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Quotes About Contortions

Well--watching the contortions of the damned is supposed to be a favorite sport of the angels, but I believe even they don't think people happier in hell.
~ Edith Wharton
Well—watching the contortions of the damned is supposed to be a favourite sport of the angels; but I believe even they don't think people happier in hell.
~ Edith Wharton
The more hideous the mental contortions, the greater the delight and bravos of the mass.
~ Emma Goldman
A la mayoría le importan poco los ideales o la integridad. Lo que anhela es exhibirse. Cuanto más horribles son las contorsiones mentales, mayor es el deleite y los bravos de la masa.
~ Emma Goldman
Golf is an awkward set of bodily contortions designed to produce a graceful result.
~ Tommy Armour
It has all the contortions of the sibyl without the inspiration.
~ Edmund Burke
Whether insurance is provided by the government or by corporations, there is no reason to think that the battles—over the fees charged, the bills rejected, the preapproval contortions—will ever end.
~ Atul Gawande
I think there's a certain poetry to having your body reflect what you feel inside of you. Perhaps you have a feeling that's so pure, or overwhelming inside of you that your body disfigures to it - contortions match your confusion.
~ Arca
The addiction was all about looking for oblivion, for forgetting, the contortions we go through just enough to be ourselves for a few hours.
~ Keith Richards
Golf is an awkward set of bodily contortions designed to produce a graceful result.
~ Tommy Armour
The academic mind can eat away the very basis of its own assurance ... produce contortions when it tries to bend over backward ... allow itself to be dismayed by the picture it has created of relentless historical process.
~ Herbert Butterfield