Quotes About Exception

Over the course of his wartime service, Lawrence was awarded a number of medals and ribbons, but with his profound disdain for such things, he either threw them away or never bothered to collect them. He made an exception in the case of the Croix de Guerre; after the war, according to his brother, he found amusement in placing the medal around the neck of a friend's dog and parading it through the streets of Oxford.

Other than when dealing with exception-unsafe legacy code (which we'll discuss later in this Item), offering no exception safety guarantee should be an option only if your crack team of requirements analysts has identified a need for your application to leak resources and run with corrupt data structures. As

I'm here as a product of process of evolution, which doesn't make very many exceptions. And which rates life relatively cheaply.

An exception to the law is a mother distinction of all distinctions; it endorses dishonesty and unfairness too.

Real and pure love, exists in the age of nine and ninety years, between that lies a risk. However, an exception may become a wonder.

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

A statute limits the time for appeal to 60 days after judgment has been entered: The purpose is to close off appeal, and terminate the litigation, after 60 days. (The purposivist might find it to be closing off appeal after a reasonable time, which is specified as 60 days in normal circumstances—but special cir-cumstances may provide an exception.)

if you are the exception that proves the rule, and the rule is that woman are inferior, you haven't made any progress.

There was not one witness to accuse me, there was no one to identify me, there was not a single piece of evidence against me. I was found guilty, simply out of the mistaken "conviction" held by the Political Police. And sadly, my case was no exception.

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

Madness is the exception in individuals but the rule in groups.

Those moralists, on the other hand, who, following in the footsteps of Socrates, offer the individual a morality of self-control and temperance as a means to his own advantage, as his personal key to happiness, are the exceptions.

All higher education belongs only to the exception: one must be privileged to have a right to so high a privilege. All great, all beautiful things can never be common property: pulchrum est paucorum hominum. What contributes to the decline of German culture? That "higher education" is no longer a privilege — the democratism of Bildung, which has become "common" — too common.

Hatred for mediocrity is unworthy of a philosopher: it is almost a question mark against his right to philosophy. Precisely because he is an exception he has to take the rule under his protection, he has to keep the mediocre in good heart.

I'm fully aware that things that resonate and become real hits are the exception to the rule, so much so that I've wired myself for failure.

America's popular heroes have seldom been its great thinkers, and even less its scientists. The success of TV's 'Big Bang Theory,' which seems to give the lie to this claim, is more the exception that proves the rule.

The Rule and Its Exception The big toe located on each of the two feet of man (Homo sapiens, "man, the wise") has as its main functions the growing of a toenail and the production of pain when stepped on ... Death is the exception to this rule. Goodbye, my friends ...

For every rule there is always an exception: this too can be depended upon.

As with so much else, she was convinced that an exception would be made in her case.

I don't believe in courtship.It's a waste of time. If I love the person, I'll tell her right away. But for you, I'll make an exception. Just love me now, and I'll court you forever.

Last time I checked, there is no 'Hall of Average.'

It's all a risk. Always. That's not true, actually. The only exception: it's a certainty that there's risk. The safer you play your plans for the future, the riskier it actually is. That's because the world is certainly, definitely, and more than possibly changing.

You can't win by being more average than average.

I still don't believe it. It's not in him. Yeah, and you are delusional. Babe, news flash, with the exception of you and the pirate, we're all animals here. And we all have a killer's instinct.