He that teaches us anything which we knew not before is undoubtedly to be reverenced as a master. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“ that the sufferer should never know the intensity of what he endures by its present torture, but chiefly by the pang… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
Homework is a term that means grown up imposed yet self-afflicting torture. — James Patterson 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
I am very lucky that I get to go to work and laugh all day for my day job, and then go… — Reid Scott Copy Share Image
When you become famous you get to torture a higher class of man than before. — Sharon Stone Copy Share Image
I loved performing in the 'High School Musical' movies - that didn't seem like work - but the gym felt like torture! — Ashley Tisdale Copy Share Image
There's just no doubt in my mind - under any set of rules - water boarding is torture. — Tom Ridge Copy Share Image
I wonder... if the Republican Party really wants to be branded right now as the party of tax cuts and torture? I… — Chris Matthews Copy Share Image
“The most effective torture is not physical—it is mental of course. The mind can imagine terrors far more horrific than you could… — Raine Miller Copy Share Image
Doubtless criticism was originally benignant, pointing out the beauties of a work rather that its defects. The passions of men have made… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
President Obama was right to ban torture, but the public must understand that this decision carries a potential cost in lost information.… — David Ignatius Copy Share Image
The torture and other sadistic abuses of prisoners in Iraq have done immense damage already to America's reputation in the world, and… — Edward Kennedy Copy Share Image
“Torture when inflicted on children becomes indefensible. Even among those who believe that torture is a defensible practice to extract information, the… — Henry A. Giroux Copy Share Image
The United States is now relearning an ancient lesson, dating back to the Roman Empire. Brutalizing an enemy only serves to brutalize… — James Risen Copy Share Image
Women like to be scared, but they don't like the blood and the gore, and especially movies that have violence and torture… — Cassandra Peterson Copy Share Image
Do things with your whole heart, with as much intensity as you are capable of. Anything done halfheartedly never brings joy to… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
...I couldn't but surmise that the devil, looking at the cruel wars that Christianity has occasioned, the persecutions, the tortures Christian has… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
To help students steel themselves for captivity, SERE used a variety of 'stress and duress' techniques. The military's encyclopedic knowledge of these… — Malcolm Nance Copy Share Image
It struck him that in moments of crisis one is never fighting against an external enemy, but always against one’s own body...… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
You can't come in smugly and with great self satisfaction and say 'Oh it's torture, and therefore it's no good.' Is it… — Antonin Scalia Copy Share Image
There is only one thing that arouses animals more than pleasure, and that is pain. Under torture you are as if under… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
Investigation is a subtle process, requiring patience and fine analytical ability, as well as a skill in cultivating one's sources. When torture… — Vladimir Bukovsky Copy Share Image
If you get into an armbar and someone locks it down on you, it's easy for you to tap out, but sometimes… — Tyron Woodley Copy Share Image
Who shrinks from knowledge of his calamities but aggravates his fear; troubles half seen, shall torture all the more. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
The aim of torture is to destroy a person as a human being, to destroy their identity and soul. It is more… — Inge Genefke Copy Share Image
Thinking is a great joy for a good writer and a great torture for the bad one! — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
Where would his torture be, indeed, if at every step the hope of succeeding upheld him? — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“The silkiness of his voice was a torturous caress that I could have endured for the rest of my life.” — Melissa Andrea Copy Share Image
Personally I didn't believe God had a private torture chamber. Hell was being cut off from God, cut off from his power,… — Laurell K. Hamilton Copy Share Image
I have personally led, witnessed, and supervised waterboarding of hundreds of people. — Malcolm Nance Copy Share Image
“Authors write books for one, and only one, reason: because we like to torture people.” — Brandon Sanderson 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
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
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
