Top 431 Exceptions Quotes & Sayings

Killing is always wrong, even governments are not exceptions.

Blanket statements are always stupid. NO EXCEPTIONS!

It was a part of myself that was my enemy; I still had a childish illusion that the flesh on my own bones was somehow unique and precious to the universe, in some obscure corner of my mind I wanted the others to love me and make exceptions for me simply because I felt heat and cold, pain and loneliness as they did. Now this was gone once and for all, and I understood there were no exceptions and on one was invulnerable, we all had to share the same conditions and in the end this was simply mortality, the mortality of things as well as ourselves. After that I didn't expect anybody to love me.

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

With few exceptions, one ought always do what one is afraid of.

In my experience, with very few exceptions - I am, as it happens, one of the exceptions - the one thing that most editors don't want to do is edit. It's not nearly as conducive to a successful career as having lunch out with important agents or going to meetings where you get noticed.

Treat everyone with respect and kindness. Period. No exceptions.

Do you like people? Most people claim that they like people with, of course, a "few exceptions." When the exceptions are added together it becomes clear that they include a vast majority of the people. It becomes equally clear that most people like just a few people, their kind of people, and either do not actively care for or actively dislike most of the "other" people.

Every declaration of love contains an unstated list of exceptions and demands.

There are 3 rules to follow if you want to change; (1) Start immediately, (2) Do it flamboyantly, (3) No exceptions.

we live; we feel; we hurt. the world makes no exceptions.

The whole intelectual culture has a filtering system, starts as a child in school. You're expected to accept certain beliefs, styles, behavioral patterns and so on. If you don't accept them, you are called maybe a behavioral problem, or something, and you're weeded out. Something like that goes on all the way through universities and graduate schools. There is an implicit system of filtering, which has the, it creates a strong tendency to impose conformism. Now, it's a tendency, so you do have exceptions, and sometimes the exceptions are quite striking.

In general, writers shouldn't be killed for what they write, though I can think of exceptions.

There are many exceptions, but New York is a great place to start a career.

With but few exceptions, it is always the underdog who wins through sheer willpower.

Nature provides exceptions to every rule.

In the defense of civil liberties there can be no exceptions, or there will soon be many.

An effective leader allows exceptions to the rule for exceptional results or when circumstance demands.

Talent is never enough. With few exceptions the best players are the hardest workers.

Nature hates monopolies and exceptions.

Believe firmly that in chess there are no rules without exceptions.

There are very few men-and they are the exceptions-who are able to think and feel beyond the present moment

But one of the rules I don't like to break is we still do - 95% of our movies are low budget. We're offered bigger, larger budget movies to produce a lot, and we don't do them. That's not to say there aren't exceptions, there are a few exceptions, but I try and stick by the rules that produce what I think is the highest quality, most innovative work and try and let the rules go that make us feel like we're retreading.

We're offered bigger, larger budget movies to produce a lot, and we don't do them. That's not to say there aren't exceptions: there are a few exceptions, but I try and stick by the rules that produce what I think is the highest quality, most innovative work and try and let the rules go that make us feel like we're retreading.

I say that the Second Amendment doesn't allow for exceptions - or else it would have read that the right "to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed, unless Congress chooses otherwise." And because there are no exceptions, I disagree with my fellow panelists who say the existing gun laws should be enforced. Those laws are unconstitutional [and] wrong - because they put you at a disadvantage to armed criminals, to whom the laws are no inconvenience.

As human beings, we are vulnerable to confusing the unprecedented with the improbable. In our everyday experience, if something has never happened before, we are generally safe in assuming it is not going to happen in the future, but the exceptions can kill you and climate change is one of those exceptions.

With certain rapturous exceptions, literature is the moral life.

With rare exceptions, people are responsible for what they do.

Life consists of nothing but exceptions.

In the U.S., with very few exceptions, actresses older than 35 are simply discarded.

There are no norms. All people are exceptions to a rule that doesn’t exist.

Laws are made by the old, exceptions by the young.

People always make mistakes when they fancy themselves exceptions.

The mind demands rules; the facts demand exceptions.

Aslan's instructions always work; there are no exceptions.

There are times when you should never give a cheater a second chance, but there also are exceptions.

The male ego with few exceptions is elephantine to start with.

Let's face it - with a few exceptions, nobody likes anybody.

Exceptions are not always the proof of the old rule; they can also be the harbinger of a new one.

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

Whatever misanthropists may say, ingrates and the perverse are exceptions in the human species.

...every successful quality revolution has included the participation of upper management. We know of no exceptions.

With a very few exceptions, every word in the French vocabulary comes straight from the Latin.

If I may throw out a word of counsel to beginners, it is: Treasure your exceptions! When there are none, the work gets so dull that no one cares to carry it further. Keep them always uncovered and in sight. Exceptions are like the rough brickwork of a growing building which tells that there is more to come and shows where the next construction is to be.

Just as an informal, nonscientific observation, most people's personalities don't seem to change very much during their lives. There are exceptions in the case of people who go through hugely traumatic events or suffer from brain injury or disease. Some would argue that religious conversions can have deep personality-altering effects. But these are all exceptions to the rule.

Part of buying the groceries is having a philosophy and trying to stick to it as best you can, knowing that occasionally you may make an exception. But, you do so knowing you're attempting to do it for a certain reason and you have to be very careful not to try to make too many exceptions, because then you wind up as a franchise with a team full of exceptions, which is not what you want.

Systems are to be appreciated by their general effects, and not by particular exceptions.

Everyone has blind spots, and even the brightest people are no exceptions.

Formula to live your dream: 1. Be bold. 2. Begin now, 3. No exceptions.

Science does not permit exceptions.

I hate to generalize because there are always so many exceptions to any rule.

Everything that occurs in your life is an opportunity for awakening. There are no exceptions!

There were no exceptions for the aged, the ill, the women in pregnancy.

I am one of those who are made for exceptions, not for laws.

There are those whose sole claim to profundity is the discovery of exceptions to the rules.

I'm saying with very few exceptions nothing lasts forever, and among those exceptions, no work or thought of man is numbered.

Treasure your exceptions.

There are exceptions of course, but most companies start with a great idea?-?not a pivot.

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

If you're going to generalize about women, you'll find yourself up to here in exceptions.