Top 182 Distort Quotes & Sayings

I think it was Mark Twain who said, “Get your facts straight, and then you can distort them as much as you like.

The corporateness of the fashion industry tends to take away or distort the freedom of creation.

I do think fame can distort reality. I've always felt that.

All people know the same truth. Our lives consist of how we choose to distort it.

Sometimes you have to lie. One often has to distort a thing to catch its true spirit.

Everybody knows how awful the world is and what a terrible situation it is and each person distorts it in a certain way that enables him to get through. Some people distort it with religious things. Some people distort it with sports, with money, with love, with art, and they all have their own nonsense about what makes it meaningful, and all but nothing makes it meaningful. These things definitely serve a certain function, but in the end they all fail to give life meaning and everyone goes to his grave in a meaningless way.

I think what bothers me so much of the time, is they take the data and theory and distort it. They must know they're distorting.

If you own the facts, you may distort them as you like.

Be sincere; talk only about your genuine experience; do not distort, exaggerate or falsify that experience.

We don't have the capacity to exaggerate God's goodness. We can distort it, or even misrepresent it, but we can never exaggerate it.

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.

There is no truth which personal vice will not distort.

When Arab apologists wring their hands over an Israeli military incursion, they never mention what the Israelis are reacting to, or else diminish and distort it.

We believe in a government that is characterized by fairness and reasonableness, a reasonableness that goes beyond labels, that doesn't distort or promise to do things that we know we can't do.

Our culture reflects back what is true. It doesn't always reflect it back reliably. It can distort things.

Our big social institutions do not reflect human nature; they distort it.

One has to be able to twist and change and distort characters, play with them like clay, so everything fits together. Real people don't permit you to do that.

You can't discuss Macau in any logical conversation. It will distort any reality.

The Tea Party elites gained extraordinary influence by being able to funnel millions of undisclosed dollars into campaigns with ads that distort the truth and attack government.

Believing in Hell must distort every judgement on this life.

The attempts to distort the truth and to hide the facts behind blanket accusations have been undertaken at all stages of the Ukrainian crisis.

High tax rates distort economic decision making, and our corporate income tax rate is one of the highest in the world.

In healthy individuals, emotions don't distort rationality, they enhance it!

Live interviews are more difficult to distort.

I haven't even ever wanted to distort. I isolate and represent.

Do the structures of language and the structures of reality (by which I mean what actually happens) move along parallel lines? Does reality essentially remain outside language, separate, obdurate, alien, not susceptible to description? Is an accurate and vital correspondence between what is and our perception of it impossible? Or is it that we are obliged to use language only in order to obscure and distort reality -- to distort what happens -- because we fear it?

Despite my work, I know some in politics will never support me. I see them distort my record.

Manhood and sagacity ripen of themselves; it suffices not to repress or distort them.

I need to distort not just leather and fabric, but also words. It's a disorder I have.

In every religion, there are those who would drape themselves in the mantle of belief and faith only to distort it's most sacred teachings - preaching intolerance and resorting to violence.

Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please.

You're an Attorney. It's your duty to lie, conceal, and distort everything, and slander everybody.

You cant 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.

An autobiography can distort; facts can be realigned. But fiction never lies: it reveals the writer totally.

The devil is busy and trying to distort and adulterate the things that are the pure essence of God.

As any action or posture, long continued, will distort and disfigure the limbs, so the mind likewise is crippled and contracted by perpetual application to the same set of ideas.

For every prophet there are a thousand interpreters to distort the essence of the religion, to replace the bright flame with the heat of the inquisitors' pyres.

We act unbelievingly and disobediently when, for whatever motive, we distort, falsify, or suppress the facts about our life in nature and history.

We do this on our free time and because we think it is fun. But we do not have an obligation to feed content to organizations that knowingly try to distort what we are doing and portray us as crooks.

It is sometimes desirable to distort or accentuate with lenses of various focal lengths... Deliberate distortion may actually add to its reality.

Alternative therapists don't kill many people, but they do make a great teaching tool for the basics of evidence-based medicine, because their efforts to distort science are so extreme.

If we think that high marginal tax rates are bad because they distort incentives, the same is then true for tax subsidies.

In order to perpetuate itself, every oppression must corrupt or distort those various sources of power within the culture of the oppressed that can provide energy for change.

Humiliate the reason and distort the soul.

The right can distort anything it wants.

Science is a beautiful gift to humanity; we should not distort it.

Humans don't really improve on our own functioning, we only interfere with it, distort it, and disguise it.

Endorsing unconventional monetary policies unquestioningly is tantamount to saying that it is acceptable to distort asset prices if there are other domestic constraints on growth.

The angels are so enamored of the language that is spoken in heaven that they will not distort their lips with the hissing and unmusical dialects of men, but speak their own, whether their be any who understand it or not.

By stretching language we'll distort it sufficiently to wrap ourselves in it and hide.

History teaches us that, whatever we say, racists will always distort the words of mainstream politicians to make themselves sound more respectable.

If you want to convey fact, this can only ever be done through a form of distortion. You must distort to transform what is called appearance into image.

Those in power always try to distort reality, to suit their needs and keep things safe.

Self-pity is never useful. It tends to distort like a fun-house mirror.

When you glorify yourself to the point where you can't relate to a regular person, then you distort your expectations and your values.

There are three ways to get better figures... Improve the system... Distort the system... Distort the figures

When you deliberately distort and selectively present the truth, you lie.

There are many more traits that the climate deniers share with the creationists and Holocaust deniers and others who distort the truth.

Eleventh Commandment: Thou shalt not distort, delay, or sequester information

Without the renewed mind, we will distort the Scriptures to avoid their radical commands for self-denial, and love, and purity, and supreme satisfaction in Christ alone.