If you know you're the best it only makes sense for you to surround yourself with the best. NO EXCEPTIONS
Every declaration of love contains an unstated list of exceptions and demands.
On the whole, with scandalous exceptions, Democracy has given the ordinary worker more dignity than he ever had.
There are no exceptions to the rule that everybody likes to be an exception to the rule.
Killing for pleasure is wrong and should be banned. Fox hunting, stag hunting and hare coursing are moral issues. It is time that we stood up for morality. The commandment Thou shall not kill may be hedged with exceptions. Thou shall not kill for pleasure is not; it is a commandment for the 21st century and it is time that we respected it unambiguously, without prevarication and without procrastination.
Science admits no exceptions; otherwise there would be no determinism in science, or rather, there would be no science.
It's not usually anybody else's false when you don't get what you want. Sometimes it is. There's exceptions to everything. It's usually the self-limitations that we attach to ourselves.
There are a few exceptions, however, to this rule that our projection of ourselves is lower than the facts of Nature, and the unicorn -- noble, chaste, fierce yet beneficent, altruistic though solitary, strangely beautiful -- is the clearest exception of all. The unicorn was not conceived in fear. Our early sense of Nature's majestry and mysetery is revealed in him.
Equality means equality for all- no exceptions, no 'yes, buts', no asterisked footnotes imposing limits.
The mind demands rules; the facts demand exceptions.
Nothing moves around, it just goes straight from the start to the end. The final draft on the final day, that's it, same for the novels. What I turn in is what you see. There are some exceptions, but almost always I can see exactly what it's going to be.
The clergy, with a few honorable exceptions, have in all modern countries been the avowed enemies of the diffusion of knowledge, the danger of which to their own profession they, by a certain instinct, seem always to have perceived.
There are exceptions of course, but most companies start with a great idea - not a pivot.
People are so ridiculous with their illusions, carrying their fool's caps unawares, thinking their own lies opaque while everybody else's are transparent, making themselves exceptions to everything, as if when all the world looked yellow under a lamp they alone are rosy.
Nature provides exceptions to every rule.
With few exceptions, one ought always do what one is afraid of.
In the depths of my heart I can’t help being convinced that my dear fellow-men, with a few exceptions, are worthless.
In the defense of civil liberties there can be no exceptions, or there will soon be many.
. . . the most important concept ever put forth was that matter, ALL matter, with no exceptions from stone to star to starfish to student to sovereign, is as divine as all else in the cosmos, for all flows from Consciousness, the Word that came before the World - and all, in time, will flow back.
Reviewers, with some rare exceptions, are a most stupid and malignant race. As a bankrupt thief turns thief-taker in despair, so an unsuccessful author turns critic.