Exception To The Rule Quotes

• Nature provides exceptions to every rule.

  Margaret Fuller

  Nature, Rivers, Environmental

  Margaret Fuller, Margaret F. Ossoli (2008). “Woman in the Ninteenth Century (EasyRead Large Edition)”, p.122, ReadHowYouWant.com

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

  C. S. Lewis

  Inspirational, New Beginnings, Literature

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• There is no exception to the rule that every rule has an exception.

  James Thurber

  Yoga, Exception

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• Extinction is the rule. Survival is the exception.

  Carl Sagan

  Nature, Mass Extinction, Survival

  Carl Sagan (2006). “The Varieties of Scientific Experience: A Personal View of the Search for God”, p.76, Penguin

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• I never forget a face, but in your case I'll be glad to make an exception.

  Groucho Marx

  Funny, Life, Sarcastic

  In Leo Rosten People I have Loved, Known or Admired (1970) "Groucho"

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

  John Wooden

  Leader, Demand, Results

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• The exception tests the rule.

  Richard P. Feynman

  Tests, Exception

  Richard P. Feynman (2009). “The Meaning of It All: Thoughts of a Citizen-Scientist”, p.12, Hachette UK

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• Be the exception to the rule. It's the surest way to become exceptional.

  Ron Kaufman

  Service Culture, Way, Exceptional

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

  Charles Osgood

  Reality, Likes, Exception

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• I never forget a face, but in your case I'll make an exception.

  Oscar Wilde

  Funny, Sarcastic, Witty

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• I'm fully aware that things that resonate and become real hits are the exception to the rule, so much so that I've wired myself for failure.

  Ron Perlman

  Real, Exception

  Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. October 16, 2012.

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• The artist's life cannot be otherwise than full of conflicts, for two forces are at war within him [or her]-on the one hand, the common human longing for happiness, satisfaction and security in life, and on the other a ruthless passion for creation which may go so far as to override every personal desire ... There are hardly any exceptions to the rule that a person must pay dearly for the divine gift of creative fire.

  Carl Jung

  War, Passion, Artist

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• One of the fundamental demonstrations of our natural instinct to Bond with each other is a will to give. Rather than domination, our most basic urge is to reach out to another human being, even at a cost to ourselves. Giving to others-the urge to empathize, to be compassionate, and to help others altruistically-is not the exception to the rule, but our natural state of being. Our impulse to connect with each other has developed an automatic desire to do for others, even at personal cost. Altruism comes naturally to us. It is selfishness that is culturally conditioned and a sign of pathology.

  Lynne McTaggart

  Inspirational, Helping Others, Giving

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• There are no absolutes in relationships. You can't take anything for granted. You can count on absolutely nothing but the unexpected. You only get in trouble when you start thinking that you're some kind of exception to the rule.

  Emily Giffin

  Thinking, Unexpected, Kind

  Emily Giffin (2014). “The Emily Giffin Collection: Volume 2: Baby Proof, Where We Belong, Heart of the Matter”, p.212, St. Martin's Press

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• There are two great rules of life; the one general and the other particular. The first is that everyone can, in the end, get what he wants, if he only tries. That is the general rule. The particular rule is that every individual is, more or less, an exception to the rule.

  Samuel Butler

  Two, Trying, Want

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• There's no exception to the rule, yes, everybody's somebody's fool.

  Connie Francis

  Fool, Adages, Exception

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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, Dating, My Boyfriend

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• In science, modesty and genius do not coexist well together. (In Washington, modesty and cleverness don't.) Einstein is perhaps the most famous exception to the rule.

  Charles Krauthammer

  Together, Genius, Modesty

  "An Age-old Puzzle, Solved Modestly". articles.chicagotribune.com. July 05, 1993.

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• One of the things that kept most comics from being monthly was that very few artists could produce 24 pages per month. Jack Kirby was very much the exception to the rule, but his towering presence at Marvel started to dictate the whole shape of the industry - and that's where problems set in!

  John Byrne

  Artist, Shapes, Pages

  "Back when they were fans". The John Byrne Forum, www.byrnerobotics.com. July 3, 2008.

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• Families, generally, suck. And I say that as someone who, like my husband, had parents who proved the proverbial exception to the rule.

  Julie Burchill

  Husband, Parent, Proverbial

  "Suffer little children? Give me a break" by Julie Burchill, www.theguardian.com. August 2, 2008.

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• Cell and tissue, shell and bone, leaf and flower, are so many portions of matter, and it is in obedience to the laws of physics that their particles have been moved, moulded and conformed. They are no exceptions to the rule that God always geometrizes. Their problems of form are in the first instance mathematical problems, their problems of growth are essentially physical problems, and the morphologist is, ipso facto, a student of physical science.

  D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson

  Flower, Math, Law

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• I have seen a lot of men, for example, who will make a will and include their daughters whether they are married or not. And perhaps the greatest change of attitude is that today, at least in Kenya, if you don't send your child to school - unless it's a matter of poverty or religion, and it is not that there no schools - then people wonder, "why the hell don't you send your children to school?" Now that's a very big jump from when I was going to school and educating girls was an exception to the rule.

  Wangari Maathai

  Girl, Daughter, Attitude

  Source: kenvironews.wordpress.com

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• I and haven't been unemployed for 20 years. I'm an exception to the rule.

  Denzel Washington

  Years, Unemployed, Havens

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• The other exception to the rule regards dealings with masochists. A masochist derives pleasure from being hurt; so denying the masochist his pleasure through-pain hurts him just as much as actual physical pain hurts the non masochist. The story of the truly cruel sadist illustrates this point: The masochist says to the sadist, "beat me." To which the merciless sadist replies, "NO!" If a person wants to be hurt and enjoys suffering, then there is no reason not to indulge him in his wont.

  Anton Szandor LaVey

  Hurt, Pain, Suffering

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• Never lose yourself on the stage. Always act in your own person, as an artist. The moment you lose yourself on the stage marks the departure from truly living your part and the beginning of exaggerated false acting. Therefore, no matter how much you act, how many parts you take, you should never allow yourself any exception to the rule of using your own feelings. To break that rule is the equivalent of killing the person you are portraying, because you deprive him of a palpitating, living, human soul, which is the real source of life for a part.

  Constantin Stanislavski

  Real, Artist, Soul

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