Happiness in reality consists only in rest, and not in being stirred up. This instinct conflicts with the drive to diversion, and… — Dallas Willard Copy Share Image
I used to wonder: Is Huxley right or is Orwell right? It turns out they're both right. First you get the new… — Chris Hedges 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
Race is not particularly interesting to me. Power is. Who has power and who doesn't. Slavery interests me because it's an incredible… — Jamaica Kincaid Copy Share Image
If you have a clear goal and a plan to achieve it, your focus is fixed on a set course of action.… — Brian Tracy Copy Share Image
My aim is to escape from the medium with which I work; to leave no residue of technical mannerisms to stand between… — Andrew Wyeth 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
Most of our diversions do not so much delay death as accustom us to it. — Mignon McLaughlin 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
Think often on God, by day, by night, in your business and even in your diversions. He is always near you and… — Brother Lawrence Copy Share Image
Who could deny that privacy is a jewel? It has always been the mark of privilege, the distinguishing feature of a truly… — Phyllis McGinley 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
The physical lot of surviving workers had notably improved, with unemployment insurance, social security, and the new health services, while their children's… — Lewis Mumford Copy Share Image
Chess is something more than a game. It is an intellectual diversion which has certain artistic qualities and many scientific elements. — Jose Raul Capablanca 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
It will begin with its President taking a simple, firm resolution. The resolution will be: To forego the diversions of politics and… — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
The writing of history is largely a process of diversion. Most historical accounts distract attention from the secret influences behind great events. — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
“The ‘easy way’ is our laziness trying to find a solution by ‘working hard’ to side-step the problem.” — Craig D. Lounsbrough 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
"Hard" science fiction probes alternative possible futures by means of reasoned extrapolations in much the same way that good historical fiction reconstructs… — Jack Williamson Copy Share Image
Christian discipleship does not involve the abandonment of any innocent enjoyment. Any diversion or amusement which we can use so as to… — Washington Gladden Copy Share Image
Tennis was a game invented by a woman named Samantha Tennis in 1839, in the village of Lobsworth, County of Kent, as… — Dan Jenkins Copy Share Image
“A sensible person does not read a novel as a task. He reads it as a diversion. He is prepared to interest… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
I believe the main solution is to gain the trust of Europe and America and to remove their concerns over the peaceful… — Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani Copy Share Image
And if a diversion is needed, why not arrest a general? Arthur Dillon is a friend of eminent deputies, a contender for… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
