Quotes with exception

  • 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.
  • All of the religions - with the exception of Tibetan Buddhism, which doesn't believe in a heaven - teach that heaven is a better place. At the end of the program, I say that heaven is a place where you are happy. All of the religions have that in common.
  • It is tragic that the Fuehrer should have the whole nation behind him with the single exception of the Army generals. In my opinion it is only by action that they can now atone for their faults of lack of character and discipline.
  • Where love and wisdom drink out of the same cup, in this everyday world, it is the exception.
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  • Groucho Marx I never forget a face, but in your case I'll make an exception.
    Groucho Marx
    American comic actor (1890 - 1977)
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  • Gilbert Keith Chesterton Man is an exception, whatever else he is. If he is not the image of God, then he is a disease of the dust. If it is not true that a divine being fell, then we can only say that one of the animals went entirely off its head.
    Gilbert Keith Chesterton
    English writer (1874 - 1936)
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  • Barbara Walters All of the religions - with the exception of Tibetan Buddhism, which doesn't believe in a heaven - teach that heaven is a better place. At the end of the program, I say that heaven is a place where you are happy. All of the religions have that in common.
    Barbara Walters
    American journalist and author (1929 - )
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  • Bhagat Singh All the political movements of our country that have hitherto played any important role in our modern history had been lacking in the ideal at the achievement of which they aimed. Revolutionary movement is no exception.
    Bhagat Singh
    Indian socialist revolutionary (1907 - 1931)
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  • William Hazlitt Every man, in his own opinion, forms an exception to the ordinary rules of morality.
    William Hazlitt
    English writer (1778 - 1830)
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  • Amos Oz 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.
    Interview
    Amos Oz
    Israeli writer (1939 - 2018)
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  • Carl Sagan Extinction is the rule. Survival is the exception.
    The Varieties of Scientific Experience: A Personal View of the Search for God (2006) 76
    Carl Sagan
    American astronomer, cosmologist, astrophysicist and author (1934 - 1996)
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  • Alfred de Musset How glorious it is - and also how painful - to be an exception.
    Alfred de Musset
    French writer (1810 - 1857)
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  • Sir Richard Steele I know of no manner of speaking so offensive as that of giving praise, and closing it with an exception.
    Sir Richard Steele
    British Dramatist, Essayist, Editor (1672 - 1729)
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  • John F. Kennedy I think this is the most extraordinary collection of talent, of human knowledge, that has ever been gathered together at the White House, with the possible exception of when Thomas Jefferson dined alone.
    John F. Kennedy
    American politician (1917 - 1963)
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  • C. S. Lewis If, as I can't help suspecting, the dead also feel the pains of separation (and this may be one of their purgatorial sufferings), 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
    Irish novelist and poet (1898 - 1963)
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  • Barry Sanders Individual goals never meant that much to me. The Heisman is no exception.
    Barry Sanders
    American football player (1968 - )
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  • Jean Rostand 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
    French writer (1894 - 1977)
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  • John Andrew Holmes It is well to remember that the entire population of the universe, with one trifling exception, is composed of others.
    John Andrew Holmes
    American physician and writer (1874 - 1937)
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  • Günter Grass 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.
    Günter Grass
    German writer and Nobel laureate in literature (1999) (1927 - 2015)
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Nature goes her own way and all that to us seems an exception is really according to order.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • Douglas Adams Nothing travels faster than the speed of light, with the possible exception of bad news, which obeys its own special laws.
    Douglas Adams
    British science-fiction writer (1952 - 2001)
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  • Antoine Rivarol Oblivion is the rule and fame the exception, of humanity.
    Antoine Rivarol
    French journalist (1753 - 1801)
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  • Woody Allen Of all the wonders of nature, a tree in summer is perhaps the most remarkable; with the possible exception of a moose singing ''Embraceable You'' in spats.
    Woody Allen
    American movie director and actor (1935 - )
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  • Richard Buckminster Fuller Our brains deal exclusively with special-case experiences. 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.
    Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth (1963)
    Richard Buckminster Fuller
    American architect, systems theorist, author, designer, and inventor (1895 - 1983)
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