Quotes About Exceptions

Someone who was happy would have little need to hope for change. But, conversely, an optimistic person was that way because he wanted to believe in something better than his reality. He started wondering if there were exceptions to the rule: if happy people might be hopeful, if the unhappy might have given up any anticipation that things might get better.

How many exceptions do there have to be before you start to realize that maybe the truths you've been told aren't actually true?

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

Life consists of nothing but exceptions.

Ninety-nine percent of the things that ninety-nine percent of the people do are entirely predictable, when you have a few lead facts. Drunks, maniacs and pregnant women are the customary exceptions. Everyone has the suspicion he is utterly unique. But we are a herd animal, and we all turn to face into the wind.

The few people who ask to have their photographs with me, I almost always say yes, except for a few circumstances, like when my family is around.

In other circumstances, Ivan might have offered him a job. Sadly, with a few notable meta exceptions, dead men didn't code very well.

the rule among the human race—a rule that naturally admits of exceptions—is that the reputedly hard are the weak whom nobody wanted, and that the strong, caring little whether they are wanted or not, have alone that gentleness which the vulgar herd mistakes for weakness.

Male and female represent the two sides of the great radical dualism. But in fact they are perpetually passing into one another. Fluid hardens to solid, solid rushes to fluid. There is no wholly masculine man, no purely feminine woman... Nature provides exceptions to every rule.

A good teacher must know the rules; a good pupil, the exceptions.

The resilient toddler Of course, there are exceptions to everything written thus far about the relationship between a toddler's early care, his pre-placement preparation, the way his transition is handled, and his overall developing sense of wellbeing. Nothing is absolute.

You need to build in human effort for the edge cases, or they won't get done.

American influence in the world is certainly considerable, but the United States does not control, directly or indirectly, the politics and economics of other societies, as empires have always done, save for a few special cases that turn out to be the exceptions that prove the rule.

L'éducation nous apprend les règles de la vie. L'expérience nous apprend les exceptions.

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There are always exceptions,' replied Flea. 'They are what make you exceptional.

el proceso de apertura política y profundización de la democracia ni es lineal ni es universal. Siempre habrá excepciones y contraejemplos.

When all the exceptions have been made, however, Islamic states and paramilitaries are in a league of their own when it comes to religious censorship.

I tried not to think about it. But every so often it would burst out of me - why did he do something so unkind? What had I done to deserve it? I did believe, from my experience of life and of looking at the world, that men hated women. But there were all kinds of exceptions, and I'd have bet everything that this man didn't hate me, this woman.

The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions.

You're drunk, I assume." "Of course. Got a bottle nearby and everything." "Good. I know how you get when you're sober." "Mom, I have been drunk every day of my life with only a handful of exceptions since I was eight years old. I'm not going to risk being sober without a very good reason. You know that better than anyone," said Mosie. "I know, but a mother worries.

When experts insist that their societies are awash in misery, they are unknowingly illustrating one of the big findings in happiness research, which is that people underestimate how happy other people are—we tend to think of ourselves as lucky exceptions.

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