Torturer Costume Quotes & Sayings

Only the poor can know all the disadvantages of poverty. Only the rich can know all the disadvantages of wealth. — Cullen Hightower

Love is the end of sympathy. — M.F. Moonzajer

I have been rejected 120 times, probably because I didn't write the right book. — Pierce Brown

Habit is the enormous flywheel of society, its most precious conservative agent. There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision. Full half the time of such a man goes to the deciding, or regretting, of matters which ought to be so ingrained in him as practically not to exist for his consciousness at all. — William James

It's going to snow on the mountains," she warned him.
"Ew, snow," I muttered to myself. It was June, for crying out loud.
"Wear a jacket. — Stephenie Meyer

We tend to disempower ourselves. We tend to believe that we don't matter. And in the act of taking that idea to ourselves we give everything away to somebody else, to something else. — Terence McKenna

If there is no absolute moral standard, then one cannot say in a final sense that anything is right or wrong. By absolute we mean that which always applies, that which provides a final or ultimate standard. There must be an absolute if there are to be morals, and there must be an absolute if there are to be real values. If there is no absolute beyond man's ideas, then there is no final appeal to judge between individuals and groups whose moral judgments conflict. We are merely left with conflicting opinions. — Francis Schaeffer

He was stricken anew by her, overcome with the knowledge that in the morning he would have to relinquish her. In Prison 33, little by little, you relinquished everything, starting with your tomorrows and all that might be. Next went your past, and suddenly it was inconceivable that your head had ever touched a pillow, that you'd once used a spoon or a toilet, that your mouth had once known flavors and your eyes had beheld colors beyond gray and brown and the shade of black that blood took on. Before you relinquished yourself
Ga had felt it starting, like the numb of cold limbs
you let go of all the others, each person you'd once known. They became ideas and then notions and then impressions, and then they were as ghostly as projections against a prison infirmary. Sun Moon appeared to him now like this, not as a woman, vital and beautiful, making an instrument speak her sorrow, but as the flicker of someone once known, a photo of a person long gone. — Adam Johnson

I write pretty much year-round, but I definitely do more when a deadline is looming. — Jason Isbell

Try to cultivate love of God. You are born as a human being only to attain divine love. — Ramakrishna

There are only two things that make me angry in the world: dilettantism and intolerance! — Peter F. 'Rius Jilek

Music, in performance, is a type of sculpture. The air in the performance is sculpted into something. — Frank Zappa

There's no biography so interesting as the one in which the biographer is present. — Orson Welles

But I'm not crazy." The woman laughed. "That's what they all say." "All right then, I am crazy, but what does that mean? — Paulo Coelho

Our desires are like an ocean; vast, and without end. — Matshona Dhliwayo