Deviate Quotes

• I wanted to acquire an education, work extremely hard and never deviate from my goal, to make it.

  Taylor Caldwell

  Goal, Wanted, Acquire

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• 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

  Lying, World, Enough

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• I am determined, even if they throw mud in my face, never to show any resentment, nor break with them, nor deviate from the esteem and honor I owe them in the sight of God. If they forget themselves and say or do something offensive against your little bark, even if it is done purposely to make it sink, bear with it for the love of God, who will save you from shipwreck and calm the storm. Do not complain or even say a single work about it. In spite of everything, continue to compliment them when you meet, as if nothing were amiss.

  Vincent de Paul

  Wisdom, Sight, Honor

  Saint Vincent de Paul, Pierre Coste (1985). “Correspondence, Conferences, Documents”

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• 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

  Law, Humanity, Existence

  Samuel Johnson (1848). “The Wisdom of the Rambler, Adventurer, and Idler”, p.396

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• In order to deviate successfully, one has to have at least a passing acquaintance with whatever norm one expects to deviate from.

  Frank Zappa

  Order, Passing, Norm

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• The horror of the Holocaust is not that it deviated from human norms; the horror is that it didn't. What happened may happen again, to others not necessarily Jews, perpetrated by others, not necessarily Germans. We are all possible victims, possible perpetrators, possible bystanders.

  Yehuda Bauer

  Bystanders, Holocaust, May

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• 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

  Views, People, Personality

  Marianne Williamson (1992). “A return to love: reflections on the principles of "A course in miracles"”

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• And the rules were so clear, you could not deviate from that all. And I think it especially damaged my sisters because there was nothing they could do to get my father's attention, to win his approval. They could not play sports. They could not do these other things. They could not be tough. They could not be macho. And so I think they suffered just from sheer neglect if nothing else.

  Terry Gross

  Sports, Father, Winning

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• There are two cardinal human sins out of which all others derive, deviate, and dissipate: impatience and lassitude (or perhaps nonchalance). On account of impatience they are driven out of paradise; on account of lassitude or nonchalance they do not return. Perhaps, however, only one main sense of sin is given: impatience. On account of impatience they are driven out, on account of impatience they do not turn back.

  Franz Kafka

  Two, Nonchalance, Paradise

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• Literature transforms and intensifies ordinary language, deviates systematically from everyday speech. If you approach me at a bus stop and murmur Thou still unravished bride of quietness, then I am instantly aware that I am in the presence of the literary.

  Terry Eagleton

  Book, Bus Stops, Everyday

  Terry Eagleton (2011). “Literary Theory: An Introduction”, p.2, John Wiley & Sons

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• Keep on adding, keep on walking, keep on progressing: do not delay on the road, do not go back, do not deviate.

  Saint Augustine

  Progress, Delay, Resolve

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• 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

  Succeed, Sticks, Trouble

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• Although we deal with probabilities and expectations, the actual results can deviate substantially from such expectations, particularly on a short-term basis.

  Warren Buffett

  Expectations, Results, Term

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• Decisions are constantly before us. To make them wisely, courage is needed-the courage to say no, the courage to say yes. Decisions do determine destiny. I plead with you to make a determination right here, right now, not to deviate from the path which will lead to our goal: eternal life with our Father in Heaven.

  Thomas S. Monson

  Determination, Father, Destiny

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• Something becomes personal when it deviates from the norm.

  Kathryn Bigelow

  Norm

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• You've got to be able to copy things faithfully before you can deviate.

  Damien Hirst

  Copying, Able, Copies

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• Society cannot contribute anything to the breeding and growing of ingenious men. A creative genius cannot be trained. There are no schools for creativeness. A genius is precisely a man who defies all schools and rules, who deviates from the traditional roads of routine and opens up new paths through land inaccessible before. A genius is always a teacher, never a pupil; he is always self-made.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Teacher, School, Men

  Ludwig von Mises (2016). “Bureaucracy: The Economist”, p.13, VM eBooks

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• 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

  Dream, Brother, Trying

  "'Baby Makin' Music' from the Isley Brothers". "News & Notes" with Ed Gordon, www.npr.org. May 16, 2006.

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• 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

  Thinking, People, Too Much

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• A profusion of fancies and quotations is out of place in a love-letter. True feeling is always direct, and never deviates into by-ways to cull flowers of rhetoric.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Flower, Feelings, Letters

  Christian Nestell Bovee (1862). “Intuitions and Summaries of Thought”, p.34

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• Somedays the line I walk turns out to be straight - Other days the line tends to deviate.

  Ani DiFranco

  Lines, Walks, Turns

  Song: In Or Out, Album: Imperfectly, 1992

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• 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

  Iron, Path, No Excuses

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• Do you know this Sanskrit Shloka: "Let those who are versed in the ethical codes praise or blame, let Lakshmi, the goddess of Fortune, come or go wherever she wisheth, let death overtake him today or after a century, the wise man never swerves from the path of rectitude." Let people praise you or blame you, let fortune smile or frown upon you, let your body fall today or after a Yuga, see that you do not deviate from the path of Truth.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Wise, Fall, Men

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• If we keep the path of virtue undefiled through devout and true knowledge, and do not deviate to either side, we will experience the advent of God revealed to us because of our dispassion. For 'I will sing a psalm and in a pure path I will understand when Thou wilt come to me' (cf. Ps. 101:1-2). The psalm stands for virtuous conduct; understanding indicates the spiritual knowledge, gained through virtue, by means of which we perceive God's advent, when we wait for the Lord vigilant in the virtues.

  Maximus the Confessor

  Christian, Spiritual, Mean

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• The rules that I shall propose concerning secrecy, and from which I think it not safe to deviate without long and exact deliberation, are, never to solicit the knowledge of a secret,--not willingly, nor without many limitations, to accept such confidence when it is offered; when a secret is once admitted, to consider the trust as of a very high nature, important as society and sacred as truth, and therefore not to be violated for any incidental convenience, or slight appearance of contrary fitness.

  Samuel Johnson

  Thinking, Long, Secret

  Samuel Johnson (1810). “The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: With An Essay on His Life and Genius”, p.87

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