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Quotes About Deviate

Whereas for him there's a barrier, an impenetrable wall, forbidding him to deviate from what has been predetermined. Whenever he mentions this question of the forbidden I will try in vain to show him that he's wrong.
~ Philippe Besson
Good-fellowship, unflagging, is the prime requisite for success in our society, and the man or woman who smiles only for reasons of humor or pleasure is a deviate.
~ Marya Mannes
Life is about making plans from which you deviate, almost always. If you are lucky, you do come up with a plan.
~ Kenneth Branagh
The more we deviate from those safe confines [of genre fiction], the more dangerous the story starts to feel, the less safe it is. Sometimes, it veers all the way into the super jaggedy realm of literature, which is really scary and often not escapist and intended to grind your face in the machete of reality.
~ Annalee Newitz
I think everyone has a certain kind of formula in their life. When you deviate from that formula, you're going to fail big or you're gonna win big.
~ Sylvester Stallone
The point, of course, is that science increasingly allows us to identify aspects of our minds that cause us to deviate from norms of factual and moral reasoning—norms which, when made explicit, are generally acknowledged to be valid by all parties.
~ Sam Harris
Translation: happiness becomes proximity to whiteness. Camel Gupta (2014) notes how it is sometimes assumed that brown queers and trans folk are rescued from unhappy brown families by happy white queer and trans communities. We are not a rescue mission. But when you deviate, they celebrate. Even happy brown queers would become unhappy at this point.
~ Sara Ahmed
Transgress. In a word, be other than yourself in turning into your love-soaked opposite.
~ John Ashbery
Look, we give sales a rigid lead time for each product. So if it's not in finished goods, those are the numbers they should use to promise to clients. Yeah, they deviate from it, but not by much. Maybe there should be another way. Maybe the quoted lead times should be done case by case, according to the load on the bottlenecks. And maybe we shouldn't regard the quantities required as if we have to supply them in one shot.
~ Eliyahu M. Goldratt
The roadmap to a rich, rewarding life is to follow your passion, to be willing to deviate, to never dull to the dawn of a new day and all of the possibilities it holds for adventure and discovery.
~ Toni Sorenson
Simply being secretary of state didn't allow Clinton to authorize herself to deviate from the requirements of retaining and transmitting classified documents, materials and information.
~ Ken Cuccinelli
I believe that experimenting is what production is. But it doesn't mean much if you don't have a solid foundation in what you're experimenting with. You can't really deviate from music unless you know music; it's not gonna work.
~ El-P
Objectivity" means nothing more than reflecting the biases and serving the interests of entrenched Washington. Opinions are problematic only when they deviate from the acceptable range of Washington orthodoxy.
~ Glenn Greenwald
And what greater delight and wonder can there be than to leave the straight lines of personality and deviate into those footpaths that lead beneath brambles and thick tree trunks into the heart of the forest where live those wild beasts, our fellow men?
~ Virginia Woolf
Inertia is always a little bit of a challenge," one person wrote. "It's easier to not do things than to do them." Another person dispatched with potentially conflicting work obligations, but then succumbed to the temptation to do "nothing" once the moment arrived: "I'm such a creature of habit it was hard to deviate from the norm.
~ Laura Vanderkam
Rails that kiss derail; Rails that deviate, too. (Rails qui s'embrassent déraillent; Rails qui s'écartent de même)"
~ Charles de Leusse
I love fashion and am not scared to deviate from the norm.
~ Dascha Polanco
Tradition matters because it is not given to societies to proceed through history as if they had no past and as if every course of action were available to them. they may deviate from the previous trajectory only within a finite margin. the great statesmen act at the outer limit of that margin. if they fall short, society stagnates. if they exceed it, they lose the capacity to shape posterity.
~ Henry Kissinger
Each of us is born with the potential for the unfolding of our true self. When you deviate from the truth, you are interfering with the intention of something greater than you are- call it nature or a higher power. As a result, you develop discomfort.
~ Unknown
I'm often misunderstood at my supermarket in Sussex, not because of my accent but because I tend to deviate from the script. Cashier: Hello, how are you this evening? Me: Has your house ever been burgled? Cashier: What? Me: Your house—has anyone ever broken into it and stolen things? With me, people aren't thinking What did you say? so much as Why are you saying that?
~ David Sedaris
Everything has to do with rockets. Launching a rocket is similar to any endeavor in life. You formulate your best plans prior to, but you must be aware that, at any moment, the unexpected may come along. Events can deviate from plan. If you wait until you can foresee everything, you'll never launch. The best you can do is to aim high and plan for contingencies.
~ Unknown