Quotes About Divergence

What a strange world this would be if we all had the same sense of humor.

When two or more people agree on an issue, I form on the other side.

the mountain and the television weren't so much in different time zones as in different dimensions.

How boring would this world be if everyone was the same?

Not everyone is born a witch or a saint. Not everyone is born talented, or crooked, or blessed; some are born definite in no particular at all.

What made me pause here was the pure dichotomy.

I know thousands of German's who are totally different from me, so we're not alike, we're not the same.

We were from totally different social backgrounds. This is what is very hard for an American to understand, but we could have been five guys from Mars.

The juxtaposition between fishing and touring couldn't be greater.

All bodies can't be same, my body will react differently tours.

When I was a kid, I loved figure skating. But in Mexico, they kind of push you toward hockey.

I always gravitate towards characters that are so opposite of me.

My feelings towards Scott Card are pretty mixed. Politically, he and I are pretty far apart.

I spent my childhood trying to express myself, and I was not very good at it. In my town, most kids would take up engineering or medicine or something else, but acting was not an option.

By the very nature of his art, which depends on invention and innovation, a story teller must depart from the beaten track and, having done so, occasionally startle and disagree with some of his associates. Healthy disagreement we must have.

Though they seem at opposite poles, fanatics of all kinds are actually crowded together at one end. It is the fanatic and the moderate who are poles apart and never meet.

It is my job in life to travel all roads, so that some may take the road less travelled, and others the road more travelled, and all have a pleasant day.

Into many lives a little irregularity must fall.

You can't argue with someone whose premises are completely different from yours, where there is not even an inch of common ground

isn't it nice how people are all different

Literary intellectuals at one pole—at the other scientists…. Between the two a gulf of mutual incomprehension.

What she remembered is undoubtedly something so radically different from the image I gave to her memory that the two may be incompatible.

No two individuals are ever the same. You cannot equate people. You can only create equal opportunity.

I love Tris the Divergent, who makes decisions apart from faction loyalty, who isn't some faction archetype. But the Tris who's trying as hard as she can to destroy herself … I can't love her.