Quotes about exception

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“Restlessness and impatience change nothing except our peace and joy. Peace does not dwell in outward things, but in the heart prepared to wait trustfully and quietly on Him who has all things safely in His hands.”

“Sociopathy is the inability to process emotional experience, including love and caring, except when such experience can be calculated as a coldly intellectual task.”

“He knew everything there was to know about literature, except how to enjoy it”

“Take it from me, there's nothing like a job well done. Except the quiet enveloping darkness at the bottom of a bottle of Jim Beam after a job done any way at all.”

“There is no exception to the rule that every rule has an exception.”

“It was like a bad movie, except he didn't actually twirl his mustache.”

“Neither man nor angel can discern hypocrisy, the only evil that walks invisible except to God alone.”

“Most men go through life unchallenged, except at the final moment.”

“It's like banging my head against the wall, except if I were actually banging my head on a wall, I'd be able to make myself stop.”

“Eventually it comes to you: the thing that makes you exceptional, if you are at all, is inevitably that which must also make you lonely.”

“To my wonderful readers. Sorry about that apology for that last cliffhanger. I’ll try to avoid cliffhangers in this book. Well, except for maybe a few small ones… because I love you guys.”

“After a minute he said, "It's like-I don't know how to describe it, but it's like I belong with Jade. She really sees me. I mean, not the outside stuff. She sees me inside, and she likes me. Nobody else has ever done that…except you.”

“And before you barrel through some idiotic Cosmo girl list of how-well-do-you-know-your-man questions, let me say that I don't know squat about him except that he kisses like a god and screws like a devil.”

“Liberals, it has been said, are generous with other peoples' money, except when it comes to questions of national survival when they prefer to be generous with other peoples' freedom and security.”

“There are no absolutes in relationships. You can't take anything for granted. You can count on absolutely nothing but the unexpected. You only get in trouble when you start thinking that you're some kind of exception to the rule.”

“Everyone has a hidden agenda. Except me!”

“But what Freud showed us… was that nothing can be grasped, destroyed, or burnt, except in a symbolic way, as one says, in effigie, in absentia.”

“Extinction is the rule. Survival is the exception.”

“Grudges seldom hurt anyone except the one bearing them.”

“That was all he said, except for "Aaaeerrgghhh." Which is not really a word. But the reason that he screamed "Aaaeerrgghhh" was that Franco had bitten him savegly on the wrist.”

“None of us will ever accomplish anything excellent or commanding except when he listens to this whisper which is heard by him alone.”

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

“… and there you have it, another body on the floor surrounded by things that don't mean much to anyone except to the one who can't take any of them along.”

“There is a sort of camaraderie that rarely exists except between men who have fought the same enemies and know the same women.”

“Most People have a desire to look for the exception instead of the desire to become exceptional.”

“They use everything about the hog except the squeal.”

“perserverence w/o exception”

“I couldn't help wondering, is my husband so unattractive that no woman has ever wanted him? Except me, of course. I must have wanted him, in a way, once, but I've forgotten why, and I was too young to know what I was choosing.”

“Except for the point, the still point, There would be no dance, and there is only the dance”

“I swear, sometimes I am convinced my life is just a series of sketches for America's Funniest Home Videos, minus all that pants-dropping business. Except my life really isn't all that funny if you think about it.”

“We do survive every moment, after all, except the last one.”

“Everything about him was old except his eyes and they were the same color as the sea and were cheerful and undefeated.”

“Nothing makes us more vulnerable than loneliness except greed.”

“There comes… a longing never to travel again except on foot.”

“He wanted to appear suddenly to her in novel and heroic colors. He wanted to stir her from that casualness she showed toward everything except herself.”

“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.”

“Surgeons can cut out everything except cause.”

“Scarcely anything in literature is worth a damn except what is written between the lines.”

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

“You are in my blood. I cant help it. We can't be anywhere except together”

“I'm an atheist, and that's it. I believe there's nothing we can know except that we should be kind to each other and do what we can for people.”

“There is joy in work. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.”

“… and there was nothing to do except to wait and to hurt.”

“I still believe in the Holy Trinity, except now it's Target, Trader Joe's, and IKEA.”

“Her silence was worth more to her than a thousand words. In that silence, she had peace and clarity. Except during the night, when her own jumbled thoughts would keep her awake.”

“All people are born alike… except Republicans and Democrats.”

“He was numb except for dreading the loss of numbness.”

“There is something powerfully beguiling about the excited eyes of a young woman. They can pull all manner of nonsense out of a foolish young man, and I was no exception to this rule.”

“You are too arrogant for your own good. I officially de-mate you. Go away. I never want to see you again. Except maybe tonight. Naked. Your place. But after that, no more.”

“Don't push me
I've got a corner at my back
I've nowhere to go except over you.”

“It’s like a cotillion, this partners business, except with killing.”
“So, exactly like a cotillion,” said Simon.”

“All things must be examined, debated, investigated without exception and without regard for anyone's feelings.”

