I feel like someone breathed new air into my lungs. I am not Abnegation. I am not Dauntless. I am Divergent.
Leaving us with Eric is like hiring a babysitter who spends his time sharpening knives.
But I will find new habits, new thoughts, new rules. I will become something else.
I love you. " He frowns. "Say it again. " "Tobias," I say. "I love you.
While truth is ultimately convergent, beauty is ultimately divergent. No one can and no one should tell anyone else what that person should consider beautiful.
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.
A chasm reminds us that there is a fine line between bravery and idiocy.
Not long time ago there was a striking example of the extent to which English has diverged: a television company put out a programme filmed in the English city of Newcastle, where the local variety of English is famously divergent and difficult, and the televised version was accompanied by English subtitles!
Fine," he says. "Then I love you.
I think it's really important to look at the walk and not the talk, and if you look at the walk, our paths [with Hillary Clinton] are extremely divergent.
Becoming fearless isn't the point. That's impossible. It's learning how to control your fear, and how to be free from it.
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.
I might be in love with you. " He smiles a little. "I'm waiting until I'm sure to tell you, though.
I only came for Cake" -Tobias Eaton, Divergent
I was in good shape from Divergent. Damien Chazelle, the director of Whiplash told me, ‘Stop Working Out! Don’t go outside!’ He wanted me pale and doughy. This is the first movie where I shut myself off from the world. It was, by far, the hardest thing I’ve ever done.
I want to be brave, and selfless, and smart, and kind, and honest.
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)
Music creates order out of chaos: for rhythm imposes unanimity upon the divergent, melody imposes continuity upon the disjointed, and harmony imposes compatibility upon the incongruous.
I have a theory that selflessness and bravery aren't all that different.
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.