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There are those whose sole claim to profundity is the discovery of exceptions to the rules.
— Paul Eldridge
In the depths of my heart I can't help being convinced that my dear fellow-men, with a few exceptions, are worthless.
— Sigmund Freud
With some notable exceptions, businessmen favor free enterprise in general but are opposed to it when it comes to themselves.
— Milton Friedman
Systems are to be appreciated by their general effects, and not by particular exceptions.
— James F. Cooper
I just get really defensive as soon as anyone comes near my personal life. I made a decision early on that it's strictly off-limits. No exceptions.
— Samantha Morton
In love there are no rules, only exceptions.
— Marty Rubin
The politician in my country seeks votes, affection and respect, in that order. With few notable exceptions, they are simply men who want to be loved.
— Edward R. Murrow
He's not like you, Tod. Aside from a couple of notable exceptions, you tend to think things through, but Nash is ruled by his heart -
— Rachel Vincent
The science of government is only a science of combinations, of applications, and of exceptions, according to times, places and circumstances.
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
If you're going to generalize about women, you'll find yourself up to here in exceptions.
— Dolores Hitchens
With few exceptions, one ought always do what one is afraid of.
— Viggo Mortensen
What puzzled me was why I seemed to be so troubled by all these irregularities and exceptions to major rules while others blithely marched ahead.
— Catherine Gildiner
Look for the exceptions to the rule
and let these rule your spirit. — Karen Salmansohn
and let these rule your spirit. — Karen Salmansohn
Science admits no exceptions; otherwise there would be no determinism in science, or rather, there would be no science.
— Claude Bernard
With rare exceptions, the outlaw bike is a Harley 74,
— Hunter S. Thompson
I can't make exceptions for myself. If I can run, I will run. I don't have to feel good to do it.
— Patricia Hamill
The really intelligent are as abnormal as the defective. The great masses of men are rather mediocre, and those above and below are exceptions.
— Clarence Darrow
Young men know the rules, but old men know the exceptions.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
Morality is: the mediocre are worth more than the exceptions ... I abhore Christianity with a deadly hatred.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
It is not true that Pena is 20 points above me. It's part of the management of the regime. They have control of the media, with few exceptions.
— Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador
The English mode of existence in which everybody acts as if everybody else ( with few, or no exceptions ) was either an enemy or a bore.
— John Stuart Mill
All of the negativity and unsavory characters in this environment only serve to make the exceptions shine all the more brightly.
— Damien Echols
With few exceptions, the leading women in philanthropy, notably Melinda Gates, are the wives or daughters of rich and powerful men.
— Kavita Ramdas
I am pro-life, I believe in exceptions for rape, incest and the life of the mother. That's my position, take it or leave it.
— Chris Christie
Something remarkable is worth talking about. Worth noticing. Exceptional. New. Interesting. It's a Purple Cow.
— Seth Godin
Natural laws admit of no exceptions.
— Herbert M. Shelton
There are exceptions to all rules, but it seldom answers to follow the advice of an opponent.
— Benjamin Disraeli
What do you think? Overkill?"
"I don't believe there is any such thing.
But in this case, 'yes, overkill. — Howard Tayler
"I don't believe there is any such thing.
But in this case, 'yes, overkill. — Howard Tayler
Nothing drives progress like the imagination. The idea precedes the deed. The only exceptions are accidents and natural selection.
— Theodore Levitt
All those people whose faces decorate the shopping bags of Barnes and Noble, with a few exceptions, would never get published today.
— Mark Crispin Miller
With rare exceptions, all of your most important achievements on this planet will come from working with others - or, in a word, partnership.
— Paul Farmer
To change one's life: Begin now. Be bold. No exceptions.
— William James
Reviewers, with some rare exceptions, are a most stupid and malignant race.
— Percy Bysshe Shelley
Women don't paint very well. It's a fact. There are, of course, exceptions. Agnes Martin or, from the past, Paula Modersohn-Becker.
— Georg Baselitz
Remember that history always repeats itself. Every great bubble in history has broken. There are no exceptions.
— Jeremy Grantham
The exceptions of the scrupulous put one in mind of some general pardons where everything is forgiven except crimes.
— Henry Fielding
There's an exception to every rule, Nora. And you've never failed at being the exception before.
— Marilyn Grey
Blanket statements are always stupid. NO EXCEPTIONS!
— Craig Benzine
The way of success is not run with seven league boots but step by step, little by little, bit by bit ... with no exceptions allowed.
— Sterling W. Sill
If you don't handle [exceptions], we shut your application down. That dramatically increases the reliability of the system.
— Anders Hejlsberg
Laws are made by the old, exceptions by the young.
— Austin O'Malley
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
Life is always better than death. Always. No exceptions.
