#inflict

Even the most malignant gods would not continue to inflict life upon humanity, time without end. ↗

— Taylor Caldwell

#end #even #gods #humanity #inflict

I started out as a football player. I liked to inflict pain. In basketball, it was the same thing. ↗

— Shaquille O'Neal

#basketball #football #football player #i #inflict

Suffering by nature or chance never seems so painful as suffering inflicted on us by the arbitrary will of another. ↗

— Arthur Schopenhauer

#arbitrary #chance #inflicted #nature #never

The damage done to this country by its own misconduct in the last few months and years, to its very heart and soul, is far greater and longer lasting than any damage that any terrorist could possibly inflict upon us. ↗

— Theodore C. Sorensen

#could #country #damage #done #far

The mind is the result of the torments the flesh undergoes or inflicts upon itself. ↗

— Emile M. Cioran

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Self-inflicted pain has a calming effect; it clears the head, diminishes one's fascination with the ego, and most important, gives one the sense of having taken some real action against the everyday foolishness of the body and of the vagrant, willful, heedless imagination. ↗

— Valerie Martin

#pain #self-inflicted-pain #imagination

If God were suddenly condemned to live the life which He has inflicted upon men, He would kill Himself. ↗

— Alexandre Dumas

#god #himself #inflicted #kill #life

I am told that the majority of Iraqis wanted Saddam removed from power, but they were unwilling and were incapable of doing the job themselves because they feared Saddam and knew the pain and torture he was capable of inflicting upon them. ↗

— Howard Coble

#because #capable #doing #feared #i

To injure an opponent is to injure yourself. To control aggression without inflicting injury in the Art of Peace. ↗

— Morihei Ueshiba

#art #control #inflicting #injure #injury

I'm just mystified and fascinated by women, and I'm still single. Hence all of that, and the fact that I celebrate them so much, I understand that I'm unevolved at this exact moment to share my life with one. I wouldn't inflict that upon anyone yet. But, I'm getting closer. ↗

— Jeremy Piven

#celebrate #closer #exact #fact #fascinated