Diverting Quotes

20 quotes by 19 authors

It is a process of diverting one's scattered forces into one powerful channel. — James Allen
Theology, by diverting the attention of men from this life to another, and by endeavoring to coerce all men into one religion, constantly preaching that… — Elbert Hubbard
Some may find them merely diverting melodies. Others may find them incitements to Red revolution. And who will say if either or both is wrong?… — Pete Seeger
Spain has been massively diverting capital from the private sector into politically favored environmental projects for the better part of a decade...every green job created,… — Ron Paul
If we are not serving Jesus, and if he is not in our thoughts and hearts, then the things of the world will draw us… — Neal A. Maxwell
At first we will only skim the surface of the earth like young starlings, but soon, emboldened by practice and experience, we will spring into… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Books did not need to be beautiful back in the Fifties, because nothing else was beautiful back then. Books were simply there: you read them… — Joe Queenan
I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on… — Isaac Newton
It is a fearful mistake for us to neglect the study of the Bible to investigate theories that are misleading, diverting minds from the words… — Ellen G. White
There are some people who read too much: the bibliobibuli. I know some who are constantly drunk on books, as other men are drunk on… — H. L. Mencken
The most loathsome materialism is not the kind people usually think of, but the sort that attempts to let dead ideas pass for living realities,… — Albert Camus
Any weapon touched by a woman, even by accident, must be cleansed with both water and prayer so that her essence would not linger, diverting… — Alice Hoffman
Eccentricity may be diverting, Mama, but it is out of place in a wife: certainly in my wife! — Georgette Heyer
Your call will become clear as as your mind is transformed by the reading of Scripture and the internal work of God's Spirit. The Lord… — Charles R. Swindoll
One of the things I have learned over 26 years in the business is that the most productive place to focus new business efforts on… — Rochelle B Lazarus
I see myself as the literary equivalent of a skilled lathe-operator, or a basket-weaver; a potter, maybe: I make mildly diverting objects that people want… — Robert Harris
Diverting the internal traffic between the Writer as Angel of Light and the Writer as Hustler is that scribbling child in a grown-up body wondering… — Herbert Gold
I was like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary,… — Isaac Newton
Life has a way of rewarding us, not by blessing us with the love of our life only, but diverting us from a potentially horrible… — Kemmy Nola
Short, successful military adventures are as effective as the Super Bowl in diverting people's attention from unpleasant truths. — John Stockwell

Who Wrote These Diverting Quotes

19 authors contributed a total of 20 Diverting Quotes as follows: