#exceptions

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

— Johnny Weissmuller

#exceptions #few #sheer #through #underdog

I just get really defensive as soon as anyone comes near my personal life. I made a decision early on that it's strictly off-limits. No exceptions. ↗

— Samantha Morton

#comes #decision #defensive #early #exceptions

The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions. ↗

— Oliver Wendell Holmes

#exceptions #knows #man #old #old man

I told them I belong to the same organizations and clubs Mrs. Roosevelt belongs to, but with a few brave exceptions, I was still unable to do films or television for the next seven years. ↗

— Lena Horne

#belongs #brave #clubs #exceptions #few

There are those whose sole claim to profundity is the discovery of exceptions to the rules. ↗

— Paul Eldridge

#discovery #exceptions #profundity #rules #sole

Nature provides exceptions to every rule. ↗

— Margaret Fuller

#exceptions #nature #provides #rule

All those people whose faces decorate the shopping bags of Barnes and Noble, with a few exceptions, would never get published today. ↗

— Mark Crispin Miller

#barnes #decorate #exceptions #faces #few

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

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

— Martin H. Fischer

#good #good teacher #know #must #pupil

Nothing is absolute, with the debatable exceptions of this statement and death. ↗

— John Ralston Saul

#death #debatable #exceptions #nothing #statement