Famous quotes containing the word diverted:
“Ironic, isnt it? The mind of man, wherever you encounter itEarth or Marsthe highest attainments of human intellect, always diverted to self-destruction.”
—Kurt Neumann (19061958)
“The great attraction of fashion is that it diverted attention from the insoluble problems of beauty and provided an easy waywhich money could buy ... to a simply stated, easily reproduced ideal of beauty, however temporary that ideal.”
—Theodore Zeldin (b. 1923)
“There may sometimes be ungenerous attempts to keep a young man down; and they will succeed too, if he allows his mind to be diverted from its true channel to brood over the attempted injury. Cast about, and see if this feeling has not injured every person you have ever known to fall into it.”
—Abraham Lincoln (18091865)