#torture

I don't know why, but I respond well to tortured characters. ↗

— Halle Berry

#i #know #respond #tortured #well

This stuff on enemy combatants, the Bush Administration has fought like a tiger to avoid having to produce any evidence to a judge to show why somebody is locked up in perpetuity. Another example of that is the torture scandal. ↗

— James Bovard

#another #any #avoid #bush #bush administration

In the name of Hippocrates, doctors have invented the most exquisite form of torture ever known to man: survival. ↗

— Luis Bunuel

#ever #exquisite #form #invented #known

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. ↗

— Luther Burbank

#cent #fifteen #greatest #less #most

I was arrested three times and tortured once. ↗

— Paulo Coelho

#i #once #three #times #tortured

Oh, you ask me, what is the greatest torture of a person who does portraits for a living? I could fill several volumes with nice nasty stories. I don't know. ↗

— Imogen Cunningham

#could #does #fill #greatest #i

People shouldn't stay married because of the kids. That's torture for everyone. ↗

— Sofia Vergara

#everyone #kids #married #people #stay

We go in to liberate Cuba, but Cuba still isn't free; we don't really think through what we'll do after the initial treaty is signed, but we're still occupying. There's chaos and torture and finally an outcry. ↗

— Sarah Vowell

#chaos #cuba #finally #free #go

And I've known people who came out with a sense of torture. ↗

— George Weinberg

#i #known #out #people #sense

The woman poet must be either a sexless, reclusive eccentric, with nothing to say specifically to women, or a brilliant, tragic, tortured suicide. ↗

— Marilyn Hacker

#eccentric #either #must #nothing #poet