43 Perverse Quotes for You to Enjoy

Sometimes I write from the point of view of characters whom I would dislike as people, not as a perverse exercise, but because this cracks the story open and makes me see it in a way I would not see it naturally. Mary Gaitskill

'Shortly Thereafter' chronicles all the aspects of an Afghanistan deployment, from the terrors of the unknown that await before leaving, to the perverse thrills and adrenaline rushes found in combat, to the return home to a land and a people now more foreign than the war itself was. Matt Gallagher

War Home People Before Unknown More Thrills Adrenaline Combat Return Return Home Foreign Terrors Leaving Itself Than Afghanistan Deployment Land Aspects Perverse Await Thereafter Found Now

Every day after school for 10 years, I was on the set of 'Married... with Children,' which is a really funny and perverse place for a little girl in a Catholic school uniform to grow up. Meghan Markle

Funny Day Every Day School Girl Every Married Catholic Catholic School Years Up Children After After-School Place Which Little Uniform Little Girl Really Perverse Grow Grow Up Set

The perverse presumption that places the burden of proof on the challenger of spending must be inverted, back to the rule that applies elsewhere in life: 'Prove to me why we should.' Mitch Daniels

Life Me Burden Elsewhere Back Spending Rule Presumption Must Proof Inverted Prove Places Should Perverse Challenger Why

Physicians today, as human beings, are not exempt from the perverse economic pressures created by fee-for-service regimes to see more patients for shorter appointments and order more tests and procedures. If the incentives were changed to pay to foster better health outcomes, I am convinced physician behavior would change over time. Mitch Kapor

Today Time Health Change Better Behavior Physician Pay Changed Pressures Would Outcomes See More Economic Physicians Over Exempt Am Were Tests Human Patients Order Human Beings Procedures Regimes Created Convinced Incentives Perverse Beings Foster Appointments

Positive market incentives operating in the public interest are too few and far between, and are also up against a seemingly never-ending expansion of perverse incentives and lobbying. Mo Ibrahim

Positive Few Too Lobbying Market Seemingly Between Never-Ending Also Operating Up Expansion Interest Against Public Far Public Interest Incentives Perverse

We are perverse creatures and never satisfied. Nan Fairbrother

Satisfied Never Perverse Creatures

Our career path has tended to be the most perverse and contrary approach to the entertainment industry imaginable, while at the same time doing the kinds of things that you have to do, the videos, the photos and all that sort of stuff. Peter Garrett

Time You Entertainment Path Videos Approach Our Photos Entertainment Industry Kinds Stuff Most Industry Sort Doing Contrary Same Same Time While Perverse Things Imaginable Career Career Path

I have a perverse attraction to risk. Not physical risk but emotional, financial risk - anything than can't kill you immediately. Scott Adams

You Financial Immediately Physical Risk Emotional Attraction Than Anything Perverse

It takes a perverse determination to drain that instinctive curiosity away and make history seem just remote, dead and disconnected from our contemporary reality. Conversely, it just takes skilful storytelling to recharge that connection to make the past come alive in our present. Simon Schama

History Reality Determination Past Our Alive Seem Takes Instinctive Come Remote Contemporary Dead Make Disconnected Curiosity Just Storytelling Perverse Connection Away Present Drain

I confess I take perverse delight as a theologian in the controversies surrounding postmodernism. Stanley Hauerwas

Postmodernism Delight Take Surrounding Confess Controversies Theologian Perverse

Like the graduates of some notorious boot camp, my brothers and sisters and I look back with a sort of perverse glee at the rigors of our Catholicism. My oldest sister, Mary, was so convinced of the church's omnipotence that when she walked into a Protestant church with some high-school friends, she was sure its walls would crash down on her head. Stephen J. Dubner

Walls Church Sister Down Omnipotence Back Our Boot Boot Camp Would Some Brothers Brothers And Sisters Mary Head Glee Like Look She Sort Sure Protestant Catholicism Camp Friends Walked Sisters Graduates Crash Convinced Notorious Perverse Oldest Her

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

Mistake Psychic Admitting Strategy Severe Punishments System Weakness Threat Seems He Safer Makes Just Rewards Bush Creates Perverse Reinforce

When you create an economy where you subsidize corporate profits through a welfare program and food stamps in order to keep wages low in some perverse pursuit of 'competiveness,' than you reap the fruits of the anger that you sow. Martin O'Malley

Food You Anger Welfare Reap Corporate Some Food Stamps Through Pursuit Economy Wages Than Subsidize Sow Where Order Fruits Low Create Stamps Perverse Keep Profits Program

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