Quotes About Diversion

Tio Cosme respondeu com um Ora! que, traduzido em vulgar, queria dizer: São imaginações do José Dias; os pequenos divertem-se, eu divirto-me; onde está o gamão?

One discovers that destiny can be diverted, that one does not have to remain in bondage to the first wax imprint made on childhood sensibilities. Once the deforming mirror has been smashed, there is a possibility of wholeness. There is a possibility of joy.

Watch TV or something. That's what the note says. So I say to myself, Fine. But I think I'll do the or something part.

To indulge the power of fiction, and send imagination out upon the wing, is often the sport of those [...] He who has nothing external that can divert him, must find pleasure in his own thoughts, and must conceive himself what he is not; for who is pleased with what he is?

an intriguing puzzle that diverted him from the unbearable burden of living. HIJMS

He who has learned to look to God in everything he does is at the same time diverted from all vain thoughts.

They were both an escape from reality and an alternative reality themselves.

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

Not everybody goes to movies to get their life changed.

It's a big part of my life, listening to music and watching TV.

They don't mind it: its a reg'lar holiday to them - all porter and skittles.

The bigger the controversy, the bigger the chance of it being either a diversionary tactics or mere publicity.

The easiest way to divert away the general public attention from their main concern is to start a vociferous debate on a trifle topic through hired people keeping some in favour and others against it and to make them vocally fight on the mainstream and social media platform.

The easiest way to divert the attention of the population from the nation's main problem is to initiate the panel discussion across the channel & various platform on a trivial issue and blow it out of proportion.

There seems to be no stream of hot debate, discussion and meme on any topic/theme in online & offline world unless & until the hidden news team wants people to talk about the subject of own liking and often done to divert the attention of the population from main problem to superfluous issues

They may play with the people's emotion and create the sensation on the headlines to divert the attention of the population from the main problem.

I think a Play the best divertisement that wise men have: but I do also think them nothing so who do discourse so formallie about the rules of it, as if 'twere the grand affair of humane life.

Variety is the soul of pleasure.

In the wider world, we keep hectically busy and fill every free moment of our day with some form of diversion—work, computers, television, movies, radio, magazines, newspapers, sports, alcohol, drugs, parties. Perhaps we distract ourselves because looking at our lives confronts us with our lack of meaning, our unhappiness, and our loneliness—and with the difficulty, the fragility, and the unbelievable brevity of life.

I like game shows.

Those who want to perpetuate apartheid also seek to divert your attention to the false issue of communism, to send the entire American public on a witch hunt.

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

You do not retreat from a road-block; you make your way around it, or look for another route to where you are going. And you learn to zigzag ... Take a different route, albeit a longer one.

What is one person's diversion may be another's supreme test. And so often we sit beside one another, unknowing.