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
[Carl Gustav] Jung was not right when he said that the unconscious message is always written clearly and so there is no… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
With Barack Obama, we will turn the page on the old politics of misrepresentation and distortion. With Barack Obama we will close… — Edward Kennedy Copy Share Image
Common sense is science exactly in so far as it fulfills the ideal of common sense; that is, sees facts as they… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
I have characterized Ross as exemplifying an extreme position among theistic scientists. However, he is not so extreme as to promote the… — Victor J. Stenger Copy Share Image
President Obama clearly cannot run on his record. All he's offering is more of the same. That's not good. Look at the… — Paul Ryan Copy Share Image
In my opinion, the continued popularity of these gross distortions of Iran in the U.S. seems to reveal more about certain aspects… — Mohammad Marandi Copy Share Image
When the institutions of money rule the world, it is perhaps inevitable that the interests of money will take precedence over the… — David Korten 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
I guess I've always lived upside down when I want things I can't have. My wife actually thinks I have a syndrome… — Tom Waits Copy Share Image
The first step is to penetrate the clouds of deceit and distortion and learn the truth about the world, then to organize… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The effort to see things without distortion takes something like courage and this courage is essential to the artist, who has to… — Henri Matisse Copy Share Image
The idea of beauty is the fundamental idea of everything. In the world we see only distortions of the fundamental idea, but… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
All the walks of literature are infested with mendicants for fame, who attempt to excite our interest by exhibiting all the distortions… — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
I love a little distortion across the bass; I think it kind of adds something to the sound of the band when… — Nikki Sixx 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
In England we see people lulled sleep with solid and elaborate discourses of piety, who would be warmed and transported out of… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
We too, must shatter the mirrors. We must look in to ourselves and root out the distortions until that thing which we… — Garth Stein Copy Share Image
The fear that we cannot grow beyond whatever distortions we may find within ourselves keeps us docile and loyal and obedient, externally… — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
It is a distortion, with something profoundly disloyal about it, to picture the human being as a teetering, fallible contraption, always needing,… — Lewis Thomas Copy Share Image
One of the key places where sociology should be used is in analyzing 'the world' of our times, so that we can… — Os Guinness Copy Share Image
At a time when politics deals in distortions and half truths, truth is to be found in the liberal arts. There's something… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
The confrontation between America and Europe reveals not so much a rapprochement as a distortion, an unbridgeable rift. There isn't just a… — Jean Baudrillard 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
It is sometimes desirable to distort or accentuate with lenses of various focal lengths... Deliberate distortion may actually add to its reality. — Arthur Rothstein Copy Share Image
“In the debate over guns, both sides are angry. The pro-gunners are angry at the ignorance, lies, and distortions of the anti-gunners,… — Dave Champion 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
It's not only imagination, it's the distortion of the vision. You suddenly think, This person is idealistic, this person is strong, this… — Olivier Martinez Copy Share Image
The creation of a work of art must of necessity, as a result of entering into the specific dimensions of pictorial art,… — Paul Klee Copy Share Image
With Barack Obama, we will turn the page on the old politics of misrepresentation and distortion. With Barack Obama we will close… — Edward Kennedy Copy Share Image
“Every intentional thought, word, or deed-right now and in your past-it all makes you what you are today. Your choices, not your… — Lucie Smoker Copy Share Image
Steve has a reality distortion field.” When Hertzfeld looked puzzled, Tribble elaborated. “In his presence, reality is malleable. He can convince anyone… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
The reality distortion field was a confounding mélange of a charismatic rhetorical style, indomitable will, and eagerness to bend any fact to… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
If deliberate distortion of reality by corporate media could be effectively prosecuted in the United States, the entire industry would be behind… — Cynthia McKinney Copy Share Image
I myself was to experience how easily one is taken in by a lying and censored press and radio in a totalitarian… — William L. Shirer Copy Share Image
“The best I can do is to ‘pretend’ that I’m my own god. But in the pretending I have to pretend that… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
The very nature of limiting something from an infinite to moments in time creates distortion; analog recording methods create all kinds of… — Kevin Shields Copy Share Image
Psychedelic drugs undoubtedly open the doors to the mind's panopticon, but what we see in the mental mirrors are mere distortions of… — Georg Feuerstein Copy Share Image
Make-believe colors the past with innocent distortion, and it swirls ahead of us in a thousand ways - in science, in politics,… — Shirley Temple Copy Share Image