Divergent Quotes - Page 2

• People tend to overestimate my character," I say quietly. "They think that because I'm small, or a girl, or a Stiff, I can't possibly be cruel. But they're wrong.

  Veronica Roth

  Girl, Character, Thinking

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• I have something I need to tell you," he says. I run my fingers along the tendons in his hands and look back at him. "I might be in love with you." He smiles a little. "I'm waiting until I'm sure to tell you, though." "That's sensible of you," I say, smiling too. "We should find some paper so you can make a list or a chart or something." I feel his laughter against my side, his nose sliding along my jaw, his lips pressing my ear. "Maybe I'm already sure," he says, "and I just don't want to frighten you." I laugh a little. "Then you should know better." "Fine," he says. "Then I love you.

  Veronica Roth

  Running, Laughter, Love You

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• I want to be brave, and selfless, and smart, and kind, and honest.

  Veronica Roth

  Smart, Brave, Selfless

  "Divergent and the Gospel (Part II): Vanquishing Weakness, Cultivating Strength" by Jacob Myers, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 28, 2014.

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• Fear doesn't shut you down; it wakes you up

  Veronica Roth

  Fear, Wakes You, Grazing

  "Divergent". www.imdb.com. 2014.

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• Human reason can excuse any evil.

  Veronica Roth

  Evil, Excuse, Reason

  Veronica Roth (2013). “Divergent Trilogy”, p.54, HarperCollins UK

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• Human beings as a whole cannot be good for long before the bad creeps back in and poisons us again.

  Veronica Roth

  Long, Poison, Creeps

  "Divergent". Book by Veronica Roth, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 26, 2011.

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• 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

  Life, Essence, Creating

  Henri Bergson (2015). “Creative Evolution”, p.90, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• We believe in ordinary acts of bravery, in the courage that drives one person to stand up for another.

  Veronica Roth

  Inspirational, Motivational, Believe

  "Divergent". Book by Veronica Roth (p. 47), 2011.

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• Sometimes crying or laughing are the only options left, and laughing feels better right now.

  Veronica Roth

  Inspirational, Laughter, Feel Better

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• 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

  Fearless, Four, Becoming

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• Fine," he says. "Then I love you.

  Veronica Roth

  Love You, Fine, Divergent Series

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• 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

  Believe, Law, Land

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• 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

  Men, People, Together

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• But I will find new habits, new thoughts, new rules. I will become something else.

  Veronica Roth

  Habit, New Thought, Dauntless

  Veronica Roth (2013). “The Divergent Series Complete Collection: Divergent, Insurgent, Allegiant”, p.46, Harper Collins

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• It is more important for you to be safe than right, for the time being. Understand? (...) But please, when you see an opportunity...ruin them

  Veronica Roth

  Opportunity, Important, Safe

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• For a few minutes we kiss, deep in the chasm, with the roar of water all around us. And we rise, hand in hand, I realize that if we had both chosen differently, we might have ended up doing the same thing, in a safer place, in gray clothes instead of black ones.

  Veronica Roth

  Kissing, Clothes, Hands

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• There is power in controlling something that can do so much damage - in controlling something, period.

  Veronica Roth

  Damage Is Done, Periods, Can Do

  Veronica Roth (2013). “The Divergent Series Complete Collection: Divergent, Insurgent, Allegiant”, p.44, Harper Collins

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• Human reason can excuse any evil; that is why it's so important that we don't rely on it.

  Veronica Roth

  Evil, Important, Excuse

  Veronica Roth (2013). “Divergent Trilogy”, p.54, HarperCollins UK

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• Then I realize what it is. It's him. Something about him makes me feel like I am about to fall. Or turn to liquid. Or burst into flames.

  Veronica Roth

  Love, Relationship, Romantic

  Veronica Roth (2013). “The Divergent Series Complete Collection: Divergent, Insurgent, Allegiant”, p.70, Harper Collins

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• Human history can be viewed as a slowly dawning awareness that we are members of a larger group Groups of people from divergent ethnic and cultural backgrounds working in some sense together [is] surely a humanizing and character building experience. If we are to survive, our loyalties must be broadened further, to include the whole human community, the entire planet Earth.

  Carl Sagan

  Loyalty, Character, People

  Carl Sagan (2011). “Cosmos”, p.371, Ballantine Books

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• 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

  Character, Views, May

  Maulana Wahiduddin Khan (2014). “Spirit of Islam”, p.7, Goodword Books

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• 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

  Ideas, People, Waiting

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• 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

  Jobs, Responsibility, Political Differences

  "Bipartisan test awaits new Congress" by Martha Roby, www.politico.com. November 13, 2012.

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• 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

  Government, Acting, Groups

  Paul A. Baran (1968). “Political Econ of Growth”, p.93, NYU Press

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• 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.

  Veronica Roth

  Loyalty, Believe, Eye

  "Insurgent". Book by Veronica Roth, 2012.

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