Top 16 Diversion Quotes

It is not necessary to conceal anything from a public insensible to contradiction and narcotized by technological diversions.

It is not necessary to conceal anything from a public insensible to contradiction and narcotized by technological diversions.

Neil Postman

Contradiction, Technological, Diversion

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

Walker Percy

Wander, Diversion

Walker Percy (2011). “The Moviegoer”, p.33, Open Road Media

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

Ian Mcewan

Diversion, Being Wrong, Consequence

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

Jackie Robinson

Pops, Trade, Diversion

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, Diversion

"Pensées".

Think often on God, by day, by night, in your business and even in your diversions. He is always near you and with you; leave him not alone.

Brother Lawrence

Night, Thinking, Diversion

Brother Lawrence, Aeterna Press (1905). “The Practice of the Presence of God”, p.32, Aeterna Press

Golf is an ideal diversion, but a ruinous disease.

B. C. Forbes

Golf, Disease, Diversion

Violence is not a catalyst but a diversion.

Joseph Conrad

Violence, Catalyst, Diversion

When one has a famishing thirst for happiness, one is apt to gulp down diversions wherever they are offered.

Alice Hegan Rice

Happiness, Thirst, Diversion

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

William Congreve

Country, Diversion, Walking

William. II Congreve William Wycherley (John Vanbrugh and Farquhar George), William. II Wycherley, William Congreve, George Farquhar, John Vanbrugh (1840). “Dramatic Works with Biographical and Critical Notices by Leigh Hunt. - London, Moxon 1840”, p.277