Top 100 Exception Quotes
#1. It is well to remember that the entire universe, with one trifling exception, is composed of others.
John Holmes
#2. The House is rooted in the principle of direct elections and is unique among all branches and bodies of the federal government as without exception, the people's voice.
Charles W. Pickering
#3. With the possible exception of having more pleasing lines to the eye while in flight, the monoplane possesses no material advantage over the biplane.
Glenn Curtiss
#4. Yes, but the great thing about all the people - and I don't think there is any exception - who I've worked with is they've all been very, very talented musicians.
Joan Armatrading
#5. The 1st question the effective decision-maker asks is: 'Is this a generic situation or an exception?'
Peter Drucker
#6. Writers are always critical of themselves and I'm no exception. I always feel that maybe I could have done better.
Iris Johansen
#7. 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.
Woody Allen
#8. One cannot blame an organization that picks up an occasional black sheep, one only takes exception if it retains an accumulation of them.
Dion Fortune
#9. As with so much else, she was convinced that an exception would be made in her case.
Margaret Atwood
#10. Humanitarianism needs no apology. Unless we ... feel it toward all men without exception, we shall have lost the chief redeeming force in human history.
Ralph Barton Perry
#12. I am and will remain the president of all Cameroonians without exception, and the great winner in these elections is democracy
Paul Biya
#13. Zealous statesmen perhaps did more mischief than anything in the Galaxy--with the possible exception of procrastinating soldiers. That could indicate the fundamental difference between statecraft and war.
H. Beam Piper
#14. With the exception of humans, all the great apes today are facing oblivion.
Elizabeth Kolbert
#15. I believe without exception that theory follows practice. Whenever there is a conflict between theory and practice, theory is wrong. As far as I'm concerned, we make theories for what people have done.
David Baker
#16. Chicago is the greatest of all baseball cities. I make no exception, although I have been treated well wherever I have been. It is the greatest city because the fans will stick to a loser season after season. I have had my share of defeats, so I should know.
Charles Comiskey
#17. Every single pleasure I can imagine or have experienced is more delightful, more of a pleasure, if you take it in small sips, if you take your time. Reading is not an exception.
Amos Oz
#18. Unselfish love for all people without exception is the most important point of convergence among all significant spiritualities and religions.
Stephen G. Post
#19. With the exception of my wife and children, there's nothing I value more than my Oklahoma heritage.
James Garner
#20. The lives of most authors - even, or perhaps especially, the great ones - are necessarily a catalogue of tedious inwardness and cloistered composition. Globe-trotting Hemingways and brawling Christopher Marlowes are the exception, not the rule.
Paul Di Filippo
#21. Chloe narrowed her eyes. "Americans are all the same. Arrogant, self-entitled trash. You are evidently no exception." She looked away. "Huh, and here I assumed you had the corner on self-entitlement. Then again, I guess it complements that elitist attitude you've got going on.
Emily Albright
#22. The so-called paradoxes of an author, to which a reader takes exception, often exist not in the author's book at all, but rather in the reader's head.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#23. The Bible stands as the supreme Constitution for all mankind, its laws applying equally to all who live under its domain, without exception or special interpretation.
Billy Graham
#24. Among adults there are few saved because of sins of the flesh. With the exception of those who die in childhood, most men will be damned.
Saint Remigius
#25. Students of American history will recall that the important place where work gets done in the legislative body, almost without exception, is in the committees, more so than on the floor although sometimes more attention is paid to the floor.
Paul Sarbanes
#26. Audrey, if you had the choice, would you rather be his muse or be in his arms?" "I want to be both. I know it's the exception rather than the rule, but I can't hepl what I want.
Lang Leav
#27. Riley was the exception to the feast of cholesterol. For him it was dry toast, black coffee and lashings of self pity.
Alan Gibbons
#28. All generalizations, with the possible exception of this one, are false.
Kurt Godel
#29. Few words have been misunderstood more than "love," perhaps with the exception of "God
Akemi G
#30. Man, wonderful man, must collapse, into nature's cauldron, he is no deity, he is no exception.
Charles Darwin
#31. Kindness should become the natural way of life,not the exception.
Gautama Buddha
#32. Do I want someone to get more hits than me? No. Do I want someone to hit more home runs than me? No. Do I want someone to have more RBI than me? No. I get a kick out of seeing the all-time leaders and my name's on top of every one, with the exception of strikeouts. I get a kick out of that.
George Brett
#33. Growing up, it was mainly just players I followed more than teams, with the exception of the Mariners. I never really had time to follow a team throughout a season.
Jon Lester
#34. Due to the political nature of film, partisan film making, especially where the subject is close to the film makers hart, tend to be the norm, rather than the exception.
Ben Edwards
#35. 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
Ellen Mae Franklin
#36. Hale Irwin is the exception. He just does everything so well.
