#exception

With but few exceptions, it is always the underdog who wins through sheer willpower. ↗

— Johnny Weissmuller

#exceptions #few #sheer #through #underdog

We have to say now we think the character of the party has changed so far it will take something very exceptional, something really out of the ordinary line to make us be convinced there's a chance of winning back the party. ↗

— Shirley Williams

#chance #changed #character #convinced #exceptional

As human beings, we are vulnerable to confusing the unprecedented with the improbable. In our everyday experience, if something has never happened before, we are generally safe in assuming it is not going to happen in the future, but the exceptions can kill you and climate change is one of those exceptions. ↗

— Al Gore

#before #beings #change #climate #climate change

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

— William Hazlitt

#every man #exception #forms #his #man

A novel must be exceptionally good to live as long as the average cat. ↗

— Lord Chesterfield

#cat #exceptionally #good #live #long

Humans are the only animals that have children on purpose with the exception of guppies, who like to eat theirs. ↗

— P. J. O'Rourke

#eat #exception #humans #like #only

Little islands of human happiness, peace, and prosperity are so exceptional at this point in history that I'm not even sure we can draw lessons from them. ↗

— P. J. O'Rourke

#even #exceptional #happiness #history #human

There are very few men of genius in advertising agencies. But we need all we can find. Almost without exception they are disagreeable. Don't destroy them. They lay golden eggs. ↗

— David Ogilvy

#advertising agencies #agencies #almost #destroy #disagreeable

I believe that history has shape, order, and meaning; that exceptional men, as much as economic forces, produce change; and that passe abstractions like beauty, nobility, and greatness have a shifting but continuing validity. ↗

— Camille Paglia

#believe #change #continuing #economic #economic forces

Everywhere in the world, music enhances a hall, with one exception: Carnegie Hall enhances the music. ↗

— Isaac Stern

#carnegie #carnegie hall #enhances #everywhere #exception