Deviation Quotes

“If you lead me astray, then my wanderings will bring me to my destination.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson

“Is deviation from the locally approved norms always and everywhere to be taken as disease?”
― Bernard Wolfe, Limbo

“Separate yourself from the lies and illusions which are not you.”
― Bryant McGill, Voice of Reason

“In the last few years we had learnt more of the people round us, and the way they felt. What had seemed, five or six years ago, a kind of rather disquieting game had grown grimmer as we understood more about it. Essentially, it had not changed. Still our whole consideration if we were to survive must be to keep our true selves hidden; to walk, talk, and live indistinguishably from other people. We had a gift, a sense which, Michael complained bitterly, should have been a blessing, but was little better than a curse. The stupidest norm was happier; he could feel that he belonged. We did not, and because we did not, we had no positive — we were condemned to negatives, to not revealing ourselves, to not speaking when we would, to not using what we knew, to not being found out — to a life of perpetual deception, concealment, and lying. The prospect of continued negativeness stretching out ahead chafed him more than it did the rest of us. His imagination took him further, giving him a clearer vision of what such frustrations were going to mean, but it was no better at suggesting an alternative than ours were.”
― John Wyndham, The Chrysalids

“Another distraction that deviates people from their God given purpose and calling is the distraction of job and formal education.”
― Sunday Adelaja, How To Become Great Through Time Conversion: Are you wasting time, spending time or investing time?

“If some people deviate or step out of the path Jesus has laid, others will have to take up the baton and continue the race”
― Sunday Adelaja

“Never deviate from the right way and you will improve.”
― Israelmore Ayivor, Become a Better You

“If norms are oppressive, try to foster acceptance of deviations, don't try to destroy the norms themselves — that's a fool's errand.”
― T.J. Kirk

“Deviation from the principle, decision, and own referral is not only the worst practice; however, it is also cruelty and self-discredit.”
― Ehsan Sehgal

“Deviation on life path begins when we try to look at others.”
― Isaac A. Yowetu

“Certainly I favor tradition; I am aware that ancestral decorum ought not to be scorned. The aberrant is to be shunned. Life’s fundamental rhythms depend on sameness, not deviation. All this I long ago learned from my mother.”
― Cynthia Ozick, Antiquities

“Weird is just a deviation from what the majority considers to be the normal”
― Elizabeth Nsenkyire