“It’s a strange kind of torture,” he said quietly. “To be caged by the lowest expectations. A humiliation of the soul.” — Meredith Duran Copy Share Image
Tortures are a dangerous invention, and seem to be a test of endurance rather than of truth. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Any happiness, no matter how brief, seemed better than the long, simmering torture of waking up day after day, knowing I could… — Becca Fitzpatrick Copy Share Image
I think Guantanamo, has been synonymous with the staining of American values and American legal tradition. — Mark Shields Copy Share Image
“Deontology states that there are certain things, like torture, that you just shouldn’t do.” — David Edmonds Copy Share Image
The shy man does have some slight revenge upon society for the torture it inflicts upon him. — Jerome K. Jerome Copy Share Image
We know that Maduro's armies are riddled with persecution, torture, threats, and wrongful arrests. — Juan Guaido Copy Share Image
When improv is bad, it's excruciating to watch, and to be involved with it is a unique type of torture. — Zach Woods Copy Share Image
Life is too long to be good at C++ – if you had spent all that time to become good at it,… — Erik Naggum Copy Share Image
I ran through most of college and ran through most of grad school. When I was writing my dissertation for my Ph.D.,… — Jane McGonigal Copy Share Image
When the horrors of anarchy force us to set up laws that forbid us to fight and torture one another for sport,… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
What more fiendish proof of cosmic irresponsibility than a Nature which, having invented sex as a way to mix genes, then permits… — John Updike Copy Share Image
Guantanamo Bay houses enemy combatants ranging from terrorist trainers and recruiters to bomb makers, would-be suicide bombers, and terrorist financiers. — Chris Chocola Copy Share Image
To put meaning in one's life may end in madness, But life without meaning is the torture Of restlessness and vague desire-It… — Edgar Lee Masters Copy Share Image
Man, full of emptiness and torn apart with homesickness for the desert has had to create from within himself an adventure, a… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
George W. Bush legalized torture, but Obama is legalizing impunity. He promised to roll stuff back, but he is institutionalizing these things… — Naomi Wolf Copy Share Image
“You know, if we understand one question rightly, all questions are answered. But we don't know how to ask the right question.… — J. Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
To be consistent with this discourse of lifting up the military dictatorship in Brazil, the dictatorship that extended from 1964 to 1985,… — Fernando Haddad Copy Share Image
If you suspend the Geneva Conventions, give the green light to anything that will get intelligence, round up thousands all over the… — Andrew Sullivan Copy Share Image
But learned people can analyze for me why I fear hell and their implication is that there is no hell. But I… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
Even the classics that we read to our young children are full of wolves' fangs and burning ovens and bloody feet and… — Geraldine Brooks Copy Share Image
To see the convulsions, agonies and tortures of a poor fellow-creature, whom they cannot restore nor recompense, dying to gratify luxury and… — George Cheyne Copy Share Image
Time is never more misspent than while we declaim against the want of it; all our actions are then tinctured with peevishness.… — Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann Copy Share Image
“ marathon: (noun) A popular form of overpriced torture wherein participants wake up at ass-o-clock in the morning and stand in the… — Matthew Inman Copy Share Image
Mr. Solomon was right the worst kind of torture is watching someone you love get hurt. — Ally Carter Copy Share Image
“Spies should be able to endure torture and still keep their secrets. I spilled mine out like pennies from a broken piggy… — Myra McEntire Copy Share Image
I walked along Nevsky Avenue.Actually it was more torture, humiliation, and bilious irritation than a stroll. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Guantanamo is a chief recruiting tool for al-Qaida. It has put a wedge between the United States and at least some of… — Eric Holder Copy Share Image
President Bush on Monday defended U.S. interrogation of terrorists, saying 'We do not torture.' He added, 'We freedom electrocute.' — Amy Poehler Copy Share Image
If you back out of a convention... you can't dodge your obligation. Torture is still not acceptable. — Peter Maurer Copy Share Image
“This would be my torture: all that didn't bear thinking about would devote itself to forcing me to bear thinking about it.” — Glen Duncan Copy Share Image
The body must be properly taken care of. The people who torture their flesh are demoniacal. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
I do not believe that God tortures any person simply for its own sake. I believe that God enables all things to… — James McGreevey Copy Share Image
“How horrible to think what we may wish for, lay in anguish for, may be within our reach but we are unable… — D. Morgenstern Copy Share Image
When the one you love is in love with someone else, don't you know it's torture, I mean it's living hell. — Rod Stewart Copy Share Image
Screenwriting is no more complicated than old French torture chambers, I think. It's about as simple as that. — James L. Brooks Copy Share Image
It is as sweet as love, the more bitter. There are more gentle, more strict, which allows as much as does torture — Mak_786 Copy Share Image
If you want to learn a thing, read that. If you want to know a thing, write that; if you want to… — Harbhajan Singh Yogi Copy Share Image
You run on the treadmill. But you need to stop watching The Food Network when you're doing it. That is how you… — Jimmy Fallon Copy Share Image
“The only thing that makes the present palatable is the fact that the past was, at times, torture.” — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
