Some of the things I did in my early career were massive learning curves because I had no one to guide me.… — John Caudwell Copy Share Image
“The girl's the Michelangelo of torture. She'd paint the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel with a scalpel.She is so ruthlessly skilled, she'll… — Morgan Chalfant Copy Share Image
Those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end, for they do so with the approval of their… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
The delights of this life are not its own, but our fear of the ascent into a higher life; the torments of… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
But that afternoon he asked himself, with his infinite capacity for illusion, if such pitiless indifference might not be a subterfuge for… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
What gnashing is not a comfort, what gnawing of the worm is not a tickling, what torment is not a marriage bed… — John Donne Copy Share Image
Cows run away from the storm while the buffalo charges toward it - and gets through it quicker. Whenever I’m confronted with… — Wilma Mankiller Copy Share Image
Why seeketh thou revenge, O man! with what purpose is it that thou pursuest it? Thinkest thou to pain thine adversary by… — Akhenaton Copy Share Image
Man is in fact nailed down - like Christ on the Cross - to a grid of paradoxes . . . he… — Vaclav Havel Copy Share Image
Since God wishes it - there is nothing to be done. . . Why should you thus torment yourself? Get rid of… — Margaret Mary Alacoque Copy Share Image
“Nothing will ever equal that moment of joyous excitement which filled my whole being when I felt myself flying away from the… — Jacques Charles Copy Share Image
It's irrational to assume you can ever truly evaluate yourself as a good or bad human being. You will never have enough… — David D. Burns Copy Share Image
Your desintation is a life of meaning, fulfillment, creativity and joy. A life free of fears, obsessions, compulsions, and addictions, without the… — Gary Zukav Copy Share Image
“The shame that tormented me was all the more corrosive for having no very clear origin: I didn't know why I felt… — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
The hand descended. Nearer and nearer it came. It touched the ends of his upstanding hair. He shrank down under it. It… — Jack London Copy Share Image
Hades raised an eyebrow. When he sat forward in his throne, shadowy faces appeared in the folds of his black robes, faces… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
Living is strife and torment, disappointment and love and sacrifice, golden sunsets and black storms. I said that some time ago, and… — Laurence Olivier Copy Share Image
Our torments also may in length of time Become our elements, these piercing fires As soft as now severe, our temper changed… — John Milton Copy Share Image
Walk in the way of the Lord with simplicity and do not torment your spirit. You must hate your defects, but with… — Pio of Pietrelcina Copy Share Image
The language and concepts contained herein are guaranteed not to cause eternal torment in the place where the guy with the horns… — Frank Zappa Copy Share Image
It is silliness to live when to live is torment, and then have we a prescription to die when death is our… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
What torments me is not the humps nor hollows nor the ugliness. It is the sight, a little bit in all these… — Antoine de Saint-Exupery Copy Share Image
“I believe in good and evil," said Jem. "And I believe the soul is eternal. But I don't believe in the fiery… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
Spirit is the life that itself cuts into life: with its own torment it increases its own knowledge. Did you already know… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Time is the mercy of Eternity; without Time's swiftness Which is the swiftest of all things, all were eternal torment. — William Blake Copy Share Image
A great step forward was made the day men understood that in order to torment one another more efficiently they would have… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The problem was money and the indignities of life without it. Every stroller, cell phone, Yankees cap, and SUV he saw was… — Jonathan Franzen Copy Share Image
What are you? What am I? Those are the questions that constantly persecute and torment me and perhaps also play some part… — Max Beckmann Copy Share Image
Five-foot-8 is a perfectly normal height for a woman - it's slightly but not at all unusually tall and certainly shouldn't be… — Mallory Ortberg Copy Share Image
My people had used music to soothe slavery's torment or to propitiate God, or to describe the sweetness of love and the… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
I have a scholar's love of silence and solitude. To sit and pass hour after hour in idle chatter with a roomful… — Susanna Clarke Copy Share Image
“Let us not be afraid of “saying” what we are “seeing” without censoring anything, or looking away and playing hide and seek.… — Erik Pevernagie Copy Share Image
“Pain laughed giddily at the thought, for love brought its own brand of torment. Lots and lots of torment. In the heart,… — Gena Showalter Copy Share Image
“We pursue whatever we pursue out of torment — a need for torment. Our very quest for salvation is a torment, the… — Emil M. Cioran Copy Share Image
The advantage, the luxury, as well as the torment and responsibility of the novelist, is that there is no limit to what… — Henry James Copy Share Image
Youth as glimpsed by its elders is a story that comes from afar, showing itself as either lovely to look at or… — Lewis H. Lapham Copy Share Image
Even more than this, however, the sick - like lepers - were often reviled because people believed that they had brought their… — Peter Lewis Allen Copy Share Image
The man who comes to writing late, but is in essence a writer, may sometimes gain as much as he has lost:… — Wright Morris Copy Share Image
It is not only poverty that torments the Negro; it is the fact of poverty amid plenty. It is a misery generated… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
“If people realized the great pains I go through to impose such delicious torment on him, they would be more punctilious.” — Andrew Cormier Copy Share Image