#perv

Isn't that the most perverse thing you've ever heard? ↗

— John Waters

#heard #most #perverse #thing #you

In science, "fact" can only mean "confirmed to such a degree that it would be perverse to withhold provisional assent." I suppose that apples might start to rise tomorrow, but the possibility does not merit equal time in physics classrooms. ↗

— Stephen Jay Gould

#apples #assent #classrooms #confirmed #degree

The illusion that times that were are better than those that are, has probably pervaded all ages. ↗

— Horace Greeley

#better #illusion #pervaded #probably #than

In 1960, when I came out of prison as an ex-convict, I had more freedom under parolee supervision than there's available... in America right now. ↗

— Merle Haggard

#available #came #freedom #had #i

Cruelty is the law pervading all nature and society; and we can't get out of it if we would. ↗

— Thomas Hardy

#get #law #nature #out #pervading

Today the Internet is run by private sector interests within the United States under the supervision of a nonprofit entity formed by the U.S. Department of Commerce. ↗

— Robin Hayes

#department #entity #formed #interests #internet

Almost every sect of Christianity is a perversion of its essence, to accommodate it to the prejudices of the world. ↗

— William Hazlitt

#almost #christianity #essence #every #perversion

The mob's not coming back in the Teamsters Union. We've gotten rid of them, and we're free to be free of government supervision. ↗

— James P. Hoffa

#coming #free #gotten #government #mob

Any supervisor worth his salt would rather deal with people who attempt too much than with those who try too little. ↗

— Lee Iacocca

#attempt #deal #his #little #much

Solitude gives birth to the original in us, to beauty unfamiliar and perilous - to poetry. But also, it gives birth to the opposite: to the perverse, the illicit, the absurd. ↗

— Thomas Mann

#also #beauty #birth #gives #opposite