Contortions Quotes

#1. That is the greatest danger in theology and deities - that they create the impression that goodness cannot be created or maintained by mere humans without divine help. This allows all measure of excuses ... and strange contortions to explain perfectly logical occurrences ... .

L.E. Modesitt Jr.

#2. Egyptian President Sadat had a belly dancer entertain President Nixon at a state dinner. Mr. Nixon was really impressed. He hadn't seen contortions like that since Rose Mary Woods.

Johnny Carson

#3. In the strategy of my school, keep your body and mind straight and make your opponent go through contortions and twist about. The essence is to defeat him in the moment when, in his mind, he is pivoting and twisting. You should examine this well.

Miyamoto Musashi

#4. The academic mind can eat away the very basis of its own assurance ... produce contortions when it tries to bend over backward ... allow itself to be dismayed by the picture it has created of relentless historical process.

Herbert Butterfield

#5. Golf is an awkward set of bodily contortions designed to produce a graceful result.

Tommy Armour

#6. If someone had the ability to sit at every table at once, he would hear nothing but good about himself, and yet even such contortions would pale in comparison to those of the others.

Joseph Roth

#7. What would a Martian visitor think to see a human being laugh? It must look truly horrible: the sight of furious gestures, flailing limbs, and thorax heaving in frenzied contortions ...

Marvin Minsky

#8. It has all the contortions of the sibyl without the inspiration.

Edmund Burke

#9. Well
watching the contortions of the damned is supposed to be a favorite sport of the angels, but I believe even they don't think people happier in hell.

Edith Wharton

#10. The addiction was all about looking for oblivion, for forgetting, the contortions we go through just enough to be ourselves for a few hours.

Keith Richards

#11. All the contortions we go through just not to be ourselves for a few hours.

Keith Richards

#12. There is nothing I detest so much as the contortions of these great time-and-lip servers, these affable dispensers of meaningless embraces, these obliging utterers of empty words, who view every one in civilities

Moliere

#13. Like rats that cannot stop pressing a button, partisans may be simply unable to stop believing weird things. The partisan brain has been reinforced so many times for performing mental contortions that free it from unwanted beliefs. Extreme partisanship may be literally addictive.

Jonathan Haidt

#14. This chapter also explores the question, "Who is the true yogi?" This word yogi may bring to mind images of amazing people who do strange contortions with their bodies.

Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa

#15. The more hideous the mental contortions, the greater the delight and bravos of the mass.

Emma Goldman

#16. God already knows what we're made of, but perhaps He wants us to learn what we're made of. I think we would all agree that we learn more from our tough times than from our easy times.

John Bytheway

#17. His smile was breaking my heart.

Benjamin Alire Saenz

#18. While there is perhaps a province in which the photograph can tell us nothing more than what we see with our own eyes, there is another in which it proves to us how little our eyes permit us to see.

Dorothea Lange

#19. Let all find COMPASSION in YOU.

John Of The Cross

#20. Good people never survive on 'Game of Thrones.' That's the problem.

Richard Madden