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Quotes About Exception

It is the exception that interests the devil.
~ Sylvia Plath
ahora tengo que convencerme de que eso está en la familia, que no sos diferente aunque siempre te esperé como la excepción, ese momento en que todo lo abrumador se detiene para que entre lo liviano, la espuma de la charla y la vuelta de las esquinas;
~ Julio Cortazar
The uneducated person perceives only the individual phenomenon, the partly educated person the rule, and the educated person the exception.
~ Franz Grillparzer
Wayne. You aren't the best I could do. You're the best there is. And no being, neither god nor mortal, could have wished for more than one such as you.
~ Brandon Sanderson
Everything about him was beautiful, with the sole exception of his jaws
~ Hemingway Ernest
It is a very remarkable and significant fact that though no man is quite well or healthy yet every one believes practically that health is the rule & disease the exception.
~ Henry David Thoreau
It's been known since 1916 that cutting back calories is beneficial in every organism it's been tested on - from yeast to worms to mice to monkeys. I think it would be a surprise if we are an exception to that rule.
~ David Andrew Sinclair
If you have a mental model that says big corporations are fundamentally greedy and selfish and exploitative, you don't really want to have an exception to that model. It's much easier to say, 'Yes, Whole Foods has been corrupted.'
~ John Mackey
Faith and beliefs are the common things in all religion, so God is the faith and the belief without exception.
~ Debasish Mridha
You shouldn't focus on why you can't do something, which is what most people do. You should focus on why perhaps you can, and be one of the exceptions.
~ Steve Case
You don't usually get a compound word where the first part is a slang thing and the second part is a rather ordinary or formal thing - they don't usually mix - but 'gobsmacked' is a perfect exception to that rule.
~ David Crystal
I before E except after C and when sounding like A as in neighbor and weigh, and on weekends and holidays and all throughout May, and YOU'LL ALWAYS BE WRONG NO MATTER WHAT YOU SAY!!!!
~ Brian Regan
I' before 'e' except after 'c' and when sounding like 'a' as in 'neighbor' and 'weigh' and on weekends and holidays and all throughout May and YOU'LL ALWAYS BE WRONG NO MATTER WHAT YOU SAY!!!!
~ Brian Regan
As a small child I had discovered that only two places are available to those who wish to remain concealed. The choices are to be a nonentity or an exception. You either disappear into a plebeian background or move forward to where most others fear to follow.
~ Bryce Courtenay
The man's a born straggler, Honey thought, another lucky exception to the rules of natural selection. A million years ago he would've been an easy snack for a saber-toothed tiger.
~ Carl Hiaasen
Extinction is the rule. Survival is the exception.
~ Carl Sagan
almost every species that has ever existed is extinct; extinction is the rule, survival is the exception.
~ Carl Sagan
La extinción es la regla. La supervivencia es la excepción.
~ Carl Sagan
I've met many journalists who impress me with their ability to play it straight. I think they're the exception to the rule.
~ Andrew Breitbart
That's different. I'm the exception. To a lot of things.
~ Karen Marie Moning
Look for the exceptions to the rule--and let these rule your spirit.
~ Karen Salmansohn
All nationalism or racialism is evil, and Jewish nationalism is no exception.
~ Karl Popper
But. There's always a "but" in life, isn't there?
~ Brian Morton
I' before 'E' except after 'C', and when sounded like 'ay' as in neighbor and weigh, and on weekends and holidays, and all throughout May, and you'll always be wrong no matter what you say!
~ Brian Regan