Ben Crenshaw
#37. We are totally opposed to abortion under any circumstances. We are also opposed to abortifacient drugs and chemicals like the pill and the IUD, and we are also opposed to all forms of birth control with the exception of natural family planning (the rhythm method)
Judie Brown
#38. Many of us enjoy going to ball games and watching them on television. I am no exception. I love to watch a good athletic contest. If we spend excessive time with sporting events, however, we may neglect things that are much more important.
Joseph B. Wirthlin
#39. My decision to register women confirms what is already obvious throughout our society-that women are now providing all types of skills in every profession. The military should be no exception.
Jimmy Carter
#40. But since the Word of God is complete, serving as the ultimate "sign" needed to lead mankind to Christ, miracles are an exception rather than the rule. And when they occur, they are always for His glory.
David Jeremiah
#41. If there ever was a misnomer, it is "exact science." Science has always been full of mistakes. The present day is no exception. And our mistakes are good mistakes; they require a genius to correct. Of course, we do not see our own mistakes.
Edward Teller
#43. How's this for honesty?" Luke said abruptly. "I want you..."
"I don't have sex with men I've just met," she murmured.
He rested his hands on her hips, the warmth of his touch searing her flesh. "Would you consider making an exception?
Elle Kennedy
#44. The fact is that all the important political philosophers and scientists from the great Aristotle on, with the exception of those of the French Enlightenment and Mill, have sided with the powers that be.
Mario Bunge
#45. I have a very, very normal life. I really do - with the exception of being very lucky and privileged. I have two children, a dog, and a husband. We live in New York, the kids go to school, and we're fortunate that we have flexible schedules. I like that. That's what I want.
Julianne Moore
#47. Where love and wisdom drink out of the same cup, in this everyday world, it is the exception.
Suzanne Curchod
#48. The lives of those who tidy thoroughly and completely, in a single shot, are without exception dramatically altered.
Marie Kondo
#49. There's a basic law, Klein's second, or third, or fourth law of politics in the TV age, which is warm always beats cold, with the exception of Richard Nixon. The nicer guy usually wins.
Joe Klein
#50. 'Dream Act' kids are like all other American kids, with the exception that they have to work harder to excel in school, they live in fear of deportation, and they worry about their future.
Jeff Hawkins
#51. Authoritative interpretations of the First Amendment guarantees have consistently refused to recognize an exception for any test of truth whether administered by judges, juries, or administrative officials and especially one that puts the burden of proving truth on the speaker.
William J. Brennan
#52. If the demons lie within they travel with you.
Everyone thinks their own situation most tragic. I am no exception.
Jeanette Winterson
#53. We need nearly every department, with the exception of police, fire and rescue, to look at what they can cut. Maybe there are some projects we need to put on hold.
Don Williams
#54. Right. But believing two opposite things at once is also called 'insanity.' You saying you're an exception to the rule?
Unknown
#55. Virtues are in the popular estimate rather the exception than the rule.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#56. To every rule there is an exception - and an idiot ready to demonstrate it. Don't be the one!
Vera Nazarian
#57. How although they'd of course been warned that their lives would be misery for years, how they had all of them, to a one, assumed they'd be the exception (and now all, to a one, secretly thought they still would be).
Hanya Yanagihara
#58. I was 25 and the most popular celebrity in the world, with the possible exception of my friend Mary Pickford.
Gloria Swanson
#59. an exception: in the sentence I asked him what he thought of my review in his book, and his response was unprintable, the word unprintable means something much more specific than "incapable of being printed.") The
Steven Pinker
#60. I know more world leaders on the stage today than anyone running, with perhaps the exception of Hillary Clinton.
Carly Fiorina
#61. If they could swing it, most parents visited during meals to try to make their child's hospital room into a piece of the familiar by eating with them, and the kids - without exception - were too kind to tell them it only made home look that much farther away.
Kim Harrison
#62. You'd be the exception, you know. With you, it would be real, not an escape.
L.B. Simmons
#63. With the exception of wars of liberation, everything that armies do is by foul means.
Victor Hugo
#64. Most bad luck is the misfortune of not being an exception.
Mason Cooley
#65. Nothing in our society-with the exception of violence and fear-has been more effective in keeping women in their place than the degradation of the menstrual cycle.
Christiane Northrup
#66. New York apartments are notoriously small, and my cute little studio is no exception - space is at a premium, which is one of the reasons that I only have a mini-fridge. Great for leftovers, cheese, and chilling Diet Coke.
Rachel Sklar
#67. Generally the first week in September brings the hottest weather of the year, and this was no exception. Overhead the fans turned slow, their paddle blades stirring the air up close to the ceiling but nowheres else ...
Shelby Foote
#68. History is full of decapitations, and Iowa is no exception.
