Quotes of: Exception Keyword

With the end of the cold war, all the 'isms' of the 20th century - Fascism, Nazism, Communism and the evil of apartheid-ism - have failed. Except one. Only democracy has shown itself true the help of all mankind.

Jack Kemp

Speech baffled my machine. Helen made all well-formed sentences. But they were hollow and stuffed--linguistic training bras. She sorted nouns from verbs, but, disembodied, she did not know the difference between thing and process, except as they func...

Galatea 2.2

The same is true of stories and legends that haunt urban space like superfluous or additional inhabitants. They are the object of a witch-hunt, by the very logic of the techno-structure. But [the extermination of proper place names] (like the extermi...

The Practice of Everyday Life

Respect the man of noble races other than your own, who carries out, in a different place, a combat parallel to yours -- to ours. He is your ally. He is our ally, be he at the other end of the world. Love all living things whose humble task is not op...

Savitri Devi

Except. What is normal at any given time? We change just as the seasons change, and each spring brings new growth. So nothing is ever quite the same.

Crown Duel

When you're in a rut, you have to question everything except your ability to get out of it.

The Creative Habit: Learn It and Use It for Life

I had my own bed. I slept in it alone, except for those times when we needed—not sex—but sex was how we got there.

The Collected Stories

A moderate silence ensued. A neutral-to-slightly-positive silence. True, silence is still silence, except when you think about it too much.

Dance Dance Dance

We fall from womb to tomb, from one blackness and toward another, remembering little of the one and knowing nothing of the other ... except through faith.

Danse Macabre

But I'm going to try to tell the truth. Except for the parts I'm leav­ing out, because there's still stuff I'm just not going to tell you. Get used to it.

Dragonhaven

Englishmen rarely cry, except under the pressure of the acutest grief; whereas in some parts of the Continent the men shed tears much more readily and freely.

The Expression of Emotion in Man and Animals

Nobody with any real sense of humor *can* write a love story. . . . Shakespeare is the exception that proves the rule. (90-91)

Emily Climbs

During the years he was never sick, except of course for the chronic indigestion which was universal, and still is, with men who live alone, cook for themselves, and eat in solitude.

East of Eden

Money's easy to make if it's money you want. But with few exceptions people don't want money. They want luxury and they want love and they want admiration.

East of Eden

There was no logic or any sense of purpose except that I knew I had to do something other than what I was doing, or I might not make it through this.

The Edge of Never

There are only 2 paths to happiness in life. Utter Stupidity or Exceptional Wealth.

Economic Warfare: Secrets of Wealth Creation in the Age of Welfare Politics

T[he rules of writing] require that the personages in a tale shall be alive, except in the case of corpses, and that always the reader shall be able to tell the corpses from the others.

Fenimore Cooper's Literary Offenses

I always think everything is going to last forever, but nothing ever does. In fact nothing exists longer than an instant except the thing that we hold in memory

Firmin

If there's one thing I don't look for in a maid, it's discretion. Except with my own secrets, of course.

Gosford Park: The Shooting Script

Everything seems to work with a recurring rhythm except life. There is only one birth and only one death. Nothing else is like that.

To a God Unknown

I've never stunned anyone except in our D.A. lessons," said Luna, sounding mildly interested. "That was noisier than I thought it would be.

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows