Self-pity is never useful. It tends to distort like a fun-house mirror.
We live in a moment in which old conflicts, much altered during their subterraneous years, have boiled up again. The struggle to own the past so that it can be made to serve contemporary interests has led to gross distortions. But it is true also tha...
Thought is so cunning, so clever, that it distorts everything for its own convenience.
Non-fiction can distort; facts can be realigned. But fiction never lies.
Time flows in strange ways on Sundays, and sights become mysteriously distorted.
You can't just take an image and randomly distort it and call it art - although many people in La Jolla where I come from do precisely that.
Sometimes you have to lie. One often has to distort a thing to catch its true spirit.
No longer is there a quest for the truth so much as there is this apparent need to present both sides of an issue even if one is nothing but lies and distortions.
Government did get into the health care business in a big way in 1965 with Medicare, and later with Medicaid, and government already distorts the marketplace.
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, bastardized form of illegitimate government.
The atomic weapons race and the secrecy surrounding it crushed American democracy. It induced us to conduct government according to lies. It distorted justice. It undermined American morality.
History teaches us that, whatever we say, racists will always distort the words of mainstream politicians to make themselves sound more respectable.
One of the great political and economic challenges of our time is figuring out the balance between wealth that benefits society and wealth that distorts.
Actors do have good and bad sides. It's because the passage down the birth canal distorts the face. People born by caesarean section are more symmetrical.
Our brain is mapping the world. Often that map is distorted, but it's a map with constant immediate sensory input.
Things get very distorted when you do a movie, weirdly so.
The Cold War had become a battlefield marked by doublespeak. Disguise, distortion, and deception were accepted as reality. Truth was promised in a serum.
One of the most powerful devices of poetry is the use of distortions. You can go from talking about the way a minute passes to the way a century passes, or a lifetime.
Distorted history boasts of bellicose glory... and seduces the souls of boys to seek mystical bliss in bloodshed and in battles.
Words are powerless when confronted by catastrophe; they're pitiable, wretched, and easily distorted
I have seldom met an intelligent person whose views were not narrowed and distorted by religion.
