Quotes About Exception

Fun fact: The United Nations building in New York City is the only place in all of North America where smoking is still permitted indoors.

Riley was the exception to the feast of cholesterol. For him it was dry toast, black coffee and lashings of self pity.

As a result, Hobyo is as good an example as any of a "feral city." It's a term that is used in military circles to describe regions that have no effective government but sustain an internationally networked criminal economy. Feral cities are the ragged end of spaces of exception: they are not the product of governments or ideologies but show what happens when such structures fall away.

You know, I get frustrated with our country's administration, which is really the people who are not acknowledging global warming. I mean, it's accepted by scientists around the world, scientists in our country and it's accepted by every country around the world with the exception of the United States.

My Chinese zodiac is a dog. But I'm an exception because of how much I love cats.

Anybody who's ever mattered, anybody who's ever been happy, anybody who's ever given any gift into the world has been a divinely selfish soul, living for his own best interest. No exceptions.

Les adieux classiques, où tout le monde respecte pieusement les formes, c'est l'exception, dans la vie, pas la règle.

Then the exception would be as if he did not exist at all.

If the gatherer gathers too-much, Nature takes out of the man what she puts into his chest; swells the estate, but kills the owner. Nature hates, monopolies and exceptions.

My mom was the breadwinner in my family. I always thought, That's how it is. I never thought that was the exception.

I'm in a class by myself, along with people like Rod Stewart.

Nature provides exceptions to every rule.

Man, wonderful man, must collapse, into nature's cauldron, he is no deity, he is no exception.

Sovereign is he who decides on 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.

Military missions cannot be a normal tool of politics, but instead must remain the great exception.

I feel like a fugitive from the law of averages.

Every man, in his own opinion, forms an exception to the ordinary rules of morality.

But racial pride is not only stupid but wrong, even if provoked by racial hatred. All nationalism or racialism is evil, and Jewish nationalism is no exception.

I have a very simple philosophy of life: Kindness. Ferocious, unrelenting, ruthless, committed, passionate, kindness. Life is sacred everywhere. We all have better things to do than beat each other up. Arguing for the exception is to invest it with energy, it's to negotiate the loophole. The commitment to kindness must be total.

There is the odd exception, like Albert Einstein, but as a breed, scientists tend not be very good at presenting themselves.

There are great people everywhere, and there are all kinds of exceptions to any generalizations, and it was a huge privilege for me to get to learn that.

Jesus stands absolutely alone in history; in teaching, in example, in character, an exception, a marvel, and He is Himself the evidence of Christianity.

...That genius is a rare exception (:) It's not true. Talent and genius have been wasted on enormous scale throughout our history; this is all I know for sure.