Tormentable Quotes

#1. The great man is not convulsible or tormentable; events pass over him without much impression.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#2. The right time to show your good character is when you are pestered by someone weaker than you.

Gautama Buddha

#3. Mistakes you can learn from; sins stay with you forever.

Corey Taylor

#4. (for a while, I regarded just about any song in which somebody had lost somebody else as spookily relevant, which, as that covers the whole of pop music, and as I worked in a record shop, meant I felt pretty spooked more or less the whole time),

Nick Hornby

#5. As I apologized to her a flicker of panic raced through me and then faded away. There wasn't enough life left in me to panic. I'd made a mistake and I was dying. Apparently not even a Speck afterlife was available to me. I'd simply stop being. Apparently I hadn't died correctly. Oops.

Robin Hobb

#6. The allegiance of the citizen, in the only sense in which the word can be tolerated in a republic, is due to the law. What idea other men may have of a law higher than the supreme law, I know not. Like the notion of the Stoics concerning Fate, it is perfectly incomprehensible.

James L. Petigru

#7. I had to work with a psychiatrist.

Felix Baumgartner

#8. The bait we set, never truly entraps the love, but lust.

Sameer Khan

#9. Oran is exile and Tetuan is imprisonment. And since I am happier in Tetuan than in Oran, that means I prefer jail in my native land to freedom in exile.

Mohamed Choukri

#10. I need--"
I cut her off. Using her wrist, I guided her hand down to my denim-covered cock. "Me. You need me."
I only knew because I needed her.
And, as her face softened, the truth tumbled from her mouth. "I really do."
"Then take it.

Aly Martinez

#11. I was so high, I needed a stepladder to scratch my own ass.

Kinky Friedman

#12. History loved to lie, through simple distortion or complete fabrication. Lies were the cosmetics of history, and when history could not be beautiful, it preferred to be shocking.

Sean DeLauder

#13. The Environmental Control and Life Support System (ECLSS), which controls the living environment on shuttles and on the International Space Station, doesn't have the luxury of disposal: discharging trash into space has long been judged a bad idea.

Rose George

#14. He was certain he was anorectic, because every time he looked in a mirror he saw a fat man. It was the Archchancellor, standing behind him and shouting at him.

Terry Pratchett

#15. Music is either good or bad, and it's got to be learned. You got to have balance.

Louis Armstrong

#16. The natural idealism of youth is an idealism, alas, for which we do not always provide as many outlets as we should.

Sargent Shriver