Less than fifteen per cent of the people do any original thinking on any subject. The greatest torture in the world for most people is to think.
Suspense is torture. . . but delightful--or there'd be no gambling in the world.
Homework is a term that means grown up imposed yet self-afflicting torture.
If it's torture flying one airline and [yours] is a pleasant experience, it certainly helps your revenue.
John Kerry gave the enemy for free what I and many of my comrades in North Vietnam in the prison camps took torture to avoid saying.
I assess the power of a will by how much resistance, pain, torture it endures and knows how to turn to its advantage.
Silence, too, can be torture.
Life is too long to be good at C++ – if you had spent all that time to become good at it, you would essentially have to work with it, too, to get back the costs, and that would just be some long, drawn-out torture.
As I say the UK's position on the issue of torture and the use of torture has not changed. Our policy is the same as it has been. We condemn torture.
There's no business that's too small for government to torture
A man, who can, in cold blood, hunt and torture a poor, innocent animal, cannot feel much compassion for the distress of his own species.
One of the most dangerous things that can happen to a child is to kill or torture an animal and get away with it.
The musquetos continue to infest us in such manner that we can scarcely exist. My dog even howls with the torture he experiences.
The issue of torture, connected to American soldiers, is not somewhere most people want to linger. We may not want to confront this issue so much in the U. S. because of how we want to think about our veterans. There's the sense that we want to think of our veterans as - if they're damaged, damaged by something glamorous, like a firefight.
That's what's provocative to me - that we can victimize people, we can torture and traumatize people with no consciousness that it is a shameful thing to do.
For those for whom the sex act has come to seem mechanical and merely the meeting and manipulation of body parts, there often remains a hunger which can be called metaphysical but which is not recognized as such, and which seeks satisfaction in physical danger, or sometimes in torture, suicide, or murder.
Thanks to the toleration preached by the encyclopedists of the eighteenth century, the sorcerer is exempt from torture.
A day will come when a cannon will be exhibited in museums, just as instruments of torture are now, and the people will be astonished that such a thing could have been.
George W. Bush legalized torture, but Obama is legalizing impunity. He promised to roll stuff back, but he is institutionalizing these things forever. It is terrifying and the left doesn't seem to recognize it.
While the Japanese droned on in a high-pitched voice, I blinked out the desperate message over and over. TORTURE. . . TORTURE. . .