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Letter "D" » diverted
«The man whose whole activity is diverted to inner meditation becomes insensible to all his surroundings. If he loves, it is not to give himself, to blend in fecund union with another being, but to meditate on his love. His passions are mere appearances, being sterile. They are dissipated in futile imaginings, producing nothing external to themselves.»
«Unbeknownst to most historians, Einstein started down the road of professional basketball before an ankle injury diverted him to science»
«No longer diverted by other emotions, I work the way a cow grazes»
Author: Kathe Kollwitz | About: Emotion | Keywords: diverted, graze, grazes, grazing
«The mind ought sometimes to be diverted that it may return to better thinking»
Author: Phaedrus | About: Mind | Keywords: divert, diverted, diverting, diverts, return, Return to
«Writing novels preserves you in a state of innocence - a lot passes you by - simply because your attention is otherwise diverted.»
«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.»
«Almost every man wastes part of his life in attempts to display qualities which he does not possess, and to gain applauses which he cannot keep; so that scarcely can two persons meet, but one is offended or diverted by the ostentation of the other»
«Leisure and curiosity might soon make great advances in useful knowledge, were they not diverted by minute emulation and laborious trifles.»
«Melancholy, indeed, should be diverted by every means but drinking»

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