Diverging Quotes & Sayings

A narrow winding street, full of offence and stench, with other narrow winding streets diverging, all peopled by rags and nightcaps, and all smelling of rags and nightcaps, and all visible things with a brooding look upon them that looked ill. — Charles Dickens

Ivan and I: the world converging.
Malina and I, since we are one: the world diverging. — Ingeborg Bachmann

Do you hope you can expiate the crimes of the past by suffering in the present? — J.M. Coetzee

Gabby's house was the same model as ours but reversed. Her bedroom was the same bedroom as mine, the dimensions exactly equal. For twelve years, we'd slept between walls erected by the same construction crews and looked out on the same fading cul-de-sac through identically sized windows. Grown under similar conditions, we had become very different, two specimens of girlhood, now diverging. — Karen Thompson Walker

Love was magma, shooting from the Earth. It had the potential to form pillars of rock that would last for a thousand years or plumes of ash that choked the sky. — Diana Peterfreund

He thought that in the beauty of the world were hid a secret. He thought that the world's heart beat at some terrible cost and that the world's pain and its beauty moved in a relationship of diverging equity and that in this headlong deficit the blood of multitudes might ultimately be exacted for the vision of a single flower. — Cormac McCarthy

He remembered Alejandra and the sadness he'd first seen in the slope of her shoulders which he'd presumed to understand and of which he knew nothing and he felt a loneliness he'd not known since he was a child and he felt wholly alien to the world although he loved it still. He thought that in the beauty of the world were hid a secret. He thought the world's heart beat at some terrible cost and that the world's pain and it's beauty moved in a relationship of diverging equity and that in this headlong deficit the blood of multitudes might ultimately be exacted for he vision of a single flower. — Cormac McCarthy

As the nation watches, Democrats and Republicans should reflect the interspersed character of America itself. Perhaps, by sitting with each other for one night, we will begin to rekindle that common spark that brought us here from 50 different states and widely diverging backgrounds to serve the public good. — Mark Udall

Nobody is such a fool as to moider away his time in the slip-slop conversation of a pack of women. — Lady Hester Stanhope

Differing from Newton and Schopenhauer, your ancestor did not think of time as absolute and uniform. He believed it an infinite series of times, in a dizzily growing, ever spreading network of diverging, converging and parallel times. — Jorge Luis Borges

Welfare states come in different shapes and sizes; they are constructed on diverging conceptions of social rights and duties; some stress equality and solidarity, others freedom; and the range of policy objectives is vast and widely dissimilar. — Kees Van Kersbergen

Life is like a play: it's not the length, but the excellence of the acting that matters. — Seneca.

The void in the heart does not accommodate itself to a proxy. — Victor Hugo

He was so narrow minded that if he fell on a pin it would blind him in both eyes. — Fred Allen

The past ... is a dim avenue down which we may walk and find the diverging paths of terror and beauty and passion ... — Martha Ostenso

Progressivism is a spectrum; it's not an ideology following one leader saying one thing. It's many people who have very wildly diverging opinions about many things. But, as progressives, if we could commit to a general frame of reference that we are about improving the quality of life for a lot more people, we're about helping working and middle-class people, and we're about taking care of poor people, we could really make some inroads in political power in this country. But, if we choose to be purists, if we choose to be arguing for a consensus we will never reach, for agreement on every point, it's never going to happen. — Urvashi Vaid

You have to try your hardest to be at the top of your game and improve every joke you can until the last possible second, and then you have to let it go. — Tina Fey

I believe that all government is evil, and that trying to improve it is largely a waste of time. — H.L. Mencken

Kindness is the most beautiful quality a human being can possess. — Divya Chawla

In short, the animal and vegetable lines, diverging widely above, join below in a loop. — Asa Gray

All books are judged by their covers until they are read. — Maryrose Wood

We want to infuse our day with good habits so that we can turn seemingly mundane situations into a ceremony of goodness. — Sakyong Mipham

Obviously, the highest type of efficiency is that which can utilize existing material to the best advantage. — Jawaharlal Nehru

You know, the camera is not meant just to show misery. — Gordon Parks

I have always directed my attempts at the figurative representation of objects by way of summary and not very descriptive brushstrokes, diverging greatly from the real objective measurements of things, and this has led many people to talk about childish drawing ... this position of seeing them (the objects, fh) without looking at them too much, without focussing more attention on them than any ordinary man would in normal everyday life.. — Jean Dubuffet