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. I have this idea that writing is all about divergent thinking colliding with a hurricane of emotions.
R. YS Perez
#6. In 'Divergent,' the story is about Beatrice Prior, and I play her brother.
Ansel Elgort
#7. 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
#8. He looks at me like I am the only thing in the room worth looking at. -Tris (Divergent)
Veronica Roth
#9. I am not Abnegation. I am not Dauntless.
I am Divergent. And I can't be controlled.
Veronica Roth
#10. 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
#11. 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
#12. 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
#13. 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
#14. 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
#15. 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
#16. 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
#17. the cause of Divergence and come out and help you, that was . . ." "'Divergent
Veronica Roth
#19. 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
#20. I was forced to stretch my thinking, to realize that sincere and honest people could believe in very divergent religious doctrines.
Carl Rogers
#22. 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
#23. Discussing a problem with yourself is almost never a good way to secure a divergent viewpoint.
Jim Butcher
#24. 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
#25. 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
#26. 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
#27. When you put off a task, you buy yourself time to engage in divergent thinking rather than foreclosing on one particular idea ...
Adam Grant
#28. '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
#29. I feel like someone breathed new air into my lungs. I am not Abnegation. I am not Dauntless.
I am Divergent.
Veronica Roth
#30. 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
#31. 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
#32. 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
#33. 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
#34. 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
#35. I'm not Dauntless - I'm Divergent. I am whatever I choose to be.
Veronica Roth
#36. 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
#37. 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
#38. 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
#39. It's my choice now, no matter what the test says. Abnegation. Dauntless. Erudite. Divergent.
Veronica Roth
#41. 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
#42. 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
#43. 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
#44. 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
#45. In Maths, we are learning about mixed factions. They call it Divergent.
Ella
#46. Divergent thinking is that one starts thinking from one point and expands from there to generate more ideas.
Pearl Zhu
#47. Puerto Rico has two divergent paths forward. After a reasonable transition period, it could become a state. Or it can become a sovereign nation.
Pedro Pierluisi
#48. I'm not abnegation, I'm not dauntless, I am Divergent
Veronica Roth
#49. I've read the whole 'Divergent' series, the 'Pretty' series. I just read it because I find this stuff interesting to read.
Mark Waters
#50. I was also beginning to learn about social psychology and the Milgram experiment on obedience to authority figures, which made me think about how malleable our supposedly strict moral codes become in the right conditions. Something that DIVERGENT grapples with.
Veronica Roth
#51. 'Divergent' is a story about people who don't fit into a category - that is a big part of the message - but it's also about conformity and forcing people into these simple archetypes. At the end of the day, humans don't exist like that. We're multifaceted.
Theo James
#52. Music creates order out of chaos; for rythem imposes unianimity upon the divergent, melody imposes contuniuty upon the disjointed, and harmony imposes compatibility upon the incongruous.
Yehudi Menuhin
#53. Tris: Wait. So you have no idea what my aptitude is?
Tori: Yes and No. My conclusion is that you display equal aptitude for Abnegation, Dauntless and Erudite. People who get this kind of result are..are called ... Divergent.
Veronica Roth
#54. Iraq ... has also had contacts with al-Qaida. Their ties may be limited by divergent ideologies, but the two sides' mutual antipathy toward the United States and the Saudi royal family suggests that tactical cooperation between them is possible.
George Tenet
#55. I don't have the activist temperament. I like listening to divergent points of view and hearing people out. I like getting along. I even like being liked, although activists of any stripe should get rid of that handicap at the outset.
Victoria Moran
#56. If you are well-mannered towards those whose views are similar to yours, you may be said to exhibit a fairly good character. But, if you behave properly wit those holding divergent views from you or who criticize you, then you deserve to be credited with having an excellent character. (p. 99)
Maulana Wahiduddin Khan
#57. If I can't be with her, the least I can do is act like her sometimes.
Divergent- Since my mom has passed, this quote really spoke true to me.
Veronica Roth
#58. It's important to be a divergent musician and do a little bit of everything, except you have to make sure your fans are aware of it and that you string them along the right way.
Ansel Elgort
#59. 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.
Anonymous
#60. You know, the kind of person who gets this tattoo is probably the kind that should keep it very quiet," she says, looking at me from the corner of her eye. "Or else someone will start thinking they're Divergent.
Veronica Roth
#61. We are not dissatisfied with our choices and with what life has
given us, but when we meet we both have a curious and not unpleasant
impression that a veil, a breath, a throw of the dice deflected us
onto two divergent paths, which were not ours.
Primo Levi
#62. My father, for his part, was not a man to begrudge anyone a divergent opinion; he'd have been fine if I had written some articles disagreeing with his policies, or even given interviews, as long as I was respectful and civil.
Patti Davis
#63. It was a game she sometimes played, ever since she learned about the theory of infinite parallels, the idea that a person's path through life wasn't really a line, but a tree, every decision a divergent branch, resulting in a divergent you.
