Pastimes

On some nights, once the kids are asleep and I'm in for the evening, one of my favorite pastimes is to sit down with my laptop and a nice glass of wine. ❋ The Huffington Post News Team (2010)

He tells Palin one of his favorite pastimes is hunting, also a passion of the 44-year-old Alaska governor. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Surely, the very thing they seek to escape, the beer-stinking peasants and their primate lusts for barnyard pastimes, is what we should impose on them in the few quiet hours of their time of refuge behind the thick reinforced concrete of their redoubts where they used to enjoy classical music without the barking of seals. ❋ Unknown (2007)

As someone who frequently indulges in pastimes like the writing of epic fantasy that involve the extinction of humanity (or various other important species), this button strikes something of a chord, as it deals with a slightly more challenging variation on the theme … ❋ Unknown (2006)

One of my sad pastimes is to look at the things people type into Google to get to this blog. ❋ Unknown (2006)

One of my favorite pastimes is NRA high power silhouette shooting, which is all offhand. ❋ Unknown (2006)

You also should know that His Excellency enjoys certain pastimes and skills only worldly ambassadors tend to experience and savour. ❋ Unknown (2005)

m in for the evening, one of my favorite pastimes is to sit down with my ... ❋ Goop.com (2010)

We can summon sandstorms at will and one of the children’s favourite pastimes is rounding up the cattle. ❋ Unknown (2008)

And one of my favorite pastimes is not waiting with my bags for 8 hours in a hot bus station because I missed the early bus to wherever, and there’s not another one until evening, and there’s no checked luggage facility, and I therefore have to sit there with the baggage and wait. ❋ Unknown (2003)

Still the common run of those who are judged happy take refuge in such pastimes, which is the reason why they who have varied talent in such are highly esteemed among despots; because they make themselves pleasant in those things which these aim at, and these accordingly want such men. ❋ 384 BC-322 BC Aristotle (N/A)

King James hated Puritanism and loved recreation; so he readily granted the petition of the Lancashire folk, and issued a proclamation encouraging Sunday pastimes, which is known as the famous "Book of Sports." ❋ Unknown (1892)

But most of the people who are deemed happy take refuge in such pastimes, which is the reason why those who are ready-witted at them are highly esteemed at the courts of tyrants; they make themselves pleasant companions in the tyrants 'favourite pursuits, and that is the sort of man they want. ❋ Aristotle (1865)

"Recalling your pastimes before all of the pressures of adulthood took over gives you clues as to what will make you happy now." ❋ JOHN WARRILLOW (2010)

Gossip about their pastimes is a "real danger," in his view, and detracts from the story of a sport. ❋ Cna (2010)

It required severe exertions to weary me, and my mind possessed the capacity to devote itself to strenuous labour directly after the gayest amusements, and there was no lack of such "pastimes" either in Gottingen or just beyond its limits. ❋ Ebers, Georg, 1837-1898 (1892)