Exceptions Quotations

If you've never been on anything before, they're not going to take a risk and give you a huge job 90 percent of the time. There are exceptions to that. I certainly wasn't an exception to that. I had to pay my dues big time, but I wish somebody would have explained, 'Look, your job is not to get work. Your job is to get better.'

A cardinal principle that we must not stray from - no exceptions - is that your genetic information is your business in terms of who sees it. Nobody should be gaining access to that information without your explicit permission, and nobody should be requiring you to take a genetic test unless you decide that that's what you want to do.

Spending should be transparent. All spending by the Pentagon should be online. Every check. Exceptions should be made for legitimate national security issues. But military and civilian pay and retirement benefits are not state secrets. This has already been done in many state governments.

I would put our legislative and foreign policy accomplishments in our first two years against any president - with the possible exceptions of Johnson, FDR, and Lincoln - just in terms of what we've gotten done in modern history. But, you know, but when it comes to the economy, we've got a lot more work to do. And we're gonna keep on at it.

I should like to know if, taking this old Declaration of Independence, which declares that all men are equal upon principle, you begin making exceptions to it, where will you stop? If one man says it does not mean a Negro, why not another say it does not mean some other man?

There are so many exceptions to free speech: child pornography, cross burning, libel, fighting words.

From the naturalistic point of view, all men are equal. There are only two exceptions to this rule of naturalistic equality: geniuses and idiots.

The pursuit of curiosity about the basic facts of nature has proven, with few exceptions throughout the history of medical science, to be the route by which the successful drugs and devices of modern medicine were discovered.

State law generally requires the city to indemnify and defend city employees in litigation arising out of the performance of their duties. We evaluate each case based on their individual facts and circumstances to determine whether any exceptions to this general rule apply.

People have tried a lot of special purpose processing devices over the years and, with the exceptions of graphics units and arguably floating point units, general purpose processors have always won out in the end.

Just as I know the usual rules of law enforcement, I also know the exceptions and invoke those frequently. I don't feel a need to bog the reader down with an explanation of why the procedures are realistic, as long as I know that there is, in fact, an explanation.

It is imperative that compassion for the suffering people of Cuba not be lost, and humanitarian exceptions to the U.S. embargo be allowed to go forward.

It isn't about individuals who were named. It's about exceptions to policy that may have been made by the Office of the President.

Those are the sorts of people for which there was a process built in to allow exceptions, to allow appeals, but the exceptions and appeals process doesn't do anybody any good if it is not expeditious.

The actions of the South Dakota legislature are a chilling reminder of the lengths to which anti-choice lawmakers will go to interfere in our most difficult and personal decisions. This bill contains an inadequate exception to protect a woman's life and no other exceptions -- not for rape, not for incest, not even to protect the woman's health. Clearly emboldened by President Bush's judicial appointments, South Dakota has passed dangerous and unconstitutional legislation that its supporters admit is a direct attack on Roe v. Wade. Rather than continuing these unconstitutional assaults that threaten to endanger women's lives and imprison doctors, these legislators should commit to enacting commonsense legislation to prevent unintended pregnancy.

Unlike most animals - with some exceptions like beavers - we engineer our environment. So that allows us to hang on in places that would otherwise be singularly inhospitable.

Why waste time instructing others when you could be reading the manuscripts yourself? The only exceptions are matters of foreign language.

We do tend to have more issues with the oaks. We have a lot of oak trees that are 100 to 150 years old, and oaks typically begin breaking down in the 150- to 200-year-old range, although there are always exceptions to that.

We probably have as many members as most of the other countries, but our base is so spread out. Exceptions to that are Norway and Russia, which have huge populations.

When you see them have a ban that does not include exceptions for rape or incest or the health of the mother, you understand that elections do matter. We will be very active in '06 and in '08 in electing candidates that represent the views of most Americans.

With a couple of exceptions you can count on one hand even if you used to work in a saw mill and cut off a few fingers, television really managed to not catch up until 1970.

There has been much less work done in Sri Lanka because of the political problem. It may be a challenge for some donor countries to accept some exceptions amid restrictions on whom to work with.

