Quotes About Exception

Congress can grant a waiver [for General James Mattis ] and has done that once in history.

The case of the Seminoles constitutes at present the only exception to the successful efforts of the Government to remove the Indians to the homes assigned them west of the Mississippi.

The essence of immorality is the tendency to make an exception of myself.

Oblivion is the rule and fame the exception, of humanity.

We usually have margaritas on Thursdays but since it's Tuesday I'll make an exception.

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.

think men will change their mind or their beliefs, that they will gradually discover that they can't do without us, that we will be the exception in their lives or the visitors who end up staying, that they will eventually grow tired of those other invisible women whose existence we begin to doubt or whom we prefer to think do not exist, the more we see of the men and the more we love them despite ourselves; that we will be the chosen

Doesn't she realize that the life she is living is an accident of fortune? Doesn't she know that she is an exception in this world, where it is normal to be unhappy, to be hungry, to work non-stop and earn next to nothing, and to suffer the whims of everything from tyrants to hurricanes and earthquakes?

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

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

Women, when they do break into power or succeed, can expect to have their lives scrutinised for clues to how they managed it exactly because these women are, alas, still exceptions to the rule.

Blogs are the main exception I make in my aversion to complex machinery.

Let's be honest with one another: almost everything is too long except life, and I know people who wouldn't even concur with that exception.

Sustaining Peace is happening. But it is the exception - not the norm.

The pace of Swedish crime fiction is slower - Stieg Larsson's the exception. And I think we use the environment more.

The very meaning of the word universe is to "turn around one thing." I know I am not that one thing. There is either some Big Truth in this universe, or there is no truth that is always reliable; there is we hope, some pattern behind it all (even if the pattern is exception!), or it begins to be a very incoherent universe, which is what many postmodern people seem to have accepted. I just can't.

My children are so rarely happy. I...I would like to see you be an exception.

There seems to be one quality of mind which seems to be of special and extreme advantage in leading him to make discoveries. It was the power of never letting exceptions go unnoticed.

How is it possible, you ask, for love to be greater than the person who does the loving? That's because love defies the rules of reason. It is the only exception.

Everybody has got to die, but I have always believed an exception would be made in my case.

Of all the wonders of nature, a tree in summer is perhaps the most remarkable; with the possible exception of a moose singing "Embraceable You" in spats.

Of all the wonders of nature, a tree in summer is perhaps the most remarkable; with the possible exception of a moose singing Embraceable You in spats.

Taking care of each other is the norm—taking care of others is the exception.

If you are not an exception, try to be the example.