Distortionary Quotes & Sayings

I'm not jumping through the gym by any means. But I don't need to be able to do that in order to be a great player. — Kobe Bryant

I figure out who I'm playing opposite, and I really do study them. — Tisha Campbell-Martin

- You don't need to be gay to like someone of the same sex as you.
- What do you need to be then?
- In love. — Pawtal

Need a distraction today? Not only does 12 + 1 = 11 + 2, but the letters "twelve plus one" rearrange to give you "eleven plus two." — Neil DeGrasse Tyson

To demonize state authoritarianism while ignoring identical albeit contract-consecrated subservient arrangements in the large-scale corporations which control the world economy is fetishism at its worst. — Bob Black

What we focus on we become. If you are just focusing on unhappy things, you will become unhappy. If you focus on happy states of mind, then it will grow in you. — Frederick Lenz

If one only strives for caring solely about themselves in the end they will get what the wanted just themselves. — Paul Isaacs

We have regressed to the times of the wars of religion; divided, betrayed, threatened if we do not think as the others think or if we refuse to use the same formulas and cry the same watchwords. And tomorrow, ready to kill each other in the name of free will. Refusing to consider the realities he finds disagreeable, each adversary blinds himself with his own convictions and no longer considers those that might help him to comprehend the problem. — Jules Roy

I've done enough for a while and people get fed up of seeing you, but apart from that, although I'm young, I need a bit of rest. You could say I have become a house husband. It's not a new man thing, it's just largely a boring man who doesn't mind staying in the house thing. — James McAvoy

Perceive ye not that we are worms, designed
To form the angelic butterfly, that goes
To judgment, leaving all defence behind?
Why doth your mind take such exalted pose,
Since ye, disabled, are as insects, mean
As worm which never transformation knows? — Dante Alighieri

We know the value of a blessing when we don't have it. But we only know the value of knowledge when we have enough of it. — Raheel Farooq

Every thing that you love, you will eventually lose, but in the end, love will return in a different form. — Franz Kafka

True happiness is not based on circumstances or success but on the very nature of God. He promises to be our joy. That no matter what happens "it is well with my soul". — Hayley DiMarco

We can fight over what the taxation levels should be, but the tax system should be very, very simple and not distortionary. — Adam Davidson

How many people actually read the Bible and follow it? The truth is right there. How many people know what a marriage or family is all about? Everything starts with an idea, but getting people to act is different. You can't do something well if you don't know what it is or tried it for awhile. — Phil Mitchell