Quotes About Diversion

#1. I understand some of the people's impatience with the show last year. I think that Lisa's (Lili Taylor) story line (marrying Nate with minimal motivation in season three) became a little bit of a diversion - and that happens. It happens in every show.

Chris Albrecht

#2. Courting Peggy McGrath provided me with a very pleasant diversion and eventually with the most important relationship of my life.

David Rockefeller

#3. When in doubt, you face the possibility of deception.. when you are decieved, you face the possibility of diversion... when you are diverted, you face the possibility of disobedience...and these are the D's to every man's Defeat.

Hope D. Blackwell

#4. There is no question that [Dan] Quayle is an uneducated idiot. But someone, somewhere cleverly realized that the best diversion from Bush is to put on a clown show.

Tim Robbins

#5. The library is a place of mental diversion, learning, and comfort for anyone who has an intellect. I know of no librarian who when asked for food for the mind will offer a stone. What more could anyone ask?

Piers Anthony

#6. What is one person's diversion may be another's supreme test.

Margaret George

#7. No one can predict at the outset where the life stream will lead, but those moments of fissure, rupture, diversion, and frustration require choice and can become springboards to opportunity.

Virginia Scharff

#8. Pop music has been all but relegated to the remainder bin at MTV and VH1, where high-maintenance concoctions such as Paris Hilton, Flavor Flav, and Hulk Hogan's biohazard clan of bleached specimens provide endless hours of death-hastening diversion.

James Wolcott

#9. Man finds nothing so intolerable as to be in a state of complete rest, without passions, without occupation, without diversion, without effort. Then he feels his nullity, loneliness, inadequacy, dependence, helplessness, emptiness.

Blaise Pascal

#10. Avoidance therapy does not work. One major reason for that is because Avoidance Therapy (diversion, think yourself happy, positive affirmations) is predicated on the validity of 'Failure of Will.' Depression is not a choice.

Northern Adams

#11. At Diversion, we want to do genres that people are not doing - or, if we're doing genres that people are doing, to do them in a fresh way.

Daniel Wu

#12. The thing we call romance is a diversion from something truer, which is life.

Jamaica Kincaid

#13. I knew that I did not want to go to that juvenile diversion program because I had an intuitive sense that it would turn me irrevocably into the kind of character that I was now only rehearsing to be.

Gabrielle Hamilton

#14. When we reflect upon the cruelties daily practised upon such of the animal creation as are given us for food, or which we ensnarefor our diversion, we shall be obliged to own that there is more of the savage in human nature than we are aware of.

Samuel Richardson

#15. Most sorts of diversion in men, children and other animals, are in imitation of fighting.

Jonathan Swift

#16. Baseball is a diversion. It is therapy. It takes peoples minds off of everything that has happened, if just for a while.

George Pataki

#17. Has become their one diversion, their one pleasure - their religion.

Marion Zimmer Bradley

#18. But it's all a diversion. A card-house waiting to topple.

Rick Remender

#19. Before, I wandered as a diversion. Now I wander seriously and sit and read as a diversion.

Walker Percy

#20. It has always been a mark of decaying civilizations to become obsessed with sex. When people lose their way, their purpose, their will, and their goals, as well as their faith ... they go "a whoring." It is a form of diversion that requires no thought, no character, and no restraint.

Billy Graham

#21. To any one for whom wild things are something more than a pleasant diversion, (conservation) constitutes one of the milestones in moral evolution.

Aldo Leopold

#22. If our condition were truly happy, we would not seek diversion from it in order to make ourselves happy.

Blaise Pascal

#23. I'm not such a bad fighter myself," Skye said. Po exploded with laughter. "Oh, fight him, Katsa. Please fight him. I can't imagine a more entertaining diversion.

Kristin Cashore

#24. 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

#25. Pop flies, in a sense, are just a diversion for a second baseman. Grounders are his stock trade.

Jackie Robinson

#26. God is not a diversion.

Desmond Tutu

#27. 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

#28. The Cause of God is not a theatrical display that is presented every hour, of which some new diversion may be asked for every day. If it were thus, the Cause of God would become mere child's play.

Baha'u'llah

#29. Ironing is a great diversion from the reality you don't want to face.

Melissa McBride

#30. Of this diversion the Scots are so fond, that, when the weather will permit, you may see a multitude of all ranks, from the senator of justice to the lowest tradesman, mingled together, in their shirts, and following the balls with utmost eagerness.

Tobias Smollett

#31. Tennis was a game invented by a woman named Samantha Tennis in 1839, in the village of Lobsworth, County of Kent, as a diversion for the wealthy and titled Englishmen of the region, who had nothing better to do at the time but drink, belch and wear funny clothes.

