Top 100 Quotes About Divergent
#1. At first everyone predicted that it would be impossible to hold these divergent people together, but aside from the skilled men, some of whom belonged to craft unions, comparatively few went back to the mills. And as a whole, the strike was conducted with little violence.
Ray Stannard Baker
#2. I guess I am what I have always been. Not Dauntless, not Abnegation, not factionless. Divergent.
Veronica Roth
#3. Grade A objectivity won't come from those who are closest to us. It will come from outsiders. That's where we'll find divergent thinking, unexpected questions, novel ideas, differences of opinion, and added expertise.
David Sturt
#4. The key to holding a logical argument or debate is to allow oneself to understand the other person's argument no matter how divergent their views may seem.
Auliq Ice
#5. Why do you say vague things if you don't want to be asked about them?
Veronica Roth
#6. I have this idea that writing is all about divergent thinking colliding with a hurricane of emotions.
R. YS Perez
#7. In 'Divergent,' the story is about Beatrice Prior, and I play her brother.
Ansel Elgort
#8. Is it selfish for me to crave victory or is it brave?
Veronica Roth
#9. Be the hero of your children's story. Never let them believe for a minute that honor, courage and doing what is right is only reserved for other fathers and mothers.
Shannon L. Alder
#10. There are no safe rooms, no safe truths, no safe secrets to tell.
Veronica Roth
#11. You think giving you a hug would give away too much?" he says.
"You know," I say. "I really don't care."
I stand on my tiptoes and press my lips to his.
It is the best moment of my life.
Veronica Roth
#12. Dead people can be our heroes because they cant disappoint us later; they only improve over time, as we forget more and more about them.
Veronica Roth
#13. Because there might come a day when there is no flashlight, there is no gun, there is no guiding hand. And I want to be ready for it. (divergent pg.138)
Veronica Roth
#14. One Choice, Breaks free of his past
One Choice, Embraces his future
One Choice, Exposes the dangers
One Choice, Changes him- forever
One Choice will free him
Veronica Roth
#15. He looks at me like I am the only thing in the room worth looking at. -Tris (Divergent)
Veronica Roth
#16. I don't want to be just one thing. I want to be brave and selfless and intelligent and honest and kind.
Veronica Roth
#17. Half of bravery is perspective. The first time I did this, it was one of the hardest things I had ever done. Now, preparing to jump off a moving train is nothing, because I have done more difficult things in the past few weeks that most people will in a lifetime.
Veronica Roth
#18. I am not Abnegation. I am not Dauntless.
I am Divergent. And I can't be controlled.
Veronica Roth
#19. I like to hurt people too. I can make the cruelest choice. The difference is, sometimes I don't, and you always do, and that makes you evil.
Veronica Roth
#20. I think it's important to protect people. To stand up for people [ ... ] That's what courage is. Not ... hurting people for no reason. - Al
Veronica Roth
#21. I reach out and take his hand. His fingers slide between mine. I can't breathe.
Veronica Roth
#22. I never used to understand why people bothered to hold hands as they walked, but then he runs one of his fingertips down my palm, and I shiver and understand it completely
Veronica Roth
#23. Some will wear masks their entire life because they care about what other people think, while others remove the mask to be who they truly are. The difference between the two is not the ability to trust others, but to trust in God.
Shannon L. Alder
#24. Why would the factionless have a high Divergent population?" It sounds like she's smirking. "Obviously those who can't confine themselves to a particular way of thinking would be most likely to leave a faction or fail its initiation, right?
Veronica Roth
#25. The divergent series are the invention of the devil, and it is a shame to base on them any demonstration whatsoever. By using them, one may draw any conclusion he pleases and that is why these series have produced so many fallacies and so many paradoxes.
Niels Henrik Abel
#26. What thought or message would you put in a fortune cookie?
Stop reading this. Eat the cookie and live your life.
Veronica Roth
#27. I am not a perfect Dauntless member; I am someone who believes that more than one virtue should be prized; I am Divergent.
Veronica Roth
#28. By the time we leave, I have red lips and curled eyelashes, and I'm wearing a bright red dress. And there's a knife strapped to the inside of my knee. This all makes perfect sense.
Veronica Roth
#29. We each appear to hold within ourselves a range of divergent views as to our native qualities.. And amid such uncertainty, we typically turn to the wider world to settle the question of our significance.. we seem beholden to affections of others to endure ourselves.
Alain De Botton
#30. Everything - our houses, our clothes, our hairstyles - is meant to help us forget ourselves and to protect us from vanity, greed and envy, which are just forms of selfishness. If we have little, and want for little, and we are all equal, we envy no one.
