Courting Peggy McGrath provided me with a very pleasant diversion and eventually with the most important relationship of my life. — David Rockefeller Copy Share Image
I think, when men tell women to lose weight, it's a diversion from their own lack of size in certain areas. — Candace Bushnell Copy Share Image
If man were happy, he would be the more so, the less he was diverted, like the saints and God. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
It is not necessary to conceal anything from a public insensible to contradiction and narcotized by technological diversions. — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
The mind gets distracted in all sorts of ways. The heart is its own exclusive concern and diversion. — Malcolm De Chazal Copy Share Image
Recreation and diversion are as necessary to our well-being as the more serious pursuits of life. — Brigham Young Copy Share Image
The United States government first learned of the diversion of the W-88 nuclear warhead design in late 1995. — Charles Bass Copy Share Image
In Europe they look upon jazz as art. In America it's a diversion. Somebody opens a restaurant and installs another band off… — Chet Baker Copy Share Image
I trust the mystery. I trust what comes in silence and what comes in nature where there's no diversion. I think the… — Angeles Arrien Copy Share Image
Man finds nothing so intolerable as to be in a state of complete rest, without passions, without occupation, without diversion, without effort.… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
It gave me a great notion of the credit of our present government and administration, to find people press as eagerly to… — Gertrude Stein Copy Share Image
I did not want to raise a genetically compromised child. I did not want my children to have to contend with the… — Ayelet Waldman Copy Share Image
The library is a place of mental diversion, learning, and comfort for anyone who has an intellect. I know of no librarian… — Piers Anthony Copy Share Image
I was never jailed. The fact is that I was arrested, but I went into a diversion programme, and by that time… — David Soul Copy Share Image
A Garden, an Elaboratory, a Work - house, Improvements and Breeding, are pleasant and Profitable Diversions to the Idle and Ingenious: For… — William Penn Copy Share Image
Travel by canoe is not a necessity, and will nevermore be the most efficient way to get from one region to another,… — John McPhee Copy Share Image
We're not really taught how to recreate constructively. We need to do more than find diversions; we need to restore and expand… — Bill Watterson Copy Share Image
The constitution has broken down. We have no enemies except the ones we select and direct towards the nearest nuclear bombs. They… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
[T]he regime of diversions, surrogates, and tranquilizers that pass for today's 'distractions' and 'amusements' does not yet allow the modern woman to… — Julius Evola Copy Share Image
People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
“The only good thing for men therefore is to be diverted from thinking of what they are, either by some occupation which… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
“Diversion consoles us - in trivial ways - in the face of our miseries or perplexities; yet, paradoxically, it becomes the worst… — Douglas Groothuis Copy Share Image
The ordinary patient goes to his doctor because he is in pain or some other discomfort and wants to be comfortable again;… — Wilfred Trotter Copy Share Image
When we generally make healthy choices about food (or wise choices about life), we tend to move in the right direction, living… — Craig Groeschel Copy Share Image
I'm not such a bad fighter myself," Skye said. Po exploded with laughter. "Oh, fight him, Katsa. Please fight him. I can't… — Kristin Cashore Copy Share Image
At its best, climbing becomes a life focus around which everything else must orbit and at its least is an excellent diversion… — Todd Skinner Copy Share Image
I can't keep myself from playing roles. The emotionless decadent, looking for diversion from boredom, is a favorite. — Ellen Willis Copy Share Image
There are two seasonal diversions that can ease the bite of any winter. One is the January thaw. The other is the… — Hal Borland Copy Share Image
Prison always has been a good place for writers, killing, as it does, the twin demons of mobility and diversion — Dan Simmons Copy Share Image
No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting. She will not want new fashions nor regret the loss… — Mary Wortley Montagu Copy Share Image
A decade or so ago, all over the world, cinemas underwent one of those prince-into-frog mutations, and became, instead popcorn-restaurants, which offered… — Kevin Myers Copy Share Image
I am very much concerned when I see young gentlemen of fortune and quality so wholly set upon pleasures and diversions, that… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Pop music has been all but relegated to the remainder bin at MTV and VH1, where high-maintenance concoctions such as Paris Hilton,… — James Wolcott Copy Share Image
The committee discloses that even after the U.S. government learned of the diversion of U.S. designs for nuclear warheads in late 1995,… — Charles Bass Copy Share Image
The only thing which consoles for our miseries is diversion, and yet this is the greatest of our miseries. For it is… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
“Yet among all the distractions and diversions of a planet which now seemed well on the way to becoming one vast playground,… — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
Illium, with his wings of silver-kissed blue and a face designed to seduce both males and females, not to mention his ability… — Nalini Singh Copy Share Image
I really think that elected officials should be focused on how you create sustained economic growth, how do you create jobs and… — Jeb Bush Copy Share Image
There is a certain hidden mediocrity in those who are stationed above us in life, an ability to take liberties in their… — Madeleine de Souvre, marquise de Sable Copy Share Image
I will tell you what rule I observed when I was young, and too much addicted to childish diversions-never to spend more… — Susanna Wesley Copy Share Image
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