Leisure was the sine qua non of the full Renaissance. The feudal nobility, having lost its martial function, sought diversion all over… — Mary McCarthy Copy Share Image
And as men diversions increase from the world, so do their entanglements from Satan. When they have more to do in the… — John Owen Copy Share Image
It is necessary now and then for a man to go away by himself and experience loneliness; to sit on a rock… — Carl Sandburg Copy Share Image
My only refuge, as a serious young man, from the despair of my financial burden to my family, is that I did… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Days pass when I forget the mystery. Problems insoluble and problems offering their own ignored solutions jostle for my attention, they crowd… — Denise Levertov Copy Share Image
“People who don't deal with the problem constructively will often cope in ways that lead to unsustainable behavior. These include the diversion… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Far too many people, especially within evangelicalism, think that the individual is all that matters, and that the corporate dimension is a… — N. T. Wright Copy Share Image
Anyone who does not see the vanity of the world is very vain himself. So who does not see it, apart from… — Blaise Pascal 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
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
Nothing is so insufferable to man as to be completely at rest, without passions, without business, without diversion, without study. He then… — Blaise Pascal 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
The United States government first learned of the diversion of the W-88 nuclear warhead design in late 1995. — Charles Bass 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
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 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
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
There should be a point to movies. Sure, you're giving people a diversion from the cold world for a bit, but at… — George Lucas Copy Share Image
I have always been making art from an early age but for nearly forty years did computer programming to earn a living.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I think the great thing about grandparents is seeing another home, realising that people you love can have different priorities, different diversions,… — Simon Hoggart Copy Share Image
Man's origin was as spirit, not a physical body. These souls projected themselves into matter, probably for their own diversion. Through the… — Edgar Cayce Copy Share Image
Hamilton awkwardly folded himself into the passenger seat. "Couldn't you get something bigger?" he asked as he banged his knee against the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Here, you carry these. I may need my hands free. Why the hell are we taking ‘The Dream of the Red Chamber?’… — Genevieve Cogman Copy Share Image
Successful leaders develop effective strategies for maintaining their boundaries. ... Most time bandits don't know any better. And being a time bandit… — Diane Dreher 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
“Diversion is pernicious to depressives. Our lives are like waking dreams--correction, nightmares--where monsters chase us, never breaking off pursuit in order to… — Northern Adams Copy Share Image
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