#torture

Torture is illegal, both in the U.S. and abroad. So - and that is true for the Bush administration and for any other administration. ↗

— Jane Mayer

#administration #any #both #bush #bush administration

The concert is a polite form of self induced torture. ↗

— Henry Miller

#form #induced #polite #self #torture

Love is a reciprocal torture. ↗

— Marcel Proust

#love is #reciprocal #torture

If the practice is torture for the al Qaeda operative who masterminded the killing of three thousand Americans, why weren't there court-martials in the cases of those thousands of servicemen similarly treated as part of their training? ↗

— Jose A. Rodriguez, Jr.

#cases #killing #operative #part #practice

My imagination completely controls me, and forever feeds the fire that burns with dark red light in my heart by bringing me the best dreams. I've always had a wild imagination, a big heart and a tortured soul so I feel that dark fantasy, love and horror are in my blood. ↗

— Kim Elizabeth

#best #big #big heart #blood #bringing

I assess the power of a will by how much resistance, pain, torture it endures and knows how to turn to its advantage. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#assess #endures #how #i #knows

If in my youth I had realized that the sustaining splendour of beauty of with which I was in love would one day flood back into my heart, there to ignite a flame that would torture me without end, how gladly would I have put out the light in my eyes. ↗

— Michelangelo

#beauty #day #end #eyes #flame

For a woman, forty is torture, the end. ↗

— Grace Kelly

#forty #torture #woman

It's the boredom that kills you. You read until you're tired of that. You do crossword puzzles until you're tired of that. This is torture. This is mental torture. ↗

— Jack Kevorkian

#crossword #kills #mental #puzzles #read

An actress, around 40, on television, that's where you get the most torture, I think. ↗

— Lisa Kudrow

#around #get #i #i think #most