Torturing Quotes

52 quotes by 48 authors

It's not a pleasure torturing actors, although some of them enjoy it. — Ang Lee
Parents are indeed capable of routinely torturing their children without anyone interceding. — Alice Miller
So when I was beating the guy, I started thinking, 'What if I was Hannah Montana?' . . . And little do they know that… — Eli Roth
If the creatures with fur/feathers/fins are our brothers in a lower stage of development then their very weakness and inability to protest, demands that man… — Luther Burbank
There is so much deep contradiction in my soul. Such deep longing for God - so deep that it is painful - a suffering continual… — Brian Kolodiejchuk
I have absolutely no pleasure in the stimulants in which I sometimes so madly indulge. It has not been in the pursuit of pleasure that… — Edgar Allan Poe
When the horrors of anarchy force us to set up laws that forbid us to fight and torture one another for sport, we still snatch… — George Bernard Shaw
Something was wrong with Luke," Annabeth muttered, poking at the fire with her knife. "Did you notice the way he was acting?" "He looked pretty… — Rick Riordan
Mario, what do you get when you cross an insomniac, an unwilling agnostic and a dyslexic?" "I give." "You get someone who stays up all… — David Foster Wallace
but ignorance is a kind of insanity in the human animal. People who delight in torturing defenseless children or tiny creatures are in reality insane.… — Akira Kurosawa
The schoolmaster is the person who takes the children off the parents' hands for a consideration. That is to say, he establishes a child prison,… — George Bernard Shaw
My people never dreamed of a world like this. Of having so much without backbreaking, debilitating work. And yet for all the physical improvements, people… — Sherrilyn Kenyon
Stop torturing yourself, her friends said. Stop living in the past. He was gone. Capital G--Gone. He wasn't coming back. She should focus not on… — Aryn Kyle
So why do I write, torturing myself to put it down? Because in spite of myself I've learned some things. Without the possibility of action,… — Ralph Ellison
I nodded, chewing my own syrup-soaked bite. "But surely that's not all there is to it. I mean, really? A big picnic? That's Avari's master… — Rachel Vincent
She sat in the dew-damp grass and ripped up clumps of it, tossing them in the air and feeling vaguely guilty about it. Some gnome… — Holly Black
No, I do my torturing in the dungeon like any other respectable castle owner, — Jeaniene Frost
On the dogmas of religion, as distinguished from moral principles, all mankind, from the beginning of the world to this day, have been quarrelling, fighting,… — Thomas Jefferson
You must forgive everyone. Now many would say that "We cannot forgive, it's very difficult." But it's a myth whether you forgive or don't forgive.… — Nirmala Srivastava
What stop-motion does best is present real objects magically brought to life in a very imperfect situation; the hand of the artist is there, the… — Henry Selick

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