Exceptions Quotes

“To every rule there is an exception—and an idiot ready to demonstrate it. Don't be the one!”
― Vera Nazarian, The Perpetual Calendar of Inspiration

“Nature provides exceptions to every rule.”
― Margaret Fuller

“A man does not have to feel less than human to realize his sin; oppositely, he has to realize that he gets no special vindication for his sin.”
― Criss Jami, Killosophy

“A rule without exceptions is an instrument capable of doing mischief to the innocent and bringing grief -- as well as injustice -- to those who should gain exemptions from the rule's functioning.”
― Derrick Bell

“Just because history says it isn't possible doesn't mean that there aren't exceptions.”
― Gail Carriger, Blameless

“There can be no justice so long as law is absolute. Even life itself is an excercise in exceptions.”
“When has justice ever been as simple as a rule-book?” - Riker”
― The Next Generation (season 1 epis. 7: Justice)

“What do you think? Overkill?"

"I don't believe there is any such thing.
But in this case, 'yes, overkill.”
― Howard Tayler, The Teraport Wars

“Beginner knows rules, but veterans know exceptions.”
― Amit Kalantri, Wealth of Words

“people don't get me
it's more rule than exception
God bless exceptions”
― Beth Myrle Rice, Clips & Consequences: a memoir

“While we think of the boundary between what is legal and what is not as a clear dividing line, it is far from being so. Rather, the boundary becomes further and further indented and folded over time, yielding a jagged and complicated border, rather than a clear straight line. In the end, the law turns out to look like a fractal: no matter how much you zoom in on such a shape, there is always more unevenness, more detail to observe. Any general rule must end up dealing with exceptions, which in turn split into further exceptions and rules, yielding an increasingly complicated, branching structure.”
― Samuel Arbesman, Overcomplicated: Technology at the Limits of Comprehension

“Well, you know, in a way I wish I hadn't met you two. It's much more convenient to think of the opposition as a nice homogeneous, dead-wrong mass. Now I've got to muddy my thinking with exceptions.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Player Piano

“As with so much else, she was convinced that an exception would be made in her case.”
― Margaret Atwood, The Blind Assassin

“Good fortune often occurs when you stop expecting life to present opportunities to you and you start presenting opportunities to life.”
― Rasheed Ogunlaru

“I make it a point not to talk about the past. But you're special.”
― Yuhta Nishio, After Hours, Vol. 1

“A shrink once told me that an exception is a resentment waiting to be born.”
― John Verdon, Shut Your Eyes Tight

“Something remarkable is worth talking about. Worth noticing. Exceptional. New. Interesting. It's a Purple Cow.”
― Seth Godin

“Miracles are exceptions principles are the rules.”
― Sunday Adelaja

“The devil has no power over us except in our area of ignorance.”
― Sunday Adelaja, The Mountain of Ignorance

“Only a man who is exceptionally skillful can stand before kings.”
― Sunday Adelaja, How To Become Great Through Time Conversion: Are you wasting time, spending time or investing time?

“Usually given to mortals in exchange for their service, geases grant power, with a kick-in-the-teeth exception that comes upon you when you least expect it. Like, you're invulnerable, except to an arrow made of the heartwood of a hawthorn tree, which just so happens to be the exact kind of arrow that your worst enemy favours. Or you'll win every battle you're in, but you're not allowed to refuse invitations to dinner, so if someone invites you to dinner right before a battle, you're not going to be able to show up for that fight.”
― Holly Black, The Cruel Prince

“(p.85) "I love a few people and they love me and some of them are white, and isn't love more important than color?"

(p.86) "I certainly had no evidence to give them that would outweigh Elijah's authority or the evidence of their own lives or the reality of the streets outside. Yes, I knew two or three people, white, whom I would trust with my life, and I knew a few others, white, who were struggling as hard as they knew how, and with great effort and sweat and risk, to make the world more human. But how could I say this? One cannot argue with anyone's experience or decision or belief. All my evidence would be thrown out of court as irrelevant to the main body of the case, for I could only cite exceptions.”
― James Baldwin, Letter from a region in my mind

“(p. 85) I love a few people and they love me and some of them are white, and isn't love more important than color?

I certainly had no evidence to give them that would outweigh Elijah's authority or the evidence of their own lives or the reality of the streets outside. Yes, I knew two or three people, white, whom I would trust with my life, and I knew a few others, white, who were struggling as hard as they knew how, and with great effort and sweat and risk, to make the world more human. But how could I say this? One cannot argue with anyone's experience or decision or belief. All my evidence would be thrown out of court as irrelevant to the main body of the case, for I could only cite exceptions”
― James Baldwin, The Fire Next Time

“By the deficits we may know the talents, by the exceptions we may know the rules, by studying patholgoy we may construct a model of health.”
― Laurence Miller

“No involvement means no commitment—no exception.”
― Laurie Buchanan, PhD

“Hijo de tigre, no siempre sale pintado. Siempre ahi esa excepción.”
― Efrat Cybulkiewicz

“If you will invest the maximum amount of time in hard work, polishing and building your own land of promise, you will become great in life. You will become exceptional. You will become a specialist and the world would want to reckon with you.”
― Sunday Adelaja, How To Become Great Through Time Conversion: Are you wasting time, spending time or investing time?

“OWNERSHIP MUST NOT STAND ON THE PILLARS OF EXCEPTIONS.”
― Vineet Raj Kapoor

“The Buddhist system is no different than other religious systems that contain laws with embedded exceptions. In reviewing various Buddhist doctrines, doctrines, I have identified three recurring recurring exceptions to the rule of killing:

1. The intention of the person who commits the violence. Is the act accidental or deliberate?
2. The nature of the victim. Is someone killing a human, an animal, or a supernatural being? If someone kills a human, how moral is that person?
3. The stature of the killer. When evaluating the violence, is the person a king, a soldier, or a butcher?”
― Michael Jerryson, If You Meet the Buddha on the Road: Buddhism, Politics, and Violence

“How can we hold both in creative tension, the rule and the exception to the rule?”
― Richard Rohr

“My desire is to be the imaginary exception.”
― Dominic Riccitello