Tort'ring Quotes

#1. Daughter of Jove, relentless power, Thou tamer of the human breast, Whose iron scourge and tort'ring hour The bad affright, afflict the best!

Thomas Gray

#2. The bodkin, comb, and essence to prepare? For this your locks in paper durance bound, For this with tort'ring irons wreath'd around? 100 For this with fillets strain'd your tender head, And bravely bore the double loads of lead?

Alexander Pope

#3. I can't cook to save my life but I can bake a flour-less chocolate-hazelnut tort with a spicy caramel sauce.

Anna Kendrick

#4. Make wisdom human to the adolescent mind.

Will Durant

#5. Learning and innovation go hand in hand. The arrogance of success is to think that what you did yesterday will be sufficient for tomorrow.

William Pollard

#6. The Tort Tax adds to the cost of everything we buy because businesses and manufacturers have to cover themselves and their employees - just in case they get sued by a greedy personal injury lawyer.

Dennis Hastert

#7. I hate it when bands change between records. They're thinking before they make music.

Alex Scally

#8. We regard an action of Contract as an action to prevent or compensate for a breach of a promise; an action of Tort as an action to to punish or compensate for a wrong, such as assault or defamation, which has not any necessary connection with a promise.

Edward Jenks

#9. We are on top at the moment but not because of the club's financial power. We are in contention for a lot of trophies because of my hard work.

Jose Mourinho

#10. Math was always my bad subject. I couldn't convince my teachers that many of my answers were meant ironically.

Calvin Trillin

#11. There is such a thing as crazy-mother bonding ... It happens when one realizes the other also has had a crazy mother, and it is both painful and pleasurable. There are more crazy mothers than you might think.

Minrose Gwin

#12. Love is on every side, Cupid said. And no one's side. Don't ask what Love can do for you.
"Great," Jason said. "Now he's spouting greeting card messages.

Rick Riordan

#13. Today's Democrats are little more than a collection of narrow interest groups-unions, tort lawyers, minorities headed by an ossified leadership. They are clever, tenacious and increasingly nasty in defending their perks, as establishments typically are ...

Robert L. Bartley

#14. The cultivation - even celebration - of victimhood by intellectuals, tort lawyers, politicians and the media is both cause and effect of today's culture of complaint.

George Will

#15. In the 9/11 Commission Report, one of the things they point out is that firefighters saved just about everybody below the fire. I don't think they realize how proud the fire department is of that. Because, conceivably, that's all they could have done. They could not have gotten above that fire.

Rudy Giuliani

#16. I fear not yet. It would be dangerous for Charles yet.

Charles Dickens

#17. All societies establish laws that become norms. Those norms create the environment that incubates society. So, when you implement the laws of God in society, they produce a culture of heaven.

Myles Munroe

#18. Be cautious, but not too cautious; do not be too much afraid of making a mistake; a man who never makes a mistake will make nothing.

John Lubbock

#19. our Lord said, 'Blessed are the poor in spirit' (Matt. 5:3), which is to say those who are poor in will.

Meister Eckhart

#20. Avalanches of evil begin with a single pebble of sin.

John Piper

#21. There were time when I was into method acting that I did have moments of residual character emotions, because the method bases your emotional responses as a character on emotional experiences from your real life.

Corin Nemec

#22. If you take a look at Medicare, there are things we could do, not just tort reform but truly reform the whole reimbursement system which will help in terms of reducing costs and creating the right kind of incentives for savings.

John Hoeven

#23. Les masses ont tort et les individus toujours raison. The masses are wrong; individuals are always right.

Boris Vian