Quotes About Distortion

Gezichten kennen vele mimieken, die allemaal wel iets weergeven van wat daarachter leeft, maar het evengoed kunnen vertekenen.

Up is down, pleasure is pain, darkness is light, slavery is freedom, madness is sanity.

Las trampas que van a intentar evitar que alcancemos el tesoro, como ya vimos en un capítulo anterior, se llaman «filtros mentales» y su gran poder estriba en que tienen la capacidad de alterar la percepción de lo que vemos,

The church arises only from the gospel. And a distorted church usually coincides with a distorted gospel. Whether it leads to such distortions or results from them, serious departures from the Bible's teaching about the church normally signify other, more central misunderstandings about the Christian faith.3

The New Right, in many cases, is doing nothing less than placing a heretical claim on Christian faith that distorts, confuses, and destroys the opportunity for a biblical understanding of Jesus Christ and of his gospel for millions of people.

We stand by as children starve by the millions because we lack the will to eliminate hunger. Yet we have found the will to develop missiles capable of flying over the polar cap and landing within a few feet of their target. This is not innovation. It is a profound distortion of humanity's purpose on earth.

prevents us from seeing the world as it actually is. Instead, we see only a distorted version of it. It is as if we see the world through a glass—a glass that magnifies the facts that liberals want us to see and shrinks the facts that conservatives want us to see. The

He saw nearly all things as through a glass eye, darkly.

Get your facts first and then you can distort them as much as you wish.

Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please. (Facts are stubborn, but statistics are more pliable.)

Funny how mishearing things-or not hearing them at all-can really screw things up

Romantic love is mental illness. But it's a pleasurable one. It's a drug. It distorts reality, and that's the point of it. It would be impossible to fall in love with someone that you really saw.

Men who allow their love of power to give them a distorted view of the world are to be found in every asylum: one man will think that he is the Governor of the Bank of England, another will think he is the King, and yet another will think he is God.

It's such a weird thing for young people to look at distorted images of things they should be.' —Daisy Ridley, on why she quit Instagram

Sentimentality is another human flaw. A distortion. Another twisted by-product of love, serving no rational purpose. And yet, there was a force behind it as authentic as any other.

some of them have already heard the word of God and then, after having understood it, they knowingly perverted it? 76

Celebrity distorts democracy by giving the rich, beautiful, and famous more authority than they deserve.

A perceived thing is... a certain variation in relation to a norm or to a spatial, temporal, or colored level, it is a certain distortion, a certain "coherent deformation" of the permanent links which unite us to sensorial fields and to a world.

Giving them 'junk food for thought,' and rewriting history and law.

You can't see reality. You never could: You just distort the truth until you end up with a version you can live with.

la distorsión cada vez más evidente entre las intenciones de los hombres políticos y las consecuencias reales de sus actos entrañaba algo completamente malsano e incluso maléfico

In some sense, gravity does not exist; what moves the planets and the stars is the distortion of space and time.

Don't worry about anything. Worrying never solved anything. All it does is distort your mind.

Don't let expectations distort reality. You would be wasting a very precious time.