Quotes About Exception

I'm against the partial-birth abortion, but you've got to have an exception for the life of the mother and the health of the mother under the strictest test of bodily injury to the mother.

If the tradition which claims that war may be justified does not also admit that it could be unjustified, the affirmation is not morally serious. A Christian who prepares the case for a justified war without being equally prepared for hte negative case has not soberly weighted the prima facie presumption that any violence is wrong until the case for an exception has been made.

There are few ironclad rules of diplomacy but to one there is no exception. When an official reports that talks were useful, it can safely be concluded that nothing was accomplished.

Thus Scandinavian mythology was, with virtually no exception, written down by Christians, and there is no reason to believe that Christianity in Iceland was any different from Christianity anywhere else in western Europe during the High Middle Ages.

The denial of contemporary genius is the rule rather than the exception. No one counts the eagles in the nest, till there is a rush of wings; and lo! they are flown.

There's nothing wrong with taking bold action. Life and happiness occasionally demand it. But remember that you hear about people making big changes because this is the exception, not the rule. Narrative drama comes from bold action, not from the incremental progress that leads to sustainable success.

But remember that you hear about people making big changes because this is the exception, not the rule.

If we looked in the world of 1945 and looked at the map of capitalist economies and democratic polities, they were the rare exception, not the norm.

I only like luxury fashion. You have to decide where you stand. I like well-made, authentic clothes, well-crafted tailoring. I also like the dream and fantasy of luxury, the exception and rarity of it. I have no interest at all in fast retail. It is ambiguous.

There are two great rules in life, the one general and the other particular. The first is that every one can in the end get what he wants if he only tries. This is the general rule. The particular rule is that every individual is more or less of an exception to the general rule.

I admit I still recoil against a society that has so slipped in caring that ordinary human sharing and thoughtfulness appears to warrant ahumanitarian award and diligent effort seems too often the exception rather than the rule.

Esa es la sociedad; una reunión de víctimas y de verdugos. ¡Dichoso aquel que no es verdugo y víctima a un tiempo! ¡Pícaros, necios, inocentes! ¡Más dichoso aún, si hay excepciones, el que puede ser excepción!

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

When then the law has spoken in general terms, and there arises a case of exception to the general rule, it is proper, in so far as the lawgiver omits the case and by reason of his universality of statement is wrong, to set right the omission by ruling it as the lawgiver himself would rule were he there present, and would have provided by law had he foreseen the case would arise.

Ze zei: 'Je denkt steeds weer dat jij de uitzondering bent.' 'Wie denkt dat?' 'Ik.' 'Dat denkt iedereen,' zei ik, 'daarom trouwen mensen, daarom maken ze kinderen, daarom gaan ze door met leven, omdat ze denken dat het voor iedereen geldt maar niet voor hen, omdat ze denken dat zij de uitzondering zijn.

I never make exceptions. An exception disproves the rule.

I'm neither a woman, nor a mother who showers praises on babies. But if I tell you that the baby was an exception, take my word for it.

Toda mi familia se crece con la presión. Es como el lema familiar, o algo así. Con la excepción de mi hermano Peter, desde luego, que sufrió una crisis nerviosa. Pero a los demás nos sienta de maravilla, en serio.

It is always the exception that sets the rule.

I before E except after C. Weird?By rebelling against the rules the word itself denotes its very meaning: of strange or extraordinary character, odd, fantastic.I think all writers are weird.

Mr. Passaro, let me teach you about how medicine works." He starts out. "One of two things is going to happen. Either the Doctors are going to say I told you so, or they are going to say that Jess was the exception. What you believe will determine who gets to say I told you so to whom." "Never stop believing." He begs me. "Doctor, you are on the team". I say. He smiles.

The perpetrators of genocides are usually men of the herd, men who follow orders without questioning them. Rwanda was no exception.

PoÈ›i spune uÈ™or c? universul n-are nici un rost. Nimeni nu se va sup?ra. Dar afirm? acelaÈ™i lucru despre un individ oarecare; el va protesta È™i va lua chiar m?suri spre a te sancÈ›iona. AÈ™a suntem cu toÈ›ii: ne scoatem din cauz? când e vorbe de un principiu general È™i nu ne e ruÈ™ine s? ne izol?m într-o excepÈ›ie.

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