Torture Quotes
I crave ideas, and when an idea hits me, it grips me and it tortures me until I master it.
I'm folding up my little dreams Within my heart tonight, And praying I may soon forget The torture of their sight.
When I was a teenager, I was fat. I was shy. I wore glasses. I had a big eyebrow and hair all over my body. They were years of torture.
How guilt refined the methods of self-torture, threading the beads of detail into an eternal loop, a rosary to be fingered for a lifetime.
Finishing is torture... There's always some newly seen flaw. But the little glimpses of beauty between the anxiety make it worth it.
Torture is illegal, both in the U.S. and abroad. So - and that is true for the Bush administration and for any other administration.
What's surprising is that the people who fought against torture here are the communists.
So much torture, bloodshed, deceit. You cannot make your young people practice torture twenty-four hours a day and not expect to pay a price for it.
Congress's definition of torture in those laws - the infliction of severe mental or physical pain - leaves room for interrogation methods that go beyond polite conversation.
What torture, this life in society! Often someone is obliging enough to offer me a light, and in order to oblige him I have to fish a cigarette out of my pocket.
One of the most dangerous things that can happen to a child is to kill or torture an animal and get away with it.
I often went to bed without supper cause I hated my mother's cooking. So, to go to bed without supper was not a torture to me. If she was gonna hurt me, she'd make me eat.
'Zero Dark Thirty' is a disturbing, fantastically-made movie. It will make you hate torture.
squats are a form of torture designed by people who don’t need to do squats in the first place
The confessional is not a torture chamber, but the place in which the Lord's mercy motivates us to do better.
Christianity did not come with tidings of great joy, but with a message of eternal grief. It came with the threat of everlasting torture on its lips. It meant war on earth and perdition hereafter.
I have seen these ways of God: I know of no reason For fire and change and torture and the old returnings.
Ronnie had it right calling it Torture. That is a much more accurate description the way I see it.
I am one of the few people I know of who has argued in print that torture may be an ethical necessity in our war on terror.
The less said about the putter the better. Here is an instrument of torture, designed by Tantalus and forged in the devil's own smithy.
...for the human brain can become the best torture house of all those it has invented, established and used in a millions of years, in millions of lands, on millions of howling creatures.
I must go deeper and even stronger into my treasure mine and stint nothing of time, toil, or torture.
The telephone becomes an instrument of torture in the demonic hands of a beloved who doesn't call.
We must all die. But that I can save him from days of torture, that is what I feel as my great and ever new privilege. Pain is a more terrible lord of mankind than even death itself.
Torture, as the art of discovering the truth, is barbaric nonsense; it is the application of a material means to a spiritual end.
Child labor, not a problem. Censorship, not a problem. Torture, not a problem. Chewing gum in China - oh, my God! You better not be over here chewing gum.
A man who is fighting for the future of mankind is not waiting for torture, he's waiting for -- the Revolution.
People get all upset about torture, but when you get right down to it, it's really a pretty good way of finding out something a person doesn't want you to know.
Heartbreak has an archetypal core, all heartbroken individuals suffer from the same kind of torture.
It's a torture chamber, if we had to play it every day I don't think I'd be playing golf.
I read what I like to write: romantic suspense. I also love thrillers and novels of suspense, but I can't handle extreme violence and torture.
I saw the various museum displays including scenes of torture while feeling heartfelt remorse and sorrow over the great pain and suffering inflicted on South Koreans by Japan's colonial rule.
I think if you're looking for a pure expression of evil, torture is pretty - is a pretty good candidate.
In spite of muzzling the press, imprisoning thousands, and engaging in torture, kidnapping and murder, the Socialist government was still vulnerable to the accusation of being "soft on Basques.
If we condone torture, we yield the moral high ground to our enemies and encourage anyone who hates us to stoop to using that subhuman level against us. We reap whatever we sow.
I have no fear of the Hereafter. An orthodox hell could hardly be more torture than my life has been.
The doctrine of eternal punishment is in perfect harmony with the savagery of the men who made the orthodox creeds. It is in harmony with torture, with flaying alive, and with burnings.
