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In the name of Hypocrites, doctors have invented the most exquisite form of torture ever known to man: survival.
In the name of Hippocrates, doctors have invented the most exquisite form of torture ever known to man: survival.
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.
There was no terrorism in the Middle East until Washington brought it there with invasions, bombings, and torture.
It is inexcusable for scientists to torture animals; let them make their experiments on journalists and politicians.
I loved performing in the 'High School Musical' movies - that didn't seem like work - but the gym felt like torture!
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.
The courage of the Syrian protesters is remarkable, for they face prison, torture, or death every time they lift a banner.
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.
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!
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.
The musquetos continue to infest us in such manner that we can scarcely exist. My dog even howls with the torture he experiences.
In life eternal, there is perfect joy and light, without pain or torture, and there is communion with God Himself and His angels.
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.
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.
President Bush on Monday defended U.S. interrogation of terrorists, saying 'We do not torture.' He added, 'We freedom electrocute.'
Torture is illegal, both in the U.S. and abroad. So - and that is true for the Bush administration and for any other administration.
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.
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.
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.
To a lot of us, literature's eternal significance had seemed beyond arguing - like, say, the illegality of government-sponsored torture.
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.
I'm a Philadelphia sports fanatic. I still watch Phillies games on my iPad, which is basically admitting to having daily torture sessions.
Torture produces unreliable evidence and therefore doesn't achieve and protect anybody. Torture corrupts those who are doing the torturing.
There is no need for use of torture instruments such as ankush for controlling the elephants. We can do it with the help of verbal commands.
I became a vegetarian after I became aware of factory farming and slaughterhouses and the torture and inhumane handling of all these animals.
Even if torture works, what is the point of 'defending' America using a tactic that is a fundamental violation of what America ought to mean?
The coward wretch whose hand and heart Can bear to torture aught below, Is ever first to quail and start From the slightest pain or equal foe.
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.
Consciousness is an end in itself. We torture ourselves getting somewhere, and when we get there it is nowhere, for there is nowhere to get to.
We had a small farm growing up. It was my grandfather's farm, and we didn't torture the animals, and we didn't feed them stuff we wouldn't eat.
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.
Writing, directing - it's just torture every time and it doesn't seem to get any easier. And yet I love them and I'm not going to stop doing them.