If waterboarding does not constitute torture, then there is no such thing as torture. — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
If you torture statistics long enough, they'll eventually confess the truth — Alan K. Simpson Copy Share Image
In life eternal, there is perfect joy and light, without pain or torture, and there is communion with God Himself and His… — Jan Hus Copy Share Image
Experience is the worst teacher; it gives the test before presenting the lesson. — Vern Law Copy Share Image
Finishing is torture... There's always some newly seen flaw. But the little glimpses of beauty between the anxiety make it worth it. — Jacob Collins Copy Share Image
Tourette's is involuntary in that it is impossible not to do. And it's torture to know what you're doing and not be… — Dash Mihok Copy Share Image
The deplorable thing is that the people who were tortured yesterday, torture today. — B. Traven Copy Share Image
Always mystify, torture, mislead, and surprise the audience as much as possible. — Don Roff Copy Share Image
We need to empower women: provide them with work for their own income, and teach them to become independent of men so… — Waris Dirie Copy Share Image
If the Party could thrust its hand into the past and say of this or that event, it never happened - that,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Aside from the occasional genocide, oppression, evil and torture, etc., it is inarguable that public policy could be implemented more rapidly in… — David Harsanyi Copy Share Image
I always say that no matter what the torture is, or the tool is, first of all it's nothing worse than what's… — Eli Roth Copy Share Image
There are clues in the script... he will say "I think drugs are immoral"'... but the guy who says that kills, tortures,… — David Suchet Copy Share Image
If I can't enjoy the full and total happiness of love, then I want to drain its torments, its tortures to the… — Leopold von Sacher-Masoch Copy Share Image
Central to everything I am and believe and have written is my astonishment, naive as it seems to people, that you can… — George Steiner Copy Share Image
“It’s torture, Desmond…” I breathed, my whole body aching to finish, to do anything but stand here full of him and pretend… — Dari A. Malaunt Copy Share Image
The question I ask myself is: have I really just become a squeamish middle-aged man, or has something happened to the horror… — Mark Gatiss Copy Share Image
My stories are of gas chambers, shootings, electrified fences, torture, scorching sun, mental abuse, and constant threat of death. But they are… — Livia Bitton-Jackson Copy Share Image
“I stole looks. First was her hair, long and loopy and pulled back. Second, she has the prettiest face, oopen-like and up-looking.… — Paul Griffin Copy Share Image
“Those who support such survivors of abuse often find it difficult to hear the reality of those survivors' lives and experience and… — Laurie Matthew Copy Share Image
Day 24. Situation is growing worse. My captors continue to find new and horrific ways to torture me. When not working, Agent… — Richelle Mead Copy Share Image
It would have been cruel in Miss Havisham, horribly cruel, to practise on the susceptibility of a poor boy, and to torture… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Sleep is a most useful and most salutary operation of nature. Scarcely any minor annoyance angers me more than the being suddenly… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
For my own part I would as soon be descended from that heroic little monkey, who braved his dreaded enemy in order… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
As a child, I used to 'torture' other kids by making them be in my shows. I would sell tickets to neighbors… — Jasmila Zbanic Copy Share Image
Once you have lived with another, it is a great torture to have to live alone. — Carson McCullers Copy Share Image
For there's nothing we read of in torture's inventions, Like a well-meaning dunce, with the best of intentions. — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
Faith is a gift of God, which man can neither give nor take away by promise of rewards or menace of torture. — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
The natural man inevitably rebels against mathematics, a mild form of torture that could only be learned by painful processes of drill. — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
Better be with the dead, Whom we, to gain our peace, have sent to peace, Than on the torture of the mind… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
What's the difference between pleasure and torture? Pleasure is thinking of you & torture is thinking of you too much. — Norden Copy Share Image
Teaching should be such that what is offered is perceived as a valuable gift and not as a hard duty. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Forbearance in the face of fate, beauty constant under torture, are not merely passive. They are a positive achievement, an explicit triumph. — Thomas Mann Copy Share Image
Your blessing in life is when you find the torture you're comfortable with. — Jerry Seinfeld Copy Share Image
An economist is a surgeon with an excellent scalpel and a rough-edged lancet, who operates beautifully on the dead and tortures the… — Nicolas Chamfort Copy Share Image
I am very athletic, I like to exercise, some people think exercise is like torture, I am the opposite. — Pooja Batra Copy Share Image
Torture is illegal, both in the U.S. and abroad. So - and that is true for the Bush administration and for any… — Jane Mayer Copy Share Image
“You can learn more about people from their instruments of torture than you can from their works of beauty. —Louan saying” — James Maxwell Copy Share Image
Guilt is cancer. Guilt will confine you, torture you, destroy you as an artist. It's a black wall. It's a thief. — Dave Grohl Copy Share Image
“Hell of simulation, which is no longer one of torture, but of subtle, maleficent, elusive twisting of meaning...” — Jean Baudrillard Copy Share Image
