Quotes About Perversity

Call it perversity, if you like," he replied. "There is a flash in your eyes, like lightning, when you are angry. I have always preferred thunderstorms to calm, still days.

Out of sheer perversity, I followed beauty where it lead, into the silence.

Jeff had learned the wisdom of perversity and made his lonely secret into art.

Politicization of Sushant Singh Rajput's death was cheap politics... worse than perversity.

Such is the feebleness of humanity, such is its perversity, that doubtless it is better for it to be subject to all possible superstitions, as long as they are not murderous, than to live without religion.

I think there is a certain perversity in my music in that I continue, you know, to eat at the same ball of vomit year after year.

Perversity, sadism, sexual aberration, etc., are parts of the nomenclature of the human spirit—just like altruism, fellowship, love, and all that. No, I'm not saying it's cool to be perverse, sadistic, and sexually aberrant, but I think it's honest to be curious about the very worst that humanity has to offer, and the very worst manner in which mankind has presented itself. Not only is it honest, I dare say it's healthy

El universo es una perversa inmensidad hecha de ausencia. Uno no está casi en ninguna parte.

Here's the perversity of Wall Street's psychology: The more Wall Street is convinced that Washington will act rationally and raise the debt ceiling, most likely at the 11th hour, the less pressure there will be on lawmakers to reach an agreement. That will make it more likely a deal isn't reached.

It is the perversity of software that a module that you have designed to be easy to change can be made difficult to change by someone else simply hanging a dependency upon it.

Remember the Finagle Laws. The perversity of the universe tends toward a maximum. The universe is hostile. But

Remember the Finagle Laws. The perversity of the universe tends toward a maximum. The universe is hostile.

Starting in 1897, Henry Havelock Ellis devoted six volumes to it: his pioneering Studies in the Psychology of Sex, sprinkled with case studies of unexpected explicitness and perversity. One memorable phrase from volume four, Sexual Selection in Man: "the contact of a dog's tongue with her mouth alone afterward sufficed to evoke sexual pleasure.

the true test of the perversity of a pleasure is that it occupies a disproportionate amount of the attention.

It's not women's fault that diets don't work. It's not perversity of lack of willpower. God did this — in Her great wisdom.

It seemed as if his desire of her affection increased with his knowledge of the loss of it; and the very circumstance which should have roused his aversion, by a strange perversity of disposition, appeared to heighten his passion, and to make him think it impossible he could exist without her.

To conceal her misgivings, she waved a sultry yellow fan. There was a forest painted upon it of Arden, in indigo, in violet, in sapphire, in turquoise, and in common blue. The fan, by Conder, was known perversely as The Pink Woods.

The heart prefers to move against the grain of circumstance; perversity is the souls very life.

She comprehended the perversity of life, that in the struggle lies the joy.

The eighties weren't just about androgyny, and in a sense they embraced polymorphous perversity in a way it had never been embraced before, an exploration of self that hadn't been as intense since the sixties. This was a new type of bohemianism, one empowered by a certainty and an optimism that was only fleeting back in the so-called Swinging Sixties.

I do not consider her choice of a piece happy. Beethoven is so usually simple and direct in his appeal that it is sheer perversity to choose a thing like that, which, if anything, disturbs.

Não lia jornais. Achava que um jornal era a coisa mais inútil do mundo, depois da Câmara dos Deputados, das obras dos poetas e das missas. Não quer isto dizer que Soares fosse ateu em religião, política e poesia. Não. Soares era apenas indiferente. Olhava para todas as grandes coisas com a mesma cara com que via uma mulher feia. Podia vir a ser um grande perverso; até então era apenas uma grande inutilidade. (Luís Soares)

In "A Problem from Hell," I had highlighted the work of Albert Hirschman, the Princeton economist who published the landmark book The Rhetoric of Reaction in 1991. Hirschman's thesis was that those who didn't want to pursue a particular course of action tended to argue that a given policy would be futile ("futility"), that it would likely make matters worse ("perversity"), or that it would imperil some other goal ("jeopardy").

They who do not understand that a man may be brought to hope that which of all things is the most grievous to him, have not observed with sufficient closeness the perversity of the human mind.