Veronica Roth
#31. An open society calls itself open to improvement. It is based on the recognition that people have divergent views and interests, and that nobody is in possession of the ultimate truth.
George Soros
#32. I never really knew that I would be a lifer of strong female characters, but that seems to be the drops I'm being given, and I'm very happy for them. Hopefully, 'Divergent' will be the next thing.
Evan Daugherty
#33. You will know that it is time when there are many among you whose minds appear to be more flexible than the others. The name you should give those people is Divergent.
Veronica Roth
#34. And I am someone who does not let inconsequential boys and near-death experiences stop her.
Tris Prior
#35. Are you asking me to undress, Tris?'
A nervous laugh gurgles from my throat. 'Only ... partially
Veronica Roth
#36. I didn't know that idiocy caused people to just start spontaneously bleeding from the nose.
Veronica Roth
#37. the cause of Divergence and come out and help you, that was . . ." "'Divergent
Veronica Roth
#39. In some parts of the ancient world, the hawk symbolized the sun. Back when I got this, I figured if I always had the sun on me, I wouldn't be afraid of the dark
Veronica Roth
#40. Maybe time would not feel as heavy if I didn't have this guilt - the guilt of knowing the truth and stuffing it down where no one can see it.
Veronica Roth
#42. There's really no way to be perfect. Perfectionism is a silly trait to have, so in a lot of ways that inspired the world of 'Divergent,' in which everyone is striving toward that ideal and falling short of it.
Veronica Roth
#43. It's getting more difficult to be wise," he says, laughing into my ear.
I smile at him. "I think that's how it's
supposed to be.
Veronica Roth
#44. I was forced to stretch my thinking, to realize that sincere and honest people could believe in very divergent religious doctrines.
Carl Rogers
#47. Sometimes I still forget to look for the gentler parts of her. For so long all I saw was the strength, standing out like the wiry muscles in her arms or the black ink marking her collarbone with flight.
Veronica Roth
#48. Beatrice. We should think of our family. But. But we must also think of ourselves.
Veronica Roth
#49. At 78 years old, I am not surprised at much anymore. Germany has taken divergent positions before, so has France, so has England, so has the US.
Donald Rumsfeld
#50. If someone offers you an opportunity to get closer to your enemy, you always take it. I know that without having learned it from anyone.
Veronica Roth
#51. I throw my arms out to the side and imagine that I am flying ... my heart beats fast, I can't scream and I can't breathe. I also feel everything, buzzing as if I am charged with electricity. I AM PURE ADRENALINE - TRIS
Veronica Roth
#52. We are not the same. But we are, somehow, one.
Veronica Roth
#53. Becoming fearless isn't the point. That's impossible. It's learning how to control your fear, and how to be free from it.
Veronica Roth
#55. He wraps his arms around me and holds me tight for a few seconds. His
breaths tickle my ear, and I close my eyes, letting myself finally relax. He
smells like wind and sweat and soap, like Tobias and like safety.
Veronica Roth
#57. I still want to smack him. Or remind him that the last transfer we had from Abnegation, who is sitting right next to him, managed to knock out some of his teeth, so who knows what this next one will do.
Veronica Roth
#58. Discussing a problem with yourself is almost never a good way to secure a divergent viewpoint.
Jim Butcher
#59. Here, I've learned to defend myself,
I've learned to be stronger,
but one thing I haven't learned, won't let myself learn, is how to enjoy causing someone else pain. If I'm going to become Dauntless, I'm going to do it on my terms, even if that means that a part of me will always be a Stiff.
Veronica Roth
#60. Trust me when I tell you, Eaton boy, that resisting is worth doing.
Veronica Roth
#62. Don't worry about me handling the pain," I say. "I've had a lot of practice.
Veronica Roth
#63. Our economy is built upon convergent thinkers, people that execute things, get them done. But artists and designers are divergent thinkers: they expand the horizon of possibilities.
John Maeda
#64. Few people who are born into Abnegation choose to leave it. When they do, we remember.
Veronica Roth
#65. Christ is sufficient. We do not need "support groups" for each and every separate tribulation. The most widely divergent sorrows may all be taken to the foot of the same old rugged cross and find there cleansing, peace, and joy.
Elisabeth Elliot
#66. Any idiot can stand in front of a target. It doesn't prove anything except that you're bullying him. Which, as I recall, is a sign of cowardice.
Veronica Roth
#67. But now I'm wondering if I need it anymore, if we ever really need these words, "Dauntless," "Erudite," "Divergent," "Allegiant," or if we can just be friends or lovers or siblings, defined instead by the choices we make and the love and loyalty that binds us.
