Meriwether Lewis Quotes

The musquetos continue to infest us in such manner that we can scarcely exist. My dog even howls with the torture he experiences.

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• Chess is mental torture.

  Garry Kasparov
  • Chess
  • Torture
  • Mental

• Because animals are property, we consider as 'humane treatment' that we would regard as torture if it were inflicted on humans.

  

  Gary L. Francione
  • Animals
  • Property
  • Torture

• I don't believe that we should limit waterboarding - or, quite frankly, any other alternative torture technique - if it means saving Americans' lives.

  

  Aaron Schock
  • Believe
  • Torture
  • Limit

• When I was a teenager, I was fat. I was shy. I wore glasses. I had a big eyebrow and hair all over my body. They were years of torture.

  

  Gloria Estefan Miami Sound Machine
  • Hair
  • Body
  • Teenager

• People say you need to be strong, smart, and lucky to survive hard times, war, a natural disaster, or physical torture. But I say emotional abuse—anxiety, fear, guilt, and degradation—is far worse and much harder to survive.

  

  Lisa See
  • People
  • War
  • Strong

• I do not suppose that anyone not a poet can realize the agony of creating a poem. Every nerve, even every muscle, seems strained to the breaking point. The poem will not be denied; to refuse to write it would be a greater torture. It tears its way out of the brain, splintering and breaking its passage, and leaves that organ in the state of a jelly-fish when the task is done.

  

  Amy Lowell
  • Done
  • Brain
  • Tears

• President Bush on Monday defended U.S. interrogation of terrorists, saying 'We do not torture.' He added, 'We freedom electrocute.'

  

  Amy Poehler
  • Freedom
  • Monday
  • U.S.

• Torture yourself about your failures. And then get back to work.

  

  Tony Kushner
  • Work
  • Writing
  • Torture

• Evidence from torture may be considered completely untrustworthy.

  

  Aristotle
  • Evidence
  • Torture
  • Untrustworthy

• Let all of life be an unfettered howl. Like the crowd greeting the gladiator. Don't stop to think, don't interrupt the scream, exhale, release life's rapture.

  

  Vladimir Nabokov
  • Thinking
  • Scream
  • Howl

• [W]e are the heirs of a past of rope, fire, and murder. I for one am not ashamed of this past. My shame is for those who became so inhuman that they could inflict this torture upon us.

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • Shame
  • Murder
  • Torture

• Just as a prayer may be merely a mechanical intonation as of a bird, so may a fast be a mere mechanical torture of the flesh.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Prayer
  • Torture
  • Intonation

• When one runs with the wolves, one must howl with the pack.

  

  Leon Trotsky
  • Runs
  • Wolves
  • Howl

• If I don't write to empty my mind, I go mad. As to that regular, uninterrupted love of writing. I do not understand it. I feel it as a torture, which I must get rid of, but never as a pleasure. On the contrary, I think composition a great pain.

  

  Lord Byron
  • Write
  • Understand
  • Torture

• There are some feelings time cannot benumb, Nor torture shake.

  

  Lord Byron
  • Feelings
  • Torture
  • Benumb

• I hear the howl of the wind that brings The long drear storm on its heavy wings.

  

  William Cullen Bryant
  • Long
  • Storm
  • Heavy

• After... The seas have dried out The trains have come to a shrieking holt The hounds of the abyss cease to howl The prisons have closed their doors The pigs have no one to arrest except themselves The drugs no longer have an effect When it's all over All I'll remember is you

  

  Henry Rollins Black Flag
  • Remember
  • Drug
  • Prison

• There was an iciness, a sinking, a sickening of the heart - an unredeemed dreariness of thought which no goading of the imagination could torture into aught of the sublime...

  

  Edgar Allan Poe
  • Imagination
  • Torture
  • Sublime

• Few tasks are more like the torture of Sisyphus than housework, with its endless repetition: the clean becomes soiled, the soiled is made clean, over and over, day after day. The housewife wears herself out marking time: she makes nothing, simply perpetuates the present … Eating, sleeping, cleaning – the years no longer rise up towards heaven, they lie spread out ahead, grey and identical. The battle against dust and dirt is never won.

  

  Simone de Beauvoir
  • Torture
  • Won
  • Repetition

• 'Discipleship' as a term has lost its content, and this is one reason why it has been moved aside. I've tried to redeem the idea of discipleship, and I think it can be done; you have to get it out of the contemporary mode.

  

  Dallas Willard
  • Done
  • Why
  • Think

• Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting somebody else to do the work.

  

  Earl Nightingale
  • Work
  • Ability
  • Somebody

• Dance is one of the most revealing art forms.

  

  Mikhail Baryshnikov
  • Art
  • Form
  • Revealing

• Oil and gas companies are enjoying record profits. That is fine. This is America.

  

  Dennis Hastert
  • America
  • Companies
  • Profits

• The musquetos continue to infest us in such manner that we can scarcely exist. My dog even howls with the torture he experiences.

  

  Meriwether Lewis
  • Torture
  • Howl