Divert Quotes

65 quotes by 59 authors

A dramatic experience concerned with the mundane may inform but it cannot release; and one concerned essentially with the aesthetic politics of its creators may… — David Mamet
You must not, when you have gained a victory, use any triumphing or insulting expressions, nor show too much of the pleasure you feel; but… — Benjamin Franklin
I soon learned how to scent out that which was able to lead to fundamentals and to turn aside everything else, from the multitude of… — Albert Einstein
I condemn equally those who choose to praise man, those who choose to condemn him and those who choose to divert themselves, and I can… — Blaise Pascal
Weaken a bad habit by avoiding everything that occasioned it or stimulated it, without concentrating upon it in your zeal to avoid it. Then divert… — Paramahansa Yogananda
REJECT ALL FORMS OF CORRUPTION THAT DIVERT RESOURCES FROM THE POOR — Pope Francis
There will be many times in your lives--- at school, and more particularly when you are a grown up---when people will distract or divert you… — Julie Andrews
Education is the key to perpetuation of the [god] virus for the Taliban, Baptist or Catholic. If the virus cannot control public education, it will… — Darrel Ray
Whatever capital you divert to the support of a shiftless and good-for-nothing person is so much diverted from some other employment, and that means from… — William Graham Sumner
When you go on your Twitter or look down your Timeline and it's all great positivity - I love that. But at the same time,… — Kendrick Lamar
It takes 1,000 tons of water to produce 1 ton of grain. As water becomes scarce and countries are forced to divert irrigation water to… — Lester R. Brown
I'm trying to use whatever attention is focused on me and divert it to something that really deserves the attention and try and sort of… — Natalie Portman
What is now happening to the people of the East as of the West is like what happens to every individual when he passes from… — Leo Tolstoy
While I was writing poems, I would often divert myself by reading detective novels, I liked them. And there was a period when I read… — Paul Auster
Of course I believe imaginative architecture can make a difference to people's lives, but I wish it was possible to divert some of the effort… — Zaha Hadid
Where grief is fresh, any attempt to divert it only irritates. — Samuel Johnson
Artistic tricks divert from the effect that an artist endeavors to produce, and even excellent elements such as bullets, arrows, brackets, ornate initials, are at… — Paul Rand
The whole notion of journalism being an institution whose fundamental purpose is to educate and inform and even, one might say, elevate, has altered under… — Tom Stoppard
Police departments no longer have to pay overtime or divert resources from other projects to find out where an individual goes - all they have… — Ron Wyden
Follies and nonsense, whims and inconsistencies do divert me, I own, and I laugh at them whenever I can. — Jane Austen

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