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
I can't keep myself from playing roles. The emotionless decadent, looking for diversion from boredom, is a favorite. — Ellen Willis 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
Recreation and diversion are as necessary to our well-being as the more serious pursuits of life. — Brigham Young Copy Share Image
Baseball is a diversion. It is therapy. It takes peoples minds off of everything that has happened, if just for a while. — George Pataki Copy Share Image
We were meant to grow. When we don't grow, we seek diversions--some harmless (if unproductive), others destructive--to fill the emptiness. — Jim Clemmer Copy Share Image
“Diversion programs often give people who have been charged with nonviolent crimes a chance to avoid conviction if they comply with conditions… — Steven Briggs Copy Share Image
At Diversion, we want to do genres that people are not doing - or, if we're doing genres that people are doing,… — Daniel Wu Copy Share Image
The War is the first and only thing in the world today. The arts generally are not, nor is this writing a… — William Carlos Williams 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
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 Copy Share Image
This death cult has no reason and is beyond negotiation. This is what makes it so frightening. This is what causes so… — David Brooks Copy Share Image
If I can in any way contribute to the Diversion or Improvement of the Country in which I live, I shall leave… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
“The longing for a man, as you know, is a grand escape. It can arch your mental process to extremes so that,… — Vicki Covington Copy Share Image
Without [diversion] we would be in a state of weariness, and this weariness would spur us on to seek a more solid… — Blaise Pascal 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
“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
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
But having considered everything which has been said, one could by this believe that the earth and not the heavens is so… — Nicole Oresme 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
“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
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
[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
“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
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
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
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
Twitter is not a business. I know its founders would like to think it is. It is, for the most part, a… — Mark McKinnon Copy Share Image
Politics is the diversion of trivial men who, when they succeed at it, become important in the eyes of more trivial men. — George Jean Nathan 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
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
Of this diversion the Scots are so fond, that, when the weather will permit, you may see a multitude of all ranks,… — Tobias Smollett Copy Share Image
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 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
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
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
You talk when you cease to be at peace with your thoughts; And when you can no longer dwell in the solitude… — Khalil Gibran 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
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
“Diversion is the absolute worst remedy for depression. When we ignore the things that haunt us or taunt us, not only do… — Northern Adams Copy Share Image
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