The perverseness of my fate is such that he's not mine because he's mine too much. — John Dryden Copy Share Image
There's a kind of perverseness or betrayal in that idea that art is somehow superior to life. Or that it's more important… — Matthew Specktor Copy Share Image
From the loving example of one family a whole State may become loving, and from its courtesies, courteous; while from the ambition… — Confucius Copy Share Image
Yet I am not more sure that my soul lives, than I am that perverseness is one of the primitive impulses of… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
Always meet petulance with gentleness and perverseness with kindness. A gentle hand can lead even en elephant by a hair. Reply to… — Zoroaster Copy Share Image
Solitude produces originality, bold and astonishing beauty, poetry. But solitude also produces perverseness, the disproportianate, the absurd and the forbidden. — Thomas Mann Copy Share Image
Doubt is most often the source of our powerlessness. To doubt is to be faithless, to be without hope or belief. When… — Blaine Lee Pardoe Copy Share Image
I think there has to be an underlying sexuality. There has to be a perverseness to the clothes. There is a hidden… — Alexander McQueen Copy Share Image
No adversity is in kind or degree peculiar to us; but if we survey the conditions of other men (of our brethren… — Isaac Barrow Copy Share Image
A completely indifferent attitude toward clothes in women seems to me to be an admission of inferiority, of perverseness, or of alack… — Hortense Odlum Copy Share Image
“ The contrariety of human nature is a subject that has given a surprising amount of occupation to makers of proverbs and to… — R. Austin Freeman Copy Share Image
Today social justice represents one of the most serious challenges to the conscience of the world. The abyss between those who are… — Leonardo Boff Copy Share Image
Yet I am not more sure that my soul lives, than I am that perverseness is one of the primitive impulses of… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
“Solitude produces originality, bold & astonishing beauty, poetry. But solitude also produces perverseness, the disproportionate, the absurd, and the forbidden.” — Thomas Mann Copy Share Image
Woman is a misbegotten man and has a faulty and defective nature in comparison to his. Therefore she is unsure in herself.… — Albertus Magnus Copy Share Image
Writing itself, if not misunderstood and abused, becomes a way of empowering the writing self. It converts anger and disappointment into deliberate… — Ted Solotaroff Copy Share Image