Andrew Smith
#69. The old man, especially if he is in society in the privacy of his thoughts, though he may protest the opposite, never stops believing that, through some singular exception of the universal rule, he can in some unknown and inexplicable way still make an impression on women.
Giacomo Leopardi
#70. There are very few men of genius in advertising agencies. But we need all we can find. Almost without exception they are disagreeable. Don't destroy them. They lay golden eggs.
David Ogilvy
#71. I had a great career and I enjoyed all of it, with the exception of losing.
Drew Bledsoe
#72. All neurotics, and many others besides, take exception to the fact that 'inter urinas et faeces nascimur.
Sigmund Freud
#73. Social media is teaching us that everyone fucks up, everyone is stupid sometimes, and that this is probably part of being a thinking human. The one exception are those who participate in the self-righteousness Olympics and they often turn people who agree with them against 'em.
Joe Hill
#74. Almost without exception, blue refers to the domain of abstraction and immateriality.
Wassily Kandinsky
#75. Women are outperforming men in almost every sphere of life in our society and the women of East Indian ancestry are no exception to this rule. They have broken the cultural mould.
Kamla Persad-Bissessar
#76. 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.
Richard Rohr
#77. All of material and All of any services can be purchased, with the exception of, Love, Peace and Joy, they are not for sale at any price
I. Alan Appt
#78. For some reason, it often rained on the nights they met, and this night was no exception - a thin drizzle was falling outside.
Haruki Murikami
#79. Harmony, like a following breeze
at sea, is the exception.
Harvey Oxenhorn
#80. The great thing about space films generally, with the exception of Apollo 13, is that big stars tend not to work in space and I think that's because space is an equaliser. It makes everyone the same really and suits an ensemble cast and actors who are prepared to work with each other.
Danny Boyle
#81. You", he said, "are the single exception that rule". The oldest, deepest, most beautiful flaw in his Silence."Without you, I would be a monster.
Nalini Singh
#82. Every short statement about economics is misleading (with the possible exception of my present one).
Alfred Marshall
#83. In the simple moral maxim the Marine Corps teaches
- do the right thing, for the right reason
- no exception exists that says: unless there's criticism or risk. Damn the consequences.
Josh Rushing
#84. All human beings, without exception, are continually creating themselves with the life-energy that is flowing within them
Masami Saionji
#85. Evil that arises out of ordinary thinking and is committed by ordinary people is the norm, not the exception.
Ervin Staub
#86. 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.
Hedi Slimane
#87. Nonetheless, he is a boy. Despite his talents, a boy. And a boy is more idealistic than a man, and high ideals in the hands of children can be as dangerous as weapons. He thought he was in the right, and because he thought he was in the right, he thought there would be an exception. That's that.
Adam Levin
#88. There is nothing very remarkable about
being immortal; with the exception of mankind,
all creatures are immortal, for they know
nothing of death. What is divine, terrible, and
incomprehensible is to know oneself immortal.
Jorge Luis Borges
#89. Show some respect. They were your grandparents. -Batman
Just names and dusty frames on the wall to me. -Damien
I take exception to that. There is not a speck of dust collecting on those portraits. -Alfred
Peter J. Tomasi
#90. I do not think that tragedy is our natural fate and I do not live in chronic dread of disaster. It is no happiness, but suffering that I consider unnatural. It is not success, but calamity that I regard as the abnormal exception in Human Life.
Ayn Rand
#91. It is a well-known fact that English people never know anything. They only think. The only exception they know and they are sure about in the whole world is Marmite. 'Love it or hate it.' There are no other options; there is no space for grey space.
Angela Kiss
#92. I've never met a vegetarian that I liked, curiously. You might have been the exception, of course"
Solo
William Boyd
#93. I maintain that the greatest crime committed by America - with the possible exception of the carpet-bombing of Laos - was the Disneyfication of Winnie The Pooh.
Robert Wyatt
#94. But Truth is that besides which there is nothing: nothing to modify it, nothing to question it, nothing to form an exception: the all-inclusive, the complete - By Truth, I mean the Universal.
Charles Fort
#95. The exception proves that the rule is wrong. That is the principle of science. If there is an exception to any rule, and if it can be proved by observation, that rule is wrong.
Richard Feynman
#96. Save 3-6 months of expenses in a Rainy Day fund. Know why? Cause it is going to rain, and you aren't the exception.
Dave Ramsey
#97. Our marriage has always been a 50-50 proposition - with the possible exception of closet space.
Gene Perret
#98. The emitters of the spectral series are without exception single atoms, not compounds of atoms.
Johannes Stark
#99. Oblivion is the rule and fame the exception, of humanity.
Antoine Rivarol
#100. I never forget a face, but in your case I'll be glad to make an exception.
Groucho Marx
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