Divert Quotes

Do not let spacious plans for a new world divert your energies from saving what is left of the old.
Winston Churchill

Old, Left, Plans

Where grief is fresh, any attempt to divert it only irritates.
Samuel Johnson

Grief, Fresh, Attempt

The whole notion of journalism being an institution whose fundamental purpose is to educate and inform and even, one might say, elevate, has altered under commercial pressure, perhaps, into a different kind of purpose, which is to divert and distract and entertain.
Tom Stoppard

Different, Whole, Purpose

Police departments no longer have to pay overtime or divert resources from other projects to find out where an individual goes - all they have to do is place a tracking device on someone's car or ask a cell phone company for that individual's location history and the technology does the work for them.
Ron Wyden

Work, History, Technology

In the Depression we had to divert corn acreage.
Orville Redenbacher

Depression, Corn

No state, furthermore, unless it has aggressive military designs such as those which consumed Nazi leaders in the thirties, is likely to divert to defense any more of its resources and wealth and energy than seems necessary.
Lester B. Pearson

Energy, State, Military

I've never had a bank account in Switzerland since 1984. Why would the Swiss do this to me? Maybe the Swiss are trying to divert attention from the Holocaust gold scandal.
Benazir Bhutto

Trying, Why, Attention

But the central point is that any campaign against Iraq, whatever the strategy, cost and risks, is certain to divert us for some indefinite period from our war on terrorism.
Brent Scowcroft

War, Whatever, Against

Every relationship probably has, at its inception, a hundred things that you could pick on and divert you from it, but the feeling is there. You figure out a way to make it work.
Bennett Miller

Work, Feeling, Figure

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