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Letter "E" » exception
«Nothing travels faster than light, with the possible exception of bad news, which follows its own rules»
«Man is an exception, whatever else he is. If he is not the image of God, then he is a disease of the dust. If it is not true that a divine being fell, then we can only say that one of the animals went entirely off its head.»
Author: G. K. Chesterton
(Critic, Essayist, Novelist, Poet)
| Keywords:
divine being, exception, fell, head off, The Animals, The Image
«I never forget a face, but in your case I'll be glad to make an exception.»
Author: Groucho Marx
(Actor, Comedian, Singer)
| Keywords:
case, cased, exception, face, glad, gladder, gladdest, his case, I was glad, The Exceptions
«My decision to register women confirms what is already obvious throughout our society-that women are now providing all types of skills in every profession. The military should be no exception.»
Author: Jimmy Carter
(President)
| About:
Military
| Keywords:
exception, providing, register, registers, skills, The Military, types
«She even had a kind of special position among men: she was an exception, she fitted none of the categories they commonly used when talking about girls; she wasn't a cock-teaser, a cold fish, an easy lay or a sneaky bitch; she was an honorary person. She had grown to share their contempt for most women.»
«I had supposed until that time that it was quite common for parents to love their children, but the war persuaded me that it is a rare exception. I had supposed that most people liked money better than almost anything else, but I discovered that they liked destruction even better. I had supposed that intellectuals frequently loved truth, but I found here again that not ten per cent of them prefer truth to popularity.»
Author: Bertrand Russell
(Logician, Philosopher)
| Keywords:
cent, exception, intellectuals, PER, persuaded, per cent, popularity
«I never forget a face, but in your case I'll make an exception»
Author: Groucho Marx
(Actor, Comedian, Singer)
| Keywords:
case, cased, exception, face, his case, The Exceptions
«I think this is the most extraordinary collection of talent, of human knowledge, that has ever been gathered together at the White House with the possible exception of when Thomas Jefferson dined alone»
Author: John Fitzgerald Kennedy
(President)
| About:
Knowledge,
Talent
| Keywords:
collection, dined, dines, dine in, exception, gathered, Jefferson, The White, The White House, Thomas, Thomas Jefferson, White House
«Never suffer an exception to occur till the new habit is securely rooted in your life. Each lapse is like the letting fall of a ball of string which one is carefully winding up; a single slip undoes more than a great many turns will wind again.»
«Of all the wonders of nature, a tree in summer is perhaps the most remarkable; with the possible exception of a moose singing ''Embraceable You'' in spats.»
Author: Woody Allen
(Actor, Author, Film Director, Screenwriter)
| Keywords:
exception, moose, remarkable, singing, spats, summer, wonders
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