Diversion Quotes

106 Diversion quotes by 99 unique authors

I really think that elected officials should be focused on how you create sustained economic growth, how do you create jobs and all of these… — Jeb Bush
Poorer people tend to watch more television because they can't afford other diversions. — Ken Auletta
Gil Thorpe is a great diversion and is to book writing as poetry is to prose. — Jerry B. Jenkins
If you have a clear goal and a plan to achieve it, your focus is fixed on a set course of action. Instead of becoming… — Brian Tracy
My aim is to escape from the medium with which I work; to leave no residue of technical mannerisms to stand between my expression and… — Andrew Wyeth
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
Recreation and diversion are as necessary to our well-being as the more serious pursuits of life. — Brigham Young
We're not really taught how to recreate constructively. We need to do more than find diversions; we need to restore and expand ourselves. Our idea… — Bill Watterson
Violence is not a catalyst but a diversion. — Joseph Conrad
I think the great thing about grandparents is seeing another home, realising that people you love can have different priorities, different diversions, different opinions and… — Simon Hoggart
It's such a diversion to be constantly thinking of better ways I can teach people math that my hunger is for that really, for new… — Danica McKellar
In many ways, my entire graphic novel career was a long diversion. Originally, all I wanted to do was to be an underground cartoonist and… — Alan Moore
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
If our condition were truly happy, we would not seek diversion from it in order to make ourselves happy. — Blaise Pascal
Pop flies, in a sense, are just a diversion for a second baseman. Grounders are his stock trade. — Jackie Robinson
Most sorts of diversion in men, children and other animals, are in imitation of fighting. — Jonathan Swift
I did not want to raise a genetically compromised child. I did not want my children to have to contend with the massive diversion of… — Ayelet Waldman
Before, I wandered as a diversion. Now I wander seriously and sit and read as a diversion. — Walker Percy
Days pass when I forget the mystery. Problems insoluble and problems offering their own ignored solutions jostle for my attention, they crowd its antechamber along… — Denise Levertov
I flicked my eyes over to Steve again and saw him straighten. He would need a diversion just to start. “Explanations?” I bellowed. “Explanations? There’s… — Stephen Fry
Just then Neville caused a slight diversion by turning into a large canary. — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
God is not a diversion. — Desmond Tutu
What is one person's diversion may be another's supreme test. — Margaret George
When there are no consequences, being wrong is simply a diversion. — Ian Mcewan
Not that happiness is dull. Only that it doesn't tell well. And of our consuming diversions as we age is to recite, not only to… — Lionel Shriver

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