I think I'm a tough person, but for sure, I would talk under torture. — Sophie Marceau Copy Share Image
“Sometimes it's torturous to think of things we can't possibly have.” — Aaron B. Powell Copy Share Image
Thanks to the toleration preached by the encyclopedists of the eighteenth century, the sorcerer is exempt from torture. — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
Transplant is a life-changing 'experience. Organ donation transforms lives. It is torture for you, torment for you as an individual in need. — Andy Cole Copy Share Image
“Being blind is the worst possible thing and asking me to read and write no more is torture.” — Jessica E. Larsen Copy Share Image
What girls do to each other is beyond description. No chinese torture comes close. — Tori Amos Copy Share Image
A successful current affairs television show seems to be more and more a cross between a music hall turn and a scene… — Harold MacMillan Copy Share Image
Nothing says you care for me better than offering to torture my enemies. — Maria V. Snyder Copy Share Image
How guilt refined the methods of self-torture, threading the beads of detail into an eternal loop, a rosary to be fingered for… — Ian Mcewan Copy Share Image
“In some counties, there is an actual named crime of ritual abuse and there too, there have been convictions.” — Laurie Matthew Copy Share Image
The point of nonviolence is to build a floor, a strong new floor, beneath which we can no longer sink. A platform… — Joan Baez Copy Share Image
Writing a book is like torture that you don't know, but after it's done and there it is. It's a joy like… — Harry Crews Copy Share Image
I mean, we sit around and we go, you know, 'Torture doesn't work.' Well, it's been around for 5,000 years. Most stuff… — Adam Carolla Copy Share Image
Simply put, Guantanamo is one of the best propaganda tools that terrorists have today. Our enemies use it to justify terrorism and… — Dianne Feinstein Copy Share Image
Who has not seen how women bully women? What tortures have men to endure compared to those daily repeated shafts of scorn… — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
Human-rights advocates, for example, claim that the mistreatment of Iraqi prisoners is of a piece with President Bush's 2002 decision to deny… — John Yoo Copy Share Image
I was a liberal Republican growing up in New Jersey. That doesn't exist anymore. If you're a Republican, you have to think… — Cenk Uygur Copy Share Image
Among the events of John McCain's five-and-a-half years of imprisonment and torture in North Vietnam, probably the most heroic, and surely the… — Bret Stephens Copy Share Image
Now, bitterly, with one sweep of the front door, the compassion was spent. To the degree that Lawrence's face was familiar, it… — Lionel Shriver Copy Share Image
I find that deadlines form part of the aesthetic. I don't have that "It could only have been this way" kind of… — Tom Burr Copy Share Image
Just as an unbalanced mind can accumulate stresses that can grow and take on a life of their own, so little decisions… — Doris "Granny D" Haddock Copy Share Image
Death, torture and prison are part of daily life for the youth of Iran. They are not like us, my friends and… — Marjane Satrapi Copy Share Image
I think we need to understand what we mean when we talk about closure, we don't mean transfer or prosecute which is… — Jennifer Daskal Copy Share Image
No, you can take it from an expert in cover-ups-I've lived through Watergate-that nothing less than a resurrected Christ could have caused… — Charles Colson Copy Share Image
“The uncertainty wore on him. The conditions in jail--the handcuffs, the noise, the filth, the crowding--mangled his senses. It's likely that, if… — Michael Finkel Copy Share Image
One of the great fallacies of our time is that the Nazis rose to power because they imposed order on chaos. Precisely… — John Fowles Copy Share Image
I saw a picture of a girl using an eyelash curler when I was a kid, and I thought it was some… — Jamie Hince Copy Share Image
If you torture a man as I was tortured he will learn more about love than you could ever imagine, and that… — Nick Yarris Copy Share Image
I know that victims of torture will offer intentionally misleading information if they think their captors will believe it. — John McCain Copy Share Image
Nearly all of Latin America, from Chile to Mexico, is one long rack of torture. Financed, equipped, and refined by the U.S.… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
When we torture people, even if we win the battle, we've already lost the war for hearts and minds. Especially our own. — Dean Ornish Copy Share Image
In the future, torture will once again become the recreational sport of the rich. — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
Writers are doubters, compulsives, self-flagellants. The torture only stops for brief moments. — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
The new CIA torture report is 6 million pages long. It's almost as long as a George Clooney pre-nup. — David Letterman Copy Share Image
