Exception Quotes - Page 29

• Blogs are the main exception I make in my aversion to complex machinery.

  Laurie R. King

  Aversion, Machinery, Complexes

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• While one could hardly say that philosophers have given much attention to the place that the concept of evil has among our moral concepts, they have done so more in the last ten or so years than they had before. I have, therefore, often wondered why there has been so little discussion of goodness. In Search of Goodness is not only an exception: it is an admirable one. It is original and provocative, impressive both in its breadth and depth.

  Raimond Gaita

  Years, Evil, Depth

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• There were no exceptions for the aged, the ill, the women in pregnancy.

  Herbert Adams Gibbons

  Pregnancy, Genocide, Ill

  Herbert Adams Gibbons (1916). “The Blackest Page of Modern History: Events in Armenia in 1915 : The Facts and the Responsibilities”

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• Only our minds are able to discover the generalized principles operating without exception in each and every special-experience case which if detected and mastered will give knowledgeable
  advantage in all instances.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Giving, Mind, Special

  R. Buckminster Fuller (2008). “Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth”, p.67, Estate of R. Buckminster Fuller

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• There are, however, exceptions to this reliance on feelings as evidence of truth: if, for instance, your feelings lead to disbelief instead of belief, they're apt to be dismissed as some form of denial. This is not a common problem. Usually intellectualism, not feeling reality, is blamed for disbelief. But, some angel experts suggest, there may be emotional as well as intellectual barriers to belief: unwillingness to believe in angels can reflect low self-esteem.

  Wendy Kaminer

  Self Esteem, Believe, Angel

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• There was the strangest combination of church influence against me. Baker is a Campbellite; and therefore, as I suppose with few exceptions, got all of that Church. My wife had some relations in the Presbyterian churches, and some in the Episcopal churches; and therefore, wherever it would tell, I was set down as either one or the other, while it was everywhere contended that no Christian ought to vote for me because I belonged to no Church, and was suspected of being a Deist and had talked of fighting a duel.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Christian, Fighting, Wife

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• [I would] just stick to the festival as much as possible. Because it's about the music for me, really. [I don't come] all the way here to go to trendy parties. There are some people who come here to go to parties. [The exception is when] it's an after-party and the festival has closed. Festivals are kind of magical places, and you need to soak as much of that up as possible.

  Chelsea Leyland

  Party, People, Needs

  Source: www.elle.com

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• Man will rise, if God by exception lends him a hand; he will rise by abandoning and renouncing his own means, and letting himselfbe raised and uplifted by purely celestial means.

  Michel de Montaigne

  God, Mean, Men

  Michel de Montaigne (1958). “Complete Essays”, p.457, Stanford University Press

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• I have had a career in which, almost without exception, every single person Ive worked with has helped me.

  Marian Seldes

  Careers, Single Person, Persons

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• Political leaders, lacking documents that could be kept secret (apart from the occasional exception), lacking media they could control, were of necessity brought into a direct and immediate relationship with their constituents, and therefore under more and direct and immediate control.

  Moses Finley

  Media, Leader, Political

  "Democracy Ancient And Modern". Book by Moses Finley (Second Edition). Chapter 1, Leaders and Followers, p. 18, 1985.

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• Allowing for exceptions, there is still one basic difference between the traditional arts and the mass-media arts: in the traditional arts, the artist grows; in a mass medium, the artist decays profitably.

  Pauline Kael

  Art, Media, Differences

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• society has no qualms about a masseuse who is paid for touching people, or about laborers, or professional athletes or dancers, all of whom make a living with their bodies. Why should we make an exception for sex?

  Sydney Biddle Barrows

  Sex, Athlete, Qualms About

  Sydney Biddle Barrows, William Novak (1987). “Mayflower Madam: The Secret Life of Sydney Biddle Barrows”, Ivy Books

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• ... some people cannot bear the truth, no matter how tactfully it is told. No doubt the haughty, the tyrannical, the unmerciful, the impure and the fomentors of discord take a fierce exception to the Sermon on the Mount.

  Mary Church Terrell

  People, Doubt, Matter

  Mary Church Terrell (1986). “A Colored Woman in a White World”

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• People always make mistakes when they fancy themselves exceptions.

  Geraldine Jewsbury

  Mistake, People, Fancy

  Geraldine Endsor Jewsbury (2009). “Zoe: The History of Two Lives”, p.161, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• art itself shuns commonality: while the scientist may seek the phenomenon that repeats itself, the artist seeks the exception.

  Dore Ashton

  Art, May, Scientist

  Dore Ashton (1976). “A Critical Study of Philip Guston”, p.1, Univ of California Press

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• The process of specialization tends, almost inevitably, to narrow the sources from which the rules of any science are drawn; and English law is no exception from this rule.

  Edward Jenks

  Law, Source, Process

  Edward Jenks (1922). “A Short History of English Law: From the Earliest Times to the End of the Year 1919”

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• I don't hold it against the men who beat me because undoubtedly there are some ruffians of every nationality and the English are not exceptions.

  Oswald Pohl

  Men, Ruffian, He Man

  "The Nuremberg Interviews". Book by Leon Goldensohn, 2004.

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• If you feel like getting a divorce, you are no exception to the general rule.

  Elizabeth Hawes

  Divorce, Feels, Ifs

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• Do I wish that things were more orderly in Washington and rational and people listened to the best arguments and compromised and operated in a more thoughtful and organized fashion? Absolutely. But when you look at history that's been the exception rather than the norm.

  Barack Obama

  Fashion, Thoughtful, People

  "Meet the Press" with David Gregory, www.nbcnews.com. December 30, 2012.

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• There’s this powerful phrase in the legal world, “Difficult cases make bad law.” The exception is the difficult case. You can’t generalize them by definition. So although they are fascinating, they don’t solve any problem because they’re so one of a kind.

  Malcolm Gladwell

  Powerful, Law, Phrases

  "The Rumpus Interview With Malcolm Gladwell". Interview with Stephen Elliott, therumpus.net. January 22, 2009.

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• It is not enough that you can form nay, and follow, the most excellent rules for conducting yourself in the world. You must also know when to deviate from them, and where lies the exception.

  Sir Fulke Greville

  Lying, World, Enough

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• With a few exceptions, Fellini's films have failure and despair running through them: Life continues, but I can't imagine 'Felliniesque' as an exclusively uplifting adjective. Fellini's best films are the ones that distill this essence -- the paradoxical quality of melancholic ecstasy, a surreal, bittersweet vitality -- to perfection.

  Damian Pettigrew

  Uplifting, Running, Essence

  The Los Angeles Times, April 2003.

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• If you're going to generalize about women, you'll find yourself up to here in exceptions.

  Dolores Hitchens

  Women, Finding Yourself, Ifs

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• Those as don't eat, without exception, fail to survive.

  Calamity Jane

  Failing

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• If the gatherer gathers too-much, Nature takes out of the man what she puts into his chest; swells the estate, but kills the owner. Nature hates, monopolies and exceptions.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Hate, Men, Too Much

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “Nature and Other Essays”, p.136, Courier Corporation

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