exceptions of this statement and death.

Pretty fortunate that with the exception of two months when I was 23, that I worked in a law office pushing paper around. I was always able to eke out a living somehow. So I'm blessed.

People really do change. Don't let anyone tell you differently. That the future does not conform to the past is not the exception, but the rule.

Of course there are always exceptions, but opinions are not to be feared.

Most women have a distaste for guns, and I am no exception.

That was an exception within the [Barack] Obama administration's economic policy, a crisis that he inherited from the previous administration, and felt it was essential to carry through on.

Women are outperforming men in almost every sphere of life in our society and the women of East Indian ancestry are no exception to this rule. They have broken the cultural mould.

It is hard for women not to be overly self critical, I am no exception!

Blogs are the main exception I make in my aversion to complex machinery.

With the exception of Obama's belated lame-duck behavior, the US has always, in practice, supported Israel unquestionably.

The more you put yourself out there, the more there is for people to take exception with.