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Quotes About Exception

Most People have a desire to look for the exception instead of the desire to become exceptional.
~ John C. Maxwell
Fear is the short road to death and this world, Changed by the flux of decay: Survival is the exception for weary men.From the new book The Waning
~ Unknown
Every short statement about economics is misleading (with the possible exception of my present one).
~ Alfred Marshall
The sin of David stands out like a tar-baby in a field of snow, like a blackberry in a bowl of cream. It may cause us to miss the greatness of the man. Remember that sin was the exception in David's life—not the pattern of it. The Word of God does not play down the sin of David; it does not whitewash the man. God doesn't say it is not sin. God is going to call it sin, and David will be punished for it.
~ J. Vernon McGee
The one big exception was a hostage rescue mission, where safety was sacrificed for speed in the name of protecting the hostage.
~ Unknown
Among our bragging, ranting heroes, Peleus was the exception: a man of modesty.
~ Madeline Miller
I think this is the most extraordinary collection of talent, of human knowledge, that has ever been gathered together at the White House-- with the possible exception of when Thomas Jefferson dined alone.
~ John F. Kennedy
Dünya bir genellikse benim hep bir istisna kalaca??m? buyuran bir ferman vard? sanki.
~ John Fowles
This is what all mortals ask first, in disbelief, shock, fear. Is there no exception for me?
~ Madeline Miller
Achilles' face went pale. "Is it certain?" This is what all mortals ask first, in disbelief, shock, fear. Is there no exception for me?
~ Madeline Miller
the laws remain undisturbed (ch. xxvii.). Apparent exceptions, the miracles, originate in these laws, although man is unable to perceive the causal relation.
~ Maimonides
Among the Dagara, darkness is sacred. It is forbidden to illuminate it, for light scares the Spirit away…. The one exception to this rule is the bonfire.
~ Malidoma Patrice Some
I went into the family business. To me, it was the norm and not the exception.
~ Tyne Daly
to understand that the rule among humankind—which allows of exceptions, naturally—is that the hard are the weak whom no one has wanted, and that the strong alone, caring little whether they are wanted or not, have that gentleness that the crowd mistakes for weakness.
~ Marcel Proust
I never forget a face, but in your case I'll make an exception.
~ Oscar Wilde
Except Rebecca.
~ Unknown
__next__ raises a built-in StopIteration exception at end-of-file
~ Unknown
pdb also includes a postmortem function (pdb.pm()) that you can run after an exception occurs, to get information from the time of the error. See
~ Unknown
This method is a bit trickier to use, though, because assigning to any self attributes within __setattr__ calls __setattr__ again, potentially causing an infinite recursion loop (and a fairly quick stack overflow exception!).
~ Unknown
I never forget a face, but in your case I'll be glad to make an exception.
~ Groucho Marx
Its so funny how we set qualifications for the right person to love, while at the back of our minds we know that the person we truly love will always be an exception
~ Unknown
Where love and wisdom drink out of the same cup, in this everyday world, it is the exception.
~ Unknown
To be loved for what one is, is the greatest exception. The great majority love in others only what they lend him, their own selves, their version of him.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
A good marriage is the exception that proves who rules.
~ William Somerset Maugham