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There was no time to weigh chances. There was no such thing as chances anyway, in the distorted perspective of the weed fumes. — Cornell Woolrich

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 measures themselves are easily distorted to suit reporting purposes. — John Seddon

This was my world: cold, tangled and distorted. -Keira — S.L. Wallace

Theology is an assault on the sin-distorted intellect; it is the obedience penetrating the realm of thought. — Emil Brunner

I held up my glass and stared through it, where things looked as distorted as they really were. — Kami Garcia

Moving forward in science is as much unwinding the distorted thinking of the past as it is putting a clearer idea on the table. — Craig Venter

I have seldom met an intelligent person whose views were not narrowed and distorted by religion. — James Buchanan

I hope, in years to come, I shall hold my heart up and it will be a pane of clear glass, through which I see all, but nothing is distorted. — Catherynne M Valente

My views on birth control are somewhat distorted by the fact that I was seventh of nine children. — Robert Kennedy

Our brain is mapping the world. Often that map is distorted, but it's a map with constant immediate sensory input. — E. O. Wilson

Both my grandparents were officers in World War Two, and I would be personally offended if somebody distorted their achievements. — David Ayer

The sky was full of stars, and the stars reflected on the water like millions of tiny memories, distorted by the ripples and the waves. — Shawn Mihalik

History used to be written by the winners. Now it is distorted and distributed by the winners' media. — Ziad K. Abdelnour

We can understand the inherent radiance & purity of our minds by understanding metta. Like the mind, metta is not distorted by what it encounters. — Sharon Salzberg

It was a distorted form of inverse logic: If hopes never come true, then hope for what you don't want. — Amy Tan

There is no feeling so simple that it is not immediately complicated and distorted by introspection. — Andre Gide

She was my mirror image, slightly distorted, flipped, older, larger, more able to coexist with a pack of men. I'd be their pawn. She was their queen. — Aspen Matis

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

Now I just don't know who to tell to go to hell Who put the old devil in the distorted angel? — Elvis Costello

I regret it when I suppress my feelings too long and they burst forth in ways that are distorted or attacking or hurtful. — Carl R. Rogers

'Bag of Bones' was a big, distorted yet wonderfully entertaining novel that rode high on the bestseller lists in 1998. — Jay Parini

The most dangerous untruths are truths slightly distorted. — Georg C. Lichtenberg

But all memories, no matter how distant, no matter how distorted, have the shadow of truth underneath. Even the most imperfect memory is a window - — A. Lee Martinez

Speak with your words and your message can be distorted ... Speak with your actions and you'll leave no doubt. — Steve Maraboli

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

Conservatives have no understanding of modern capitalism. They have a distorted understanding of the traditional values they claim to defend. — Christopher Lasch

Let us never forget that truth, distorted and exaggerated, can become the mother of the most dangerous heresies. — J.C. Ryle

When you're depressed, everything becomes distorted. — Graeme Obree

Our identities are tremendously warped and distorted by yesterday's trauma and tomorrow's expectations. — Bryant McGill

Violence commands both literature and life, and violence is always crude and distorted. — Ellen Glasgow

It's probably listening to country music that got me to start playing a lot cleaner, not as distorted. — Joe Perry

The glass of your life is darkened, and darkly through it you see distorted and ghastly fragments of duty and destiny. — George Arnold

Some of the published news was distorted, but distortion is inherent in partisan journalism, the same as it is in political rallies. — E.B. White

The problem remains that the market is grossly distorted by Canadian unfair trade practices. — Michael Crapo

The religion-builders have so distorted and deformed the doctrines of Jesus, so muffled them in mysticism, fancies, and falsehoods. — Thomas Jefferson

But love was strange. It distorted your perspective and played havoc with your logic. — Lori Foster

Black people don't have an accurate idea of their history, which has been either suppressed or distorted. — Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

History's greatest composers would be appalled to hear their greatest works reduced to distorted hold music for businesses. — Michael P. Naughton

How come every one of these so-called photos of Bigfoot are blurred or distorted? Don't any of these Bigfoot aficionados have a decent camera? — G. Kent

History, like memories themselves, tended to become distorted with the passing of time, or worse, corrupted with the agendas of those writing it. — Terry Goodkind

Dreams are distorted representations of desire. So are dream- analyses. — Mason Cooley

History's greatest composers world be rolling in their graves if they knew that their beautiful compositions were reduced to distorted hold music. — Michael P. Naughton

All of us insist upon our illusions, upon substituting dreams and distorted memories for the real thing. — Erin Hart

Alone
everything changes.
Some might call it distorted reality
but it's exactly the place I need to be. — Ellen Hopkins

With distrust came suspicion and with suspicion came fear, and with fear came hate--and these, in already distorted minds, inflamed a hell. — Zane Grey

Actors are always outsiders. It's necessary to be able to interpret - and that gets distorted when you become famous. — Al Pacino

Nobody gets a good view of a system from the inside, no matter who they are. The view's distorted. — Peter Watts

It is hard to get a good perspective on marriage. We all see it through the inevitably distorted lenses of our own experience. — Timothy Keller

But who knows? It was war time. Your values get distorted. — Craig Siegel

We must accept the fact that we have distorted and constricted our lives as adults in accordance with our unconscious beliefs. — Lewis Engel

