Diversion Quotes · Page 6

Having fun is not a diversion from a successful life; it is the pathway to it.

— Martha Beck

The library is a place of mental diversion, learning, and comfort for anyone who has an intellect. I know of no librarian…

— Piers Anthony

There's always the possibility that you're going to come across a record that transforms your life. And it happens weekly. It's like…

— John Peel

“Be so free that nothing more than your future can distract your attention.”

— Michael Bassey Johnson

I flicked my eyes over to Steve again and saw him straighten. He would need a diversion just to start. “Explanations?” I…

— Stephen Fry

The only thing which consoles for our miseries is diversion, and yet this is the greatest of our miseries. For it is…

— Blaise Pascal

“The Cavaliere has retired to his study and reads, trying not to think about what is going on around him -- one…

— Susan Sontag

Just then Neville caused a slight diversion by turning into a large canary.

— Anonymous

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

Leisure was the sine qua non of the full Renaissance. The feudal nobility, having lost its martial function, sought diversion all over…

— Mary McCarthy

And as men diversions increase from the world, so do their entanglements from Satan. When they have more to do in the…

— John Owen

Diversion and indifference are the two widest roads to Hell in today's world.

— Peter Kreeft

Prison always has been a good place for writers, killing, as it does, the twin demons of mobility and diversion

— Dan Simmons

We have to overthrow the idea that it's a diversion from 'real' work when scientists conduct high-quality research in the open. Publicly…

— Michael Nielsen

There is no question that [Dan] Quayle is an uneducated idiot. But someone, somewhere cleverly realized that the best diversion from Bush…

— Tim Robbins

At its best, fiction is not a diversion but a means of knowing the world.

— Charles Baxter

There are two seasonal diversions that can ease the bite of any winter. One is the January thaw. The other is the…

— Hal Borland

[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

If man were happy, he would be the more so, the less he was diverted, like the saints and God.

— Blaise Pascal

People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the…

— Adam Smith

I nauseate walking; 'tis a country diversion, I loathe the country.

— William Congreve

Laziness begat wearisomeness, and this put men in quest of diversions, play and company, on which however it is a constant attendant;…

— Jean de la Bruyere

The ordinary patient goes to his doctor because he is in pain or some other discomfort and wants to be comfortable again;…

— Wilfred Trotter

Of this diversion the Scots are so fond, that, when the weather will permit, you may see a multitude of all ranks,…

— Tobias Smollett

“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