Victoria Schwab
#64. So often it happens that this one or that stands condemned by the social laws that govern family relations; and yet there are peculiar circumstances in the case, differences of temperament, divergent interests, innumerable complications of family life that excuse the apparent offence.
Honore De Balzac
#65. I often feel as if I'm moving about as a double in my own skin, a Doppelganger walking a divergent path of my life's choices.
Lindsay Smith
#66. People who get his kind of result are ... She looks over her shoulder like she expects someone to appear behind her ... are called ... Divergent.
Veronica Roth
#67. Love of music, of sunsets and sea; a liking for the same kind of people; political opinions that are not radically divergent; a similar stance as we look at the stars and think of the marvelous strangeness of the universe - these are what build a marriage. And it is never to be taken for granted.
Madeleine L'Engle
#68. It becomes the urgent duty of mathematicians, therefore, to meditate about the essence of mathematics, its motivations and goals and the ideas that must bind divergent interests together.
Richard Courant
#69. Funnily enough, I did a play called 'Jumpy' on the West End before I did 'Divergent,' and there was an essence of that character I played, called Cam, in Will. In the sense of his vulnerability, and ... he had a sense of humor that comes out of adversity, similar to Will.
Ben Lloyd-Hughes
#70. I don't have an answer to that, and I don't even know if he's right about me. Am I wired like the Abnegation, or the Dauntless? Maybe the answer is neither. Maybe I am wired like the Divergent.
Veronica Roth
#71. The initial animosity between divergent approaches can be overcome if we realize that each has something to offer that the other lacks. We may weave them together into a new whole that is stronger than the sum of its parts.
Frans De Waal
#72. With 'Divergent' and 'Insurgent,' there isn't great emphasis on uniformity; it's a vigilante military, the state is in disarray, and there is no reference point for authenticity, so it's just weapons work and circumstantial fighting.
Jai Courtney
#73. History does not record in its annals any lasting domination exercised by one people over another, of different race, of diverse usages and customs, of opposite and divergent ideals. One of the two had to yield and succumb.
Jose Rizal
#74. The thing about reason is that there's a geometry to it. It travels in a straight line, so that slightly different beginnings can lead you to wildly divergent endpoints.
Rachel Hartman
#75. You all have functional brains, last time I checked," I say. "You can think like the Erudite, too."
"But we don't have special Divergent brains!" says Marlene. She touches her fingertips to my scalp and squeezes lightly. "Come on, do your magic.
Veronica Roth
#76. I only came for Cake" -Tobias Eaton, Divergent
Veronica Roth
#77. For life is tendency, and the essence of a tendency is to develop in the form of a sheaf, creating, by its very growth, divergent directions among which its impetus is divided.
Henri Bergson
#78. If the major powers come to practice foreign policies of manipulating a multiplicity of subsovereign units observing ambiguous and often violent rules of conduct, many based on extreme articulations of divergent cultural experiences, anarchy is certain.
Henry Kissinger
#79. The only way to have several currencies from divergent nations lumped together is if they are culturally close, such as Germany, the Netherlands and Austria. If they aren't, it simply can't continue to work.
Alan Greenspan
#80. Is this because I'm a - " I start to say, but she presses her hand to my mouth. "Don't say that word," she hisses. "Ever." So Tori was right. Divergent is a dangerous thing to be. I just don't know why, or even what it really means, still.
Veronica Roth
#81. We find common bonds in the shared details of the human journey, not in the divergent conclusions we draw from those details.
Parker J. Palmer
#82. I know more than anyone the divergent views about my father. I want to be judged on my own merits.
Park Geun-hye
#83. People who get this kind of result are ... " She looks over her shoulder like she expects someone to appear behind her. " ... are called ... Divergent." She says the last word so quietly that I almost don't hear it, and her tense, worried look returns.
Veronica Roth
#84. Matter of fact, the interesting friendships are the ones that are divergent.
Tom Coburn
#85. Vaccination was, and is, thoroughly infused with our politics, our social values, and our cultural norms. By acknowledging and understanding the divergent reasons why we've vaccinated in the past, however, we just may ensure the continued success of vaccination in the future.
Elena Conis
#86. 'Harry Potter' really harnessed the imagination of so many young-adult minds, and it's the same with the 'Divergent' series.
Kate Winslet
#87. The laws of Congress and the laws of physics have grown increasingly divergent, and the laws of physics are not likely to yield.
Bill McKibben
#88. A true university can never rest upon the will of one man. A true university always rests upon the wills of many divergent-minded old men, who refuse to be disturbed, but who growl in their kennels.
John Jay Chapman
#89. Why do you say vague things if you don't want to be asked about them?
Veronica Roth
#90. Is it selfish for me to crave victory or is it brave?
Veronica Roth
#91. 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
#92. There are no safe rooms, no safe truths, no safe secrets to tell.
Veronica Roth
#93. 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
#94. 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
#95. 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
#96. I don't want to be just one thing. I want to be brave and selfless and intelligent and honest and kind.
Veronica Roth
#97. 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
#98. 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
#99. 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
#100. I reach out and take his hand. His fingers slide between mine. I can't breathe.
Veronica Roth
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