Distort Quotes
85 Distort quotes by 79 unique authors
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Doubts are suppressed by groups... But remember that the internal incentives that shape how the group perceives risks and rewards may be very different from…
— Daniel Kahneman
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Howard Dean is not the first politician to distort facts in his own interests. But many activists in the party he now leads are puzzled…
— Robert Novak
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Not only does a lens distort forms, but the ordinary plate makes an unholy mess of colour in its tone relations. Yellow becomes black, and…
— Walter J. Phillips
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Our main agenda is to have all guns banned of course. We must use whatever means possible. It doesn't matter if you have to distort…
— Sarah Brady
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The problem with merely writing so that you can be understood is that the wrong people, in advancing their agendas, are only too ready to…
— William A. Dembski
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If I were doing something that the Bible condemns, I have two choices. I can straighten up my act, or I can somehow distort and…
— Jerry Falwell
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An autobiography can distort; facts can be realigned. But fiction never lies: it reveals the writer totally.
— V.S. Naipaul
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Let us take things as we find them: let us not attempt to distort them into what they are not... We cannot make facts. All…
— John Henry Newman
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Self-pity is never useful. It tends to distort like a fun-house mirror.
— Anne Roiphe
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Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please.
— Mark Twain
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The power of the silent filibuster to distort Senate politics is now accepted on Capitol Hill and by the press as normal and not worth…
— Juan Williams
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There is a kind of expressed love which is easy to subvert. When a figure is loved for their deeds, their conquests, their heroism, their…
— Ben Okri
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But man is so addicted to systems and to abstract conclusions that he is prepared deliberately to distort the truth, to close his eyes and…
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
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Can you see the power emotion has to distort our outlook? Makes you wonder, did you have a bad day, or did you make it…
— Brandon Mull
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No matter how long we exist, we have our memories. Points in time which time itself cannot erase. Suffering may distort my backward glances, but…
— Anne Rice
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The truth is that even big collections of ordinary books distort space, as can readily be proved by anyone who has been around a really…
— Terry Pratchett
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All people know the same truth. Our lives consist of how we choose to distort it.
— Woody Allen
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An assassin can be found for every president. And for every prophet there are a thousand interpreters to distort the essence of the religion, to…
— Sergei Lukyanenko
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I think certain types of processes don’t allow for any variation. If you have to be part of that process, all you can do is…
— Haruki Murakami
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When we try to describe the truth with words, we distort it and it's no longer truth--it's our story. The story may be true for…
— Miguel Angel Ruiz
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