Exception Quotes - Page 40

• We each owe a death, there are no exceptions, I know that, but sometimes, oh God, the Green Mile is so long.

  Stephen King

  Long, Green, Sometimes

  Stephen King (2010). “The Green Mile: The Complete Serial Novel”, p.378, Simon and Schuster

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• He poured the tumbler full. Drink up, he said. The world goes on. We have dancing nightly and this night is no exception. The straight and the winding way are one and now that you are here what do the years count since last we two met together? Men's memories are uncertain and the past that was differs little from the past that was not.

  Cormac McCarthy

  Memories, Past, Night

  Cormac McCarthy (2015). “Blood Meridian: Picador Classic”, p.348, Pan Macmillan

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• The love of Christ embraces all without exception. Fire of love, crazy over what You have made. Oh, divine Madman. (Prayer of Catherine Siena) Simply do the next thing in love. I have no sense of myself apart from you. Quia amasti me, fecisti me amabilem. (In loving me, you made me lovable.)

  Brennan Manning

  Prayer, Crazy, Fire Of Love

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• You tell yourself that noise is what defines silence. Without noise, silence would not be golden. Noise is the exception. Think of deep outer space, the incredible cold and quiet where your wife and kid wait. Silence, not heaven, would be reward enough.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Kids, Thinking, Space

  "Lullaby". Book by Chuck Palahniuk, 2002.

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• In the economy of nature nothing is ever lost. I cannot belive that the soul of man shall prove the one exception

  Gene Stratton-Porter

  Men, Soul, Economy

  Gene Stratton-Porter (2007). “Field O' My Dreams: The Poetry of Gene Stratton-Porter”

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• That the speech of self-disclosure should be translatable seems to me very odd, but I am convinced that it is. The conclusion that I draw is that the only quality which all human being without exception possess is uniqueness: any characteristic, on the other hand, which one individual can be recognized as having in common with another, like red hair or the English language, implies the existence of other individual qualities which this classification excludes.

  W. H. Auden

  Hair, Self, Hands

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• And knowing what happens on average is a good place to start. By so doing, we insulate ourselves from the tendency to build our thinking - our daily decisions, our laws, our governance - on exceptions and anomalies rather than on reality

  Steven Levitt

  Reality, Thinking, Average

  Steven D. Levitt, Stephen J. Dubner (2010). “SuperFreakonomics, Illustrated edition: Global Cooling, Patriotic Prostitutes, and Why Suicide Bombers Should Buy Life Insurance”, p.31, Harper Collins

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• Everyone thinks their own situation most tragic. I am no exception.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Thinking, Tragic, Situation

  Jeanette Winterson (2007). “Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit”, p.161, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• I still don’t believe it. It’s not in him. Yeah, and you are delusional. Babe, news flash, with the exception of you and the pirate, we’re all animals here. And we all have a killer’s instinct.

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Believe, Animal, Pirate

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2005). “Unleash the Night”, p.215, Farrar, Straus, and Giroux

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• Grief is a curious thing, when it happens unexpectedly. It is a Band-aid being ripped away, taking the top layer off a family. And the underbelly of a household is never pretty, ours no exception.

  Jodi Picoult

  Grief, Bereavement, Band

  Jodi Picoult (2009). “My Sister's Keeper - Movie Tie-In: A Novel”, p.422, Simon and Schuster

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• There is no exception to this rule: "All the paths of the LORD are mercy and truth unto such as keep his covenant." They say there is no rule without an exception, but there is an exception to that rule.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Covenant, Path, Mercy

  Spurgeon, Charles (2015). “The Complete Works of C. H. Spurgeon, Volume 33: Sermons 1938-2000”, p.557, Delmarva Publications, Inc.

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

  Lucy Maud Montgomery

  Real, Writing, Stories

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• We're taught that in life, we should try to look on the bright side. Not in this case. In this case, assume rejection first. Assume you're the rule, not the exception. It's liberating. But we also know it's not an easy concept. -He's not just into you

  Greg Behrendt

  Truth, Dating, Rejection

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• Any ballplayers that played for me on either the Cardinals or the Yankees could come to me if he were in need and I would give him a helping hand. I made only two exceptions, Carl Mays and Joe Bush. If they were in a gutter, I'd kick them.

  Miller Huggins

  Hands, Two, Yankees

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• THIS ACTION THAT I FORESEE
  has nothing to do with melodrama
  It is that life as lived by me now is a series of exceptions
  I was (am?) not unique but special.
  This is why I was an artist

  Francesca Woodman

  Unique, Artist, Special

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• We all think that an exception is going to be made in our case and were going to live forever. Being a human is actually arriving at the understanding that thats not going to be. Story is there to remind us that its just OK.

  Ken Burns

  Thinking, Forever, Understanding

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• Lord Darlington (LD): I think life too complex a thing to be settled by these hard and fast rules. Lady Windemere (LW): If we had 'hard-and-fast rules' we would find life much simpler. LD: You allow of no exceptions? LW: None! LD: Ah, what a fascinating Puritan you are, LW. LW: The adjective was unnecessary, LD.

  Oscar Wilde

  Life, Thinking, Lds

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• When certain concepts of TeX are introduced informally, general rules will be stated; afterwards you will find that the rules aren't strictly true. In general, the later chapters contain more reliable information than the earlier ones do. The author feels that this technique of deliberate lying will actually make it easier for you to learn the ideas. Once you understand a simple but false rule, it will not be hard to supplement that rule with its exceptions.

  Donald Knuth

  Lying, Learning, Simple

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• To change one's life:
  a. Start immediately
  b. B. Do it flamboyantly
  c. No exceptions
  Never suffer an exception to occur till the new habit is securely rooted.

  William James

  Dream, Suffering, Habit

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• To be committed means you are willing to make a promise with no exception of return.

  Peter Block

  Learning, Knowledge, Mean

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• We decided to set our direct-action program around the Easter season, realizing that, with exception of Christmas, this was the largest shopping period of the year. Knowing that a strong economic withdrawal program would be the by-product of direct action.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Inspirational, Easter, Strong

  Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2013). “The Essential Martin Luther King, Jr.: "I Have a Dream" and Other Great Writings”, p.88, Beacon Press

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• Great leaders always have self-discipline -without exception.

  John C. Maxwell

  Self, Discipline, Leader

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• In any culture, subculture, or family in which belief is valued above thought, and self-surrender is valued above self-expression, and conformity is valued above integrity, those who preserve their self-esteem are likely to be heroic exceptions.

  Nathaniel Branden

  Integrity, Self Esteem, Expression

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• Among adults there are few saved because of sins of the flesh. With the exception of those who die in childhood, most men will be damned.

  Saint Remigius

  Men, Childhood, Adults

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• The first fundamental law of the universe is the law of three forces, of three principles, or , as it is often called, the law of three. According to this law every action, every phenomenon in all worlds without exception, is the result of a simultaneous action of three forces- the positive, the negative, and the neutralizing.

  G. I. Gurdjieff

  Law, Principles, Negative

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