#perverse

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 supply-side effect of a restrictive monetary policy is likely to be perverse, in that high interest rates enter into costs and thus exert inflationary pressure. ↗

— William Vickrey

#effect #enter #exert #high #inflationary

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

— John Waters

#heard #most #perverse #thing #you

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

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

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

— Warren Buffett

#difficult #easy #human #likes #make