#perverse

It is better to be thought perverse than insincere. ↗

— Samuel Richardson

#insincere #perverse #than #thought

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

I think it's realistic to have hope. One can be a perverse idealist and say the easiest thing: 'I despair. The world's no good.' That's a perverse idealist. It's practical to hope, because the hope is for us to survive as a human species. That's very realistic. ↗

— Studs Terkel

#despair #easiest #easiest thing #good #hope

What family you were born into matters so much more than it did before in a perverse way. ↗

— David Brooks

#born #did #family #into #matters

Admitting weakness seems to be such a severe psychic threat for Bush that when he makes a mistake it's safer just to reinforce it. The strategy creates a perverse system of rewards and punishments. ↗

— Tina Brown

#bush #creates #just #makes #mistake

Our career path has tended to be the most perverse and contrary approach to the entertainment industry imaginable, while at the same time doing the kinds of things that you have to do, the videos, the photos and all that sort of stuff. ↗

— Peter Garrett

#career #career path #contrary #doing #entertainment

I have a perverse attraction to risk. Not physical risk but emotional, financial risk - anything than can't kill you immediately. ↗

— Scott Adams

#attraction #emotional #financial #i #immediately

I always thought of photography as a naughty thing to do - that was one of my favorite things about it, and when I first did it, I felt very perverse. ↗

— Diane Arbus

#always #did #favorite #favorite things #felt

We are perverse creatures and never satisfied. ↗

— Nan Fairbrother

#never #perverse #satisfied

There seems to be some perverse human characteristic that likes to make easy things difficult. ↗

— Warren Buffett

#difficult #easy #human #likes #make