Quotes About Diversion

Where grief is fresh, any attempt to divert it only irritates

I am a great friend to public amusements; for they keep people from vice.

A am a great friend of public amusements, they keep people from vice.

Its proper use is to amuse the idle, and relax the studious, and dilute the full meals of those who cannot use exercise, and will not use abstinence.

People go to movies on Saturday to get away from the war in Iraq and taxes and election news and pedophiles online and just go and have some fun. I like doing movies that are fun.

Come now, what masques, what dances shall we have To wear away this long age of three hours Between our after-supper and bedtime?

I do that which I do in every place. Here also, at the gateway of that garden into which time has not entered, I fight with time my ever-losing battle, because to do that diverts me.

People will tie in with a fanatic if for no other reason than to break the monotony of their lives.

For the human body was a bizarre piece of improvisation, full of organs that had been diverted from one function to another, not always very successfully—and even containing discarded items, like the appendix, that were now worse than useless.

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.

They had something to do. They could escape from themselves.

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

You know how it is. Sometimes we plan a trip to one place, but something takes us to another.

he had found compromise and the assaulting diversion of triviality.

In the West, opinions, perceptions, loyalties, and, ultimately, votes are what matter when the goal is to change public policy-or for that matter, cultural patterns. Serious inquiry and questions of truth are often a mere diversion.

One English nobleman and statesman read and reread a particular work of literature because it was "the only book which allowed him to forget politics.

The cutting off of Russia with all its consequences, the vain and sanguinary tragedy of Gallipoli, the diversion of Allied strength in the campaigns of Mesopotamia, Suez, and Palestine, the ultimate breakup of the Ottoman Empire, the subsequent history of the Middle East, followed from the voyage of the Goeben.

The cutting off of Russia with all its consequences, the vain and sanguinary tragedy of Gallipoli, the diversion of Allied strength in the campaigns of Mesopotamia, Suez, and Palestine, the ultimate breakup of the Ottoman Empire, the subsequent history of the Middle East, followed from the voyage of the Goeben. Other

If I'm going to do this, I want to do it well. And I want people to acknowledge that. "It's all just a distraction," says the voice one night. It catches me off guard. I'd almost forgotten the voice. Is it speaking the truth? Is this all just a distraction? A pleasant diversion before the gruesome finale, what they call in opera the "Grand Guignol"? Just a distraction. But a good one.

I'm really bad, I watch reality TV sometimes - I just think it's the best form of escape.

You can't eat recreation.

There's nothing better than going to the movies and going into another world, and forgetting about everything that's happening outside.

For the most part, I think that people enjoy seeing a movie where they can just have fun in.

It's helpful to have a handbag that's a bit crazy, or shoes that have kiwis on them or something, because it distracts.