“A moment of torture feels like an eternity, while an eternity of joy passes in a moment. Perhaps time is naught but… — Richelle E. Goodrich 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
They'll torture you for months before killing you if you run" Otis shrugged, as if this was an everyday occurrence. — Heather Brewer Copy Share Image
“When I got out of prison, I was basically no longer human,' Miriam says.” — Anna Funder Copy Share Image
He that teaches us anything which we knew not before is undoubtedly to be reverenced as a master. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“I don't know what I'd do if for some reason I was no longer able to write. Commit murder, perhaps. At the… — Karen E. Quinones Miller Copy Share Image
“Torture is the act of making someone die a slow death, making the prisoner die several times.” — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
Beware of the problem of testing too many hypotheses; the more you torture the data, the more likely they are to confess,… — Stephen Stigler Copy Share Image
“Given involuntarily, and in an atmosphere of distrust, pain is torture, whatever the motive," suggests David. "But given consensually, between equals, pain… — Geoff Mains Copy Share Image
Well, to the people who pray for me to not only have an agonising death, but then be reborn to have an… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
I spent four years in the Marine Corp, and a big part of the Marine Corp, especially in boot camp, is torture.… — Travis Aaron Wade Copy Share Image
In spite of muzzling the press, imprisoning thousands, and engaging in torture, kidnapping and murder, the Socialist government was still vulnerable to… — Mark Kurlansky Copy Share Image
When I was a kid, the Patriots were my team, but I didn't really care, you know what I mean? I got… — Adam Granduciel Copy Share Image
Of course, Behaviourism 'works'. So does torture. Give me a no-nonsense, down-to-earth behaviourist, a few drugs, and simple electrical appliances, and in… — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
I would say that the war correspondent gets more drinks, more girls, better pay, and greater freedom than the soldier, but at… — Robert Capa Copy Share Image
“I once visited a place where they killed people by putting them in a chair. Not torture — that was common enough;… — Iain M. Banks Copy Share Image
Let us ban together to invent all the miracles and resurrection appearances which we never saw and le us carry the sham… — Eusebius Copy Share Image
It's impossible to be the Mockingjay. Impossible to complete even this one sentence. Because now I know that everything I say will… — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
“His body was so hard it was all he could do not to limp. And to think, he’d mistakenly believed he’d survived… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
“A total of 779 prisoners have been held at Guantánamo since the facility was opened on January 11, 2002. Of those, 8… — Captain Hank Bracker, The Exciting Story of Cuba Copy Share Image
From our best qualities come our worst. From our urge to pull together comes our tendency to tear each other apart. From… — Howard Bloom Copy Share Image
Hegemony is not defined by rivers or conventional borders - it's dominance, it's influence. So we get to decide in our hearts,… — Dar Williams Copy Share Image
Some people when they have taken too much and have been driven beyond the point of endurance, simply crumble and give up.… — Roald Dahl Copy Share Image
“For the human brain can become the best torture house of all those it has invented.” — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
“Not too much. I never got into killing things.” “Preferring slow torture.” “You” — Susan Elizabeth Phillips Copy Share Image
There was no terrorism in the Middle East until Washington brought it there with invasions, bombings, and torture. — Paul Craig Roberts Copy Share Image
Just saw a t-shirt at the gym said, body by torture. That's a lot less ironic if you're a political prisoner in… — Dov Davidoff Copy Share Image
There was the torture of sermons, and that not a slight one, for I was very fond of them. — Teresa of Avila Copy Share Image
They may torture my body, break my bones, even kill me. Then they will have my dead body, but not my obedience. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
'Zero Dark Thirty' is a disturbing, fantastically-made movie. It will make you hate torture. — Michael Moore Copy Share Image
The coward wretch whose hand and heart Can bear to torture aught below, Is ever first to quail and start From the… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
In this regard, I reiterate that the prohibition against torture cannot be contravened under any circumstances. — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
Just for the record, she still loves you. She wouldn't bother to torture you if she didn't. — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
Are we not all flung into the world for no other purpose than to hate each other, and so to torture ourselves… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“But shit, I've never been that complicated. Physical pain gets a physical response. Everything else is nobody's fucking business.” — Lisa Henry Copy Share Image
Some tortures are physical And some are mental, But the one that is both Is dental. — Ogden Nash Copy Share Image
“It had been torture. But every coffin needed its last nail, and that meeting was ours.” — R.K. Lilley Copy Share Image
“I want to be the most terrible thing that's ever happened to you. Can you understand that? I want to be the… — Xix Copy Share Image
Hunger of choice is a painful luxury; hunger of necessity is terrifying torture. — Mike Mullin Copy Share Image