TV broadcasting is owned, in the sense that governments around the world have asserted power over the airwaves that permeate their territories, deciding who can use what bandwidth and why - and those with licenses then, with exceptions determined by regulators, decide what to broadcast.

With few exceptions ... most jukebox musicals need a story line. But 'Ring of Fire' is basically just a Cash-and-carry anthology of an iconic singer.

Today we read books 'extensively,' often without sustained focus, and with rare exceptions we read each book only once. We value quantity of reading over quality of reading. We have no choice, if we want to keep up with the broader culture.

We have made special exceptions based on the circumstances. I don't know why he thinks the rules should not be enforced to everyone equally.

It was AOL's objective to have both Navigator and Internet Explorer available to its members, allowing them to choose which browser to use, ... Microsoft, on the other hand, attempted to secure exclusive distribution and promotion for Internet Explorer, with no or few exceptions for distribution or promotion of a competitive browser.

There have been a few exceptions and they got into really good rides, but if you're gonna bring a guy in that's not gonna be in a premier ride with a premier team, he's gonna fail. . . . You can't put a new driver and a new team together. It's just not gonna work.

Exceptions dont always prove old rules, sometimes they presage a new one.

This is a big year for him, ... He's in a group of exceptions to the rule. This is his team. Everything is in place. Yeah, I'd say it's a big year.

This is a change from our normal process. Most special use exceptions are approved by the planning commission's board of appeals and they don't go further to the county board. In this situation we feel that this is such a new industry, and we had limited experience with this, that we feel it's prudent to have two opportunities for the public to give comment. And so the county board will give their final approval on this.

You might look at certain positions and say you weight it more than another. But there's exceptions to the rule you find all the time. It just depends on the total puzzle and what you're looking for.

This is a once in a lifetime opportunity to play, so you just have to make exceptions and you have to make adjustments.

It's really an attack on all Virginia families. Even the proponents of the bill recognized there were all these exceptions and generalities.

Beginning April 1, there will be no exceptions for diplomats. If any diplomats park illegally, they can expect a ticket and they will be held accountable for payment.

Because of exceptions to the law, it didn't do any good.

It just says something about the quality of the programs we have here. All these programs have coaches that are really dedicated. I think, overall, with a few exceptions on the bench, we exemplify proper behavior and we want our students to act that way.

It's an area in distress, with a few exceptions of some nice, well taken care of houses.

Anything we're required to keep is an open record, unless there are exceptions in state or federal law.

The great, unreported story in globalization is about power, not ideology. It's about how finance and business regularly, continuously insert their own self-interested deals and exceptions into rules and agreements that are then announced to the public as "free trade.

The court almost had to take up this issue again. It was clear in 2003 when it said that you could not limit this procedure unless certain exceptions were in place. Congress then enacted a law without those restrictions and now the court will have to decide whether the justification for the Congressional action is constitutional or not. It should be a very close case, almost certainly a five-four ruling.

The general rule is that police policy should be public, although there have been some exceptions where it threatens the safety of an individual. In my view, that would not fall under that exception.

The exceptions were when I went to school, or church or on special occasions, and it was natural when I started running that I should do it barefoot.

For decades, the Arab states have seemed exceptions to the laws of politics and human nature. While liberty expanded in many parts of the globe, these nations were left behind, their 'freedom deficit' signaling the political underdevelopment that accompanied many other economic and social maladies.

There's always exceptions to the rule, ... but I think when you're looking at guards that don't shoot a great percentage, a lot of it is confidence.

We cannot make exceptions unless the committee decides you are either in the three mile radius or you are out. There is always going to be somebody that's just outside the boundary.

It's a very simple analysis. The question of is it a slot machine or isn't it a slot machine, in my opinion, isn't really an appropriate question. The question is, is it a lawful product offered under one of the exceptions in state law? It is.

This is a very unique opportunity. It is once in a lifetime and you have to make exceptions and adjustments. I am proud of being Puerto Rican, and we think this is a big deal.

I am pro-choice with limitations, pro-life with exceptions

All the defense companies -- with very few exceptions -- have been doing extremely well with mostly double-digit earnings growth. And it's not just the military side, it's the commercial side as well. We're in the early stages of a maybe five-year up cycle.