Distortion Quotes

133 Distortion quotes by 123 unique authors

The danger is that in reaction to abuses and distortions of an idea, we'll reject it completely. And in the process miss out on the… — Rob Bell
Even when the east excited me most, even when I was keenly aware of its superiority to the broad, sprawling, swollen towns beyond the Ohio,… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
Inside each of us resides the truth, I began, the absolute truth. But sometimes the truth is hidden in a hall of mirrors. Sometimes we… — Garth Stein
We too, must shatter the mirrors. We must look in to ourselves and root out the distortions until that thing which we know in our… — Garth Stein
Evolution is not a genetically controlled distortion of one adult form into another; it is a genetically controlled alteration in a developmental program. — Richard Dawkins
Laughter--an interior convulsion, producing a distortion of the features, and accompanied by inarticulate noises. It is infectious, and though intermittent, incurable. — Ambrose Bierce
Every word, every image used for God is a distortion more than a description. — Anthony de Mello
...in words and pickles, I have immortalized my memories, although distortions are inevitable in both methods. We must live, I'm afraid, with the shadows of… — Salman Rushdie
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, with its stifling… — Sylvia Plath
The universal pervasion of ugliness, hideous landscapes, vile noises, foul language...everything. Unnatural, broken, blasted; the distortion of the dead, whose unburiable bodies sit outside the… — Wilfred Owen
Making reality real is art's responsibility. It is a practical assignment, then, a self-assignment: to achieve, by a cultivated sensitivity for observing life, a capacity… — Eudora Welty
I think each family has a funhouse logic all its own, and in that distortion,in that delusion, all behavior can seem both perfectly normal and… — Darin Strauss
The reality distortion field was a confounding mélange of a charismatic rhetorical style, indomitable will, and eagerness to bend any fact to fit the purpose… — Walter Isaacson
The truth is not distorted here, but rather a distortion is used to get at truth. — Flannery O'Connor
Steve has a reality distortion field.” When Hertzfeld looked puzzled, Tribble elaborated. “In his presence, reality is malleable. He can convince anyone of practically anything.… — Walter Isaacson
if you force yourself to be the same as everyone else. It causes neuroses, psychoses, and paranoia. it's a distortion of nature, it goes against… — Paulo Coelho
In some sense, gravity does not exist; what moves the planets and the stars is the distortion of space and time. — Michio Kaku
Words bend our thinking to infinite paths of self-delusion, and the fact that we spend most of our mental lives in brain mansions built of… — Dan Simmons
The ego says, ‘I shouldn’t have to suffer,’ and that thought makes you suffer so much more. It is a distortion of the truth, which… — Eckhart Tolle
Religious traditions can be reinterpreted in a manner that assists healing, corrects distortions, and expands vision. — Larry Graham
The Natural Law which God has written into our beings cannot be entirely eradicated, but it can be gravely deformed, leading to distortion of consciousness… — Michael O'Brien
The deceit and distortion surrounding the American invasion of Vietnam is by now so familiar that it has lost its power to shock. — Noam Chomsky
For a privileged minority, Western democracy provides the leisure, the facilities, and the training to seek the truth lying hidden behind the veil of distortion… — Noam Chomsky
Foreign policy - dealing as it does with the most charged political subjects of all, the safety and dignity of the nation - will always… — Robert Dallek
The Cold War had become a battlefield marked by doublespeak. Disguise, distortion, and deception were accepted as reality. Truth was promised in a serum. — Annie Jacobsen

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