Dan Jenkins

#32. There is a time and place for diversion and amusements, but you should never allow them to override your true purposes.

Epictetus

#33. I think sports are a wonderful diversion. People can relate to sports very easily. It's a quick study.

William Clay Ford, Sr.

#34. I am what a romantic movie is to a profound thinker - a mere diversion, a comic interlude, something that is soon forgotten.

Anne Frank

#35. I seek in the reading of my books only to please myself by an irreproachable diversion; or if I study it is for no other science than that which treats of the knowledge of myself, and instructs me how to die and live well.

Michel De Montaigne

#36. An army is a diversion of energy from the productive life of a nation.

Isabel Paterson

#37. Everything about everybody is nothing but diversion from death.

Thomas Bernhard

#38. Each generation is smarter than the generation before, and they need total diversion and encouragement and things to think about.

Martha Stewart

#39. I was never jailed. The fact is that I was arrested, but I went into a diversion programme, and by that time I'd already begun working in what was called anger management. It was a painful and awful moment.

David Soul

#40. Her restlessness disappeared and in its place stood the best diversion possible - a smoking-hot bad boy.

Terri L. Austin

#41. Some grow very attached to a modern diversion known as the 'Crossword Puzzle.' We've had several come

Brandon Sanderson

#42. Eventually, she looked up, her eyes completely void of emotions. "You are merely a diversion. You mean nothing to me."
She walked past him and out of the room. She left him, a fish gasping amongst the clouds, falling back to earth.

Michelle Frost

#43. Christian discipleship does not involve the abandonment of any innocent enjoyment. Any diversion or amusement which we can use so as to receive pleasure and enjoyment to ourselves, and do no harm to others, we are perfectly free to use ...

Washington Gladden

#44. I can't keep myself from playing roles. The emotionless decadent, looking for diversion from boredom, is a favorite.

Ellen Willis

#45. This whole phenomenon of the diversion of organizations from their purposes and ideals does not seem very serious when the scum rise to the top in the bridge club or the offices of a small magazine publisher.

Robert Shea

#46. The committee discloses that even after the U.S. government learned of the diversion of U.S. designs for nuclear warheads in late 1995, the Clinton Administration failed to take steps immediately to improve security.

Charles Bass

#47. 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

#48. The War is the first and only thing in the world today. The arts generally are not, nor is this writing a diversion from that for relief, a turning away. It is the war or part of it, merely a different sector of the field.

William Carlos Williams

#49. Chess is something more than a game. It is an intellectual diversion which has certain artistic qualities and many scientific elements.

Jose Raul Capablanca

#50. I'd Drown For You
I opened my heart to you
A complete immersion
I offered my soul to you
A heavenly diversion

Muse

#51. 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

#52. Only Valek would consider an attempt on my life a fascinating diversion.

Maria V. Snyder

#53. Happiness in reality consists only in rest, and not in being stirred up. This instinct conflicts with the drive to diversion, and we develop the confused idea that leads people to aim at rest through excitement.

Dallas Willard

#54. 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

#55. Words are so often used in the opposite sense, as a screen of diversion. It's the struggle towards truthfulness which is the same whether one is writing a poem, a novel or an argument.

John Berger

#56. Diversion and indifference are the two widest roads to Hell in today's world.

Peter Kreeft

#57. And yet, in books were comfort and diversion; and they were wanted!

John Galsworthy

#58. When I am engrossed in an idea, all else is mere diversion.

Leo Tolstoy

#59. 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

#60. Diversion weakens thy mind.

Toba Beta

#61. 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 the observer. To seek freedom through significant form and design rather than through the diversion of so-called free and accidental brush handling.

Andrew Wyeth

#62. Prison always has been a good place for writers, killing, as it does, the twin demons of mobility and diversion

Dan Simmons

#63. It may seem strange that of all men sailors should be tinkering at their last wills and testaments, but there are no people in the world more fond of that diversion.

Herman Melville

#64. And so, as I sleep, some dream beguiles me, and suddenly I know I am dreaming. Then I think: this is a dream, a pure diversion of my will; and now that I have unlimited power, I am going to cause a tiger. - Dreamtigers

Jorge Luis Borges

#65. The only situation which might justify panic is one in which panic is likely to help. Such a situation never arises. Though pretended panic may sometimes cause a useful diversion, real panic can never be anything other than a waste of energy.

Simon Brett

#66. The mind gets distracted in all sorts of ways. The heart is its own exclusive concern and diversion.

Malcolm De Chazal

#67. The writing of history is largely a diversion. Most historical accounts distract attention from the secret influences behind great events.

Frank Herbert

#68. In Europe they look upon jazz as art. In America it's a diversion. Somebody opens a restaurant and installs another band off to the side. People don't listen.

