Distorted Quotes
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Time flows in strange ways on Sundays, and sights become mysteriously distorted.
Haruki Murakami -
An individual has not begun to live until he can rise above the narrow horizons of his particular individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity. And this is one of the big problems of life, that so many people never quite get to the point of rising above self. And so they end up the tragic victims of self-centeredness. They end up the victims of distorted and disrupted personality.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Many of the articles printed over the last few months have ended up painting a picture of me that is more than a little distorted.
Phil Collins Genesis -
This is a fallen world. People lie, the truth gets distorted, and that's the way it is. What's for dinner?
Donna Leon -
From whence comes it that a cripple in body does not irritate us, and that a crippled mind enrages us? It is because a cripple sees that we go right, and a distorted mind says that it is we who go astray. But for that we should have more pity and less rage.
Blaise Pascal -
The ugliest man was he who came to Troy; with squinting eyes and one distorted foot.
Homer -
Each community has a curious and distorted image of itself which is always flattering.
Carl Eckart -
People say I have a distorted lens. I think I see things as they really are.
Nikki Sixx Mötley Crüe
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There was not a tree on the place, only the horrible prickly pear bushes thrusting out their distorted arms as if exulting in their own nakedness.
Ethel M. Dell -
The reasons for the failure of the Leninist economic model have been studied thoroughly and in the case of North Korea they were essentially the same as elsewhere: distorted price information, lack of incentives for innovation and quality improvement, and an ingrained inability to handle data efficiently.
Andrei Lankov -
Perhaps there will be prattlers who, although completely ignorant of mathematics, nevertheless take it upon themselves to pass judgment on mathematical questions, and on account of some passage in Scripture, badly distorted to their purpose, will dare to censure and assail what I have presented here.
Nicolaus Copernicus -
There is no more reason why the features belonging to a picture should be distorted for the purpose of such imaginative suggestion than that the poet's metaphors should spoil his words for the ordinary uses of man.
William H. Hunt -
There hasn't been anybody whose life has been picked apart and distorted as much as mine.
Hillary Clinton -
Now I just don't know who to tell to go to hell Who put the old devil in the distorted angel?
Elvis Costello