“I was young I was so young it hurt like a knife
inside
because there was no alternative except to hide as long
as possible---
not in self-pity but with dismay at my limited chance:
trying to connect.”

“Victor smiled through the pain and the blood. "Of course you have. I used to think Belikov was the savage one, but it's really you, isn't it? You're the animal with no control, no higher reasoning except to fight and kill.”

“As time goes by, as time goes by, the whip-crack of the years, the precipice of illusions, the ravine that swallows up all human endeavour except the struggle to survive.”

“You all right now?"
"I'm exceptional. Wonderful. Thanks for the concern. You complete me.”

“Philosophy … is a science, and as such has no articles of faith; accordingly, in it nothing can be assumed as existing except what is either positively given empirically, or demonstrated through indubitable conclusions.”

“It was a lie but he believed in telling lies to people. Truth telling and medicine just didn't go together except in dire emergencies, if then.”

“He sounds like Jesus. Except rich and sexy.”
“Watch it, Meg. In this town joking about Jesus could get you shot. You’ve never seen so many of the faithful who’re armed.”

“Remember, an easy question can have an easy answer. But a hard question must have a hard answer. And for the hardest questions of all, there may be no answer - except faith.”

“Bitten? You mean you're a-"
"A werewolf," said the girl. "Like everyone else here. Except you, and the asshole. And the asshole's sister.”

“Death steals everything except our stories.”

“You are an exceptional, talented, and brilliant young woman. Do not ever let anyone make you feel like you're less. Do not ever let anyone make you feel invisible.”

“People glorify all sorts of bravery except the bravery they might show on behalf of their nearest neighbors.”

“I pound on the glass, screaming my head off. Everyone ignores me except for some Capitol attendant who appears behind me and offers me a beverage.”

“Alec keeps sending me annoying photos. Lots of captions like Wish you were here, except not really.”

“For the most part people are not curious except about themselves.”

“In the depths of my heart I can’t help being convinced that my dear fellow-men, with a few exceptions, are worthless.”

“No one had ever called me unnatural before, except for the time I put ketchup on a taco.”

“Take everything you like seriously, except yourselves.”

“A massage is just like a movie, really relaxing and a total escape, except in a massage you're the star. And you don't miss anything by falling asleep!”

“All the world does as it is supposed to, except for humans. Maybe that's why you so often want to kill each other.”

“She had that rare virtue of never existing completely except for that opportune moment”

“All Americans have something lonely about them. I don't know what the reason might be, except maybe that they're all descended from immigrants.”

“I only want to write. And there's no college for that except life.”

“There is nothing to fear except the power you give to your own demons.”

“For the moment I can think of nothing— except that I am a sentient being stabbed by the miracle of these waters that reflect a forgotten world.”

“It's just hard to see a friend hurt this much. Especially when you can't do anything except "be there". I want to make him stop hurting, but I can't.”

“He never felt lonliness except when he was happy.”

“Let's face it - with a few exceptions, nobody likes anybody.”

“Now, five years is nothing in a man's life except when he is very young and very old…

- Wang Lung”

“I am not good at noticing when I'm happy, except in retrospect.”

“And yet, even as she spoke, she knew that she did not wish to come back. not to stay, not to live. She loved the little yellow cottage more than she loved any place on earth. but she was through with it except in her memories.”

“I didn't like anyone except me having their hands all over him. There had been possession in Wolf's touch, and Adam belonged to me.”

“Censorship ends in logical completeness when nobody is allowed to read any books except the books that nobody can read.”

“I have never known what to tell anybody. Except that it is better to do something than nothing, even if the cost is great.”

“The Simi is environmentally sound. Eat everything except for hooves”

“They fight a war and they don't know what for. Isn't that crazy? How can one man kill another and not really know the reason why he does it, except that the other man wears a different color uniform and speaks a different language?”

“You know, Aunt Tasha makes jokes about how youʹd actually be a better queen than the others, except sometimes… I donʹt think sheʹs joking.”

“There is no failure except in no longer trying.”

“… nothing ever happens quickly (except when it does). Nothing is ever, ever easy (except when it is). And, most of all, nothing ever goes perfectly according to plan (except in the movies).”

“…we can not love or think except in fragments of time each of which goes along its own trajectory and immediately disappears.”

“She wanted nothing that he could offer her, except perhaps his absence.”

“The true meaning of Christ's teaching consists in the recognition of love as the supreme law of life, and therefore not admitting any exceptions.”

“One moment several things are possible, the next moment only one happens, and the rest don't exist. Except that other worlds have sprung into being, on which the did happen.”

“I didn’t care about anything except her and the way touching her drove me wild, even as her calm and steady presence soothed the storms that raged within me.”

“That's great. Except for the fact that it's completely unimportant.”

“And things were back to normal except we were just friends.”

“My father, I never knew, except for this one time when he threw a ball and told me to go fetch it.

"Dad," I said. "Am I a dog?"

"Lydia," he said. "I apologize.”