Distort Quotations

I don't think that the spoken words solve everything. Sometimes silence delivers truer feelings while the words can distort the meaning in some situations.

Will they attack us? Yes. Will they smear our backgrounds and distort our records? Undoubtedly. Will they lie about us, harass our families, namecall to try to intimidate us? They will. There's nothing safe about it. But is it worth it? Well, let me ask you. Is freedom worth it? Is America worth it?

We are in control, they are in a state of hysteria. Losers, they think that by killing civilians and trying to distort the feelings of the people they will win. I think they will not win, those bastards.

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.

I've been doing voices as long as I can remember. When I was little I could pick up on sounds, and then I discovered you could distort what you hear and make people laugh or disrupt a class.

Politicians or pundits can distort or cherry-pick climate science any way they want to try and gain temporary influence with the public. But any serious industrialist who's facing 'climate exposure' - as it's now called by money managers - cannot afford to engage in that sort of self-delusion.

Simplification of the tax code would not only unlock dormant economic potential, but, in the process, it would blunt the preferred weapon of social engineers, who reward favored industries, punish success and distort economic incentives.

For the serious biographer, history and the life story of a real individual are inseparably intertwined. Get the facts wrong, or distort them, and the life story gets distorted: becomes fiction.

The real danger to the world's resistance movements is the attempt to distort reality and to place the blame on the resistance groups' actions without allowing them to portray their perspective, thus ignoring the reality of the occupation and the siege, like the situation in occupied Palestine.

I don't think there is anything wrong with cosmetic surgery at all. I think it's great. But I don't think it's alright to distort yourself.

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

We know that the far left and their media allies can't beat us on the issues, so instead they'll distort our records. Let's not do the job for them, OK, Republicans? OK, independents?

No matter how you cut them, paste them, rotate them, or distort them, lip syncing and air-guitar playing are fundamentally foolish activities, and anyone seen to be engaging in them with anything approaching a straight face is, by definition, taking herself or himself much too seriously.

Neither effective nor efficient, the current rules distort the operation of the US insurance market, leaving US customers as the biggest losers.

If only positive results are published this can distort medical literature and leave doctors thinking a treatment is more effective than it actually is. This in turn can affect the validity and findings of subsequent reviews, treatment decisions and clinical practice guidelines.

He can't help himself but make personal attacks and misleading statements to distort the real differences on the issues.

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

There is no good valuation model to determine the fair value of unexercised employee stock options. Including an unreliable estimate of the fair value of options in the income statement would distort earnings.

Our main agenda is to have ALL guns banned. We must use whatever means possible. It doesn't matter if you have to distort facts or even lie. Our task of creating a socialist America can only succeed when those who would resist us have been totally disarmed.

It is fairly predictable that the non-settling states would distort information gathered in the deposition process in their attempt to undermine the settlement reached by Microsoft, the Department of Justice and a bipartisan group of states,

I think they want real candidates who really tell people what they think, and are actually willing to lose rather than distort their position,

Virtual-reality researchers have long struggled to eliminate effects that distort the brain's normal processing of visual information, and when these effects arise in equipment that augments or mediates the real world, they can be that much more disturbing.

You can batter your guitar, and it won't distort too much, which is important for me because I play with my hands a lot - I don't really play with picks.

We must work together in the Doha (WTO) negotiations to eliminate agricultural subsidies that distort trade and stunt development, and to eliminate tariffs and other barriers to open markets for farmers around the world,

We didn't distort anything. We just beat them.

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 want the public to know that these ads are full of untruths, misinformation and are generally designed to distort and twist information about the Boise School District.

Attempts to protect the current level of immigration by wrapping it in the language of tradition or humanitarianism generally distort both history and the practical realities of our own era.

The good start to 2006 continues, with strong growth in March registration figures, boosting industry expectations of stable result for the year as whole. 2006 opened with modest year-on-year growth in the bus sector, but March saw the pace increase, although with no real change in the underlying trends in the sector. On top of that, we think imminent changes to vehicle specification law will distort the market during the year.

We're talking about it, we're trying to deal with it. I think we'll get there. It's just important for any player in this league not to let his competitive juices distort clear thinking and have something happen that affects the team.

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.

These extremists distort the idea of 'jihad' into a call for

used every trick in the book to prevent a fair campaign, rig the election and distort the results.

exploited every instrument of the state to distort the electoral process.

Revenue was higher than expected but a number of charges distort the picture. Still, if you exclude that, the numbers are better than expected. The guidance for growth in general is good.

Instead, the disorder itself takes control and the chemical changes in the body affect the brain and distort thinking. It becomes almost impossible for sufferers to make rational decisions about food.

Intense congressional and public scrutiny has not produced a single substantiated claim that the Patriot Act has been misused to violate Americans' civil liberties. Opponents of the legislation have relied upon exaggeration and hyperbole to distort a demonstrated record of accomplishment and success.

At issue was the question whether, in the desperately divided society, there still remained the will to recognize the issues in time to offset the immense rally of public power to distort and pervert the facts.

The authorities in Belgrade used every trick in the book to prevent a fair campaign, rig the election and distort the results, ... In so doing, they have fooled no one. Milosevic has been repudiated and claims by his regime to the contrary are laughable.

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

Summer months can be particularly hazardous for forecasters, ... The timing of the end of the school year, seasonal hiring patterns and even weather can distort the monthly figure.

By violating the Federal Power Act and charging illegal prices, wholesale power companies were able to distort California's energy markets and prevent meaningful review of electricity rates by the public, by energy buyers and by FERC,

chose to ignore or distort the clear evidence.

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

He's spending like a drunken sailor, and he's now taking what are essentially routine staff-issued documents and claiming they're legislative proposals on the table. It's another hypocritical attempt to distort his own record and make Marylanders forget about his awful record. Voters are smarter than that.

Things can happen quarter to quarter that distort the long-term trends.

we will never surrender to the terrorists who despise democracy and distort religion. Never.

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

Get the facts first. You can distort them later.

The angels are so enamoured 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 there be any who understand it or not.

Facts, or what a man believes to be facts, are always delightful - Get your facts first, and - then you can distort 'em as much as you please

All people know the same truth; our lives consist of how we choose to distort them