#exception

It is not easy to imagine how little interested a scientist usually is in the work of any other, with the possible exception of the teacher who backs him or the student who honors him. ↗

— Jean Rostand

#backs #easy #exception #him #honors

America is exceptional: but because it yields the likes of Obama, not the likes of Bush. ↗

— Eric Liu

#because #bush #exceptional #likes #obama

Repressive regimes do not endure change willingly - and Venezuela is no exception. ↗

— Leopoldo Lopez

#endure #exception #regimes #repressive #venezuela

There were exceptions, a couple of families that just plain didn't want to even think about it, although forty years had passed but mostly the people were very interested in talking about it. ↗

— Walter Lord

#although #couple #even #exceptions #families

I grew up in a community where it was not the exception to be a good girl. It was sort of expected. And all of my friends were good girls too, and my boyfriends were good boys. Everybody was pretty nice. And that affects how I write my characters. There aren't very many bad guys in my novels. ↗

— Stephenie Meyer

#bad #bad guys #characters #community #everybody

The decline of manners, the cynical pursuit without shame or restraint of personal advantage and of money characterizes our times, not without exceptions, of course, but more than we ought to be comfortable with. ↗

— J. Irwin Miller

#characterizes #comfortable #course #cynical #decline

If Moses had gone to Harvard Law School and spent three years working on the Hill, he would have written the Ten Commandments with three exceptions and a saving clause. ↗

— Charles Morgan

#commandments #exceptions #gone #had #harvard

My mobile rang around lunchtime one day, and it was George Michael. He wanted to come in on Friday. We were like, 'okay, if that's what you want'. And he was a very good guest. That's a real exception to the rule. ↗

— Graham Norton

#come #day #exception #friday #george

It is not true that Pena is 20 points above me. It's part of the management of the regime. They have control of the media, with few exceptions. ↗

— Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador

#control #exceptions #few #management #me

Prolonged, indiscriminate reviewing of books is a quite exceptionally thankless, irritating and exhausting job. It not only involves praising trash but constantly inventing reactions towards books about which one has no spontaneous feeling whatever. ↗

— George Orwell

#books #constantly #exceptionally #exhausting #feeling