Top 140 Diversion Quotes & Sayings

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

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

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

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

I seek in the reading of books, only to please myself, by an honest diversion.

Anyone who does not see the vanity of the world is very vain himself. So who does not see it, apart from young people whose lives are all noise, diversions, and thoughts for the future? But take away their diversion and you will see them bored to extinction. Then they feel their nullity without recognizing it, for nothing could be more wretched than to be intolerably depressed as soon as one is reduced to introspection with no means of diversion.

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

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

I believe certain members of the U.S. Congress have aided in the oppression and diversion of critical information that could have revealed a fullness of truth long ago.

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.

I think, when men tell women to lose weight, it's a diversion from their own lack of size in certain areas.

At its best, fiction is not a diversion but a means of knowing the world.

Amusement is a way of boredom-avoidance through external stimulation that fails to exercise our minds. It's mere diversion.

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

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.

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

For most students at universities around the country, studying entrepreneurship is a pleasant intellectual diversion, not a professional choice, path, or commitment.

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

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

Ironing is a great diversion from the reality you dont want to face.

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

If I can in any way contribute to the Diversion or Improvement of the Country in which I live, I shall leave it, when I am summoned out of it, with the secret Satisfaction of thinking that I have not lived in vain.

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

Golf is an ideal diversion, but a ruinous disease.

When there are no consequences, being wrong is simply a diversion.

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.

Iraq is no diversion. It is a place where civilization is taking a decisive stand against chaos and terror, we must not waver.

Rushing around can be a pointless diversion from actually living your life.

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

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

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

Just then Neville caused a slight diversion by turning into a large canary.

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

Twitter is not a business. I know its founders would like to think it is. It is, for the most part, a diversion.

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

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.

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

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

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.

The biggest challenge for newspapers has been that the public has far more choices for news, information, and diversion than in the past.

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.

If our condition were truly happy, we would not need diversion from thinking of it in order to make ourselves happy.

It's always the guys who have absolutely nothing to give that start screaming and yelling about their makeup and trailers. It's a diversion so you don't pay attention to them, because they stink!

God is not a diversion.

Violence is not a catalyst but a diversion.

Opera is a beautiful and important diversion for me.

Here's the problem with phones - they are a ready-made diversion from the considerably harder work of growing a business.

Housework is a breeze. Cooking is a pleasant diversion. Putting up a retaining wall is a lark. But teaching is like climbing a mountain.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

At its best, climbing becomes a life focus around which everything else must orbit and at its least is an excellent diversion from the real world.

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

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

I don't like my voice, and I don't enjoy my singing voice; I do what I do to bring pleasure and diversion to the fans.

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

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