exception quotes

• 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) [nature/exception]
• 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) [life/more/exception]
• 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 K. Chesterton) [exception/god/disease/dust]
• You can only govern men by serving them. The rule is without exception. (Victor Cousin) [men/exception]
• There are few ironclad rules of diplomacy but to one there is no exception. When an official reports that talks were useful, it can safely be concluded that nothing was accomplished. (John Kenneth Galbraith) [diplomacy/exception]
• Nature goes her own way and all that to us seems an exception is really according to order. (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe) [nature/exception/order]
• Every man, in his own opinion, forms an exception to the ordinary rules of morality. (William Hazlitt) [opinion/exception/]
• We must make automatic and habitual, as early as possible, as many useful actions as we can...in the acquisition of a new habit, we must take car to launch ourselves with as strong and decided initiative as possible. Never suffer an exception to occur till the new habit is securely rooted in your life. (William James) [habit/take/exception/habit]
• The most common lie is that which one lies to himself; lying to others is relatively an exception. (Friedrich Nietzsche) [exception]
• As regards the celebrated struggle for life, it seems to me for the present to have been rather asserted than proved. It does occur, but as the exception; the general aspect of life is not hunger and distress, but rather wealth, luxury, even absurd prodigality -- where there is a struggle it is a struggle for power. (Friedrich Nietzsche) [life/present/exception/life]
• The way by which you may get money almost without exception leads downward. (Henry David Thoreau) [money/exception]
• Without exception, they each answered, 'If I could, I'd want to get back to the field to help the rest of our guys get back. (Benjamin Bratt) [exception/rest]
• I kind of wanted to give him that James Evans nobility, ... With the exception of 'The Cosby Show,' every black father I see on TV, they're not really masculine. They're like these theater-type guys -- not gay, not straight, just theater. (Chris Rock) [give/exception/gay]
• He took exception to that, and he's right, ... This is culture. What is counterculture is 'The Anna Nicole Smith Show. (Crispin Glover) [exception/right/culture]
• 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) [business/exception]
• It was exactly what was released two months later with the exception of a couple of reaction shots which we went back in to get. I liked the movie very much and asked him what the studio's problem was. I felt that he was at a point where they might have worn him down. (Madeleine Stowe) [exception/movie/problem/point]
• I was 25 and the most popular celebrity in the world, with the possible exception of my friend Mary Pickford. (Gloria Swanson) [celebrity/exception]
• I and haven't been unemployed for 20 years. I'm an exception to the rule. (Denzel Washington) [exception]

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