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It makes me actually quite angry to think about people writing about torture with a sort of relish. Horrible.
The confessional is not a torture chamber, but the place in which the Lord's mercy motivates us to do better.
I walked along Nevsky Avenue.Actually it was more torture, humiliation, and bilious irritation than a stroll.
I made driving mistakes in Sochi that cost me gold, and I'll torture myself for the rest of my life about that!
In this regard, I reiterate that the prohibition against torture cannot be contravened under any circumstances.
Guilt is cancer. Guilt will confine you, torture you, destroy you as an artist. It's a black wall. It's a thief.
In the name of Hypocrites, doctors have invented the most exquisite form of torture ever known to man: survival.
Torture, including practices like waterboarding, violates the legal and moral standards of all civilized nations.
In the name of Hippocrates, doctors have invented the most exquisite form of torture ever known to man: survival.
There was no terrorism in the Middle East until Washington brought it there with invasions, bombings, and torture.
It's sheer torture. I have to be up with the chickens every day and go to work on my body. I hate it, but I do it.
Judges must beware of hard constructions and strained inferences, for there is no worse torture than that of laws.
Dating in the closet is torture. It's one of the most difficult things, especially if you are completely closeted.
I loved performing in the 'High School Musical' movies - that didn't seem like work - but the gym felt like torture!
It is inexcusable for scientists to torture animals; let them make their experiments on journalists and politicians.
I assess the power of a will by how much resistance, pain, torture it endures and knows how to turn to its advantage.
When we torture people, even if we win the battle, we've already lost the war for hearts and minds. Especially our own.
I've always found, give me a pack of cigarettes and a couple of beers, and I do better with that than I do with torture.
And because of our selfishness, we will be condemned to the worst torture humankind ever invented for itself: loneliness.
I am very lucky that I get to go to work and laugh all day for my day job, and then go home and torture my artistic self.
Each time I work on a film, I say to myself, 'This is it. This is the end.' Because it is so stressful, it's like torture.
The courage of the Syrian protesters is remarkable, for they face prison, torture, or death every time they lift a banner.
I know that victims of torture will offer intentionally misleading information if they think their captors will believe it.
Reading a book you are not enjoying is a torture not to be undertaken without a reward. I leave plays at the interval, too!
I could hear my friends outside playing soccer while I was expected to stay inside practicing the piano. It was like torture!
Guantanamo is still open, but it's unlikely that serious torture is going on at Guantanamo. There is just too much inspection.
Because animals are property, we consider as 'humane treatment' that we would regard as torture if it were inflicted on humans.
Because animals are property, we consider as "humane treatment" that we would regard as torture if it were inflicted on humans.
Anyone who reads '33 Men' will be brought into a world that was practically a textbook case of sensory deprivation and torture.
You run on the treadmill. But you need to stop watching The Food Network when you're doing it. That is how you torture yourself.
One can have great concern for the people of Ethiopia, but it's another thing to inflict daily torture on the people of England.
In life eternal, there is perfect joy and light, without pain or torture, and there is communion with God Himself and His angels.
The musquetos continue to infest us in such manner that we can scarcely exist. My dog even howls with the torture he experiences.
Racism is one of the worst forms of torture because it's directed at something you never asked for and something you can't change.
Wild animals never kill for sport. Man is the only one to whom the torture and death of his fellow creatures is amusing in itself.
One of America's greatest strengths is the soft power of our value system and how we treat prisoners of war, and we don't torture.
President Bush on Monday defended U.S. interrogation of terrorists, saying 'We do not torture.' He added, 'We freedom electrocute.'
Tourette's is involuntary in that it is impossible not to do. And it's torture to know what you're doing and not be able to stop it.
If you torture a man as I was tortured he will learn more about love than you could ever imagine, and that has left me vulnerable.
Torture is illegal, both in the U.S. and abroad. So - and that is true for the Bush administration and for any other administration.
As a child, I used to 'torture' other kids by making them be in my shows. I would sell tickets to neighbors and organize performances.
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.
One of the techniques terrorists employ is to allege torture and mistreatment when they are captured, regardless of whether it is true.
To a lot of us, literature's eternal significance had seemed beyond arguing - like, say, the illegality of government-sponsored torture.
Get arrested. Destroy the property of those who torture animals. Liberate those animals interned in the hellholes our society tolerates.
When my father was arrested, we didn't know where they had him. My mother found him at the house of torture. It was called Villa Triste.
I so respect Sen. McCain's service to this country, and no one certainly knows more about torture than he does, and so I recognize that.
I saw a picture of a girl using an eyelash curler when I was a kid, and I thought it was some sort of torture device, the eye guillotine.
Torture remains unacceptable and unjustified at all times, including during states of emergency, political instability, or even in a war.
I do not believe that God tortures any person simply for its own sake. I believe that God enables all things to work for the greater good.