#exception

There are few ironclad rules of diplomacy but to one there is no exception. When an official reports that talks were useful, it can safely be concluded that nothing was accomplished. ↗

— John Kenneth Galbraith

#concluded #diplomacy #exception #few #nothing

My Cape women are generally true to type - big hearted, motherly women who love the sea. My other characters, with the exception of the Portuguese, who I occasionally mention as Cape dwellers, are obviously drawn from the city types one sees in everyday life. ↗

— Joseph C. Lincoln

#cape #characters #city #drawn #dwellers

I've made 30 movies and for the most part my movies work. In a business where success is an exception and not the rule, I've mostly been successful. ↗

— Eddie Murphy

#business #exception #i #made #most

But at the time when he wrote, Englishmen, with the rarest exceptions, wrote only in French or Latin; and when they began to write in English, a man of genius, to interpret and improve on him, was not found for a long time. ↗

— George Saintsbury

#english #englishmen #exceptions #found #french

So much American science fiction is parochial -- not as true now as it was years ago, but the assumption is one culture in the future, more or less like ours, and with the same ideals, the same notions of how to do things, just bigger and flashier technology. Well, you know darn well it doesn't work that way... ↗

— Poul Anderson

#future #science-fiction #science

People who don't normally read make an exception for my books, possibly because they're short. ↗

— Mitch Albom

#books #exception #make #normally #people

In all nations an exceptional man exists that compensates the deficiencies of the remainder. In those moments, when humanity is found collectively in a state of decadence, there always remain those exceptional beings as point of reference. ↗

— Augusto Roa Bastos

#always #beings #collectively #compensates #decadence

As the age of television progresses the Reagans will be the rule, not the exception. To be perfect for television is all a President has to be these days. ↗

— Gore Vidal

#days #exception #perfect #president #progresses

I've been writing Indian music for a while. Indian music is about Mother Earth, and mine is no exception. ↗

— Jimmy Carl Black

#been #earth #exception #i #indian

I had a great career and I enjoyed all of it, with the exception of losing. ↗

— Drew Bledsoe

#enjoyed #exception #great #great career #had