#distort

Those who forget good and evil and seek only to know the facts are more likely to achieve good than those who view the world through the distorting medium of their own desires. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

#desires #distorting #evil #facts #forget

I think we're returning to more of the original vibration of music and creativity through the removal of this distortion called the music industry. That's where we're heading. And it'll cut out a lot of music if people ever expected to make money. ↗

— Jane Siberry

#creativity #cut #distortion #ever #expected

We may overcompensate for our feelings of powerlessness by attempting to control and manipulate other people and our environment. Or we may eventually burst forth with uncontrolled rage that is highly exaggerated and distorted by its long suppression. ↗

— Shakti Gawain

#burst #control #distorted #environment #eventually

If you say that the history of the Church is a long succession of scandals, you are telling the truth, though if that is all you say, you are distorting the truth. ↗

— Gerald Vann

#distorting #history #long #long succession #say

...that icy glass reduces your beauty - dims your fire - let me be your mirror... ↗

— John Geddes

#ice #mirror #reflection #beauty

I have suffered a great deal from writers who have quoted this or that sentence of mine either out of its context or in juxtaposition to some incongruous matter which quite distorted my meaning, or destroyed it altogether. ↗

— Alfred North Whitehead

#context #deal #destroyed #distorted #either

Over-commercialization and its resulting restrictions and limitations can be very damaging and distorting to the inherent nature of the individual. I did not deliberately abandon my fans, nor did I deliberately abandon any responsibilities. ↗

— Lauryn Hill

#any #damaging #deliberately #did #distorting

The right can distort anything it wants. ↗

— David Brock

#distort #right #wants

Lies and distortions can be spread, via the Internet, in an inexpensive way, and the effects are astounding. ↗

— Tony Campolo

#distortions #effects #inexpensive #internet #lies

The most dangerous untruths are truths slightly distorted. ↗

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

#distorted #most #slightly #truths