Diversion Quotes

• People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public, or in some contrivance to raise prices.

  Adam Smith

  Invisible Hand, People, Competition

  An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations vol. 1, bk. 1, ch. 10 (1776)

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• 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

  Eye, Men, Important

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• We were meant to grow. When we don't grow, we seek diversions--some harmless (if unproductive), others destructive--to fill the emptiness.

  Jim Clemmer

  Growth, Emptiness, Grows

  Jim Clemmer (1999). “Growing the Distance: Timeless Principles for Personal, Career, and Family Success”, p.15, Jim Clemmer

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• You talk when you cease to be at peace with your thoughts.

  Khalil Gibran

  Spiritual, Philosophy, Thought Provoking

  Khalil Gibran (2014). “The Prophet - Der Prophet”, p.96, Lulu.com

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

  Ian Mcewan

  Being Wrong, Consequence

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

  Peter Kreeft

  Two, World, Today

  Peter Kreeft (1993). “Christianity for Modern Pagans: Pascal's Pensées Edited, Outlined, and Explained”, p.188, Ignatius Press

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

  Blaise Pascal

  Order, Truly Happy, Conditions

  "Pensées".

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• But teaching is like climbing a mountain.

  Fawn M. Brodie

  Teaching, Climbing, Mountain

  Los Angeles Times Home Magazine, February 20, 1977.

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• Successful leaders develop effective strategies for maintaining their boundaries. ... Most time bandits don't know any better. And being a time bandit is a matter of context. One person's time bandit is another person's pleasant diversion. ... Instead of gritting our teeth to be polite and resenting the time bandit for holding us up, the best choice is to be honest. We cannot expect another person to honor our needs unless we affirm them ourselves.

  Diane Dreher

  Leadership, Time, Successful

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• 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

  Selfish, Men, Energy

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• Opera is a beautiful and important diversion for me.

  Luciano Pavarotti

  Beautiful, Important, Opera

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• 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.

  Bo Gritz

  Believe, Long Ago, Information

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

  Jonathan Swift

  Children, Fighting, Animal

  Jonathan Swift, Thomas Roscoe (1859). “The works of Jonathan Swift, D.D.: with copious notes and additions and a memoir of the author”, p.615

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• 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

  Iraq, Civilization, Chaos

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• 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

  Inspirational, Education, Teacher

  Los Angeles Times Home Magazine, February 20, 1977.

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

  Jackie Robinson

  Pops, Trade

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• 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

  Anger, Awful, Facts

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• There's a diversion between economic reality - integration, global village, everybody depending on everybody else - and cultural reality, which is people feeling invaded, undermined, threatened, wanting to have "stand-your-ground" legislation all over the place. It's alarming because at the moment, the fear is outweighing the benefits, and that's partially because the benefits have been so unequally distributed that lots of people don't feel better off. They feel threatened, angry and despairing.

  Duncan Green

  Feel Better, Reality, People

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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

  David Rockefeller

  Important Relationships, Important, Pleasant

  David Rockefeller (2011). “Memoirs”, p.87, Random House

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• It gave me a great notion of the credit of our present government and administration, to find people press as eagerly to pay moneyas they would to receive it; and, at the same time, a due respect for that body of men who have found out so pleasing an expedient for carrying on the common cause, that they have turned a tax into a diversion.

  Gertrude Stein

  Men, People, Pay

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• 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

  Art, War, Writing

  William Carlos Williams, A. Walton Litz, Christopher MacGowan (1991). “The Collected Poems of William Carlos Williams: 1939-1962”, p.53, New Directions Publishing

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• 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

  Men, People, May

  1851 Moby Dick, ch.49.

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• The physical lot of surviving workers had notably improved, with unemployment insurance, social security, and the new health services, while their children's school education was assured by the government-operated schools: in addition, they had, for intellectual or emotional stimulus and diversion, the radio and the television. But the work itself was no longer as various, as interesting, or as sustaining to the personality.

  Lewis Mumford

  Children, School, Emotional

  Lewis Mumford (1974). “The Pentagon of Power”, Harcourt

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

  Jerry B. Jenkins

  Book, Writing, Poetry Is

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• 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

  Latin, Reading, School

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