“ There is not in nature, a thing that makes man so deformed, so beastly, as doth intemperate anger. ”
- John Webster- Copy
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“ Vice, in its true light, is so deformed, that it shocks us at first sight; and would hardly ever seduce us, if it did not at first wear the mask of some virtue. ”
- Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield- Copy
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“ I like villains because there's something so attractive about a committed person — they have a plan, an ideology, no matter how twisted. They're motivated. ”
- Russell Crowe- Copy
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“ The most dangerous untruths are truths slightly distorted. ”
- Georg C. Lichtenberg- Copy
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“ How many hopes and fears, how many ardent wishes and anxious apprehensions are twisted together in the threads that connect the parent with the child! ”
- Samuel G. Goodrich- Copy
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“ Practice is everything"This is often misquoted as "Practice makes perfect. ”
- Periander- Copy
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“ Words in the head are like voices underwater. They are distorted. ”
- Jeanette Winterson- Copy
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“ There is no escape from yesterday because yesterday has deformed us, or been deformed by us. The mood is of no importance. Deformation has taken place. ”
- Samuel Beckett- Copy
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“ I know that Deformed. - Much Ado about Nothing. Act iii. Sc. 3. ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
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“ I got attention by being funny at school, pretending to be retarded, and jumping around with a deformed hand. ”
- Leonardo DiCaprio- Copy
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“ In this bad, twisted, topsy-turvy world, Where all the heaviest wrongs get uppermost. ”
- Elizabeth Barrett Browning- Copy
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“ In a way Australia is like Catholicism. The company is sometimes questionable and the landscape is grotesque. But you always come back. ”
- Thomas Keneally- Copy
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“ It did not occur to me that I might be a writer until I flunked out of my first year as a chemistry major, and found work as an apprentice writer of Volkswagen ads. ”
- Peter Carey- Copy
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“ The torment of human frustration, whatever its immediate cause, is the knowledge that the self is in prison, its vital force and "mangled mind" leaking away in lonely, wasteful self-conflict. ”
- Elizabeth Drew- Copy
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“ All great art, and today all great artlessness, must appear extreme to the mass of men, as we know them today. It springs from the anguish of great souls. From the souls of men not formed, but deformed in factories whose inspiration is pelf. ”
- Alexander Trocchi- Copy
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“ 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- Copy
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“ I was struck by the way in which meanings are historically attached to words: it is so accidental, so remote, so twisted. A word is like a schoolgirl's room — a complete mess — so the great thing is to make out a way of seeing it all as ordered, as right, as inferred and following. ”
- William H. Gass- Copy
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“ By avarice and selfishness, and a groveling habit as a robber. ”
- Henry David Thoreau- Copy
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“ If you want to be creative, stay in part a child, with the creativity and invention that characterizes children before they are deformed by adult society. ”
- Jean Piaget- Copy
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“ There is that part of ourselves that feels ugly, deformed, unacceptable. That part, above all, we must learn to cherish, embrace, and call by name. ”
- Macrina Wiederkehr- Copy
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“ Poetry is a mirror which makes beautiful that which is distorted. ”
- Percy Shelley- Copy
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“ Conservatives have no understanding of modern capitalism. They have a distorted understanding of the traditional values they claim to defend. ”
- Christopher Lasch- Copy
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“ In a person who is open to experience each stimulus is freely relayed through the nervous system, without being distorted by any process of defensiveness. ”
- Carl Rogers- Copy
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“ Antiquities are history defaced, or some remnants of history which have casually escaped the shipwreck of time. ”
- Francis Bacon- Copy
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“ Be at the pains of putting down every single item of expenditure whatsoever every day which could possibly be twisted into a professional expense and remember to lump in all the doubtfulls. ”
- Hilaire Belloc- Copy
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“ It's essential to tell the truth at all times. This will reduce life's pain. Lying distorts reality. All forms of distorted thinking must be corrected. ”
- John Bradshaw- Copy
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“ Misquotations are the only quotations that are never misquoted. ”
- Hesketh Pearson- Copy
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“ The most dangerous untruths are truths moderately distorted. ”
- Georg Christoph Lichtenberg- Copy
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