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Judges must beware of hard constructions and strained inferences, for there is no worse torture than that of laws.

Quote by Kevin Bacon about judges

When you have to get into the character each morning, give it your voice, your face, it was torture.

Quote by Victoria Abril about voice, character, contentment, face

If you know someone who tortures animals and wets the bed, he is either a serial killer or he works for Internal Affairs.

Quote by Edward A. Murphy about police, animals, contentment

The suffering caused by the terrorists is the real torture.

Quote by Jean-Marie Le Pen about politics, suffering, real estate

What's surprising is that the people who fought against torture here are the communists.

Quote by Jean-Marie Le Pen about communism, people

I don’t believe in an afterlife, so I don’t have to spend my whole life fearing hell, or fearing heaven even more. For whatever the tortures of hell, I think the boredom of heaven would be even worse.

Quote by Isaac Asimov about opinion, hell, boredom, faith, life

Even though I have not loved from the beginning this wonderful soul, even though I have long disappointed and tortured it with my apparent instability, I have come to understand that when you do not seek you will find and when you do not love from...

Quote by Sorin Cerin about love, beginning, contentment, soul, life

The torture of a bad conscience is the Hell of a living soul.

Quote by John Calvin about conscience, hell, bad luck, soul, bad

To put meaning in one's life may end in madness, But life without meaning is the torture Of restlessness and vague desire It is a boat longing for the sea and yet afraid.

Quote by Edgar Lee Masters about life, longing, end

To torture a man you have to know his pleasures.

Quote by Stanisław Lem about people, man, contentment

Unless a capacity for thinking be accompanied by a capacity for action, a superior mind exists in torture.

Quote by Benedetto Croce about action, thinking, mind

Literature - salutary fiction, boycotted restlessly by the tortures of meat.

Quote by Iulian Boldea about literature, fiction, body

Without hope the dreams become nightmares and love the cruelest torture.

Quote by Max Jacob about hope, dream, love