#exception

The qualities of an exceptional cook are akin to those of a successful tightrope walker: an abiding passion for the task, courage to go out on a limb and an impeccable sense of balance. ↗

— Bryan Miller

#balance #cook #courage #exceptional #go

Thousands of years and many civilizations have defined a marriage as the union between one man and one woman. With few exceptions, those civilizations that did not follow that perished. ↗

— Randy Neugebauer

#civilizations #defined #did #exceptions #few

The reader need not be told that John Bull never leaves home without encumbering himself with the greatest possible load of luggage. Our companions were no exception to the rule. ↗

— Francis Parkman

#companions #exception #greatest #himself #home

Cultivating literature as I do upon a little oatmeal, and driving, when in a position to be driven at all, in that humble vehicle, the 'bus, I have had, perhaps, exceptional opportunities for observing their mutual position and behaviour; and it is very peculiar. ↗

— James Payn

#bus #cultivating #driven #driving #exceptional

Scientists and scholars should constitute themselves as an international NGO of exceptional authority. ↗

— John Charles Polanyi

#constitute #exceptional #international #scholars #scientists

A good teacher must know the rules; a good pupil, the exceptions. ↗

— Martin H. Fischer

#good #good teacher #know #must #pupil

All parties without exception, when they seek for power, are varieties of absolutism. ↗

— Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

#exception #parties #power #seek #varieties

The best leaders... almost without exception and at every level, are master users of stories and symbols. ↗

— Tom Peters

#best #every #exception #leaders #level

I was 25 and the most popular celebrity in the world, with the possible exception of my friend Mary Pickford. ↗

— Gloria Swanson

#exception #friend #i #mary #most

It is true practically if not altogether without exception that the changes studied by any science tend to equilibrate or neutralize the forces which bring them about, and finally to come to rest. ↗

— Frank Knight

#altogether #any #bring #changes #come