Diversion Quotes
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Diversion Quotes & Sayings
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I think, when men tell women to lose weight, it's a diversion from their own lack of size in certain areas.
— Candace Bushnell
The writing of history is largely a diversion. Most historical accounts distract attention from the secret influences behind great events.
— Frank Herbert
Twitter is not a business. I know its founders would like to think it is. It is, for the most part, a diversion.
— Mark McKinnon
The Internet is a perfect diversion from learning ... it opens many doors that lead to empty rooms.
— Clifford Stoll
Housework is a breeze. Cooking is a pleasant diversion. Putting up a retaining wall is a lark. But teaching is like climbing a mountain.
— Fawn M. Brodie
Her restlessness disappeared and in its place stood the best diversion possible - a smoking-hot bad boy.
— Terri L. Austin
Each generation is smarter than the generation before, and they need total diversion and encouragement and things to think about.
— Martha Stewart
What is one person's diversion may be another's supreme test.
— Margaret George
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
Iraq is no diversion. It is a place where civilization is taking a decisive stand against chaos and terror, we must not waver.
— George W. Bush
I think sports are a wonderful diversion. People can relate to sports very easily. It's a quick study.
— William Clay Ford, Sr.
Pop flies, in a sense, are just a diversion for a second baseman. Grounders are his stock trade.
— Jackie Robinson
Recreation and diversion are as necessary to our well-being as the more serious pursuits of life.
— Brigham Young
The United States government first learned of the diversion of the W-88 nuclear warhead design in late 1995.
— Charles Bass
I nauseate walking; 'tis a country diversion, I loathe the country.
— William Congreve
The best kept secret in America today is that people would rather work hard for something they believe in than live a life of aimless diversion.
— John W. Gardner
Baseball is a diversion. It is therapy. It takes peoples minds off of everything that has happened, if just for a while.
— George Pataki
I seek in the reading of books, only to please myself, by an honest diversion.
— Michel De Montaigne
When one has a famishing thirst for happiness, one is apt to gulp down diversions wherever they are offered.
— Alice Hegan Rice
Courting Peggy McGrath provided me with a very pleasant diversion and eventually with the most important relationship of my life.
— David Rockefeller
The biggest challenge for newspapers has been that the public has far more choices for news, information, and diversion than in the past.
— Robert G. Picard
Opera is a beautiful and important diversion for me.
— Luciano Pavarotti
Create a better idea of what the key should be. One that makes more sense to people, so that they believe in the diversion we create.
— Terry Goodkind
If our condition were truly happy, we would not seek diversion from it in order to make ourselves happy.
— Blaise Pascal
The eye is diverted from the real business, it is caught by the spectacular action that means nothingnothing at all. — Agatha Christie
When a couple came to class together, it meant something else entirely - food as a solution, a diversion, or, occasionally, a playground.
— Erica Bauermeister
Most of our diversions do not so much delay death as accustom us to it.
— Mignon McLaughlin
Golf is an ideal diversion, but a ruinous disease.
— B.C. Forbes
Some grow very attached to a modern diversion known as the 'Crossword Puzzle.' We've had several come
— Brandon Sanderson
Ironing is a great diversion from the reality you don't want to face.
— Melissa McBride
Everything about everybody is nothing but diversion from death.
— Thomas Bernhard
How soon the labor of men would make a paradise of the earth were it not for misgovernment and a diversion of his energies to selfish interests.
— Thomas Jefferson
Before, I wandered as a diversion. Now I wander seriously and sit and read as a diversion.
— Walker Percy
And yet, in books were comfort and diversion; and they were wanted!
— John Galsworthy
Has become their one diversion, their one pleasure - their religion.
— Marion Zimmer Bradley
Violence is not a catalyst but a diversion.
— Joseph Conrad
Chess is something more than a game. It is an intellectual diversion which has certain artistic qualities and many scientific elements.
— Jose Raul Capablanca
God is not a diversion.
— Desmond Tutu
Only Valek would consider an attempt on my life a fascinating diversion.
— Maria V. Snyder
I can't keep myself from playing roles. The emotionless decadent, looking for diversion from boredom, is a favorite.
— Ellen Willis
Most sorts of diversion in men, children and other animals, are in imitation of fighting.
— Jonathan Swift
Passmore used his personality the way a magician used smoke. It was all for the diversion.
— David B. Dacosta
The mind gets distracted in all sorts of ways. The heart is its own exclusive concern and diversion.
— Malcolm De Chazal
...to ride well to hounds is simply a diversion. It leaves no record. But already, my dear Charlotte, you have created something, a legacy.
— Daisy Goodwin
Amusement is a way of boredom-avoidance through external stimulation that fails to exercise our minds. It's mere diversion.
— John Ortberg
But it's all a diversion. A card-house waiting to topple.
— Rick Remender
An army is a diversion of energy from the productive life of a nation.
— Isabel Paterson
Diversion weakens thy mind.
— Toba Beta