Chet Baker

#69. And then a scholar said, "Speak of talking." And he answered, saying: "And when you can no longer dwell in the solitude of your heart you live in your lips, and sound is a diversion and a pastime.

Kahlil Gibran

#70. Diversion is the absolute worst remedy for depression. When we ignore the things that haunt us or taunt us, not only do they keep coming back, but they're bigger and stronger each time they return. Stop shoving us depressives in that direction.

Northern Adams

#71. Race is not particularly interesting to me. Power is. Who has power and who doesn't. Slavery interests me because it's an incredible violation that has not stopped. It's necessary to talk about that. Race is a diversion.

Jamaica Kincaid

#72. Having fun is not a diversion from a successful life; it is the pathway to it.

Martha Beck

#73. I nauseate walking; 'tis a country diversion, I loathe the country.

William Congreve

#74. For most of the millions of people who watch TED videos at the office, it's a middlebrow diversion and a source of factoids to use on your friends. Except TED thinks it's changing the world, like if 'This American Life' suddenly mistook itself for Doctors Without Borders.

Alex Pareene

#75. The United States government first learned of the diversion of the W-88 nuclear warhead design in late 1995.

Charles Bass

#76. The Internet is a perfect diversion from learning ... it opens many doors that lead to empty rooms.

Clifford Stoll

#77. Recreation and diversion are as necessary to our well-being as the more serious pursuits of life.

Brigham Young

#78. He tried the diversion of reciting all the bones in the body, working down the left side, down to the toes and then back up. Each toe and finger separately, just to waste time. He lost his place somewhere on the right hand.

Ruth Downie

#79. A little before noon I sent orders to all my batteries to open fire through the streets or at any points where the troops were seen about the city, as a diversion in favor of Jackson.

James Longstreet

#80. 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 ways of translating the beauty of it.

Danica McKellar

#81. There should be a point to movies. Sure, you're giving people a diversion from the cold world for a bit, but at the same time, you pass on some facts and rules and maybe a little bit of wisdom.

George Lucas

#82. But the important thing now is to enjoy yourself. A broken heart doesn't heal until you lose it to someone else. You need diversion. You should simply play, play, play - surround yourself with men until one of them makes you forget all about this poor, childish, confused Adam.

Emily Croy Barker

#83. 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

#84. Hector!" He whips around. "You were never, never, going to be just a diversion to me." He sighs, nodding. "That was unfair of me," he says. "I'm sorr - " "And you will kiss me again. That and more. Count on it.

Rae Carson

#85. 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

#86. Pleasure is not diversion but urgent life, a social order perceived as temporary.

Don DeLillo

#87. The novel, as a genre, was once considered a diversion every bit as frivolous as Facebook, but over the years, we've managed to convince ourselves that reading fiction is as important to our mental digestion as fresh fruits and vegetables are to the processes that take place a little further down.

Lynn Coady

#88. I often spend half the night with ghosts, remembering times fifty years past as if they were yesterday. The mystery of a midnight visitor is a welcome diversion.

George R R Martin

#89. Without [diversion] we would be in a state of weariness, and this weariness would spur us on to seek a more solid means of escaping from it. But diversion amuses us, and leads us unconsciously to death.

Blaise Pascal

#90. Golf is an ideal diversion, but a ruinous disease.

B.C. Forbes

#91. Politics is a trivial diversion from the business of living.

Marty Rubin

#92. Violence is not a catalyst but a diversion.

Joseph Conrad

#93. The populist mode of democracy is a politics of arousal more than of reason, but also a politics of diversion from serious concerns that need settling in either a liberal democratic or a civic republican manner.

Bernard Crick

#94. Everything that is good in the arts is done by some sort of diversion.

John Roecker

#95. Opera is a beautiful and important diversion for me.

Luciano Pavarotti

#96. This death cult has no reason and is beyond negotiation. This is what makes it so frightening. This is what causes so many to engage in a sort of mental diversion. They don't want to confront this horror. So they rush off in search of more comprehensible things to hate.

David Brooks

#97. Although reading the classics in Latin in school may be not as fulfilling as it would be at a more mature age, few scientists can afford the time for such diversion later in life.

George Andrew Olah

#98. Now, how do you explain Obama's claim, that he can kill American citizens without due process? Well, he has his attorney general get up and say, "Well, it doesn't say in the constitution judicial process. It just says due process." Now that's a lawyerly diversion from the truth.

Ray McGovern

#99. Gil Thorpe is a great diversion and is to book writing as poetry is to prose.

Jerry B. Jenkins

#100. I have always been making art from an early age but for nearly forty years did computer programming to earn a living. I bought a house and put my wife and three children through college. Now that diversion is over so I can finally paint full time.

Mike Thompson