Diversion Quotes
106 quotes by 101 authors
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Golf is an ideal diversion, but a ruinous disease.
— B. C. Forbes
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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
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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
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Chess is something more than a game. It is an intellectual diversion which has certain artistic qualities and many scientific elements.
— Jose Raul Capablanca
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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It is not necessary to conceal anything from a public insensible to contradiction and narcotized by technological diversions.
— Neil Postman
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