Twist Quotes

The beginning of love is to let those we love be perfectly themselves, and not to twist them to... fit our own image. Otherwise we love only the reflection of ourselves we find in them. (Thomas Merton)
It is a capital mistake to theorise before one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories, instead of theories to suit facts. View quote
Arthur Conan Doyle
What separates the winners from the losers is how a person reacts to each new twist of fate. View quote
Donald Trump
There is room enough indoors in New York City for the whole 1963 world's population to enter, with room enough inside for all hands to dance the twist in average nightclub proximity. View quote
Buckminster Fuller
If Nixon is not forced to turn over tapes of his conversations with the ring of men who were conversing on their violations of the law, then liberty will soon be dead in this nation. If Nixon gets away with that, then Nixon makes the law as he goes along - not the Congress nor the courts. The old Court you and I served so long will not be worthy of its traditions if Nixon can twist, turn and fashion the law as he sees fit. View quote
Earl Warren
You put your bombers in, you put your conscience out,You take the human being and you twist it all aboutSo scrub my skin with womenChain my tongue with whiskyStuff my nose with garlicCoat my eyes with butterFill my ears with silverStick my legs in plasterTell me lies about Vietnam. View quote
Adrian Mitchell
And finally I twist my heart round again, so that the bad is on the outside and the good is on the inside, and keep on trying to find a way of becoming what I would so like to be, and could be, if there weren't any other people living in the world. View quote
Anne Frank
The thing about words is that meanings can twist just like a snake, and if you want to find snakes look for them behind words that have changed their meaning. View quote
Terry Pratchett
The entire Party and country should wake up, throw into the flames and twist the neck of any one who tramples underfoot the sacred law of the Party in defense of the rights of women and girls. View quote
Enver Hoxha
You cannot hope to bribe or twist, thank God! the British journalist. But, seeing what the man will do unbribed, there's no occasion to. View quote
Humbert Wolfe
Roll, roll, roll a joint, twist it at the end, light it up, take a puff, pass it to you're friend. (Tré Cool)
The simple things come back to us. They rest for a moment by our ribcages then suddenly reach in and twist our hearts a notch backward. View quote
Colum McCann
It was maddening how your best friend could twist the knobs inside of you so much that it hurt. View quote
Melissa de la Cruz
Wouldn't that put a twist in your toga? View quote
Rick Riordan
Be careful of love. It'll twist your brain around and leave you thinking up is down and right is wrong. View quote
Rick Riordan
A human being without the proper empathy or feeling is the same as an android built so as to lack it, either by design or mistake. We mean, basically, someone who does not care about the fate which his fellow living creatures fall victim to; he stands detached, a spectator, acting out by his indifference John Donne's theorem that "No man is an island," but giving that theorem a twist: that which is a mental and a moral island is not a man. View quote
Philip K. Dick
The odd thing in this world is that an eager-beaver type, with no original ideas, who mimes those in authority above him right to the last twist of necktie and scrape of chin, always gets noticed. Gets selected. Rises. View quote
Philip K. Dick
Oh-do be careful with that! That's my Buddha hand grenade. Twist the head twice and throw it and anyone within ten yards can say their prayers. View quote
Anthony Horowitz
I've always wanted to play Maria in West Side Story. My idol is Natalie Wood, and I love the movie, so I think a modern-day twist on it would be really neat. View quote
Vanessa Hudgens
Prisons are the temples where devils learn to prey. Every time we turn the key we twist the knife of fate, because every time we cage a man we close him in with hate. View quote
Gregory David Roberts
I see myself as a true modernist. Even when I do a traditional gown, I give it a modern twist. I go to the past for research. I need to know what came before so I can break the rules. (Vera Wang)
You can't twist Al Sharpton's arm. View quote
David Dinkins
Abroad, they have covered pretty much all subjects, explored every possibility, every twist. So similarities between ideas you have and those filmed abroad are quite possible. View quote
Ajay Devgan
I'm a classical type of guy. Whatever's out at that point in time, I like it. I just put my own twist on it, and we go from there. View quote
Carmelo Anthony
There are good people who are dealt a bad hand by fate, and bad people who live long, comfortable, privileged lives. A small twist of fate can save or end a life; random chance is a permanent, powerful player in each of our lives, and in human history as well. View quote
Jeff Greenfield