Exception Quotes

• Almost without exception, everything society has considered a social advance has been prefigured first in some utopian writing.

  

  David Cooperrider
  • Writing
  • Considered
  • Utopian

• Fathers always play mahagurus to their children, and I am no exception.

  

  Mithun Chakraborty
  • Children
  • Play
  • Exception

• I think with one exception I've never changed an opening sentence after a book was completed.

  

  William Gibson
  • Thinking
  • Book
  • Changed

• Anyhow they’re always exceptions. But most women, their only relationship to a man is having. Either owning or being owned.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Men
  • Women
  • Relationship

• When I recall today my early youth, I should take the boy that I then was, with the exception of a few individual features, for a different person, were it not for the existence of the chain of memories.

  

  Ernst Mach
  • Memories
  • Existence
  • Different Person

• Kindness should become the natural way of life,not the exception.

  

  Gautama Buddha
  • Kindness
  • Exception
  • Way Of Life

• There seems to be one quality of mind which seems to be of special and extreme advantage in leading him to make discoveries. It was the power of never letting exceptions go unnoticed.

  

  Francis Darwin
  • Quality
  • Special
  • Unnoticed

• You're my exception.

  

  Abbi Glines
  • Exception

• There are 3 rules to follow if you want to change; (1) Start immediately, (2) Do it flamboyantly, (3) No exceptions.

  

  William James
  • Want
  • Exception

• When you have a new government assume power, everyone, without exception, has to work for the benefit of the common good.

  

  Michel Temer
  • Government
  • Common
  • Without

• Mediocrity is now, as formerly, dangerous, commonly fatal, to the poet; but among even the successful writers of prose, those who rise sensibly above it are the very rarest exceptions.

  

  William E. Gladstone
  • Successful
  • Dangerous
  • Poet

• If, as I can't help suspecting, the dead also feel the pains of separation, then for both lovers, and for all pairs of lovers without exception, bereavement is a universal and integral part of our experience of love.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Experience
  • Feel
  • Lovers

• I would play all the parts of the song, show them the way it went together. Then I'd basically break down an arrangement - I wouldn't plan endings or beginnings - so they knew everything that was going on. I had the lyrics on a prompter so that I could remember everything I'd written, and I was able to just get into the groove and play with them. I think "Peace Trail" is one of the exceptions, where it's a later take. It just happened really quickly.

  

  Neil Young Buffalo Springfield
  • Thinking
  • Remember
  • Together

• People like Johnny Depp are an exception. He is the current model of what an actor should be. His body of work speaks volumes. He was so under-rated for so long, but he will have longevity - and it is such a gratifying thrill to see he is finally getting the recognition he deserves.

  

  Dustin Hoffman
  • People
  • Exception
  • Johnny Depp

• For talking monkeys to speak of truth is hubris of the highest degree. Where is it writ large that talking monkeys should be able to model the cosmos? If a sea urchin or a racoon were to propose to you that it had a viable truth about the universe, the absurdity of that assertion would be self-evident, but in our case we make an exception.

  

  Terence McKenna
  • Universe
  • Propose
  • Absurdity

• Anything that you give your attention to will become your "truth"... The Law of attraction says that it must. Your life and everyone else's too is but a reflection of the predominance of your thoughts. There is no exception to this.

  

  Esther Hicks
  • Love
  • Attention
  • Reflection

• Hardly any filmmakers can just make anything they want. Obviously, there are some exceptions, like Steven Spielberg, but he has that mainstream mentality and the kinds of films he loves to make are the kind that appeal to this big, mass audience.

  

  Catherine Hardwicke
  • Kind
  • Film
  • Audience

• That was the day that I promised I'd never sing of love that does not exist. but darling, You are the only exception.

  

  Hayley Williams Paramore
  • Love
  • Never
  • Sing

• My last public performance for money was in 1967. For free, it was 1972, with the exception of two little one-shot, one-song things. But that's just for friends, out of friendship for the people involved, and also because it was fun.

  

  Tom Lehrer
  • Fun
  • Song
  • Littles

• Affection makes fools. Always, without exception, love digs a channel that's sooner or later flooded by the briny water of despair.

  

  Sonya Hartnett
  • Water
  • Fool
  • Despair

• People always make mistakes when they fancy themselves exceptions.

  

  Geraldine Jewsbury
  • People
  • Mistake
  • Fancy

• Every man, in his own opinion, forms an exception to the ordinary rules of morality.

  

  William Hazlitt
  • Men
  • Opinion
  • Morality

• Being no bigot myself, I am disposed to indulge the professors of Christianity in the church that road to heaven which to them shall seem the most direct, plainest, easiest and least liable to exception.

  

  George Washington
  • Church
  • Christianity
  • Direct

• Unfortunately, goodness and honor are rather the exception than the rule among exceptional men, not to speak of geniuses

  

  Cesare Lombroso
  • Men
  • Speak
  • Honor

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