Quotes About Exception

I won't read a book that starts with a description of the weather. I don't read books over 300 pages, though I'll make an exception for Don Delillo.

Entrevue rarement, la beaute illumine le monde. Cotoyee au quotidien, elle blesse, brule et cree des plaies qui ne cicatrisent jamais. La laideur est une benediction qui appelle l'exception et peut transformer une vie en maqnifique destin.

Nobles who threw away All For Love remained the deluded exception, for as the wits put it 'Love in a cottage? … Give me indifference and a coach and six.' 8

Sí, odio todo esto, todo eso, todo. Y lo odio porque lucho por conseguirlo, unas veces puedo vencer, otras no. Por eso lo odio, porque lucho por su compañía. Lo odio porque odiar es querer y aprender a amar. ¿Me entienden? Lo odio, porque no he aprendido a amar, y necesito de eso. Por eso, odio a todo el mundo, no dejo de odiar a nadie, a nada... a nada, a nadie, ¡sin excepción!.

As noted by Ronald Inglehart, director of the World Values Survey, people in richer countries tend to be less religious, but the United States is an exception, as a rich country with a high rate of religious observance and belief; see figure 6.1.

In spite of overwhelming evidence, it is most difficult for a citizen of western Europe to bring thoroughly home to himself the truth that the civilisation which surrounds him is a rare exception in the history of the world.

During Holi, my mom prepares lovely puran polis, and everyone in my family makes an exception in their diet plan to include this delicious food item!

It's a great country, where anybody can grow up to be president... except me.

The only exception to the demise/struggles of the European centre-left is Macron, in French presidential and parliamentary elections 2017.

The average Tea Partier is sincerely against government spending - with the exception of the money spent on them.

I've always enjoyed a challenge," Niko remarked, shifting through the powder to lift something out. "I think perhaps there are other things I could enjoy instead. Bonsai trees, painting, forging my own weapons. The opportunities are endless." He opened his hand to show me the small braid of several yellowed hairs. "Voodoo." "Think it would work?" I perked up. Killing from a distance wasn't usually my thing, but in this case, I'd make an exception.

No rule is so general, which admits not some exception.

Interdependence remains the law, independence a rare and often fatal exception. Better to place yourself in a position of mutual dependence, then, and to follow this critical law rather than look for its reversal. You will not have the unbearable pressure of being on top, and the master above you will in essence be your slave, for he will depend on you.

It's proper to begin with the regular facts, but after a rule is established beyond all doubt, the facts in conformity with it become dull because they no longer teach us anything new. Then it's the exception that becomes important. We seek not resemblances but differences, choose the most accentuated differences because they're the most striking and also the most instructive.

Perhaps the best moral is that when doing science (or perhaps when doing anything at all in a society as judgmental as our own), be very careful and very certain before pronouncing something to be the norm—because at that instant, you have made it supremely difficult to ever again look objectively at an exception to that supposed norm.

It is sad to be an exception. But not to be one is even sadder.

Nothing travels faster than the speed of light, with the possible exception of bad news, which obeys its own special laws.

In order to disprove the assertion that all crows are black, one white crow is sufficient.

It's always good in science to say "Well how do you know that?" and "Are you really sure?" and "Could there be an exceptional case?"

One cannot blame an organization that picks up an occasional black sheep, one only takes exception if it retains an accumulation of them.

Happiness is the exception-joy a rarity-the normal feeling most human beings have is discontent or longing... maybe there's an evolutionary purpose.

Life is not, nor ever has been, a straight line forward ... Life is characterized much more by exception and disorder than by total or perfect order.

Everyone declares that love is irrational, and yet everytime this statement is proven correct, they profess amazement. They seem to assume that love will make an exception in their case. It never does.

Evil that arises out of ordinary thinking and is committed by ordinary people is the norm, not the exception.