"Many times I see you as a portrait of torture."

-- Ira Glass

#Portraits Quotes #Torture Quotes

“[The American position at the UN is] essentially impotent, without influence, heavily outvoted, and isolated.”
“Twelve days north of Hopeless and a few degrees south of Freezing to Death”
“To have too much forethought is the part of a wretch; to have too little is the part of a fool.”
“The angel said, "I like black-and-white films more than color because they're more artificial. You have to work harder to overcome your disbelief. It's sort of like prayer.”
“Tattoos tell stories of crime and passion, punishment and regret. They express an outlaw, antiauthoritarian point of view and communicate a romantic solidarity among society's outcasts.”
“Big actors want to work in television because they see it as being new and different.”
“Religion gives us a place to stand outside politics, and without it we're vulnerable to a system in which the state defines everything, which is the essence of tyranny.”
“Would that men might come at last to see that it is quite impossible to reach the thicket of the riches and wisdom of God except by first entering the thicket of much suffering, in such a way that the soul finds there its consolation and desire. The soul that longs for divine wisdom chooses first, and in truth, to enter the thicket of the cross.”

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