Top 75 Deviate Quotes
#1. Destiny always has definite plans for everyone and they get reveled at the right time. There is a divine purpose in everyone's life but as human beings, we tend to deviate from His plans, getting over confident in our own abilities....
From A Tulip in the Desert.
Shrruti Patole Clarence
#2. The art of stone in a Japanese garden is that of placement. Its ideal does not deviate from that of nature.
Isamu Noguchi
#3. She stood, as it were, with her face to God and her back to the people, waiting to receive His word for the 'chose people.' She had a vision of holy living. She would not deviate from that no matter how well-established, rational, and practical the ways of older missions seemed to be.
Elisabeth Elliot
#4. In Islam, democracy is included and people are free in Islam, both in expressing their opinions and their actions, until there is no conspiracy and they don't bring up ideas which would deviate Iranian generation.
Ruhollah Khomeini
#5. Life is about making plans from which you deviate, almost always. If you are lucky, you do come up with a plan.
Kenneth Branagh
#6. Keep on adding, keep on walking, keep on progressing: do not delay on the road, do not go back, do not deviate.
Saint Augustine
#7. Thou mayest foresee ... the things which will be. For they will certainly be of like form, and it is not possible that they should deviate from the order of things now: accordingly to have contemplated human life for forty years is the same as to have contemplated it for ten thousand years.
Marcus Aurelius
#8. That which one can deviate from is not the true Tao.
Ken Wilber
#9. Although we deal with probabilities and expectations, the actual results can deviate substantially from such expectations, particularly on a short-term basis.
Warren Buffett
#10. I did not come to power to divide Somali but to unite them, and I will never deviate from this path. I shall respect a Somali individual as long as he deserves respect, but if he turns away from the correct path, then that is not my business.
Siad Barre
#11. Please enter where You already abide. May my mind and heart be pure and true, and may I not deviate from the things of goodness.
Marianne Williamson
#12. So often feminism is built up as this thing where you have to be perfect. You have to be consistent and you can't ever deviate. That's just not realistic.
Roxane Gay
#13. From the days of old, those who walk in the way have replaced those who deviate therefrom; those who lack virtue have fallen before those who possess it. Can one escape fate?
Luo Guanzhong
#14. Be always displeased with what you are if you wish to be what you are not. Always add, always walk, always proceed. Neither stand still nor go back nor deviate.
Saint Augustine
#15. If some people deviate or step out of the path Jesus has laid, others will have to take up the baton and continue the race
Sunday Adelaja
#16. I think people have come to know me, and I don't deviate too much as an individual. What you see is what you get.
Rob Mariano
#17. 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
#18. Great minds had rather deserve contemporaneous applause without obtaining it, than obtain without deserving it. If it follow them it is well, but they will not deviate to follow it.
Charles Caleb Colton
#19. When singing, you need performing skills and a bit of imagination. You have to treasure the emotions, and to not deviate from the colour of the song while pouring your heart into it.
Kim Tae-yeon
#20. The chicken that we eat is chock-full of feminine hormones. So, when men eat these chickens, they deviate from themselves as men.
Evo Morales
#21. I think every album you have to stretch further and further, give people another piece of you. But then I always try to deviate from the norm.
Ludacris
#22. Remember that in every single case in history the process of adaptation has been one of exceeding slowness. Do not look for the impossible, but do not let your path deviate from the quiet and steadfast insistence on full opportunities for your powers.
Franz Boas
#23. Smears don't have much staying power on their own because they deviate from the foundations of reality (what actually happened). They require constant energy from our opponents to keep going. The truth has a habit of reasserting itself.
Julian Assange
#24. Remember that basketball is a game of habits. If you make the other guy deviate from his habits, you've got him
Bill Russell
#25. 8'Our Lord, do not let our hearts deviate after You have guided us. Grant us Your mercy: You are the Ever Giving.
Anonymous
#26. Somedays the line I walk turns out to be straight - Other days the line tends to deviate.
Ani DiFranco
#27. Personally, I don't see old economics and behavioural economics as opposed. It is useful to assume people are rational as a good approximation to their long term behaviour, but it would be unwise not to think how in practice their behaviour may deviate from that simplifying assumption.
Evan Davis
#28. We have no excuse to deviate from the paths of righteousness. If we hold fast to the iron rod, we cannot be deceived.
William Grant Bangerter
#29. You have to be careful to react when you start to deviate from your course.
Carlos Ghosn
#30. It is not enough that you can form nay, and follow, the most excellent rules for conducting yourself in the world. You must also know when to deviate from them, and where lies the exception.
Sir Fulke Greville
#31. Tolerated individuals will always be those who deviate from the norm, never those who uphold it, but they will also be further articulated as (deviant) individuals through the very discourse of tolerance.
Wendy Brown
#32. To 'us', nothing except the Soul (Atma) is beautiful, and there is indeed no such thing as bad in this world. Bad is to deviate from one's own 'boundary' (to not remain as the Self).
Dada Bhagwan
#33. A lot of the signs are evident before the lies start and the actions deviate. Many women do not even want to hear the truth
A.H. Carlisle III
#34. His eyes forward didn't deviate from the off-road trail, his chiseled jaw gripped shut during the ride. He didn't release any sound of explanation until we arrived.
Jazz Feylynn
#35. Scholars today are under increasing pressure to publish. Consequences of this pressure are incentives to deviate from the truth
Bruno Frey
#36. I wanted to acquire an education, work extremely hard and never deviate from my goal, to make it.
