Quotes About Diversion

For many game players, games exist for entertainment, for passing the time, for fun. They are a diversionary activity, meant for relaxation or distraction—a "not- work" space where players are free to engage in fantasy narratives, amazing feats, and rewarding tasks. But what if certain games have become something more?

When you come to a roadblock, take a detour

Even among men of science, facts were never allowed to dominate diversion. Dr William Stokes, William Wilde's great friend and mentor (who lived in the square at No. 5), pronounced it as 'the golden rule of conversation, to know nothing accurately'.

Nous ne nous ménageons même pas une heure de réflexion sur cent heures de divertissement. Tout au plus quelques instants, lorsque des bouleversements affectifs ou professionnels nous font « remettre les choses en question ». Mais comment, et pour combien de temps ? Profitons-nous vraiment de ces occasions pour regarder en face le bien-fondé des certitudes fragiles, la nature éphémère des sentiments et des attachements ?

She was so far from his type she might as well have been another species.

The law, you know, can be a dreary business. A little harmless diversion is certainly required, from time to time. As a corrective.

The bow cannot always stand bent, nor can human frailty subsist without some lawful recreation.

Mais, supposé, comme il est vrai, que les exercices de la piété souffrent des intervelles et que les hommes aient besoin de divertissement, je soutiens qu'on ne leur en peut trouver un qui soit plus innocent que la comédie.

Reading? Well, stop it. Come and dry the dogs with me … did

Illium, with his wings of silver-kissed blue and a face designed to seduce both males and females, not to mention his ability to do the most impossible acrobatics in the air, would provide a worthy diversion. The fact that he'd decided to ditch half his clothing was just icing on the cake.

Words well to the surface and I let them out, even as I know I should not. "Perhaps I do not wish to sparkle, Aunt. Sparkle falsely. I say what comes to mind. I will not waste energy creating idle chatter meant only to impress." Casandra comes to my defense. "Your characters sparkle, Jane." I grab on to the diversion. "Which is even more reason why I personally cannot. For I only have so much sparkle within me, and I chuse [sic] to save it for them.

Le storie, quelle importanti, quelle che cambiano i destini, sono fiumi impetuosi, difficili da imbrigliare. Tu gli metti un ostacolo e loro deviano, trovano un'altra via per fluire.

Beklenmedik bir zamanda. Beklenmedik hiçbir ?ey olmaz. Hiçbir zaman beklenmedik bir olayla kar??la?maz insan. Olaylara rastlamak için yolunu sen de?i?tirdin. Kar?? kald?r?ma geçtin.

One of the joys of going to the movies was that it was trashy, and we should never lose that.

Fame usually comes to those who are thinking about something else.

My own business always bores me to death; I prefer other people's.

Looking for justice is actually a sign that we have been diverted from our devotion to Him. Never look for justice in this world, but never cease to give it. If we look for justice, we will only begin to complain and to indulge ourselves in the discontent of self-pity, as if to say, "Why should I be treated like this?

Our species is obsessed with play: we are either participating ourselves or watching others play for us.

Of course I played. It was my only solace.

And that's finally all anyone wants out of a book- to be amused

So He said He would destroy them—had not Moses His chosen one stood before Him in the breach to divert His wrath from destroying them.

Your iniquities have diverted these from you; your sins have deprived you of My bounty.