Quotes about Exception

You should make a point of trying every experience once, excepting incest and folk-dancing.

She even had a kind of special position among men: she was an exception, she fitted none of the categories they commonly used when talking about girls; she wasn't a cock-teaser, a cold fish, an easy lay or a sneaky bi...; she was an honorary person. She had grown to share their contempt for most women.

When told that man lives in delusion everyone thinks of himself as the exception; hence his delusion.

the mere necessity brings with it a dispensation, since necessity knows no law. . . .

Everybody has got to die, but I have always believed an exception would be made in my case.

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

The sin of David stands out like a tar-baby in a field of snow, like a blackberry in a bowl of cream. It may cause us to miss the greatness of the man. Remember that sin was the exception in David's life—not the pattern of it. The Word of God does not play down the sin of David; it does not whitewash the man. God doesn't say it is not sin. God is going to call it sin, and David will be punished for it.

Every man, in his own opinion, forms an exception to the ordinary rules of morality.

But you will tell me this is an inartistic age, and we are an inartistic people, and the artist suffers much in this nineteenth century of ours. Of course he does. I, of all men, am not going to deny that. But remember that there has never been an artistic age, or an artistic people since the beginning of the world. The artist has always been, and will always be, an exquisite exception.

To be a saint is the exception; to be a just person is the rule. Err, stumble, commit sin, but be one of the just.

To be a saint is to be an exception; to be a true man is the rule. Err, fail, sin if you must, but be upright. To sin as little as possible is the law for men; to sin not at all is a dream for angels. All earthly things are subject to sin; if is like the force of gravity.

To be a saint is the exception; to be an upright man is the rule. Err, fall, sin if you will, but be upright.