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
“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
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
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
I try to become a singer. The guitar has always been abused with distortion units and funny sorts of effects, but when… — Jeff Beck Copy Share Image
The exhibition of real strength is never grotesque. Distortion is the agony of weakness. It is the dislocated mind whose movements are… — Robert Aris Willmott Copy Share Image
To persuade thinking persons in Eastern Europe that Central American Marxists - the Sandinistas, the guerillas in El Salvador - are in… — Michael Novak Copy Share Image
When distant and unfamiliar and complex things are communicated to great masses of people, the truth suffers a considerable and often a… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
We don't know what truth is anymore. You or other media people can say there's no problem, but you're losing your credibility.… — Ray Dalio Copy Share Image
Lust, that state commonly known as 'being in love,' is a kind of madness. It is a distortion of reality so remarkable… — Julian Fellowes Copy Share Image
Unless we look at a person and see the beauty there is in this person, we can contribute nothing to him. One… — Anthony of Sourozh Copy Share Image
Jesus Christ is the most famous Jew of all time, but is today remembered as a Christian. Surprisingly, the Jewish community has… — Shmuley Boteach Copy Share Image
To translate kinesics or paralinguistic messages into words is likely to introduce gross falsification due not merely to the human propensity for… — Greg Bear Copy Share Image
Writers like Aldous Huxley and George Orwell have imagined the sort of scientific utopia which is coming to pass, but already their… — Malcolm Muggeridge 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 Silvertop and the Goldtop both had subtlety where it was needed but lots of definition as well. I liked the different… — Dweezil Zappa Copy Share Image
Martin Buber said he sensed a rising hunger for relatedness Men would no longer rise in rebellion merely against one oppressor or… — Marilyn Ferguson Copy Share Image
I think each family has a funhouse logic all its own, and in that distortion,in that delusion, all behavior can seem both… — Darin Strauss 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
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
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
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
Hatred is the fury of those who do not share our goals, and its object is death and destruction. Anger is a… — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
...in words and pickles, I have immortalized my memories, although distortions are inevitable in both methods. We must live, I'm afraid, with… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
Truth is always the first war casualty. The emotional disturbances and distortions in historical writing are greatest in wartime. — Harry Elmer Barnes 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
Inside each of us resides the truth, I began, the absolute truth. But sometimes the truth is hidden in a hall of… — Garth Stein Copy Share Image
“Refer to Table 3–1 over and over again as you learn about the various methods for mood modification. When you become familiar… — David D. Burns Copy Share Image
Our society in general devalues the 'she' - qualities that are associated with the feminine that are found in all of us.… — Emma Watson 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
It's hard to give a dramatic shape to even the most dramatic life. . . . you are forced not just into… — James Toback 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
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
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
The core tenant of what I teach is there are no facts inside the building. When we come up with a new… — Steve Blank Copy Share Image
“There are certain factors that can easily distort your basic instincts . Such as your health status, the people around you, or… — Mitta Xinindlu Copy Share Image
