Suppose we were able to share meanings freely without a compulsive urge to impose our view or conform to those of others… — David Bohm Copy Share Image
I wanted to take a stand against what I think was not so well established then but is thoroughly well established now,… — Peter Porter Copy Share Image
The danger is that in reaction to abuses and distortions of an idea, we'll reject it completely. And in the process miss… — Rob Bell Copy Share Image
The person one loves never really exists, but is a projection focused through the lens of the mind onto whatever screen it… — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
The goths are beautiful, a vast depth of subcultural, aesthetic and poetic ideas, and we would identify with that as we did… — Peter Murphy Copy Share Image
Failure to believe stems from moral failure to recognize the truth, not from want of evidence, but from willful neglect or distortion… — D. A. Carson Copy Share Image
There are places in this world where fable, myth, preconception, love, longing or prejudice step in and so distort a cool, clear… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
But I wasn't sure. I wasn't sure at all. How did I know that someday―at college, in Europe, somewhere, anywhere―the bell jar,… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
I looked around at what my colleagues were doing, and asked myself, 'What relationship has it with what's going on?' I found… — Martin Parr Copy Share Image
Booker T. Jones sounds more pithy and forceful than ever on “Potato Hole”…Mr. Jones still jabs terse, unhurried melodies that sound as… — Jon Pareles Copy Share Image
When you're first starting out, there's always the temptation to hide behind distortion because it lets you get away with murder. But,… — Kirk Hammett Copy Share Image
Always, when the words art and artistic are applied to my photographic work, I am disagreeably affected. This is due, surely, to… — Tina Modotti Copy Share Image
But though every created thing is, in this sense, a mystery, the word mystery cannot be applied to moral truth, any more… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
The argument that the literal story of Genesis can qualify as science collapses on three major grounds: the creationists' need to invoke… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
RIGHTEOUS INDIGNATION is a manual and a call to action for awakened patriots who are too intelligent to believe the leftist media… — Sarah Palin Copy Share Image
Rationalization is a cover-up, a process of providing one's emotions with a false identity, of giving them spurious explanations and justifications -… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“The distortion of a text resembles a murder: the difficulty is not in perpetrating the deed, but in getting rid of its… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
All the gestures of children are graceful; the reign of distortion and unnatural attitudes commences with the introduction of the dancing master. — Joshua Reynolds Copy Share Image
Even when the east excited me most, even when I was keenly aware of its superiority to the broad, sprawling, swollen towns… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
The worldwide financial and economic crisis seems to highlight their distortions and above all the gravely deficient human perspective, which reduces man… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
If you ignore somebody's record and only focus on something that happened 25 years ago when all they were doing even then… — Keith Ellison Copy Share Image
The core distortion of the War on Terror under both Bush and Obama is the Orwellian practice of equating government accusations of… — Glenn Greenwald Copy Share Image
Learn to look without imagination, to listen without distortion: that is all. Stop attributing names and shapes to the essentially nameless and… — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj Copy Share Image
What Warcollier demonstrated is compatible with what modern cognitive neuroscience has learned about how visual images are constructed by the brain. It… — Dean Radin Copy Share Image
I think religion is very anti-man. I think it's a terrible distortion and exploitation of a very natural urge every human has… — George Carlin Copy Share Image
When Christians speak of the authority of Scripture, because Christians believe that this word, even though it's mediated through many different human… — D. A. Carson Copy Share Image
The society to which we belong seems to be dying or is already dead. I don't mean to sound dramatic, but clearly… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
I'm not asking a poem to carry a lot of rocks in its pockets. Just being an ordinary observer and liver and… — Sharon Olds Copy Share Image
It is not enough to be compassionate. You must act. There are two aspects to action. One is to overcome the distortions… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
From my personal experience I can conclude that many dreams are clearly written but there are some in which one meets distortions… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
Making reality real is art's responsibility. It is a practical assignment, then, a self-assignment: to achieve, by a cultivated sensitivity for observing… — Eudora Welty Copy Share Image
Everyone in the Chinese economic world knows that the country is not going to move out of cheap-workhouse status, toward the realm… — James Fallows Copy Share Image
Everything that we see in our daily lives is more or less distorted by acquired habits and this is perhaps more evident… — Henri Matisse Copy Share Image
A lot of musicians like to do the bass and the drums with analog and get that tape distortion that's really beautiful.… — David Lynch Copy Share Image
One can't write a weird story of real power without perfect psychological detachment from the human scene, and a magic prism of… — H. P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
The need for truth is not constant; no more than is the need for repose. An idea which is a distortion may… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
The universal pervasion of ugliness, hideous landscapes, vile noises, foul language...everything. Unnatural, broken, blasted; the distortion of the dead, whose unburiable bodies… — Wilfred Owen Copy Share Image
It's amazing. It's actually build from old Siemens Telefunken transistors from the 60ties. There is like 10 in there. It's the most… — Christian Fennesz Copy Share Image
Walking the spiritual path properly is a very subtle process; it is not something to jump into naively. There are numerous sidetracks… — Chogyam Trungpa Copy Share Image
When one turns from reason to faith, when one rejects the absolutism of reality, one undercuts the absolutism of one's consciousness -… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
