Quotes About Divergence

Here's a truck stop instead of St. Peter's.

No two men ever judged alike of the same thing, and it is impossible to find two opinions exactly similar, not only in different men but in the same men at different times.

Se gândi la toÈ›i oamenii care coexist? f?r? vreun motiv aparent, în inima aceluiaÈ™i oraÈ™, f?r? vreun interes sau vreo preocupare comune, urmând traiectorii neb?nuite È™i divergente, dar aduÈ™i împreun? de sex sau de crim?.

Individuals who depart from the norms—heroes, saints, sages, artists, and poets, as well as madmen and criminals—look for different things in life than most others do.

You have no significant other at home on any given day of the week. Male, female, alien. I don't care what floats your boat. But you're going to hit crazy-cat lady-territory soon.

Our nation is too different, too diverse to say that what works in Massachusetts is somehow going to be grabbed by the federal government, usurping the power of states and imposing a one-size-fits-all plan on the nation. That will not work.

This matter of two sides to every question is bad logic and bad practice: sometimes there are no sides; sometimes there are a hundred.

The beauty of living is found in having different opinions, tastes and desires.

The first challenge is that, you cannot expect everyone to get the same understanding of the book. Are we not all unique in life?

The same formula, applied by two people, can produce different results. The experience is individualized.

Since the end of the twentieth century, the United States has witnessed an ominous and growing divergence among three trends that should ordinarily move together: wealth, output, and employment.

Even the most apparently simple statement is subject to fission or fissure.

Even between fanatical egalitarians, the briefest encounter reestablishes human inequalities.

There are ideal series of events which run parallel with the real ones. They rarely coincide.

At its best, science fiction stimulates imagination and creativity. It gets reader and writer off the beaten track, off the narrow, narrow footpath of what "everyone" is saying, doing thinking - whoever "everyone" happens to be this year.

What they got, really, was a cross-section of American paranoia, of hidden prejudices rising to the surface. Whatever diverged from the mainstream was suspect.

The real things are apt to be deviant.

There are as many sexes as there are individuals...the seeming neat correspondence between male and female organs is not the end, but the beginning, of sexuality.

Then at the top of the hill, the road forks. Which just figures. "You gotta be kidding." I say. One part of the road goes left, the other goes right. (Well, it's a "Fork" ain't it?)

Cada hombre es distinto de todos los demás, y cuando ocurren cosas horribles, cada cual reacciona a su manera.

What something has evolved for and what something actually does are two separate things. Once we come to possess a capacity, we can use it for unintended purposes

I don't get why people are so intrigued with being normal.

Even the straightest path has two directions.