An army is a diversion of energy from the productive life of a nation. — Isabel Paterson Copy Share Image
Because to the poor, books are not diversions. Book are siege weapons. — Joe Queenan Copy Share Image
We wait. We are bored. (He throws up his hand.) No, don't protest, we are bored to death, there's no denying it.… — Samuel Beckett Copy Share Image
My take on tithing in America is that it's a middle-class way of robbing God. Tithing to the church and spending the… — John Piper Copy Share Image
The friendship of a dog is precious. It becomes even more so when one is so far removed from home.... I have… — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
Ironing is a great diversion from the reality you don't want to face. — Melissa McBride Copy Share Image
I watch sports all the time. My wife Cindy says I would watch the thumb-suckers play the bed-wetters. I watch all sports… — John McCain 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
“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
Luck took me right out of myself - I read it in one gulp, and it never let me down. Sharp and… — Alice Munro Copy Share Image
If our condition were truly happy, we would not seek diversion from it in order to make ourselves happy. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
...to any one for whom wild things are something more than a pleasant diversion, (conservation) constitutes one of the milestones in moral… — Aldo Leopold Copy Share Image
As an English major I was familiar with the stories of dozens of writers trying to get their work done among the… — Jim Harrison 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
The Internet is a perfect diversion from learning... it opens many doors that lead to empty rooms. — Clifford Stoll 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
“Not that happiness is dull. Only that it doesn't tell well. And one of our consuming diversions as we age is to… — Lionel Shriver Copy Share Image
The true danger is the expansion of empire and the huge diversion of public budgets overseas at the neglect of domestic necessities,… — Ralph Nader 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
The diversion of baiting an author has the sanction of all ages and nations, and is more lawful than the sport of… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
The biggest challenge for newspapers has been that the public has far more choices for news, information, and diversion than in the… — Robert G. Picard 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
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
