All Quotes

Torture, including practices like waterboarding, violates the legal and moral standards of all civilized nations.
‐‐ Jerrold Nadler

Torture is an impermissible evil. Except under two circumstances. The first is the ticking time bomb. An innocent's life is at stake. The bad guy you have captured possesses information that could save this life. He refuses to divulge. In such a case, the choice is easy.
‐‐ Charles Krauthammer

Torture is banned but in two-thirds of the world's countries it is still being committed in secret. Too many governments still allow wrongful imprisonment, murder or 'disappearance' to be carried out by their officials with impunity.
‐‐ Peter Benenson

Torture is illegal, both in the U.S. and abroad. So - and that is true for the Bush administration and for any other administration.
‐‐ Jane Mayer

Torture is such a slippery slope; as soon as you allow a society or any legal system to do that, almost instantly you get a situation where people are being tortured for very trivial reasons.
‐‐ Iain Banks

Torture numbers, and they'll confess to anything.
‐‐ Gregg Easterbrook

Torture produces unreliable evidence and therefore doesn't achieve and protect anybody. Torture corrupts those who are doing the torturing.
‐‐ Cherie Blair

Tortured characters are, I think, an actor's dream.
‐‐ Ruben Blades

Tory governments are bad for Scotland.
‐‐ Nicola Sturgeon

Tory plans to cut 'further and faster' would wreck recovery and roll back Labour's many successes.
‐‐ Alistair Darling

Toshiro Mifune was such an elegant hero, and there's something really empathetic about him.
‐‐ Duncan Jones

Tossing doughnuts, fritters or fried dumplings in fennel sugar adds grown-up complexity without diminishing the indulgence factor.
‐‐ Yotam Ottolenghi

Total absence of humor renders life impossible.
‐‐ Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

Total borrowing has imploded. Private borrowing has collapsed. And, in effect, the Treasury Department is the last borrower left standing.
‐‐ Peter Orszag

Total failure isn't something I want to spend a lot of time envisioning. I'm pretty sure I'll recognize it if it comes.
‐‐ Burton Richter

Total falsehoods can be easily exposed for what they are by citing exceptions to their claims. Hence, they are less likely to be accepted as the total truth.
‐‐ Samuel P. Huntington

Total ghettoization, because they were in charge of public housing, the local council, and they deliberately located people in a ghetto situation in order to ensure that they maintained control.
‐‐ John Hume

Total immersion in and saturation with the Savior's gospel are essential steps in the process of being born again.
‐‐ David A. Bednar

Total intimacy is a myth; that said, a particular kind of loneliness can be both beautiful and fruitful.
‐‐ Lauren Groff

Total loyalty is possible only when fidelity is emptied of all concrete content, from which changes of mind might naturally arise.
‐‐ Hannah Arendt

Total oblivion is the fate of almost everything in this world. I'm very likely to suffer that same fate; my work will probably not be remembered, and if any of it is, if any of those novels is fated to be one of those novels that is still being read 50 or 100 years after it was written, I've probably already written it.
‐‐ Michel Faber

Total physical and mental inertia are highly agreeable, much more so than we allow ourselves to imagine. A beach not only permits such inertia but enforces it, thus neatly eliminating all problems of guilt. It is now the only place in our overly active world that does.
‐‐ John Kenneth Galbraith

Total relaxation is the secret to enjoying sitting meditation. I sit with my spine upright, but not rigid; and I relax all the muscles in my body.
‐‐ Nhat Hanh

Total war is no longer war waged by all members of one national community against all those of another. It is total... because it may well involve the whole world.
‐‐ Jean-Paul Sartre

Totalitarian states killed with impunity and no one was held accountable. That didn't happen in the West.
‐‐ John le Carre

Totalitarianism is feudalism in the twelfth century sense of the word.
‐‐ Barbara Amiel

Totalitarianism is patriotism institutionalized.
‐‐ Steve Allen

Totem poles and wooden masks no longer suggest tribal villages but fashionable drawing rooms in New York and Paris.
‐‐ Mason Cooley

Toting around a full orchestra on tour is very ambitious. I would consider doing a show now and then, like do a show at Radio City or Carnegie Hall with a full orchestra.
‐‐ Vanessa Carlton

Touch a scientist and you touch a child.
‐‐ Ray Bradbury

Touch but a cobweb in Westminster Hall, and the old spider of the law is out upon you with all his vermin at his heels.
‐‐ Henry Fox

Touch'd either the Passions of Rage or Grief to a Miracle.
‐‐ Barton Booth

Touch is more important than arm strength. You want to really allow the receiver to run underneath the throw. It'll give you a little margin for error if you undershoot it a bit.
‐‐ Aaron Rodgers

Touch is one of the most intuitive things in the world.
‐‐ Jefferson Han

Touch is our most highly developed sense when we are born, and it remains a fundamental mode of communication throughout a baby's first year and an important influence throughout a person's life.
‐‐ Leonard Mlodinow

Touch is the mother of the senses. Not only are women more sensitive when they touch, but they're also more sensitive to being touched.
‐‐ Helen Fisher

Touch screen voting is a fine thing so long as they have a voter-verified paper trail.
‐‐ Joan Blades

Touch seems to be as essential as sunlight.
‐‐ Diane Ackerman

Touch seems to be such an important tool for enhancing social cooperation and affiliation that we have evolved a special physical route along which those subliminal feelings of social connection travel from skin to brain.
‐‐ Leonard Mlodinow

Touch us gently, Time! Let us glide adown thy stream, Gently, - as we sometimes glide Through a quiet dream!
‐‐ Bryan Procter

Touch was important. The evening of the Third of July we would go around the neighborhood and look at the fireworks others had bought, taking them out of the brown paper sack and handling them cautiously as if they were precious stones. There was envy when we saw sacks with more in them than we had.
‐‐ Paul Engle

'Touched by an Angel' started my calling to be the messenger, and on a weekly basis, I was able to deliver the message of God's love to the world.
‐‐ Roma Downey

Touching on universality is an important part of effective storytelling, but the problem with cliches is that they are tired and dull. And that's where writers must try to be artful.
‐‐ Miguel Syjuco

Touching people is very rewarding to me.
‐‐ Della Reese

Tough guy Spike was always the funnest, but I'm most proud of the more recent stuff, the last season, I think.
‐‐ James Marsters

Tough guys don't dance. You had better believe it.
‐‐ Norman Mailer

Tough love - I'm kind of weary of that. I don't think it's so effective.
‐‐ Marguerite Moreau

Tough love is the hardest to give.
‐‐ Octavia Spencer

Tough times don't last, but tough people do. And I've been through some tough times, and I know a lot of people can recall tough times, and maybe are going through some tough times right now, but they don't last.
‐‐ Alonzo Mourning

Tough times don't last, tough people do, remember?
‐‐ Gregory Peck