Diverted Quotes

Our trouble is that we drink too much tea. I see in this the slow revenge of the Orient, which has diverted the Yellow River down our throats.

Those who can least bear a jest upon themselves, will be most diverted with one passed on others.

Leisure and curiosity might soon make great advances in useful knowledge, were they not diverted by minute emulation and laborious trifles.

Women didn't want to watch other women on television because they were jealous of their husbands' diverted attention.

Don't try to talk anyone out of concentrating his hatred on Ayn Rand or any other dead person. It can't harm the dead. Diverted to a living person, it might actually do harm.

The pretty fellows you speak of, I own entertain me sometimes, but is it impossible to be diverted with what one despises? I can laugh at a puppet show, at the same time I know there is nothing in it worth my attention or regard.

The mind ought sometimes to be diverted that it may return to better thinking.

When you decide to follow a certain path, you should follow it to the end and not be diverted from it for personal reasons.

Writing novels preserves you in a state of innocence - a lot passes you by - simply because your attention is otherwise diverted.

But the more an organization succeeds and prospers, the more it is likely to be diverted from its original ideals, principles and purposes.

No longer diverted by other emotions, I work the way a cow grazes.

Melancholy, indeed, should be diverted by every means but drinking.

Any active sportsman has to be very focused; you've got to be in the right frame of mind. If your energy is diverted in various directions, you do not achieve the results. I need to know when to switch on and switch off: and the rest of the things happen around that. Cricket is in the foreground, the rest is in the background.