Veronica Roth
#68. It's not about Al," I snap. "It's about everyone watching! Everyone who now sees
hurling themselves into the chasm as a viable option. I mean, why not do it if everyone
calls you a hero afterward? Why not do it if everyone will remember your name? It's ... I
can't ...
Veronica Roth
#69. When you put off a task, you buy yourself time to engage in divergent thinking rather than foreclosing on one particular idea ...
Adam Grant
#70. 'Divergent,' directed by Neil Burger, displayed an admirable seriousness and some grim verve in laying out the boundaries of novelist Veronica Roth's dystopia - six segregated but ostensibly harmonious regions defined by their inhabitants' skills.
Richard Corliss
#71. I feel like someone breathed new air into my lungs. I am not Abnegation. I am not Dauntless.
I am Divergent.
Veronica Roth
#72. Though the views of members of the House and Senate are as divergent as the people we represent, we bear the responsibility to work through our political differences and get things done. That's our job.
Martha Roby
#73. In them we find administrators and teachers and counselors and leaders and protectors. In them we find our sense of belonging, our sense of community, our very lives.
Veronica Roth
#74. Sometimes I feel like we are the same, but sometimes, like right now, I feel the separation between our personalities like I've just run into a wall.
Veronica Roth
#75. I guess the truth is nobody told this smart kid that communication between such divergent life forms was impossible, so he just went ahead and did it anyhow.
Terry Pratchett
#76. They would wait for the passage of time - for the generations to pass, for each one to produce more genetically healed humans. Or, as you currently know them . . . the Divergent.
Veronica Roth
#77. The steps were crowded with bodies then. Now they are clean and cool, like nothing ever happened here.
Veronica Roth
#78. A voice called out after me, 'life takes us on many divergent paths, and yet we shall meet one more time! Not in the flesh, but in the sun, man's home
Adriana Koulias
#79. don't belong to Abnegation, or Dauntless, or even the Divergent. I don't belong to the Bureau or the experiment or the fringe. I belong to the people I love, and they belong to me - they, and the love and loyalty I give them, form my identity far more than any word or group ever could. I
Veronica Roth
#80. I'm not Dauntless - I'm Divergent. I am whatever I choose to be.
Veronica Roth
#81. No wonder you left."
Yeah," i say, rolling my eyes. " It was just because of the food.
Veronica Roth
#82. I know what's true and what's not. I am Divergent, so I am not nobody, there's no such thing as "safe,
Veronica Roth
#83. Someone shouts, "Enough!" and I think too much and nothing at all.
Veronica Roth
#84. But I will find new habits, new thoughts, new rules. I will become something else.
Veronica Roth
#85. I have a message for the Divergent" I am Divergent. "This is not a negotiation" No, it is not. "It is a warning" I understand. "Every two days until one of you delivers yourself to Erudite headquarters ... " I will. " ... this will happen again" It will never happen again.
Veronica Roth
#87. I recognize Eric for what he is: an Erudite disguised as a Dauntless, a genius as well as a sadist, a hunter of the Divergent.
Veronica Roth
#88. It's my choice now, no matter what the test says. Abnegation. Dauntless. Erudite. Divergent.
Veronica Roth
#90. I love to read (du) okay i love to read about alpha males and gods shadowhunter maze runner half bloods divergent a good romance
Gena Showalter
#91. I find it difficult to believe that God would want us to strip the courts of their powers to interpret the laws of this land, albeit with the divergent opinions. I shudder that my colleagues do not understand the dynamics of the Federal judiciary.
Alcee Hastings
#93. Crying defies scientific explanation. Tears are only meant to lubricate the eyes. There is no real reason for tear glands to overproduce tears at the behest of emotion.
Veronica Roth
#94. But that would put me on a path that would make me totally divergent from who I am. I don't have to go through the heartache many other people go through, of figuring out what makes them "wealthy." I know what brings me joy.
Ben Sollee
#95. Indeed, the "whole bourgeoisie" on whose behalf the government was acting as its "committee" was a composite of a vast multitude of businessmen appearing as a conglomeration of many different and divergent groups and interests.
Paul A. Baran
#96. I'm not anyone," he says. "I'm nobody. That's what being factionless is.
Veronica Roth
#97. In Maths, we are learning about mixed factions. They call it Divergent.
Ella
#98. Looking away is submissive. Looking [..] in the eye is a challenge.
Veronica Roth
#99. Every tattoo I got with them is a mark of their friendship, and almost every time I have laughed in this dark place was because of them. I don't want to lose them. But I feel like I have already.
Veronica Roth
#100. I could not be attracted to anyone that fragile.
Veronica Roth
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