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
When a female character sets herself on fire in an effort to interrupt her culture's violent abuse of disenfranchised people, or physically… — Lidia Yuknavitch Copy Share Image
Were I to go down into the market-place, armed with the powers of witchcraft, and take a peasant by the shoulders and… — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
There have been poverty, pestilence, and famine, which were due to man's inadequate mastery of nature. There have been wars, oppressions and… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Of course, no one doubts McCain's personal tenacity, from braving torture to overcoming cancer. Yet plenty of nonpartisan observers doubt his credibility. — Ari Melber Copy Share Image
The musquetos continue to infest us in such manner that we can scarcely exist. My dog even howls with the torture he… — Meriwether Lewis Copy Share Image
Why do I have to do this?" Gator demanded. Cuz you're such a pretty boy. Our photographer isn't going to fall for… — Christine Feehan Copy Share Image
Every discoverer of a new truth, or inventor of the method which evolves it, makes a dozen, perhaps fifty, useless combinations, experiments,… — Henry Jacob Bigelow Copy Share Image
One of the biggest things that needs to change is the educational system. Universities are still teaching a system to students that… — Ray Anderson Copy Share Image
Dating in the closet is torture. It's one of the most difficult things, especially if you are completely closeted. — Gus Kenworthy Copy Share Image
Nothing says you care for me better than offering to torture my enemies." He grinned. "No sense doing things halfhearted. And to… — Maria V. Snyder 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
Wit implies hatred or contempt of folly and crime, produces its effects by brisk shocks of surprise, uses the whip of scorpions… — Edwin Percy Whipple Copy Share Image
Sleep is the most moronic fraternity in the world, with the heaviest dues and the crudest rituals. It is a mental torture… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
Comic books, movies, radio programmes centered their entertainment around the fact of torture. With the clearest of consciences, with a patriotic intensity,… — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
There is still much debate about whether torture has been effective in eliciting information - the assumption being, apparently, that if it… — Noam Chomsky 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
Death row is a nightmare to serial killers and ax murderers. For an innocent man, it's a life of mental torture that… — John Grisham Copy Share Image
So that is what hell is. I would never have believed it. You remember: the fire and brimstone, the torture. Ah! the… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
love, which is a madness, and a scourge, and a fever, and a delusion, and a snare, is also a mystery, and… — Mary Elizabeth Braddon Copy Share Image
In the wake of 9/11, we were desperate to bring those responsible for the brutal attacks to justice. But even that urgency… — Dianne Feinstein Copy Share Image
Torture and other forms of cruel or humiliating treatment are an affront to humanity, and the physical and psychological scars can last… — Peter Maurer Copy Share Image
One of the great fallacies of our time is that the Nazis rose to power because they imposed order on chaos. Precisely… — John Fowles Copy Share Image
