Deviating From Course Quotes

#1. Those who have any intention of deviating from the beaten roads of life, and acquiring a reputation superior to names hourly swept away by time among the refuse of fame, should add to their reason and their spirit the power of persisting in their pur

Samuel Johnson

#2. I wondered how people would take me being a country music singer. I thought about deviating from that and singing other things. But ... it doesn't really make sense for me to try to be something that I'm not.

Carrie Underwood

#3. We're superheroes. He's not sticking to the script. If he keeps deviating, I'm jumping comic books.

Karen Marie Moning

#4. In the end I didn't get a top car any more. I had no toughness left. That was the reality.

Jacky Ickx

#5. The flowers were so beautiful, so delicate and unthreatening, but they choked everything around them.

Scott Westerfeld

#6. The FCC has made it clear it would punish a cable or phone company for deviating from providing 'neutral' access.

Marvin Ammori

#7. As an actor, the thing I want to do to an audience is always be ahead of them and always be surprising in the work without deviating from the writer's intention.

Steve Bisley

#8. The Republican Party is officially a dumpster fire.

Chris Hayes

#9. No good can ever come from deviating from the path that you were meant to follow

Robert Greene

#10. If I had even a slight awareness, and practiced the Great Way, what I would fear would be deviating from it.

Gautama Buddha

#11. A comic writer should of all others be the least excused for deviating from nature, since it may not be always so easy for a serious poet to meet with the great and the admirable; but life every where furnishes an accurate observer with the ridiculous.

Henry Fielding

#12. The secret to finding your passion is to bring it to everything you do.
Marie Forleo (Yes, even doing the laundry!)

Marie Forleo

#13. What stupid children they had been, to cause each other such pain and then to hold on to their wounds so fiercely. She

Sherry Thomas

#14. It was a mark of Constantine's political genius and flexibility that he realized it was better to utilize a religion(Christianity) that already had a well-established structure of authority as a prop to the imperial regime rather than exclude it as a hindrance.

Charles Freeman

#15. There is sometimes a greater judgement shewn in deviating from the rules of art, than in adhering to them; and?there ismore beauty inthe works of a great genius who is ignorant of all the rules of art, than in the works of a little genius, who not only knows but scrupulously observes them.

Joseph Addison

#16. How many battles make a war?

Walter Wangerin Jr.

#17. ... Tell me, has anything odd happened to you recently?
What do you mean, odd?'
Unusual. Deviating from the customary. Something outside the usual parameters of normalcy. An occurrence of unprecedented weird.

Jasper Fforde

#18. I shall pursue a straight forward course deviating neither to the right or left so that comes what may I hope my real friends will never have to blush for me, so far as truth, honesty & fair dealings are concerned.

Zachary Taylor

#19. You mock those who blindly follow the majority ... turn your attention now to those who are so dedicated to deviating from the norm that they would gladly cease breathing if it were suggested to them that inhalation was a form of conformity; for they deserve just as much scrutiny and ridicule.

Demetri Martin

#20. I hope, by God's grace, that I am truly a Christian, not deviating from the faith, and that I would rather suffer the penalty of a terrible death than wish to affirm anything outside of the faith or transgress the commandments of our Lord Jesus Christ.

Jan Hus

#21. It is a singular capriciousness of the human mind, that after all the admonitions we have had from experience on this head, there should still be found men, who object to the new constitution for deviating from a principle which has been found the bane of the old.

Alexander Hamilton

#22. white-collar crime costs the communities in which it occurs more money than common crimes, but because white-collar criminals steal with a pencil they get away with it, while the eighteen-year-old kid who steals with a gun goes to prison for a long time.

Joseph Hilldorfer

#23. Life has two important dates - when you're born and when you find out why. - Mark Twain 1.

Gregory Benford

#24. I wonder if she knows I think she's beautiful.

Nicholas Sparks

#25. From my mother I learned the value of prayer, how to have dreams and believe I could make them come true.

Ronald Reagan

#26. Love is who we are, and when we deviate from that love we're deviating from our ultimate, essential, eternal reality.

Marianne Williamson

#27. You light up the darkness.

Sarah J. Maas

#28. When you are young your imagination is so clear.

Nina Blackwood

#29. Adrian, we hashed this out! Everything's gone perfectly until now. Why would you even think about deviating from the plan?'
'Um, because that's how we roll?

Richelle Mead

#30. That's what life is: repetitive routines. It's a matter of finding the balance between deviating from those patterns and knowing when to repeat them.

Joseph Gordon-Levitt

#31. I still indulge in a glass of wine or chocolate - treats are mandatory. Without deviating from the day-to-day healthy diet once in a while, it wouldn't be sustainable for me, and that's what I wanted: an approach to eating to last my entire life.

Alanis Morissette

#32. No art can be grafted with success on another art. For though they all profess the same origin, and to proceed from the same stock, yet each has its own peculiar modes both of imitating nature and of deviating from it ... The deviation, more especially, will not bear transplantation to another soil.

Joshua Reynolds

#33. Life is happy when u make it. Its boring when u hate it

Sreeja Pai

#34. When journalists are 'accused' of being 'advocates', that means: challenging and deviating from DC orthodoxies.

Glenn Greenwald

#35. 'Snow White' is an old fairy tale, so obviously the idea of vanity and obsession with youth is long-standing. With today's science, people have become crazy with trying to move their face around. It's bizarre.

Julia Roberts

#36. Wherever progress is to ensue, deviating natures are of greatest importance.

Friedrich Nietzsche