Taylor Caldwell
#38. You have a great road map when you play somebody that exists. That's the amazing thing. But then you have great limitations from that road map. It's hard to deviate from it creatively as an actor. It's like, "Oh wait, he'd never do that."
Jeremy Renner
#39. Always add, always walk, always proceed; neither stand still, nor go back, nor deviate; he that standeth still proceedeth not; he goeth back that continueth not; he deviateth that revolteth; he goeth better that creepeth in his way than he that moveth out of his way.
Augustine Of Hippo
#40. That is the true challenge
to work within a narrow confine. To accept what you cannot have; that from which you cannot deviate.
Whitney Otto
#41. It is difficult to deviate from an old line of thought 'just a little'. The radical departure is easier than the subtle deviation." Ludwig Wittgenstein.
Paul Byall
#42. I love fashion and am not scared to deviate from the norm.
Dascha Polanco
#43. 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
#44. Politicians are propaganda, the people with guns are the enforcers and the media is the enthusiastic lapdog who enables the entire behavior and acts as the verbal abuser against those who deviate from nodding their heads at the vast statues of evil that we inherited.
Stefan Molyneux
#45. I think that the influence towards suppression of minority views - towards orthodoxy in thinking about public issues - has been more subconscious than unconscious, stemming to a very great extent from the tendency of Americans to conform ... not to deviate or depart from an orthodox point of view.
William O. Douglas
#46. Love is who we are, and when we deviate from that love we're deviating from our ultimate, essential, eternal reality.
Marianne Williamson
#47. A substantial amount of research over the past decade has reinforced the idea that although internal happiness can deviate from its "resting state" in reaction to life events, it usually returns toward its baseline over time.
Dan Ariely
#48. Those whose abilities or knowledge incline them most to deviate from the general round of life are recalled from eccentricity by the laws of their existence.
Samuel Johnson
#49. Normal is boring and safe. So, deviate from the norm because the greatest advances in humankind's history have come from people embracing their inner A. B. Normal.
Karl Pippart III
#50. We know that passion, prejudice, party, and even good-will, tempt many who preserve a fair character with the world to deviate from truth in the laxity of conversation.
Laurence Fishburne
#51. People need to deviate away from the role of imitation, and start filling the role of innovation ...
Lionel Suggs
#52. The artist must scorn all judgment that is not based on an intelligent observation of character. He must beware of the literary spirit which so often causes a painting to deviate from its true path - the concrete study of nature - to lose itself all too long in intangible speculations.
Paul Cezanne
#53. Flaw laden intellect shows faults in others. If you deviate even slightly in the wrong direction, you will see everyone at fault.
Dada Bhagwan
#54. When you are on the spiritual path, and you are looking for the answers outside, there is an ample of reasons, for you to deviate from the path. The path of the ultimate truth is straight way inside
Roshan Sharma
#55. When good thing are accomplished, it does not claim (or name) them. This is Te, which is close in meaning to power or virtue. It is something within a person, and it is enhanced by following the Tao, or 'that from which nothing can deviate'.
Laozi
#56. I had not, it seems, the originality to chalk out a new road to shame and destruction, but trode the old track with stupid exactness not to deviate an inch from the beaten centre.
Charlotte Bronte
#57. Never deviate from the path unless you are going to make love in the bushes ...
Truth Devour
#58. 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
#59. 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
#61. I say, "This is my objective" and when I stick to it, I succeed. When I deviate, I'm in trouble. Do what you do best and delegate the rest. There are things I do better than others, and there are things I'm horrible at and I delegate those.
Michael Franzese
#62. A general is like a writer who wants to write a play, or a book, but whom the book itself, with the unexpected options that it reveals at one point, the impasse it presents at another, causes to deviate extensively from his preconceived plan.
Marcel Proust
#63. The Roman Pontiffs have always ... held that all those rites should be preserved which deviate neither from accuracy in matters of faith, nor from what is fitting.
Pope Pius IX
#64. In order to deviate successfully, one has to have at least a passing acquaintance with whatever norm one expects to deviate from.
Frank Zappa
#65. You know, I did records by myself and I always will say the Isley Brothers, and featuring Ronald. I won't, you know, just, I won't try to deviate from the Isley Brothers, because that's what the family dream was all about.
Ronald Isley
#66. 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
#67. Every event, or appearance, or accident, which seems to deviate from the ordinary course of nature has been rashly ascribed to the immediate action of the Deity.
Edward Gibbon
#68. I made an oath to myself:
as long as I live
as long as my soul remains in this body
I won't deviate from the right way
but later I looked to my left and then to my right
and I saw our beloved everywhere
how could I make a wrong turn?
Rumi
#69. We all have our own personal roads to travel,
it's only when we follow someone else's road
that we deviate from our own journey.
Be Strong and Travel Your Own Road
Steven Aitchison
#70. The places in our personality where we tend to deviate from love are not out faults, but our wounds. God doesn't want to punish us, but to heal us. And that is how He wishes us to view the wounds in other people.
Marianne Williamson
#71. You've got to be able to copy things faithfully before you can deviate.
Damien Hirst
#72. Around 1900 a sales executive discovered a "scientific" principle of sales management. It received a lot of publicity and even found its way into textbooks. The principle was this: There is one best way to sell a product. Find the best way. Then never deviate from it.
David J. Schwartz
#73. It's important to have a plan, a big picture. You can deviate from it or change it completely, but it gives you something to work for.
Shannon Miller
#74. The great Way is very straight, but people prefer to deviate.
Laozi
#75. Whether I'm writing about plumbers or psychics or psychic plumbers, I want to find a creative space that imprisons me usefully, so I can deviate with purpose.
Heidi Julavits
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