If something is good, you must torture it mercilessly until it is either dead or great.

The music of Wagner imposes mental tortures that only algebra has the right to inflict.

We have a very clear position in the U.K. against torture, and we should maintain that.

I am very depressed and deeply disgusted with painting. It is really a continual torture.

To live without you, only that would be torture." "A day alone, only that would be death.

There was the torture of sermons, and that not a slight one, for I was very fond of them.

I crave ideas, and when an idea hits me, it grips me and it tortures me until I master it.

I'm a Midwesterner! Not being able to have a cheeseburger once in a while would be torture!

If you wanted to torture me, you'd tie me down and force me to watch our first five videos.

Most men, I think, wonder about their courage. How would they act in combat? Under torture?

'Zero Dark Thirty' is a disturbing, fantastically-made movie. It will make you hate torture.

We are America; we don't torture. And the moment that is not the case, I want off the train.

Insomnia is a vertiginous lucidity that can convert paradise itself into a place of torture.

After 10 years of French torture - psychological torture - it's great to do an American movie.

The healthy man does not torture others - generally it is the tortured who turn into torturers.

Torture injures everyone who comes into contact with it and corrodes the country that abides it.

We know that Maduro's armies are riddled with persecution, torture, threats, and wrongful arrests.

I strongly disapprove of torture and have never and would never provide assistance in its process.

The new CIA torture report is 6 million pages long. It's almost as long as a George Clooney pre-nup.

When you have to get into the character each morning, give it your voice, your face, it was torture.

If you back out of a convention... you can't dodge your obligation. Torture is still not acceptable.

If you start dancing too young, it can be torture. The bone is too soft, and it is going everywhere.

The old Inquisition had its rack and its thumbscrews and its instruments of torture with iron teeth.

I know waterboarding is torture because I have been on the giving and receiving end of the practice.

I have no fear of the Hereafter. An orthodox hell could hardly be more torture than my life has been.

I must go deeper and even stronger into my treasure mine and stint nothing of time, toil, or torture.

I've been through practices during which I've felt as though medieval torture would have been easier.

One of the tortures of jealousy is, that it can never turn away its eyes from the thing that pains it.

Shamefully we now learn that Saddam's torture chambers reopened under new management, U.S. management.

Torture goes against the very soul of our country. We are a democracy, established on the rule of law.

When improv is bad, it's excruciating to watch, and to be involved with it is a unique type of torture.

If you really want to torture me, sit me in a room strapped to a chair and put Mariah Carey's records on.

I wouldn't call that an instrument of music," Ragnor observed sourly. "An instrument of torture, perhaps.

If it's torture flying one airline and [yours] is a pleasant experience, it certainly helps your revenue.

The martyr endured tortures to affirm his belief in truth but he never asserted his disbelief in torture.

Bradley Manning has been imprisoned without charge, under torture, which is what solitary confinement is.

You can chain me, you can torture me, you can even destroy this body, but you will never imprison my mind.

Unless a capacity for thinking be accompanied by a capacity for action, a superior mind exists in torture.

A bad outfit can really get me down. If I'm wearing something really normal and boring, it's like torture.

Embracing the torture, as I'm assaulted by my own thoughts. Like a locust giving birth to earworms. Eeeeew!

Making sure that when my child went to school people were enlightened enough not to torture them, you know?

If you want to defend torture, well then go ahead. But please spare me any sermons about the law ever again.

Was she really beautiful? Was she at least what they call attractive? She was exasperation, she was torture.

I walked along Nevsky Avenue.Actually it was more torture, humiliation, and bilious irritation than a stroll.

This is not to condone torture, which is still prohibited by the Torture Convention and federal criminal law.

The confessional is not a torture chamber, but the place in which the Lord's mercy motivates us to do better.

It makes me actually quite angry to think about people writing about torture with a sort of relish. Horrible.

In this regard, I reiterate that the prohibition against torture cannot be contravened under any circumstances.

I made driving mistakes in Sochi that cost me gold, and I'll torture myself for the rest of my life about that!

Guilt is cancer. Guilt will confine you, torture you, destroy you as an artist. It's a black wall. It's a thief.

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