Exceptional Circumstances Quotes

I believe it would demean Nobel Prizes if they were awarded to research students, except in very exceptional cases.

[Edward Snowden and his team] they're great characters. They're fascinating people. They were in an extraordinary situation.

Lord Darlington (LD): I think life too complex a thing to be settled by these hard and fast rules. Lady Windemere (LW): If we had 'hard-and-fast rules' we would find life much simpler. LD: You allow of no exceptions? LW: None! LD: Ah, what a fascinating Puritan you are, LW. LW: The adjective was unnecessary, LD.

I've never really played everyday people. I've played realist roles, but not mere daily life. There was always something incredible happening to my characters.

It takes extraordinary times to make an ordinary man brilliant.

We have to say now we think the character of the party has changed so far it will take something very exceptional, something really out of the ordinary line to make us be convinced there's a chance of winning back the party.

It's rare when you have everything going perfectly all at the same time.

My life has been so extraordinary.

Let not a god interfere unless where a god's assistance is necessary. [Adopt extreme measures only in extreme cases.]

I don't believe that France is capable of reform - at least not in normal times. Fortunately, we are experiencing exceptional circumstances at the moment. It is a moment in which everything is possible.

Emergency does not read the law.

If my life was a movie, no one would believe it.

When faced with exceptional circumstances, people react differently.

Of course there are exceptional circumstances, and there is exceptional talent; but, unhappily, exceptional talent does not always win its reward unless favoured by exceptional circumstances.

If God made the natural laws, why could he not violate them when it was a particularly significant moment for him to do so? And if you accept the idea that Christ was also divine, which I do, then his Resurrection is not in itself a great logical leap.

Congress can grant a waiver [for General James Mattis ] and has done that once in history.

If there is not the war, you don't get the great general; if there is not a great occasion, you don't get a great statesman; if Lincoln had lived in a time of peace, no one would have known his name.

We have advantages. We have a cushion to fall back on. This is abundance. A luxury of place and time. Something rare and wonderful. It's almost historically unprecedented. We must do extraordinary things. We have to. It would be absurd not to.

But I, you know, if I could choose a period to go back to, I think I would like to live through the Blitz. 'Cause you do read so many accounts of people saying they're living their lives at such an intense pitch that it was a completely different way of living.

Given any rule, however "fundamental" or "necessary" for science, there are always circumstances when it is advisable not only to ignore the rule, but to adopt its opposite. For example, there are circumstances when it is advisable to introduce, elaborate and defend ad hoc hypotheses, or hypotheses which contradict well-established and generally accepted experimental results, or hypotheses whose content is smaller than the content of the existing and empirically adequate alternative, or self-inconsistent hypotheses, and so on.

Abnormally good or abnormally bad conditions do not last forever.

Given any rule, however �fundamental� or �necessary� for science, there are always circumstances when it is advisable not only to ignore the rule, but to adopt its opposite.

As for extraordinary things, all the provision in the world would not suffice.

I look for something that is highly unusual, involving ordinary people caught in extraordinary situations.

My life is a fairy tale. You could not make it up.