Scripture points out this difference between believers and unbelievers; the latter, as old slaves of their incurable perversity, cannot endure the rod;… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
To offer the complexities of life as an excuse for not addressing oneself to the simpler, more manageable (trivial) aspects of daily… — Barbara Grizzuti Harrison Copy Share Image
Drawing is one of those things which sit on the uneasy bending line between instinct and instruction, where seeming perversity eventually trumps… — Adam Gopnik Copy Share Image
I could be mistaken, but I believe the majority of artists are perverts, and that inspiration springs from the seat of perversity;… — James Jean Copy Share Image
But there is that about well-intentioned advice that has the opposite effect of the one intended, and causes a Spanish fly of… — Caitlin Thomas Copy Share Image
I inquired what wickedness is, and I didn't find a substance, but a perversity of will twisted away from the highest substance… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
A man would still do something out of sheer perversity - he would create destruction and chaos - just to gain his… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
I sort of feel sorry for gays being the last ones at the sexual revolution window. We've had liberalizing rules on divorce.… — Ann Coulter Copy Share Image
Money is an instrumentality of the profit motive and must be issued and backed only by private enterprisers. Economic and political perversities… — E.C. Riegel Copy Share Image
Being generous is inborn; being altruistic is a learned perversity. No resemblance -- — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
“It must be pleasant to be occasionally guilty of a small abomination.” — Éliphas Lévi Copy Share Image
Out of sheer perversity, I followed beauty where it lead, into the silence. — Dave Hickey Copy Share Image
Profanation and violation are part of the perversity of sex, which never will conform to liberal theories of benevolence. Every model of… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
My mother was convinced, and on this head I have retained her firm belief, that to kill animals for the purpose of… — Alphonse de Lamartine Copy Share Image
“The Climber did not interfere. He praised the education I had received, and approved greatly of our immersions, just after birth, by… — William Beckford Copy Share Image
