Top 1200 Exception To The Rule Quotes & Sayings

As a general rule, I don't plan to travel with my Oscars, but we may have to make an exception.

Why are comedic parts for women the exception, not the rule?

Extinction is the rule. Survival is the exception.

There are cases where examinations are admitted, namely, before the coroner, and before magistrates in cases of felony. That appears to me to go rather in support of the general rule than in destruction of it. Every exception that can be accounted for is so much a confirmation of the rule that it has become a maxim, Exceptio probat regulam.

Be the exception to the rule. It's the surest way to become exceptional.

I would like to believe that most people, regardless of gender, are good and kind. The good men in my stories are the rule. It's the bad men that are the exception and because I tend toward the dark in my fiction, you see more of the exception than the rule.

Unforeseen surprises are the rule in science, not the exception. Remember: Stuff happens.

The exception tests the rule.

Families, generally, suck. And I say that as someone who, like my husband, had parents who proved the proverbial exception to the rule.

There is a simple rule here, a rule of legislation, a rule of business, a rule of life: beyond a certain point, complexity is fraud. You can apply that rule to left-wing social programs, but you can also apply that rule to credit derivatives, hedge funds, all the rest of it.

We all have the chance to create a world where extreme poverty is the exception rather than the rule.

Lying is the rule, not the exception.

10 Rules for Being Human: Rule #1 - You will receive a body. Rule #2 - You will be presented with lessons. Rule #3 - There are no mistakes, only lessons. Rule #4 - The lesson is repeated until learned. Rule #5 - Learning does not end. Rule #6 - "There" is no better than "here". Rule #7 - Others are only mirrors of you. Rule #8 - What you make of your life is up to you. Rule #9 - Your answers lie inside of you. Rule #10 - You will forget all this at birth.

Because I don`t think it`s true. I don`t think corruption is endemic to the process in Annapolis at all. It`s the exception, not the rule.

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.

To every rule there is an exception—and an idiot ready to demonstrate it. Don't be the one!

While no famine has ever taken place in a democracy, they're the rule rather than the exception in socialist countries.

Unfortunately, goodness and honor are rather the exception than the rule among exceptional men, not to speak of geniuses.

Oahu in the distance, a group of grey, barren peaks rising verdureless out of the lonely sea, was not an exception to the rule that the first sight of land is a disappointment.

It's much more fun to be the exception, not the rule

I am the exception to the rule that all senators see themselves in the Oval Office.

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.

There's always going to be - I don't care who it is, there's always going to be - the temptation in Washington to seek the favor of the leftist media. It's always gonna be there, no matter who it is. I can only think of one exception, and that's Reagan. It's the rule rather than the exception.

There are no exceptions to the rule that everybody likes to be an exception to the rule.

As a rule, I don't like to laugh at the misfortune of others. The exception to that rule is if it's really, really funny.

The exception is more interesting than the rule. The rule proves nothing; the exception proves everything. In the exception the power of real life breaks through the crust of a mechanism that has become torpid by repetition.

You can only govern men by serving them. The rule is without exception.

In a quantum universe, magic is not the exception but the rule.

Oblivion is the rule and fame the exception, of humanity.

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.

No rule is so general, which admits not some exception.

In the ocean, [bioluminescence] is the rule rather than the exception.

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.

Borrowing to pay for college used to be the exception; now it's the rule.

Unexpected results are the rule rather than the exception.

As the age of television progresses the Reagans will be the rule, not the exception. To be perfect for television is all a President has to be these days.

The camp is the space that is opened when the state of exception begins to become the rule.

The tradition of the oppressed teaches us that the "state of emergency" in which we live is not the exception but the rule.

You", he said, "are the single exception that rule". The oldest, deepest, most beautiful flaw in his Silence."Without you, I would be a monster.

Unfair and unkind behavior in exchange for your loving efforts is the rule rather than the exception

Virtues are, in the popular estimate, rather the exception than the rule. There is the man and his virtues.

There are no absolutes in relationships. You can't take anything for granted. You can count on absolutely nothing but the unexpected. You only get in trouble when you start thinking that you're some kind of exception to the rule.

There is just one exception to the FCC's no-throttling rule - if a company can prove that throttling is 'reasonable network management.'

There is no exception to the rule that every rule has an 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.

There are two great rules of life; the one general and the other particular. The first is that everyone can, in the end, get what he wants, if he only tries. That is the general rule. The particular rule is that every individual is, more or less, an exception to the rule.

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

Unfortunately, goodness and honor are rather the exception than the rule among exceptional men, not to speak of geniuses

Nobody with any real sense of humor *can* write a love story. . . . Shakespeare is the exception that proves the rule. (90-91)

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

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.

I've met many journalists who impress me with their ability to play it straight. I think they're the exception to the rule.

It's disheartening that people think that Donald Sterling is the outlier and that he's the exception and not the rule.

I and haven't been unemployed for 20 years. I'm an exception to the rule.

The process of specialization tends, almost inevitably, to narrow the sources from which the rules of any science are drawn; and English law is no exception from this rule.

There is no exception to this rule: "All the paths of the LORD are mercy and truth unto such as keep his covenant." They say there is no rule without an exception, but there is an exception to that rule.

The exception does not prove the rule.

To be a saint is the exception; to be a just person is the rule. Err, stumble, commit sin, but be one of the just.

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

I look at other artists who have had fabulous first albums, and you don't know what they're doing today. Who's to say I'll be an exception to that rule?