#perverse

It is better to be thought perverse than insincere. ↗

— Samuel Richardson

#insincere #perverse #than #thought

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

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

That strategy of buy and hold, which is the sound and sensible one for the individual, can have very dangerous and perverse effects for the market as a whole. ↗

— Ron Chernow

#dangerous #effects #hold #individual #market

There was a perverse side of me, with things like Van Helsing coming out. I didn't want to go down that route. ↗

— Terry Gilliam

#down #go #i #like #me

I'm a little bit perverse, and I just hate doing the thing that's the most obvious. ↗

— Daniel Day-Lewis

#doing #hate #i #just #little

The real evil with which we have to contend is not the physical evil of the Famine, but the moral evil of the selfish, perverse and turbulent character of the people. ↗

— Charles Trevelyan

#contend #evil #famine #moral #moral evil

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

Anything that was perverse and silly would be Kids in the Hall. ↗

— Kevin McDonald

#hall #kids #perverse #silly #would

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