Divert Quotes

65 Divert quotes by 59 unique authors

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
Nothing will divert me from my purpose. — Abraham Lincoln
In college, I had a course in Latin, and one day the word "divorce" came up. I always figured it came from some root that… — Mitch Albom
While grief is fresh, every attempt to divert only irritates. You must wait till it be digested, and then amusement will dissipate the remains of… — Samuel Johnson
he looked to her like an absurd twentieth-century Hamlet, an indecisive figure so mesmerized by onrushing tragedy that he was helpless to divert its course… — Stephen King
Never allow anything to divert you from your insight into Jesus Christ. It is the true test of whether you are spiritual or not. To… — Oswald Chambers
It was thought, perception, sensations that interested her, the conscious mind as a river through time, and how to represent its onward roll, as well… — Ian Mcewan
When you go through a hard period, When everything seems to oppose you, ... When you feel you cannot even bear one more minute, NEVER… — Unknown Author
The key element of social control is the strategy of distraction that is to divert public attention from important issues and changes decided by political… — Noam Chomsky
Time, Kate was learning, was like a river. You might put up obstacles, even divert it briefly, but the river had a will of it's… — John Stephens
The American president increasingly used his influence to create conflicts, intensify existing conflicts, and, above all, to keep conflicts from being resolved peacefully. For years… — Adolf Hitler

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