Quotes About Divergent

was not natural that men of different characters and tastes should be intimate, and

Opinion was to be free as air; and in order to make it so, it was necessary to exterminate all those whose opinions were not the same as Mons. Jean Nicot's.

John Dos Passos, Raymond Carver, Flaubert and William Maxwell were all very influential when I first started writing. Now, the writers I'm most interested in are the writers who are most unlike me: for example, Denis Johnson.

If you can define the problem differently than everybody else in the industry, you can generate alternatives that others aren't thinking about.

away from or classed differently from a main or related body 2: a statistical observation that is markedly different in value from the others of the sample 1.

The outlier, in the end, is not an outlier at all.

1: something that is situated away from or classed differently from a main or related body

The discussions of the prior generation, shaped by H. Richard Niebuhr's Christ and Culture (see chapter three above), still presumed "gospel" and "culture" as two disparate and divergent categories and realities. An incarnational and pentecostal approach to culture realizes that while distinct, the gospel always comes through culture and that culture can—indeed, must!—be redeemed for the purposes of the gospel.

You're also kind of a Hufflepuff, don't you think?" Leela asks. "Hardworking, loyal . . . Although last night you were a total Gryffindor. So brave." "Maybe I'm Divergent," I say.

And now for something completely different . . .

I've led a very eclectic life.

I need eclectic people in my life.

The term attention deficit disorder completely misses this point. It is not a deficit of attention that we ADD-ers have, it is that our attention likes to go where it wants to and we can't always control it.

There were entire libraries separating him and Antonio, but they were similar.

Common sense is a chaotic aggregate of disparate conceptions, and one can find there anything that one like.

When everyone was listening to pop music I was listening to Monty Python records.

I'm a total nonconformist; for me, it's about going down rabbit holes.

It is very important for me to do different things so that people see that my range is more than just comedy.

I would like to do movies of all genres.

If one goes by my filmography, I have done several films of different genres.

When everybody goes left, I'm gonna go right most of the time.

In all ages one has wanted to 'improve' men: this above all is what morality has meant. But one word can conceal the most divergent tendencies. Both the taming of the beast man and the breeding of a certain species of man has been called 'improvement':

The bottom line is that everyone thinks differently.

The world's a forest, in which all lose their way; though by a different path each goes astray.