Diversion Quotes

106 quotes by 101 authors

Words are so often used in the opposite sense, as a screen of diversion. It's the struggle towards truthfulness which is the same whether one… — John Berger
Iraq is no diversion. It is a place where civilization is taking a decisive stand against chaos and terror, we must not waver. — George W. Bush
Of all the diversions of life, there is none so proper to fill up its empty spaces as the reading of useful and entertaining authors. — Joseph Addison
No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting. She will not want new fashions nor regret the loss of expensive diversions… — Mary Wortley Montagu
A Garden, an Elaboratory, a Work - house, Improvements and Breeding, are pleasant and Profitable Diversions to the Idle and Ingenious: For here they miss… — William Penn
Man finds nothing so intolerable as to be in a state of complete rest, without passions, without occupation, without diversion, without effort. Then he feels… — Blaise Pascal
Golf is an ideal diversion, but a ruinous disease. — B. C. Forbes
I will tell you what rule I observed when I was young, and too much addicted to childish diversions-never to spend more time in mere… — Susanna Wesley
The ordinary patient goes to his doctor because he is in pain or some other discomfort and wants to be comfortable again; he is not… — Wilfred Trotter
Chess is something more than a game. It is an intellectual diversion which has certain artistic qualities and many scientific elements. — Jose Raul Capablanca
There are two seasonal diversions that can ease the bite of any winter. One is the January thaw. The other is the seed catalogues. — Hal Borland
But having considered everything which has been said, one could by this believe that the earth and not the heavens is so moved, and there… — Nicole Oresme
My only refuge, as a serious young man, from the despair of my financial burden to my family, is that I did everything I could… — Albert Einstein
There is no question that [Dan] Quayle is an uneducated idiot. But someone, somewhere cleverly realized that the best diversion from Bush is to put… — Tim Robbins
The best kept secret in America today is that people would rather work hard for something they believe in than live a life of aimless… — John W. Gardner
I trust the mystery. I trust what comes in silence and what comes in nature where there's no diversion. I think the lack of stimulation… — Angeles Arrien
Housework is a breeze. Cooking is a pleasant diversion. Putting up a retaining wall is a lark. But teaching is like climbing a mountain. — Fawn M. Brodie
We must ask why apparently general musical abilities should be restricted to a chosen few in societies supposed to be culturally more advanced. Does cultural… — John Blacking
The only situation which might justify panic is one in which panic is likely to help. Such a situation never arises. Though pretended panic may… — Simon Brett
It is not necessary to conceal anything from a public insensible to contradiction and narcotized by technological diversions. — Neil Postman

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