Distorted Quotes

205 quotes by 190 authors

People are pursuing happiness, but they're pursuing things that will never, ever make them happy, and they don't know that. They've got a distorted view… — Rush Limbaugh
Submitting to censorship is to enter the seductive world of 'The Giver': the world where there are no bad words and no bad deeds. But… — Lois Lowry
Do not separate text from historical background. If you do, you will have perverted and subverted the Constitution, which can only end in a distorted,… — James Madison
In a person who is open to experience each stimulus is freely relayed through the nervous system, without being distorted by any process of defensiveness. — Carl Rogers
We never stop to consider that our beliefs are only a relative truth that's always going to be distorted by all the knowledge we have… — Miguel Angel Ruiz
Poetry is a mirror which makes beautiful that which is distorted. — Percy Bysshe Shelley
Stock market bubbles don't grow out of thin air. They have a solid basis in reality, but reality as distorted by a misconception. — George Soros
I have suffered a great deal from writers who have quoted this or that sentence of mine either out of its context or in juxtaposition… — Alfred North Whitehead
Our brain is mapping the world. Often that map is distorted, but it's a map with constant immediate sensory input. — E. O. Wilson
You've seen the sun flatten and take strange shapes just before it sinks in the ocean. Do you have to tell yourself every time that… — John Steinbeck
The Catholic novelist in the South will see many distorted images of Christ, but he will certainly feel that a distorted image of Christ is… — Flannery O'Connor
No story is a straight line. The geometry of a human life is too imperfect and complex, too distorted by the laughter of time and… — Pat Conroy
The best teacher is experience and not through someone's distorted point of view — Jack Kerouac
It doesn't matter what you do. In the end, you are going to be judged, and all the times that you're not at your most… — Dan Chaon
I don't know how to answer. I know what I think, but words in the head are like voices underwater. They are distorted. — Jeanette Winterson
The past is not a peaceful landscape lying there behind me, a country in which I can stroll wherever I please, and will gradually show… — Simone de Beauvoir
I travel in gardens and bedrooms, basements and attics, around corners, through doorways and windows, along sidewalks, over carpets, down drainpipes, in the sky, with… — Tom Robbins
The more isolated and disconnected we are, the more shattered and distorted our self-identity. We are not healthy when we are alone. We find ourselves… — Erwin McManus
To be fair, much of the Bible is not systematically evil but just plain weird, as you would expect of a chaotically cobbled-together anthology of… — Richard Dawkins
The institutions of human society treat us as parts of a machine. They assign us ranks and place considerable pressure upon us to fulfill defined… — Daisaku Ikeda

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