Diversion Quotes

106 Diversion quotes by 99 unique authors

This death cult has no reason and is beyond negotiation. This is what makes it so frightening. This is what causes so many to engage… — David Brooks
I was never jailed. The fact is that I was arrested, but I went into a diversion programme, and by that time I'd already begun… — David Soul
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 a leaf on… — John Peel
When one has a famishing thirst for happiness, one is apt to gulp down diversions wherever they are offered. — Alice Hegan Rice
The second best thing about space travel is that the distances involved make war very difficult, usually impractical, and almost always unnecessary. This is probably… — Robert A. Heinlein
The friendship of a dog is precious. It becomes even more so when one is so far removed from home.... I have a Scottie. In… — Dwight D. Eisenhower
It will begin with its President taking a simple, firm resolution. The resolution will be: To forego the diversions of politics and to concentrate on… — Dwight D. Eisenhower
Who could deny that privacy is a jewel? It has always been the mark of privilege, the distinguishing feature of a truly urbane culture. Out… — Phyllis McGinley
At its best, climbing becomes a life focus around which everything else must orbit and at its least is an excellent diversion from the real… — Todd Skinner
Man's origin was as spirit, not a physical body. These souls projected themselves into matter, probably for their own diversion. Through the use of his… — Edgar Cayce
The constitution has broken down. We have no enemies except the ones we select and direct towards the nearest nuclear bombs. They need an enemy… — Gore Vidal
I believe the main solution is to gain the trust of Europe and America and to remove their concerns over the peaceful nature of our… — Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani
Whenever vanity and gaiety, a love of pomp and dress, furniture, equipage, buildings, great company, expensive diversions, and elegant entertainments get the better of the… — John Quincy Adams
It is necessary now and then for a man to go away by himself and experience loneliness; to sit on a rock in the forest… — Carl Sandburg
In Europe they look upon jazz as art. In America it's a diversion. Somebody opens a restaurant and installs another band off to the side.… — Chet Baker
Christian discipleship does not involve the abandonment of any innocent enjoyment. Any diversion or amusement which we can use so as to receive pleasure and… — Washington Gladden
Most of our diversions do not so much delay death as accustom us to it. — Mignon McLaughlin
At its best, fiction is not a diversion but a means of knowing the world. — Charles Baxter
And if a diversion is needed, why not arrest a general? Arthur Dillon is a friend of eminent deputies, a contender for the post of… — Hilary Mantel
I seek in the reading of books, only to please myself, by an honest diversion. — Michel de Montaigne
Leisure was the sine qua non of the full Renaissance. The feudal nobility, having lost its martial function, sought diversion all over Europe in cultivated… — Mary McCarthy
Far too many people, especially within evangelicalism, think that the individual is all that matters, and that the corporate dimension is a distraction or diversion.… — N. T. Wright
Opera is a beautiful and important diversion for me. — Luciano Pavarotti
The committee discloses that even after the U.S. government learned of the diversion of U.S. designs for nuclear warheads in late 1995, the Clinton Administration… — Charles Bass
The United States government first learned of the diversion of the W-88 nuclear warhead design in late 1995. — Charles Bass

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