Deviation from Nature is deviation from happiness.

Accustom your children constantly to this; if a thing happened at one window and they, when relating it, say that it happened at another,…

— Samuel Johnson

Those who regarded the revolution, during Imam Khomeini's time, as a deviation, are now [wielding] the tools of terror and oppression

— Mohammad Khatami

Are deviations from full employment a social problem? Obviously.

— Janet Yellen

“Transgression affirms the very rules it intends to flout. Nothing supports the norm like deviation.”

— Hanif Kureishi

Sport carries on without deviation the mechanical tradition of furnishing relief and distraction to the worker after he has finished his work proper so…

— Jacques Ellul

If your broker or investment advisor is not familiar with the concept of standard deviation of returns, get a new one.

— William J. Bernstein

Ponder and deliberate before you make your move. He will conquer who has learned the artifice of deviation. Such is the art of maneuvering.

— Sun Tzu

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

— Michael Bassey Johnson

To be sane, he held, was either to be sedated by melancholy or activated by hysteria, two responses which were 'always and equally warranted…

— Thomas Ligotti

Temporary deviations from fundamental principles are always more or less dangerous. When the first pretext fails, those who become interested in prolonging the evil…

— James Madison

Invention is nothing more than a fine deviation from, or enlargement on a fine model . . .

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

I never considered Miles Davis a perfectionist; I always considered him as an excellence-ist, where deviation is actually kind of cool.

— Charlie Trotter

There's not much room for deviation, yet if you manage to crack it, there then you can express things that actually do sound unique…

— Rob Brown

One of the most effective means of seduction that Evil has is the challenge to struggle. It is like the struggle with women, whichends…

— Franz Kafka

Great steps in human progress are made by things that don't work the way philosophy thought they should. If things always worked the way…

— Charles Kettering