Perversities Quotes & Sayings

Know how to chameleon our way through the day. — Brene Brown

She wondered if this was true of every parent: if, prior to having children, they all used to be someone else. — Jodi Picoult

Men have their virtues and their vices, their heroisms and their perversities; men are neither wholly good nor wholly bad, but possess and practice all that there is of good and bad here below. Such is the general rule. Temperament, education, the accidents of life, are modifying factors. Outside of this, everything is ordered arrangement, everything is chance. Such has been my rule of expectation and it has usually brought me success. — Napoleon Bonaparte

Shakespeare himself spoke of Heaven using wars as a punishment for perversities, lusts and passive barbarianism: If that the heavens do not their visible spirits Send quickly down to calm these vile offenses, It will come Humanity must perforce prey on itself, Like monsters of the deep. — Fulton J. Sheen

Our ice cream man was found lying on the floor of his van covered with hundreds and thousands. Police say that he topped himself. — Tommy Cooper

It's one of the maddening perversities of human psychology that we only notice we're alive when we're reminded we're going to die, — Tim Kreider

Believers are inclined to attribute their spiritual successes to their godliness when it would be more accurate to connect them with God's faithfulness. — Max Anders

I am a reasonable and sane functionalist tempered by irrational frivolity. — Alexander Girard

Though Rome's gross yoke Drops off, no more to be endured, Her teaching is not so obscured By errors and perversities, That no truth shines athwart the lies. — Robert Browning

Money is an instrumentality of the profit motive and must be issued and backed only by private enterprisers. Economic and political perversities are inescapable while government is admitted to money power. Since all national governments have, up to the present, been money issuing powers we may justly attribute all the economic and political ills of mankind to this single error. — E.C. Riegel

Not about the perversities of others, not about their sins of commission or omission, but about his own misdeeds and negligences alone should a sage be worried. — The Dharmapada

's one of the perversities of the age: I'm embarrassed by its success, but I'm happy it's selling. — Jonathan Franzen

No one wants perfection. I want a confident, smart guy, obviously, but what's hot is a guy who doesn't have all the answers. We gals like a guy we can help because, ultimately, we like being needed. — Daniela Ruah

I'm what you might call a Pepsi addict. — S.E. Hinton

I think God always has the best for us. — Ernie Harwell

My light shines when things get really tough. — Tippi Hedren