The truth that many people never understand, until it is too late, is that the more you try to avoid suffering the more you suffer because smaller and more insignificant things begin to torture you in proportion to your fear of being hurt
Thomas Merton
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.
James Anthony Froude
I`ve come to the frightening conclusioin that I am the decisive element in the classroom. It`s my daily mood that makes the weather. As a teacher, I possess a tremendous power to make a child`s life miserable or joyous. I can be a tool of torture or an in...
Dr. Haim Ginott
Few tasks are more like the torture of Sisyphus than housework, with its endless repetition: the clean becomes soiled, the soiled is made clean, over and over, day after day
Simone de Beauvoir
There will one day spring from the brain of science a machine or force so fearful in its potentialities, so absolutely terrifying, that even man, the fighter, who will dare torture and death in order to inflict torture and death, will be appalled, and so ...
Andy Bellin
There will one day spring from the brain of science a machine or force so fearful in its potentialities, so absolutely terrifying, that even man, the fighter, who will dare torture and death in order to inflict torture and death, will be appalled, and so ...
Andy Bellin
Numerous times I lie in bed at night and imagine the cruellest torture. I imagine the most miserable ruining of that person`s life. After that, I can fall asleep with a smile on my face. As long as it stays in the realm of imagination, the crueller the be...
Chan-wook Park
[on director Stanley Kubrick] By the time of "Dr. Strangelove" he had become very human -- maybe it was the power that came with successes like "Lolita" -- for he is now very strong. My first day was torture. I was nervous, scared, did 48 takes. I expecte...
Sterling Hayden
I felt like sending Michael Richards a note. I feel really badly for the guy. He was obviously in a state of stress. You don`t need to be inebriated to be bent out of shape. But my heart went out to the guy. They`ll probably torture him for a while and th...
Mel Gibson
I`ve seen many men die right in front of me - so many in fact that I`ve become almost hardened to it. Having seen the worst that human beings can do to each other, the results of torture, mutilation and seeing someone blown to pieces by a bomb, you develo...
Christopher Lee
[On filming her torture scenes in The Silence of the Lambs (1991).] I had bad dreams before shooting, but when we started, it was cathartic. I screamed so much, it was like primal therapy. (2007)
Brooke Smith
For me, what I was doing with "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" (1997) and "Angel" (1999), it was all about the pain and the torture and the sense of being in the alleyway. Not to take anything away from it, but those were some learning, hard, difficult times wh...
David Boreanaz
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.
Oriana Fallaci
We had to learn in just six weeks what geishas spend their whole lives learning. There were seven torture rooms, ... But we were lucky that Kaori and Ken were there to keep an eye on us to make sure we were doing it properly. Please forgive us if we did a...
Michelle Yeoh
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
We do, and there is a law in the United States - the Torture Convention - that prohibits the United States from deporting an individual to a country where there is a reasonable expectation that he will be subjected to torture - physical, mental or otherwi...
Jonathan Shapiro
We do, and there is a law in the United States - the Torture Convention - that prohibits the United States from deporting an individual to a country where there is a reasonable expectation that he will be subjected to torture - physical, mental or otherwi...
Jonathan Shapiro
The truth that many people never understand, until it is too late, is that the more you try to avoid suffering the more you suffer because smaller and more insignificant things begin to torture you in proportion to your fear of being hurt
Thomas Merton
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