I think I'm a tough person, but for sure, I would talk under torture.
From the heart of the fountain of delight rises a jet of bitterness that tortures us among the very flowers.
Reading a book you are not enjoying is a torture not to be undertaken without a reward. I leave plays at the interval, too!
Do not injure, abuse, oppress, enslave, insult, torment, torture, or kill any creature or living being.
Thinking is a great joy for a good writer and a great torture for the bad one!
Torturing innocents, murdering civilians and destroying public property; they are all the gifts we have been given by religion.
I strongly disapprove of torture and have never and would never provide assistance in its process.
I couldn't bloody believe a prime-time TV show would have an Iraqi ex-Republican Guard torturer as a main character.
Guantanamo is still open, but it's unlikely that serious torture is going on at Guantanamo. There is just too much inspection.
I assess the power of a will by how much resistance, pain, torture it endures and knows how to turn to its advantage.
Surely martyrs, irrespective of the special phase of the divine idea for which they gladly give up their bodies to torture and to death, are the truest heroes of history.
As young as I look, I think it will still be funny if I played a person who's kind of tortured and hates his life. Kind of like a Larry David-type thing.
To suggest that God specifically created a worm to torture small African children is blasphemy as far as I can see. The Archbishop of Canterbury doesn't believe that.
To put the point sharply: If an informer in the French underground who sent a friend to the torture chambers of the Gestapo was equally a victim, then there can be no right or wrong in life that I understand.
Life's experiences, whether they be pleasant or unpleasant, torturous or excruciatingly wonderful and blissful, you know, season you somehow and you learn from them.
The male, for all his bravado and exploration, is the loyal one, the one who generally feels love. The female is skilled at betrayal and torture and damnation.
Nothing tortures your enemies more than seeing you walk with a smile of confidence on your face.
Judges must beware of hard constructions and strained inferences, for there is no worse torture than that of laws.
Ironically, torture requires empathy, too, in the sense that one cannot deliberately inflict pain without realizing what is painful.
I crave ideas, and when an idea hits me, it grips me and it tortures me until I master it.
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.
