We say, and we say openly, and while ye torture us, mangled and gory we cry out, "We worship God through Christ!"… — Tertullian Copy Share Image
If it had taught them nothing else, twenty years of living past high school had taught them self-preservation. ... No one was… — Sharyn McCrumb Copy Share Image
At the end, we brought her to New York, where I was living, for a series of experimental tortures that increased the… — John Green Copy Share Image
I have said repeatedly that America doesn't torture and I'm going to make sure that we don't torture. Those are part and… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Among the tortures and devestations of life is this then - our friends are not able to finish their stories. — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Facts, at any rate, could not be kept hidden. They could be tracked down by inquiry, they could be squeezed out of… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Perhaps we cannot prevent this world from being a world in which children are tortured. But we can reduce the number of… — Albert Camus 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
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 read what I like to write: romantic suspense. I also love thrillers and novels of suspense, but I can't handle extreme… — Jayne Ann Krentz Copy Share Image
I am very depressed and deeply disgusted with painting. It is really a continual torture. — Claude Monet Copy Share Image
“As far as he could discover, there were no signs of spring. The decay that covered the surface of the mottled ground… — Nathanael West Copy Share Image
I think I'm a tough person, but for sure, I would talk under torture. — Sophie Marceau Copy Share Image
“Now they're really amused, and burst into laughter. Someone tries a variation while still clapping hands: 'Clipped prick… clipped prick.' Whereupon they… — Jacobo Timerman Copy Share Image
What makes this so remarkable is that this is the first time the United States is accountable for its record on torture… — Jennifer Daskal Copy Share Image
The Latino military fare badly when they stumble into war with the gringos. But in the torture, murder, and massacre of their… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
I don't like to be constrained to any one medium. I like to surprise and amuse - and indeed, torture - myself… — Phoebe Gloeckner Copy Share Image
No new horror can be more terrible than the daily torture of the commonplace. — H. P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
One line typed twenty years ago can be blazed on a wall in spraypaint to glorify art as detachment or torture of… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
There is, on the whole, nothing on earth intended for innocent people so horrible as a school. To begin with, it is… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Do people believe in human rights because such rights actually exist, like mathematical truths, sitting on a cosmic shelf next to the… — Jonathan Haidt Copy Share Image
Now do I begin to be a disciple of Christ, and care for nothing in this world, that so I may find… — Ignatius of Antioch Copy Share Image
One can have great concern for the people of Ethiopia, but it's another thing to inflict daily torture on the people of… — Steven Morrissey Copy Share Image