#diversion

No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting. She will not want new fashions nor regret the loss of expensive diversions or variety of company if she can be amused with an author in her closet. ↗

— Mary Wortley

#any #author #cheap #closet #company

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. ↗

— James Longstreet

#any #batteries #before #city #diversion

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. ↗

— Danica McKellar

#better #better ways #constantly #diversion #hunger

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. ↗

— John Woolman

#diversions #flock #going #greatest #greatest pleasure

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. ↗

— Bo Gritz

#aided #believe #certain #congress #could

Most sorts of diversion in men, children and other animals, are in imitation of fighting. ↗

— Jonathan Swift

#diversion #fighting #imitation #men #most

Iraq is no diversion. It is a place where civilization is taking a decisive stand against chaos and terror, we must not waver. ↗

— George W. Bush

#chaos #civilization #decisive #diversion #iraq

I really think that elected officials should be focused on how you create sustained economic growth, how do you create jobs and all of these issues that made people - segments of our society believe are really important are diversions politically. ↗

— Jeb Bush

#create #diversions #economic #economic growth #elected

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. ↗

— George Andrew Olah

#age #although #classics #diversion #few

Pop flies, in a sense, are just a diversion for a second baseman. Grounders are his stock trade. ↗

— Jackie Robinson

#diversion #flies #his #just #pop