Exception Quotes

• If you are going to achieve excellence in big things, you develop the habit in little matters. Excellence is not an exception, it is a prevailing attitude.

  Colin Powell

  Inspirational, Motivational, Attitude

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• There is nothing about an individual as important as his IQ, except possibly his morals,

  Lewis Terman

  Psychology, Individuality, Intelligence

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• With the possible exception of the equator, everything begins somewhere.

  C. S. Lewis

  Inspirational, New Beginnings, Exception To The Rule

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• Whatever you do, always give 100%. Unless you're donating blood.

  Bill Murray

  Inspirational, Blood, Giving

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• The essence of immorality is the tendency to make an exception of myself.

  Jane Addams

  Honesty, Integrity, Character

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

  Charles Osgood

  Reality, Exception To The Rule, Likes

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• You can only govern men by serving them.

  Victor Cousin

  Leadership, Men, Serving

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• My Cape women are generally true to type - big hearted, motherly women who love the sea. My other characters, with the exception of the Portuguese, who I occasionally mention as Cape dwellers, are obviously drawn from the city types one sees in everyday life.

  Joseph C. Lincoln

  Character, Sea, Cities

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• Melancholy has ceased to be an individual phenomenon, an exception. It has become the class privilege of the wage earner, a mass state of mind that finds its cause wherever life is governed by production quotas.

  Gunter Grass

  Class, Feelings, Mind

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• It is not easy to imagine how little interested a scientist usually is in the work of any other, with the possible exception of the teacher who backs him or the student who honors him.

  Jean Rostand

  Teacher, Hard Work, Science

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• Oblivion is the rule and fame the exception, of humanity.

  Antoine Rivarol

  Humanity, Oblivion, Fame

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• With the exception of the New York Times, Fox news, and Lou Dobbs of CNN, and talk radio, the rest of the mainstream media has basically been silenced like a bunch of dumb monkeys.

  Curt Weldon

  New York, Media, Cnn

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• If man is not the image of God, then he is a disease of the dust.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Men, Dust, Disease

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• Last year my boyfriend gave me a painting - a very personal one. I really prefer personal gifts or ones made by someone for me. Except diamonds. That's the exception to the rule.

  Minnie Driver

  Years, Exception To The Rule, Dating

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• The uneducated person perceives only the individual phenomenon, the partly educated person the rule, and the educated person the exception.

  Franz Grillparzer

  Individual, Educated, Phenomenon

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• I think this is the most extraordinary collection of talent, of human knowledge, that has ever been gathered at the White House - with the possible exception of when Thomas Jefferson dined alone.

  John F. Kennedy

  Knowledge, Science, Thinking

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• 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

  Men, Agency, Eggs

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• 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

  Reading, Imagine, Pleasure

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• Their every instinct - and I have to say this is without exception - is to iron out the bumps, and It's always the bumps that are the most interesting stuff.

  Adrian Lyne

  Iron, Interesting, Intuition

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• I've made 30 movies and for the most part my movies work. In a business where success is an exception and not the rule, I've mostly been successful.

  Eddie Murphy

  Successful, Made

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• Writing is the hardest way of earning a living, with the possible exception of wrestling alligators.

  Richard Miller

  Wrestling, Writing, Way

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• I was 25 and the most popular celebrity in the world, with the possible exception of my friend Mary Pickford.

  Gloria Swanson

  Song, World, Mary

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• He examined the chess problem and set out the pieces. It was a tricky ending, involving a couple of knights. 'White to play and mate in two moves.' Winston looked up at the portrait of Big Brother. White always mates, he thought with a sort of cloudy mysticism. Always, without exception, it is so arranged. In no chess problem since the beginning of the world has black ever won. Did it not symbolize the eternal, unvarying triumph of Good over Evil? The huge face gazed back at him, full of calm power. White always mates.

  George Orwell

  Brother, Couple, Moving

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• All the natural movements of the soul are controlled by laws analogous to those of physical gravity. Grace is the only exception. Grace fills empty spaces, but it can only enter where there is a void to receive it, and it is grace itself which makes this void. The imagination is continually at work filling up all the fissures through which grace might pass.

  Simone Weil

  Law, Space, Filling Up

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• The emitters of the spectral series are without exception single atoms, not compounds of atoms.

  Johannes Stark

  Atoms, Compounds, Series

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