Insomnia is a vertiginous lucidity that can convert paradise itself into a place of torture. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Just as a prayer may be merely a mechanical intonation as of a bird, so may a fast be a mere mechanical… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
I walked along Nevsky Avenue.Actually it was more torture, humiliation, and bilious irritation than a stroll. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If there is aught of good in the style, it is the result of ceaseless toil in rewriting. Everything comes out wrong… — William James Copy Share Image
“Underneath an artist's preoccupations with sex, society, religion, etc. (all the staple abstractions that allow the forebrain to chatter) there is a… — Lawrence Durrell 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
The barbarous custom of having men beaten who are suspected of having important secrets to reveal must be abolished. It has always… — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
There is no kind way to rip the skin off animals' backs. Anyone who wears any fur shares the blame for the… — Natalie Imbruglia Copy Share Image
“Ritualised child sexual abuse is about abuse of power, control and secrecy. Ten years ago many people found it difficult to believe… — Laurie Matthew 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
What girls do to each other is beyond description. No chinese torture comes close. — Tori Amos Copy Share Image
The rule of the game was never assume that anybody, however honorable, would be able to stand up under torture. If Mr.… — Abraham Pais Copy Share Image
The dream begins with a teacher who believes in you, who tugs and pushes and leads you to the next plateau, sometimes… — Dan Rather Copy Share Image
Torture injures everyone who comes into contact with it and corrodes the country that abides it. — Rene Balcer Copy Share Image
Less than fifteen per cent of the people do any original thinking on any subject. The greatest torture in the world for… — Luther Burbank 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
Although the teachers or the students are not the same, the person in charge of education is being formed or re-formed as… — Paulo Freire Copy Share Image
Each human being can at once be a fighter and forgiver. When self-doubt tortures him, he most play the role of a… — Sri Chinmoy Copy Share Image
“Exoneration of Jesus Christ If Christ was in fact God, he knew all the future. Before Him like a panorama moved the… — Robert G. Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Health is certainly more valuable than money; because it is by health that money is procured; but thousands and millions are of… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Letter-writing I imagine is counted as 'work' from which you must abstain, and I scribble this letter simply from the self-satisfied notion… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
We do, and there is a law in the United States - the Torture Convention - that prohibits the United States from… — Jonathan Shapiro Copy Share Image
The issue of torture, connected to American soldiers, is not somewhere most people want to linger. We may not want to confront… — Russell Banks Copy Share Image
If the heart is cleansed by the love of Jesus Christ, and if the heart loves Him, one can resist all tortures.… — Richard Wurmbrand Copy Share Image
