“ Would ye both eat your cake and have your cake?"This is commonly misquotes as "You can't have you're cake and eat it, too. - John Heywood's Proverbs, 1546. ”
- John Heywood- Copy
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“ Inevitably we look upon society, so kind to you, so harsh to us, as an ill-fitting form that distorts the truth; deforms the mind; fetters the will. ”
- Virginia Woolf- Copy
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“ Weave the warp, and weave the woof, The winding sheet of Edward's race; Give ample room and verge enough The characters of Hell to trace. ”
- Thomas Gray- Copy
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“ But the devil when he purports any evil against man, first perverts his mind. ”
- Euripides- Copy
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“ Art for art's sake, with no purpose, for any purpose perverts art. But art achieves a purpose which is not its own. ”
- Benjamin Constant- Copy
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“ 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. ”
- Samuel Johnson- Copy
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“ All minds quote. Old and new make the warp and woof of every moment. There is no thread that is not a twist of these two strands. ”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson- Copy
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“ Nobody can think straight who does not work. Idleness warps the mind. ”
- Henry Ford- Copy
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“ I won't say that the papers misquote me, but I sometimes wonder where Christianity would be today if some of those reporters had been Matthew, Mark, Luke and John. ”
- Barry Goldwater- Copy
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“ The true nature of the world was weirder than any bizarre fabric that anyone might weave from the warp and weft of imagination's loom. ”
- Dean Koontz- Copy
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“ It's not a bad idea to get in the habit of writing down one's thoughts. It saves one having to bother anyone with them. ”
- Isabel Colegate- Copy
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“ There was never any intention on anyone's part... to defraud, conceal or misrepresent. Everyone was acting in the best interests of the school, I'm confident of that. ”
- Bill Owens- Copy
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“ I don't really believe in regret. I think you can always learn from the past, but I wouldn't want a different life. ”
- Molly Ringwald- Copy
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“ There is nothing evil save that which perverts the mind and shackles the conscience. ”
- Saint Ambrose- Copy
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“ And it really is a good feeling to get up there and make that sound. I'm not stuck in a time warp, because I can use as many of the old songs as I want to, just the favorites. ”
- Dan Hicks- Copy
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“ If I were doing something that the Bible condemns, I have two choices. I can straighten up my act, or I can somehow distort and twist and change the meaning of the Bible. ”
- Jerry Falwell- Copy
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“ Humor distorts nothing, and only false gods are laughed off their pedestals. ”
- Agnes Repplier- Copy
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“ Facts, or what a man believes to be facts, are delightful… Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please. ”
- Mark Twain- Copy
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“ Romantic love is mental illness. But it's a pleasurable one. It's a drug. It distorts reality, and that's the point of it. It would be impossible to fall in love with someone that you really saw. ”
- Fran Lebowitz- Copy
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“ All emotions are pure which gather you and lift you up; that emotion is impure which seizes only one side of your being and so distorts you. ”
- Rainer Maria Rilke- 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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