— Greer Macallister
In Africa through the 1990s, with notable exceptions in Senegal and Uganda, nearly all the ruling powers denied they had a problem with AIDS.
— Barton Gellman
Hard cocks, with glorious exceptions, were hardly ever literary.
— Roberto Bolano
A good teacher must know the rules; a good pupil, the exceptions.
— Martin H. Fischer
If an act is not one of work or courage, then it is not an act of love. There are no exceptions.
— M. Scott Peck
Talent is never enough. With few exceptions the best players are the hardest workers.
— Magic Johnson
An effective leader allows exceptions to the rule for exceptional results or when circumstance demands.
— John Wooden
They wrongly believe that good intentions move mountains. Bulldozers move mountains. But there are exceptions.
— Peter Drucker
We live; we feel; we hurt. the world makes no exceptions.
— Balthazar Getty
I write the poems first, with only a few exceptions for odd reasons, where I'm given the illustration first.
— Jack Prelutsky
If you know you're the best it only makes sense for you to surround yourself with the best. NO EXCEPTIONS
— Kanye West
I stress that we unambiguously support strengthening the non-proliferation regime, without any exceptions, on the basis of international law.
— Vladimir Putin
You will fall to ruin because you believe that exceptions to the rule make new rules.
— Pierce Brown
The young man knows the rules but the old man knows the exceptions.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
To change one's life:
1. Start immediately.
2. Do it flamboyantly.
3. No exceptions. — William James
1. Start immediately.
2. Do it flamboyantly.
3. No exceptions. — William James
Everyone knows what a curve is, until he has studied enough mathematics to become confused through the countless number of possible exceptions.
— Felix Klein
In general, writers shouldn't be killed for what they write, though I can think of exceptions.
— Salman Rushdie
God has called every Christian to a holy life. There are no exceptions to this call. It
— Jerry Bridges
By the deficits we may know the talents, by the exceptions we may know the rules, by studying patholgoy we may construct a model of health.
— Laurence Miller
A woman's biography - with about eight famous historical exceptions - so often turns out to be the story of a man and the woman who helped his career.
— Catherine Drinker Bowen
A writer writes. There are no exceptions to this reality. No excuses. Stop wasting time talking about your stories and get them on paper.
— Christy Hall
Exceptions are dangerous, Mr. Clay. Give them a foothold and they turn into habits.
— Lawana Blackwell
With but few exceptions, it is always the underdog who wins through sheer willpower.
— Johnny Weissmuller
All great economists are tall. There are two exceptions: John Kenneth Galbraith and Milton Friedman.
— George Stigler
Any word you have to hunt for in a thesaurus is the wrong word. There are no exceptions to this rule.
— Stephen King
Be the exception, and be happy.
— Marty Rubin
Equality means equality for all- no exceptions, no 'yes, buts', no asterisked footnotes imposing limits.
— Hubert H. Humphrey
Nature provides exceptions to every rule.
— Margaret Fuller
He practices exceptions and bends the rules.
— Aporva Kala
In general, people are comfortable sharing their music. There are two exceptions, though - Lady Gaga and Britney Spears.
— Daniel Ek
All men seek happiness. There are no exceptions ... This is the motive of every act of every man, including those who go and hang themselves.
— Blaise Pascal
All exceptional people are, by definition, exceptions to the norm. If we insist on being ordinary, we can never be truly extraordinary.
— William Ritter
With relatively few exceptions, the novel sacrifices too much, for me, on the altar of plot.
— David Shields
The mind demands rules; the facts demand exceptions.
— Mason Cooley
Yeah, well, food's one of the five exceptions to Gamp's Law of Elemental Transfigurations, said Ron, to general astonishment.
— J.K. Rowling
Give all glory to God. Always. No exceptions.
— Lydia Marshall
Exceptions are not always the proof of the old rule; they can also be the harbinger of a new one.
— Marie Von Ebner-Eschenbach
With a very few exceptions, every word in the French vocabulary comes straight from the Latin.
— Lytton Strachey
There are always exceptions to every generalization.
[A Christian Epilogue] — John B. Cobb Jr.
[A Christian Epilogue] — John B. Cobb Jr.
Negative feelings were shades of black, with a few exceptions. Envy was green. Pride was purple. And lust was red.
— Wendy Higgins
Government power is always abused by seizing and perverting the law. And with few exceptions, government always determines what is law.
— John Galt
In the defense of civil liberties there can be no exceptions, or there will soon be many.
— A.J. Muste
I'm here as a product of process of evolution, which doesn't make very many exceptions. And which rates life relatively cheaply.
— Christopher Hitchens
There were no exceptions for the aged, the ill, the women in pregnancy.
— Herbert Adams Gibbons