Quotes About Divergence

It's just an accident that I am not you, and you are not me!

All sentient beings are created unequal. The best society provides each with equal opportunity to float at his own level. — The Gowachin Primary

One size does not fit all.

Progress demands deviation from the norm.

What I write is different from what I say, what I say is different from what I think, what I think is different from what I ought to think and so it goes further into the deepest darkness.

My mother and I could always look out the same window without ever seeing the same thing.

The secret of how to live without resentment or embarrassment in a world in which I was different from everyone else. was to be indifferent to that difference.

We don't attempt to have any theme for a number of the anthology, or to have any particular sequence. We just put in things that we like, and then we try to alternate the prose and the poetry.

But at the last minute, I turned left, because I never had before, and because I had time to go down a different road.

the unfamiliar appearance of the people, "of a tawny complexion," so unlike the Portuguese experience of Africans; the men variously shaved or heavily bearded; the women, "as a rule, short and ugly

Words like "everyone" are often used as if "everyone" can afford a new television, celebrates Christmas, can walk up stairs, is married or wants to be, can read, gets enough to eat, worries about a sunburn, and so on. Pseudogenerics are thought to include everyone because the people who use them are thinking only of themselves and their immediate world.

The older I grow, the more I realize how terribly difficult it is for people to understand each other, and I think that what misleads one is the fact that they all look so much like each other. If some people looked like elephants and others like cats, or fish, one wouldn't expect them to understand each other and things would look much more like what they really are.

Outlier (noun): 1. Something that is situated 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.

If you don't fit into a box you can always try to fit into a circle.

If you do what everyone else does, you will get what everyone else gets.

To think is to differ.

The greater their likeness to each other, the more unlike they are to me.

harsh and narrow taws no other race would accept Where

We are all having different experiences.

there is no universal standard of well-being.

Every author does not write for every reader

They wanted to be different, but there was no one to show them how.

How weird that must be, to stay the same as everyone else changes.

People are not uniform, Emaline. There is no such thing as any other girl.