Quotes of: Exception Keyword

You can only govern men by serving them. The rule is without exception.

Victor Kiam

There's no difference between movies and television. None at all. Except in a lot of cases, television's much better than movies.

George Lucas

A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.

Anatole France

Everywhere I have sought rest and not found it, except sitting in a corner by myself with a little book.

Arthur Helps

I don't ever take credit for discovering anybody, except for McLovin on 'Superbad'.

Allison Jones

All Americans should be exempt from the atrocities of Obamacare - no exception.

Austin Scott

I always feel comfortable, basically in any situation except perhaps airports.

Andre Leon Talley

Nothing except a battle lost can be half so melancholy as a battle won.

Arthur Wellesley

With few exceptions, one ought always do what one is afraid of.

Viggo Mortensen

It is extremely dangerous to encourage people to see themselves as exceptional, whatever the motivation.

Vladimir Putin

The rocket worked perfectly except for landing on the wrong planet.

Wernher von Braun

No one ever approaches perfection except by stealth, and unknown to themselves.

William Hazlitt

The puma is, with the exception of some monkeys, the most playful animal in existence.

William Henry Hudson

The Haitian people are gentle and lovable except for their enormous and unconscious cruelty.

Zora Neale Hurston

War is never economically beneficial except for those in position to profit from war expenditures.

Ron Paul

The woman at the desk was a university graduate, young, colourless, spectacled, and intensely disagreeable. She had a fixed suspicion that no one — at least, no male person — ever consulted works of reference except in search of pornography. As s...

Keep the Aspidistra Flying

Our progress in degeneracy appears to me to be pretty rapid. As a nation, we began by declaring that 'all men are created equal.' We now practically read it, 'all men are created equal, except negroes.' When the Know-Nothings get control, it will rea...

Speeches and Writings, 1832-1858

It was a part of myself that was my enemy; I still had a childish illusion that the flesh on my own bones was somehow unique and precious to the universe, in some obscure corner of my mind I wanted the others to love me and make exceptions for me sim...

Mortal Leap

When I say "The good man gave his good dog a good meal," I use "good" analogically, for there is at the same time a similarity and a difference between a good man, a good dog, and a good meal. All three are desirable, but a good man is wise and moral...

Socratic Logic 3.1e: Socratic Method Platonic Questions

Love is a dangerous thing. It comes in disguise to change our life... Lust is the deceiver. Lust wrenches our lives until nothing matters except the one we think we love, and under that deceptive spell we kill for them, give all for them, and then, w...

Sword Song

If love were enough, I’d tell St Peter to close his gates; I’d block out the stars, and cover the moon with a fist. I’d find a place where time stands still, where no world would exist, except one where we could stand together arm in arm. Excep...

The Postcard