Torturando Quotes & Sayings

Who needs a castle? Surely not a courageous man! Who needs a guard? Surely not a brave man! Who needs a gun? Surely not a strong man! Cowards need castles, they need guards and guns, simply because they are weak and chicken hearted! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

A nation must think before it acts. — Robert Strausz-Hupe

I am finding it very hard to get my novel started. I suffer from stylistic abscesses; and sentences keep itching without coming to a head. — Gustave Flaubert

God is sovereign over the nations. He is sovereign over the officials of our own government in all their actions as they affect us, directly or indirectly. He is sovereign over the officials of government in lands where our brothers and sisters in Christ suffer for their faith in Him. And He is sovereign over the nations where every attempt is made to stamp out true Christianity. In all of these areas, we can and must trust God. — Jerry Bridges

Finally, to hinder the description of illness in literature, there is the poverty of the language. English, which can express the thoughts of Hamlet and the tragedy of Lear, has no words for the shiver and the headache. It has all grown one way. The merest schoolgirl, when she falls in love, has Shakespeare or Keats to speak her mind for her; but let a sufferer try to describe a pain in his head to a doctor and language at once runs dry. There is nothing ready made for him. He is forced to coin words himself, and, taking his pain in one hand, and a lump of pure sound in the other (as perhaps the people of Babel did in the beginning), so to crush them together that a brand new word in the end drops out. Probably it will be something laughable. — Virginia Woolf

Theories have been outgrown. The means is disappearing, the reality of the sensation alone remains. It is that in its essence which I wish to put down. It should be a delightful adventure. — Arthur Dove

I get paid to hurt other people, how good is that? — Jens Voigt

Prosperity is peace. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Outside, the September air was enticingly fragrant, yellow with pollen and rich, lemony sunlight. — Alice Hoffman

We wanted technology to go away and for us to experience what it gives us, in a direct link, without any interface — K. K. Barrett

It is the sacred principles enshrined in the United Nations charter to which the American people will henceforth pledge their allegiance. — George H. W. Bush

If you don't know what to do, just be kind. — R.J. Palacio