Quotes About Medieval Torture

#1. Shut up. You don't have to buy a pair of shoes just because you tried them on. They may look great sitting on the shelf, but that doesn't mean they won't feel like medieval torture devices on your feet once you wear them around for a few days. It's the same thing with me. (Lisa)

Cherrie Lynn

#2. Sorry. I'm not, like, medieval torture expert guy.

Joshua

#3. Airports and 'leg room' on planes are a form of medieval torture.

Mary E. Pearson

#4. How precisely, had a arrived at this? He was taking orders from a spinster, willingly submitting himself to her medieval torture devices. And she wasn't even naked.
-Bram's thoughts

Tessa Dare

#5. Pointe shoes are torture devices. I mean, ballerinas get used to it, but it was definitely a new experience for me. They feel medieval. I was very happy to stop wearing them.

Natalie Portman

#6. Without making any moral judgements whatsoever, one can say that self-indulgence and excessive self-preoccupation are the antithesis of genuine awareness.

Ronald Rolheiser

#7. Look at music: I've always loved hiphop and rap, and now there's this whole progressive movement, with De La Soul and Mos Def, Common. It's some of the best stuff around.

Ryan Phillippe

#8. For we've reached a point where we regard real "living life" almost as labor, almost as service, and we all agree in ourselves that it's better from a book

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#9. I want to present interesting stories that don't qualify themselves just by virtue of their ethnographic type.

Ajay Naidu

#10. People with an investment in government power will torture logic like a medieval inquisitor rather than face the facts ... There's a simple way to keep money out of politics: Keep politics out of our money.

Sheldon Richman

#11. Medievalism, with its saints and martyrs, its love of self-torture, its wild passion for wounding itself, its gashing with knives, and its whipping with rods - Medievalism is real Christianity, and the medieval Christ is the real Christ.

Oscar Wilde

#12. She took my hand and pulled me after her, her shoulders giving off a sweet peppermint concoction that the bodies of young women sometimes produce to make my life more difficult.

Gary Shteyngart

#13. There's simply no substitute for experience in terms of aviation safety.

Chesley Sullenberger

#14. Medieval justice was scrupulous about holding proper trials and careful not to sentence without proof of guilt, but it achieved proof by confession rather than evidence, and confession was routinely obtained by torture.

Barbara W. Tuchman

#15. Where is your sense of patriotism?
I keep it hid away safe, along with my sense of trust, Mr. Clent. I don't use 'em much in case they get scratched.

Frances Hardinge

#16. To be without a dog is worse than being without a song.

Henry Hough

#17. While working as a team, you push yourself forward and move outside the boundaries. It's a great thing.

Martin Margiela

#18. When you borrow a man's car, always return it with a tank of gas.

Charlie Munger

#19. Besides, all flame hazes fight alone.

Yashichiro Takahashi

#20. I did not like formal meetings, because they took away my freedom. I just liked to spend time with my friends, where I could be myself and did not need to don a mask.

Bidzina Ivanishvili