#perv

There is an increasingly pervasive sense not only of failure, but of futility. The legislative process has become a cruel shell game and the service system has become a bureaucratic maze, inefficient, incomprehensible, and inaccessible. ↗

— Elliot Richardson

#bureaucratic #cruel #failure #futility #game

These rare senses and powers of reasoning were given to be used freely, but not audaciously, to discover, not to pervert the truth. ↗

— William John Wills

#freely #given #pervert #powers #rare

What's fascinating about the Australians is they have this quality that they are impervious to majesty. They're not awed. ↗

— Tom Hooper

#australians #awed #fascinating #impervious #majesty

It is better to be thought perverse than insincere. ↗

— Samuel Richardson

#insincere #perverse #than #thought

What we call National-Socialism is the poisonous perversion of ideas which have a long history in German intellectual life. ↗

— Thomas Mann

#german #history #ideas #intellectual #intellectual life

I dearly love the state of Texas, but I consider that a harmless perversion on my part, and discuss it only with consenting adults. ↗

— Molly Ivins

#consenting adults #consider #dearly #discuss #harmless

The interesting part of the process is developing the character, you know, why did he become that? Why is the guy a murderer, or why is this guy a pervert, or whatever he is. So that's the fun part for me to delve into the abyss. ↗

— Brion James

#become #character #delve #developing #did

Of course, bad marriages are so pervasive that they have invaded the faith community too. ↗

— Jerry B. Jenkins

#community #course #faith #invaded #marriages

As selfishness and complaint pervert the mind, so love with its joy clears and sharpens the vision. ↗

— Helen Keller

#complaint #joy #love #mind #pervert

A lot of my characters in all of my books have a self-destructive urge. They'll do precisely the thing that they know is wrong, take a perverse delight in doing the wrong thing. ↗

— Richard Russo

#characters #delight #doing #know #lot