Perversity Quotes - Page 3

• But there is that about well-intentioned advice that has the opposite effect of the one intended, and causes a Spanish fly of perversity to enter into the hitherto passive soul.

  Caitlin Thomas

  Opposites, Advice, Soul

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• One thing you who had secure or happy childhoods should understand about those of us who did not. We who control our feelings, who avoid conflicts at all costs, or seem to seek them. Who are hypersensitive, self-critical, compulsive, workaholic, and above all survivors. We are not that way from perversity, and we cannot just relax and let it go. We’ve learned to cope in ways you never had to.

  Piers Anthony

  Inspirational, Happy, Letting Go

  "Fractal Mode". Book by Piers Anthony, January, 1992.

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• Drawing is one of those things which sit on the uneasy bending line between instinct and instruction, where seeming perversity eventually trumps pleasure as the card players and the kibitzers interact and new thrills are sought.

  Adam Gopnik

  Player, Drawing, Risk

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• Increasingly, I wonder if there are any outrages that would be sufficiently ominous in their effects upon liberty and unequivocal in their moral perversity to awaken the American people to the tyrannical spirit that envelopes the Clinton White House.

  Alan Keyes

  White, People, House

  "New barbarians". mobile.wnd.com. May 6, 2000.

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• A man must have something to grumble about; and if he cant complain that his wife harries him to death with her perversity and ill-humour, he must complain that she wears him out with her kindness and gentleness.

  Anne Bronte

  Kindness, Men, Wife

  Anne Bronte (2006). “The Tenant of Wildfell Hall”, p.43, ReadHowYouWant.com

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