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Violence is not a catalyst but a diversion.
Golf is an ideal diversion, but a ruinous disease.
Opera is a beautiful and important diversion for me.
What is one person's diversion may be another's supreme test.
When there are no consequences, being wrong is simply a diversion.
I nauseate walking; 'tis a country diversion, I loathe the country.
Ironing is a great diversion from the reality you don't want to face.
Most of our diversions do not so much delay death as accustom us to it.
Only Valek would consider an attempt on my life a fascinating diversion.
Rushing around can be a pointless diversion from actually living your life.
Just then Neville caused a slight diversion by turning into a large canary.
The thing we call romance is a diversion from something truer, which is life.
Gil Thorpe is a great diversion and is to book writing as poetry is to prose.
Poorer people tend to watch more television because they can't afford other diversions.
Most sorts of diversion in men, children and other animals, are in imitation of fighting.
Before, I wandered as a diversion. Now I wander seriously and sit and read as a diversion.
Pop flies, in a sense, are just a diversion for a second baseman. Grounders are his stock trade.
When I watch movies - when I watch 'Star Wars' - you want to watch the fun characters, the diversions.
I think sports are a wonderful diversion. People can relate to sports very easily. It's a quick study.
If our condition were truly happy, we would not seek diversion from it in order to make ourselves happy.
The United States government first learned of the diversion of the W-88 nuclear warhead design in late 1995.
When one has a famishing thirst for happiness, one is apt to gulp down diversions wherever they are offered.
Twitter is not a business. I know its founders would like to think it is. It is, for the most part, a diversion.
If our condition were truly happy, we would not need diversion from thinking of it in order to make ourselves happy.
I can't keep myself from playing roles. The emotionless decadent, looking for diversion from boredom, is a favorite.
I don't like my voice, and I don't enjoy my singing voice; I do what I do to bring pleasure and diversion to the fans.
Politics is the diversion of trivial men who, when they succeed at it, become important in the eyes of more trivial men.
Here's the problem with phones - they are a ready-made diversion from the considerably harder work of growing a business.
Trump is a dust storm of lies and diversions with the bellows of a bully and the greasy ethics of a street-corner hustler.
Amusement is a way of boredom-avoidance through external stimulation that fails to exercise our minds. It's mere diversion.
It is not necessary to conceal anything from a public insensible to contradiction and narcotized by technological diversions.
Iraq is no diversion. It is a place where civilization is taking a decisive stand against chaos and terror, we must not waver.
Each generation is smarter than the generation before, and they need total diversion and encouragement and things to think about.
Of all the diversions of life, there is none so proper to fill up its empty spaces as the reading of useful and entertaining authors.
Housework is a breeze. Cooking is a pleasant diversion. Putting up a retaining wall is a lark. But teaching is like climbing a mountain.
At Diversion, we want to do genres that people are not doing - or, if we're doing genres that people are doing, to do them in a fresh way.
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.
Don't waste so much time thinking about how much you weigh. There is no more mind-numbing, boring, idiotic, self-destructive diversion from the fun of living.
For most students at universities around the country, studying entrepreneurship is a pleasant intellectual diversion, not a professional choice, path, or commitment.
It's such a diversion to be constantly thinking of better ways I can teach people math that my hunger is for that really, for new ways of translating the beauty of it.
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.
In many ways, my entire graphic novel career was a long diversion. Originally, all I wanted to do was to be an underground cartoonist and maybe bring out a groovy underground mag.
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.
A little before noon I sent orders to all my batteries to open fire through the streets or at any points where the troops were seen about the city, as a diversion in favor of Jackson.
Words are so often used in the opposite sense, as a screen of diversion. It's the struggle towards truthfulness which is the same whether one is writing a poem, a novel or an argument.
I knew I was going from the flock of Christ and had no resolution to return, hence serious reflections were uneasy to me, and youthful vanities and diversions were my greatest pleasure.
There should be a point to movies. Sure, you're giving people a diversion from the cold world for a bit, but at the same time, you pass on some facts and rules and maybe a little bit of wisdom.
It's always the guys who have absolutely nothing to give that start screaming and yelling about their makeup and trailers. It's a diversion so you don't pay attention to them, because they stink!
Before I did any television or film, I did years and years of theater. Television and film stuff, even though it went on for a good, healthy number of years, almost felt like a diversion from theater.
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.