The parasite of art, the virus of art, never ceases to gnaw awat at your brain, never ceases to torture you with… — Brian Morton Copy Share Image
I had the misfortune of getting what skateboarders call hippers. It's when you fall on your hip again and again and again,… — Emile Hirsch 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
Beauty is what attracts men naturally, but really I think we dress for other women, not necessarily for men. We torture ourselves… — Odette Annable Copy Share Image
To put the point sharply: If an informer in the French underground who sent a friend to the torture chambers of the… — Albert Maltz Copy Share Image
Master, don't kill me. Let me live - punish me - torture me - but let me live. I can't face God… — Dwight Frye Copy Share Image
There is nothing intrinsic linking any religion with any act of violence. The crusades don't prove that Christianity was violent. The Inquisition… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
If a symbolic language dies, it tortures us like a nightmare, like a thousand piece orchestra grating on our nerves and tearing… — Asger Jorn Copy Share Image
Once I no longer exist as I am, out of what consideration then should I forgo anything? Should I belong to a… — Leopold von Sacher-Masoch Copy Share Image
But neither life nor happiness can be achieved by the pursuit of irrational whims. Just as man is free to attempt to… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
They can romanticize us so, mirrors, and that is their secret: what a subtle torture it would be to destroy all the… — Truman Capote Copy Share Image
It is these undeniable qualities of human love and compassion and self-sacrifice that give me hope for the future. We are, indeed,… — Jane Goodall Copy Share Image
Out yonder they may curse, revile, and torture one another, defile all the human instincts, make a shambles of creation (if it… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
In the United States, rising esteem for the military in uniform corresponds to the growing militarization of the society as a whole.… — Michael Hardt Copy Share Image
What has here happened is that the instinct of cruelty, which has turned inwards, has become self-torture, and all man's animal instincts… — Georg Brandes Copy Share Image
“Those darling byegone times, Mr Carker,' said Cleopatra, 'with their delicious fortresses, and their dear old dungeons, and their delightful places of… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Anyway, the [Barack] Obama administration took four years to say they weren't gonna do anything on George W. Bush. There were all… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
They call it torture when our guys put underwear on a guy's head, stripped him naked, put an egg between his buttcheeks… — Christopher Titus Copy Share Image
“From their perspective, however, torture might make a sort of cockeyed sense if it was ritualistic, part of a ceremony that this… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
We aren't using Guantanamo Bay anymore to take additional terrorists. That was the perfect facility to be able to use to extract… — Michele Bachmann Copy Share Image
I think there is a part of me that's always a little bit like, "Why would I torture myself? Just in case… — Charlize Theron Copy Share Image
To suggest that God specifically created a worm to torture small African children is blasphemy as far as I can see. The… — David Attenborough Copy Share Image
The evidence is overwhelming that it should be deemed as such: solitary confinement in the U.S. is arbitrary, abused, and unnecessary in… — Chelsea Manning Copy Share Image
With respect to the legal justifications or the policies relating to the treatment of detainees, I was not aware of any issues… — Brett Kavanaugh Copy Share Image
The point of nonviolence is to build a floor, a strong new floor, beneath which we can no longer sink. A platform… — Joan Baez Copy Share Image
I mean, we sit around and we go, you know, 'Torture doesn't work.' Well, it's been around for 5,000 years. Most stuff… — Adam Carolla Copy Share Image
Writing a book is like torture that you don't know, but after it's done and there it is. It's a joy like… — Harry Crews Copy Share Image
“For the painful essence of withdrawal does not reside in the present suffering it brings - withdrawal is painless on the level… — Jean-Philippe Toussaint Copy Share Image
I'm not afraid of hard work. I like it! It's the other bit - the not working - I find more problematic.… — Pixie Lott Copy Share Image
[Deadpool] is definitely squirm-inducing. It's a pretty hard R, violence-wise. But cartoony, also. Maybe fast-forward through to torture scenes. — Doug Benson Copy Share Image
Torture is abominable, things like ripping out someone's nails, or burning someone with a blowtorch. And those who practice it feel a… — Saadi Yacef Copy Share Image
Please, don't torture me with cliches. If you're going to try to intimidate me, have the courtesy to go away for a… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
The military is trying very hard right now to put a better face on Guantanamo, and I think they actually have tried… — Jane Mayer Copy Share Image
I think the difference between being miserable and finding happiness is just a matter of perspective. If you live your life defining… — Sarah Silverman Copy Share Image
I want everybody to worship the God of love instead of worshipping the God of hate and torture. But in the meantime,… — Mosab Hassan Yousef Copy Share Image
When it comes to the pinch, human beings are heroic. Women face childbed and the scrubbing brush, revolutionaries keep their mouths shut… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
It's the boredom that kills you. You read until you're tired of that. You do crossword puzzles until you're tired of that.… — Jack Kevorkian Copy Share Image
The steep decline in America's image and standing after 9/11 is a direct reflection of global distaste for the instruments of American… — Shashi Tharoor Copy Share Image
I like things to be really, really funny, or really, really dramatic. Those books are certainly the ones that grab me. I… — Angie Harmon Copy Share Image
If it is true that only misfortune can awaken a man's soul, it is a bitter truth, one that is hard to… — Maxim Gorky Copy Share Image