Each community has a curious and distorted image of itself which is always flattering. — Carl Eckart

Humility is the awareness that there's a lot you don't know and that a lot of what you think you know is distorted or wrong. — David Brooks

A lot of things just got distorted, like stories about each other. After the tour we never talked. I believe a band should be a band. — Tommy Bolin

The relentless pressures of the so-called marketplace have distorted all our culture industries. — Mark Crispin Miller

That's why those tapes we made are going to be so great one day, because they'll tell stories that time has swallowed up or distorted or whatever. — John Green

When the body is in pain, a distorted area of awareness is crying out to the rest of awareness for help. — Deepak Chopra

Once we refuse to honor God as God, our whole view of life and the world becomes distorted. — R.C. Sproul

To force a female to do things in male fashion is not equal opportunity, it is distorted idealism. — Gregory Hartley

What I read is so distorted that I cannot believe that the person they are talking about is myself. — Bob Kane

We underestimate ourselves, we do not believe in our strength, abilities, and talents and we have a distorted vision of ourselves — Sunday Adelaja

There is no instinct that has been so maligned, suppressed, abused, and distorted by religious teaching as the instinct of sex. — Dora Russell

Halt!" Marco remained hidden behind the door. "This area is restricted." The voice sounded distorted. It must have been an Outsider in a mask. — Dayna Lorentz

There are many things that have distorted the person inside you from what you were created to be — Sunday Adelaja

Sam Allberry says it best: "Desires for things God has forbidden are a reflection of how sin has distorted me, not how God has made me."22 — Rosaria Champagne Butterfield

There have been a lot of stories written about me, some of them fantastically distorted. — Judy Garland

And that's how we lost our ways, because more than modernism we like to love its distorted appearance. — M.H. Rakib

You could say that everything had become weirdly distorted because I'd broken the rules so many times. — Fuminori Nakamura

The longer we view ourselves through a distorted lens, the more likely we are to believe a distorted truth. — Craig Groeschel

Perhaps it was, what you don't realize, my dear (not having killed anyone) our judgement is distorted afterward and everything seems exaggerated. — Agatha Christie

Because the world all twisted up and wrong, like distorted glass, only came back into focus if you looked at it through the bottom of a bottle. — Terry Pratchett

The truth is not distorted here, but rather a distortion is used to get at truth. — Flannery O'Connor

Human love is created with some capacity, however distorted, to love God and to love creatures through God. — Thomas C. Oden

They are this horrible thing where you are distorted. The chin is too big, the head is too small. No, this is electronic masturbation. — Karl Lagerfeld

We do have a distorted view of our fantasies in society, but that's because we don't talk about them enough. — Sasha Grey

A turtle swims in the background while this shark's face is distorted by the diver's camera lens. — James Mayrose

This is a fallen world. People lie, the truth gets distorted, and that's the way it is. What's for dinner ? — Donna Leon

All maps are distorted, they are not literal fact. — Paula Scher

When Europeans came upon real ruined cities they refused to believe that they had been built by Africans. Here the past has been distorted and denied. — Henry Louis Gates

What did exclusivity ever have to offer but a distorted, unrealistic view of the world? People who stuck only to their own kind were scared people. — Naomi Shihab Nye

In the case of Stalinism, people actually distorted science because it was for the good of the Communist Party. — Richard Dawkins

The understanding of Syria's devastating civil war has been distorted by the immense danger and difficulty of covering it. — Nancy Gibbs

Time was a peculiarly elastic measurement. It was an empty space, given meaning only by what it contained, and afterwards distorted in memory. — Anne Perry

The most dangerous of all falsehoods is a slightly distorted truth. — Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

When a child sees herself through the prism of her peer group, the resulting self image can be distorted. — Alexandra Robbins

So you see and judge the present through the eyes of the past and get a totally distorted view of it. — Eckhart Tolle

The sonic world of the foyer and vestibule comes at him distorted and from a distance, as if someone's moving furniture underwater. — Dominic Smith

Often we have too many distorted takes on love because of the way everyone else represents it. — Mandy Fender

The recounting of a life is a cheat ... even our own stories are obscenely distorted ... — Carol Shields

The passage of time may have distorted my memories, but no amount of time can erase my emotions. — Dana Cornell

The church arises only from the gospel. And a distorted church usually coincides with a distorted gospel. — Mark Dever

The virtues of free enterprise can become distorted by greed & delusion. — Allan Lokos

At the best and even unexpurgated, diaries give a distorted or one-sided portrait of the writer. — Leonard Woolf

Words are powerless when confronted by catastrophe; they're pitiable, wretched, and easily distorted — Aharon Appelfeld

Any child knows that history can only be a reduced representation of reality, but it must be a true one, not distorted by queer lenses. — Samuel E. Morison

We don't know how to be women because we were taught it was not OK to be girls. Our most natural impulses were thwarted and distorted. — Marianne Williamson

There is no dark, darker than the distorted great light. — Lauren Kate

A hobby is the result of a distorted view of things. It is putting a planet in the place of a sun. — John Lancaster Spalding

Things get very distorted when you do a movie, weirdly so. — James L. Brooks

Crime is a product of a distorted mind. — Kiran Bedi