Exception Quotes

• 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

• 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

• The puma is, with the exception of some monkeys, the most playful animal in existence.

  

  William Henry Hudson
  • Animal
  • Existence
  • Exception

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

  

  Gautama Buddha
  • Kindness
  • Exception
  • Way Of Life

• 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

• 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
  • Absurdity
  • Propose

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• People always make mistakes when they fancy themselves exceptions.

  

  Geraldine Jewsbury
  • People
  • Mistake
  • Fancy

• 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

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

  

  William Hazlitt
  • Men
  • Opinion
  • Morality

• My love for you is not plain But it does not add up I love you not Yes, I have never revealed it to anyone Nor will I ever do so You are no exception either Yes, I will keep my words to me But, I have no control over my eyes That might blab out And lead you to take My love is for you only Though I'm not to say so.

  

  Akram Khan
  • Love
  • Control
  • Exception

• 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 Bright Eyes
  • Thinking
  • Writing
  • Moments

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