Quotes About Exception

Trust men and they will be true to you; treat them greatly and they will show themselves great, though they make an exception in your favor to all their rules of trade.

One single observation can invalidate a general statement derived from millennia of confirmatory sightings of millions of white swans. All you need is one single (and, I am told, quite ugly) black bird.*

One single observation can invalidate a general statement derived from millennia of confirmatory sightings of millions of white swans.

extreme event as a starting point and not treat it as an exception to be pushed under the rug.

We can put off things far more effectively than those doomed to die, because death has become the exception instead of the rule.

At the conclusion of the First World War it was borders that were invented and adjusted, while people were on the whole left in place.6 After 1945 what happened was rather the opposite: with one major exception boundaries stayed broadly intact and people were moved instead.

D'habitude les femmes tzignes ne sont pas musiciennes, mais la fille de Kosta, Tinka, faisait exception. Elle avait pratiqué secrètement le violon, et à l'âge de dix ans elle surprit toute la tribu d'un exploit qu'ils n'oublieraient jamais.

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.

Sovereign is he who decides on the exception.

If the parliamentary legislative state typically permits a 'state of exception' with the suspension of basic rights, its intention is not to render the special commissioner equivalent with the legislature or the special commissioner's decrees equivalent with statutes, but to create the freedom to issues measures that are necessary and effective.

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

It is arrogance to expect that life will always be music.... Harmony, like a following breeze at sea, is the exception. In a world where most things wind up broken or lost, our lot is to tack and tune.

Housewarming presents aren't usually human beings. We can have a debate on whether or not Summerset's human, but either way, I'll make an exception.

How glorious it is - and also how painful - to be an exception.

Ive learned that you cant predict [love] or plan for it. For someone like me who is obsessed with organization and planning, I love the idea that love is the one exception to that. Love is the one wild card.

Generally, speed skaters don't run that much. I'm a little bit of an exception in that I run a lot.

A pickup artist must be the exception to the rule. You must not do what everyone else does. Ever.

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

Bauman argues that most people "slip" into the roles society provides them, and he is very critical of any implication that "faulty personalities" are the cause of human cruelty. For him the exception—the real "sleeper"—is the rare individual who has the capacity to resist authority and assert moral autonomy but who is seldom aware of this hidden strength until put to the test.

Romania was the greatest exception with GDP up strongly by about 55% but with the country's material consumption expanding 2.5 times during the decade, a clear case of rising inefficiency of material use and increasing dependence of economic growth on higher material inputs.

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.

To be a saint is to be an exception; to be a true man is the rule. Err, fail, sin if you must, but be upright. To sin as little as possible is the law for men; to sin not at all is a dream for angels. All earthly things are subject to sin; if is like the force of gravity.

To be a saint is the exception; to be an upright man is the rule. Err, fall, sin if you will, but be upright.

This cavern is below all, and the enemy of all; it is hatred, without exception.