Going to the blackboard at school was the worst torture. — Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo Copy Share Image
I have cowlicks, so my hair has always been a source of torture for me. — Jim Norton Copy Share Image
“What a torture to hear that a life had been available to me that I had not been man enough to live.” — Peter Carey Copy Share Image
“A guitar twanged from the far-off radio. Country music. Damn. They'd resorted to torture already.” — Kelley Armstrong Copy Share Image
Probably, the greatest torture you could ever do to your heart is to let somebody go¦at the time youre loving that person… — Babloo Copy Share Image
Where Young must torture his invention To flatter knaves, or lose his pension. — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
One of America's greatest strengths is the soft power of our value system and how we treat prisoners of war, and we… — Tom Ridge Copy Share Image
The first year of doing theatre was absolute torture, and I felt like I can't do so much work. — Sargun Mehta Copy Share Image
This is not to condone torture, which is still prohibited by the Torture Convention and federal criminal law. — John Yoo Copy Share Image
Torture continues to be practiced around the world by rogue regimes whose cruel methods match their determination to crush the human spirit. — George W. Bush 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
Gitmo is everywhere in the world. We need to raise awareness of illegal prisons in Middle East, Asia, and Africa. This needs… — Mohamedou Ould Slahi Copy Share Image
Oh, you ask me, what is the greatest torture of a person who does portraits for a living? I could fill several… — Imogen Cunningham Copy Share Image
If I had undertaken the practical direction of military operations, and anything went amiss, I feared that my conscience would torture me,… — Lajos Kossuth Copy Share Image
Detainee policy in this war is hard, it's complicated, but we must get it right. We would be better off as a… — Lindsey Graham Copy Share Image
But still there are moments when a brother and sister can lay down their instruments of torture for a moment and speak… — John Boyne Copy Share Image
Her absence had felt like torture--almost a form of personal punishment. He had nobody to discuss his feelings with, and for the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Love doesn't happen in an instant. It creeps up on you and then it turns your life upside-down. It colours your waking… — Vikas Swarup Copy Share Image
“Whatever they have done, or are doing, or will do to the people locked away forever in Guantanamo Bay, they will do… — Banole Copy Share Image
The United States was founded on the idea that all people are endowed with inalienable rights, and that principle has allowed us… — Barack Obama 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
Because one species is more clever than another, does it give it the right to imprison or torture the less clever species?… — Richard D. Ryder Copy Share Image
“I have more than once tried to analyse this apparently deliberate form of self-torture that seems common to so many people in… — Gavin Maxwell Copy Share Image
The Jesuits were quite balked by those Indians who, being burned at the stake, suggested new modes of tortures to their tormentors.… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“It comes from history. It comes from the record of the Inquisition, persecuting heretics and torturing Jews and all that sort of… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
If we rail and kick against it and grow bitter, we won't change the inevitable; but we will change ourselves. I know.… — Dale Carnegie Copy Share Image
