Quotes About Exceptions To The Rule

#1. An effective leader allows exceptions to the rule for exceptional results or when circumstance demands.

John Wooden

#2. There are no exceptions to the rule that everybody likes to be an exception to the rule.

Charles Osgood

#3. Important safety tip with most of the spiritual world: if you ignore it, it has less power. This does not work with demons or other demi-beings. Other exceptions to the rule are vampires, zombies, ghouls, lycanthropes, witches ... Oh, hell, ignoring only works for ghosts.

Laurell K. Hamilton

#4. Nature gives us all, including Prof. Lorentz, surprises. It was very quickly found that there are many exceptions to the rule of splitting of the lines only into triplets.

Pieter Zeeman

#5. You will fall to ruin because you believe that exceptions to the rule make new rules.

Pierce Brown

#6. I couldn't date someone who didn't like dogs. There are exceptions to the rule, but I find that if someone doesn't like animals, I am a little suspicious of them.

Penn Badgley

#7. Look for the exceptions to the rule
and let these rule your spirit.

Karen Salmansohn

#8. I guess that's how people grow old together. You don't see wrinkles and receding hairlines. You just see what made you care to begin with-the beautiful things they have on the inside.

Jax Garren

#9. There is no rule in this universe,which could rule this mighty Creation of that almighty Creator and that's why exceptions are always there.

Kumar Rajgeet

#10. Possibly the most interesting first impression of my life came from the world of dreams.

P.D. Ouspensky

#11. Her chief dread in life, at this period of her development, was that she would appear narrow minded; what she feared next afterwards was that she should be so.

Henry James

#12. Do you know what it's like for two people to live in the same house as if they were in different parts of the world?

Peter Shaffer

#13. Once I thought ideas were exceptions not the rule. That is not so. Ideas are so plentiful that they ride on air. You have only to reach out and snatch one.

Rod McKuen

#14. Everyone knows that for a woman to conceive in the act of coition she, as well as the man. must be satisfied. Is that not true?
Of corse it is true.

Robin Maxwell

#15. I never make exceptions. An exception disproves the rule.

Arthur Conan Doyle

#16. There is always something particularly delightful about exceptions to a rule.

Elizabeth Goudge

#17. Unfortunately," Jessie said, "he caught a terminal case of death.

Craig Schaefer

#18. To every rule there is an exception - and an idiot ready to demonstrate it. Don't be the one!

Vera Nazarian

#19. There are no norms. All people are exceptions to a rule that doesn't exist.

Fernando Pessoa

#20. A rule without exceptions is an instrument capable of doing mischief to the innocent and bringing grief
as well as injustice
to those who should gain exemptions from the rule's functioning.

Derrick A. Bell

#21. I hate to generalize because there are always so many exceptions to any rule.

Gish Jen

#22. Enzo get up you're making me look bad.

David Haye

#23. Look for the exception to every rule and you'll find it.

Marty Rubin

#24. Every impulse that we strive to strangle broods in the mind and poisons us.

Oscar Wilde

#25. Any word you have to hunt for in a thesaurus is the wrong word. There are no exceptions to this rule.

Stephen King

#26. Nature provides exceptions to every rule.

Margaret Fuller

#27. There's an exception to every rule, Nora. And you've never failed at being the exception before.

Marilyn Grey

#28. At first I intended to become a student of the Senate rules and I did learn much about them, but I soon found that the Senate hadbut one fixed rule, subject to exceptions of course, which was to the effect that the Senate would do anything it wanted to do whenever it wanted to do it.

Calvin Coolidge

#29. Exceptions are not always the proof of the old rule; they can also be the harbinger of a new one.

Marie Von Ebner-Eschenbach

#30. Supposedly, going to war initiates you into this gnostic priesthood of people who've had a liminal experience forever separating them from civilians. Except ... you go there, and it is what it is. A form of human activity as varied as any other.

Phil Klay

#31. The devotion of thought to an honest achievement makes the achievement possible. Exceptions only confirm this rule, proving that failure is occasioned by a too feeble faith.

Mary Baker Eddy

#32. From the naturalistic point of view, all men are equal. There are only two exceptions to this rule of naturalistic equality: geniuses and idiots.

Mikhail Bakunin

#33. American influence in the world is certainly considerable, but the United States does not control, directly or indirectly, the politics and economics of other societies, as empires have always done, save for a few special cases that turn out to be the exceptions that prove the rule.

Michael Mandelbaum

#34. You must always strive to be the best, but you must never believe that you are.

Juan Manuel Fangio

#35. TV is a big business. In some ways, it's surpassed films, in terms of the way people invest in these shows and invest in these characters, and give up so much of their time to follow these people's stories.

Jamie Bell

#36. For true poetry, complete poetry, consists in the harmony of contraries. Hence, it is time to say aloud
and it is here above allthat exceptions prove the rule
that everything that exists in nature exists in art.

Victor Hugo

#37. Fair fresh leaves, and buds - and buds - tiny at first but swelling and working Magic until they burst and uncurled into cups of scent delicately spilling themselves over their brims and filling the garden air.

Frances Hodgson Burnett

#38. Vice repeated is like the wandering wind, blows dust in others' eyes to spread itself.

William Shakespeare

#39. Truth is not the rule, but the exception to the rule.

Marty Rubin

#40. Exceptions are the exceptions, and finds are like ants; whenever you see one, you may be sure there are twenty.

Anne Fortier

#41. People don't get me
it's more rule than exception
God bless exceptions

Beth Myrle Rice

#42. I thanked Nancy for what she had accomplished in her war against illegal drugs, but in my heart, I was really trying to say, "Thank you, Nancy, for everything; thank you for lighting up my life for almost forty years.

Ronald Reagan

#43. Not everyone can see things the way you see it, so let go. You can't see everything the way they see it either, so let go again.

Tsem Tulku

#44. The one recurring theme in my writing, and in my life in general, is confusion. The fact that anytime you think you really know something, you're going to find out you're wrong - that is the rule. The moments where you think you have something figured out, those are the exceptions.

Conor Oberst