“Yeah, he’d yield. He was a bad cut of steak left on the open grill too long, though—the general’s teeth wouldn’t be… — Rhi Etzweiler Copy Share Image
The quivering flesh, though torture-torn, may live, but souls, once deeply wounded, heal no more. — Ebenezer Elliott Copy Share Image
To bear all kinds of tortures without a murmur of resentment is not possible for a human being without the strength that… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
“Humanity was an ugly word when such cruelty was inflicted on one another.” — Gayendra Abeywardane Copy Share Image
I became a vegetarian after I became aware of factory farming and slaughterhouses and the torture and inhumane handling of all these… — Kevin Nealon Copy Share Image
Heartbreak has an archetypal core, all heartbroken individuals suffer from the same kind of torture. — Ginette Paris Copy Share Image
I've been through practices during which I've felt as though medieval torture would have been easier. — Jonny Bairstow Copy Share Image
Healthy men do not turn into tortures generally it is the tortured that turn into the torturers. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I just made the decision that I was going to try comedy, and if didn't work, then I knew it didn't work.… — Bob Newhart Copy Share Image
Anglers boast of the innocence of their pastime; yet it puts fellow-creatures to the torture. They pique themselves on their meditative faculties;… — Leigh Hunt Copy Share Image
By 2003, if you didn't understand that the United States was inflicting torture on those deemed enemy combatants, you weren't paying much attention. — Jacob Weisberg Copy Share Image
A day will come when a cannon will be exhibited in museums, just as instruments of torture are now, and the people… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Men who would face torture without a word become blasphemous at the short fourteenth. It is clear that the game of golf… — A. P. Herbert Copy Share Image
“Knowing how easily even the smallest things torture me, I deliberately avoid contact with them. A cloud passing in front of the… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
We can also allow our Soulmate to pass us by,without accepting him or her,or even noticing. Then we will need another incarnation… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
Among the events of John McCain's five-and-a-half years of imprisonment and torture in North Vietnam, probably the most heroic, and surely the… — Bret Stephens Copy Share Image
I find that deadlines form part of the aesthetic. I don't have that "It could only have been this way" kind of… — Tom Burr Copy Share Image
I think we need to understand what we mean when we talk about closure, we don't mean transfer or prosecute which is… — Jennifer Daskal Copy Share Image
No, you can take it from an expert in cover-ups-I've lived through Watergate-that nothing less than a resurrected Christ could have caused… — Charles Colson Copy Share Image
“The uncertainty wore on him. The conditions in jail--the handcuffs, the noise, the filth, the crowding--mangled his senses. It's likely that, if… — Michael Finkel 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
Identify you as messenger...to other Riders." The words were gasped as if he were forcing air in and out of his lungs… — Kristen Britain Copy Share Image
A hideous ecstasy of fear and vindictiveness, a desire to kill, to torture, to smash faces in with a sledge hammer, seemed… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“This is torture, torture, torture. Why is this so hard?? I survived whole days not talking to you before. What happened??? I'm… — Bill Shapiro Copy Share Image
To explore the whole sphere of the modern soul, to have sat in every nook- my ambition, my torture, and my happiness — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
We are not the only animal that mourns; apes do, and elephants, and dogs. Yet we are the only one that tortures. — Geraldine Brooks Copy Share Image
“The dead are never truly gone. They linger in our minds and hearts and torture us with a malice they were not… — Courtney M. Privett Copy Share Image
I have never felt as violated in myself as I had since the DoD team started to torture me to get me… — Mohamedou Ould Slahi Copy Share Image
I have been to Guantanamo. It's a model prison. Is it ideal? No. But we live in a very un-ideal world. — Peter T. King Copy Share Image
“No, Robyn was the one who needed to fly. And his challenge, his torture, would be always remembering to let her do… — Nia Forrester Copy Share Image
“One blanket, coupled with a fluffy pillow, could be implemented as a torture device for insomniacs. ” — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
“If you are strong, torture not the weak, And thus lay not the axe to thy empire.” — Guru Gobind Singh Copy Share Image
It's kinda like nursing a POW back to health so he's at his strongest when you torture him. -Sue — Glee Copy Share Image
Expect to feel pleasure. Knowledge is sexy. Expect to feel pain. Knowledge is torture. — Jeff Noon Copy Share Image
Acquire new knowledge whilst thinking over the old, and you may become a teacher of others. — Confucius 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
Unless a capacity for thinking be accompanied by a capacity for action, a superior mind exists in torture. — Charles Horton Cooley Copy Share Image
In the name of Hypocrites, doctors have invented the most exquisite form of torture ever known to man: survival. — Edward Everett Hale Copy Share Image
“Torture is being married to a proud, insensitive man, while an attentive, supportive man lives under the same roof.” — Heather Day Gilbert Copy Share Image
No new horror can be more terrible than the daily torture of the commonplace. — H. P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
