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We will have to respond to the new ways that bully states will come up with to attack patients and providers, our mission is clear: If you want to come after people seeking care or their providers, if your mission is to torment trans kids and their families, you're going to have to get through all of us first. – Kelly Cassidy	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
apparitions of stick people torment me, of skeletal phantoms walking in rain deathly dead stick arms upraised to the gods. i knew one such apparition once, cheated of life by a diseased society intent upon deprivation of body and soul, identity as we would have it. i am haunted at times by what could have been. – Scott C. Holstad	added by scottholstad 1 year ago
You see a lot of mischief online in ways that torment and exploit the privacy of women, girls and minorities... [ and yet ] we're gnashing our teeth when people are using online tools to protect themselves, i'm not saying that this is the way to do it... but when you have no other alternative, when you don't have accountability, people take self-protective measures into their own hands. – Danielle Citron	Found on CNN 1 year ago
He spent most of my life in that cycle of ruinous behavior. His bouts of drinking always causing periods of torment and sorrow. – Jamie Lynn	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
I’ve struggled to find a word that could hold in its meaning both the attack and my experience of it. The closest I found is this: ‘severe or excruciating pain or suffering (of body or mind); anguish, agony, torment; the infliction of such.’ This is a definition of torture, for four hours I experienced literal torture of body and of mind, not knowing if I would survive the next minute—yet needing to find some way to save my life. – Lauret Savoy	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
He can’t just use that as a defense, he wasn’t court appointed to oppress her or abuse her or torment her. – Sarah Wentz	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
It is unacceptable for any employer to try to silence a worker because he or she was a victim of any type of harassment or discrimination -- whether due to race, sexual orientation, religion, age or any other characteristic, sB 331 will empower survivors to speak out -- if they so wish -- so they can hold perpetrators accountable and hopefully prevent abusers from continuing to torment and abuse other workers. – Connie Leyva	Found on CNN 3 years ago
Individual hospitals can not and should not make these individual choices, that is why the governor of New York is organizing resources so that individual hospitals are not overwhelmed and distributing personal protective equipment( PPE) and ventilators to hospitals as needed as well Ultimately, physicians are having to choose who has a better chance of making it and turning the attention to them, similar to the scenes of torment and tragedy in an overwhelmed Italylast month. Sometimes, that entails choosing a younger person over an older one, or a person with a relatively healthy history over someone who has already battled and survived the likes of cancer. – Holly Wilson	Found on FOX News 4 years ago
Unleashing each and every The House committee to torment the President with legislative subpoena after legislative subpoena is a recipe for constitutional crisis. – Jay Sekulow	Found on CNN 4 years ago
Because it’s the pain that brings me pleasure It’s that torment that I treasure It’s the suffering that keeps me alive It’s in this misery that I thrive – XinR Alarm	added by anonymous 5 years ago
God, if you exist behind the Holy Scriptures then you have abandoned me. In war hundreds are killed and tortured and they are left there to rot and feed the vultures. And yet, we glorify our warriors. We give them laurel wreaths and honors. But all I get is torment, I cannot be humiliated this way. Give me an illness that will kill me fast. I cannot do it myself, I must go to heaven. Amen. – Elizabeth Báthory	added by regnumveritatis 5 years ago
It just boggles my mind you would torment and beat and place a kid in the oven and yet you walk around on two feet, animals don’t treat their kids the way this guy treated this little girl. – Volusia County Sheriff Mike Chitwood	Found on FOX News 6 years ago
The heights of self-torment is not acting on what makes you feel good! – RAMANA PEMMARAJU	added by anonymous 6 years ago
Remembering our past can be a healthy exercise. We should yet beware of manipulations of our memory. By sticking to things that torment us, we can be tempted to brood over what should have, could have or would have been done.(no shoulda,coulda,woulda). When we walk down the memory lane, we learn from the past and pick for the present the fundamentals, which can be brought into play for the future. ("Walking down the memory lane" ) – Erik Pevernagie	added by anonymous 8 years ago
It's a simple truth that the greater your accomplishments -- your victories -- the greater opposition, torment, and discouragement your enemies will throw in your path. Expect it and don't become a victim of it, so I'm telling our fans expect those people that are our enemies to talk bad about us. – Steve Spurrier	Found on FOX News 8 years ago
We have felt joy for what befell the people of France in terms of torment, as their blood was spilled inside their country. – The SITE intelligence group	Found on FOX News 9 years ago
The last few days has been torment. It's brought everything back. We're just reliving what we've gone through, it's a horrible nightmare. – Sarah Bajc on Monday	Found on CNN 9 years ago
Torment, for some men, is a need, an appetite, and an accomplishment. – Emil Cioran	added by anonymous 10 years ago
As I was walking among the fires of Hell, delighted with the enjoyments of Genius; which to Angels look like torment and insanity. I collected some of their Proverbs. – William Blake, "The Marriage of Heaven and Hell", 1790	added by anonymous 13 years ago
A poet is an unhappy being whose heart it torn by secret sufferings, but whose lips are so strangely formed that when the sighs and the cries escape them, they sound like beautiful music... and then people crowd about the poet and say to him: "Sing for us soon again;" that is as much as to say. "May new sufferings torment your soul." – Soren Kierkegaard	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Thoughts are tyrants that return again and again to torment us. – Emily Bronte, Wuthering Heights	added by anonymous 13 years ago
You may be deceived if you trust too much, but you will live in torment if you don't trust enough. – Frank H. Crane	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Ardeat ipsa licet, tormentia gaudet amantis. (Though she may herself burn, she delights in her lover's torment.) – Juvenal	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Today's society has decided it's better to assume, deceive or lie to ourselves to spare our own feelings. When accepted the truth will set us free. Anything aside from that will torment us. Feelings are made from thoughts; thoughts can be controled. We fall in love because we THINK about how wonderful someone is; we hate because we can't stop THINKING about what they did to us. In the end, WE control our own thoughts and feelings. – Shannon Stewart	added by anonymous 14 years ago

We will have to respond to the new ways that bully states will come up with to attack patients and providers, our mission is clear: If you want to come after people seeking care or their providers, if your mission is to torment trans kids and their families, you're going to have to get through all of us first.

– Kelly Cassidy

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

apparitions of stick people torment me, of skeletal phantoms walking in rain deathly dead stick arms upraised to the gods. i knew one such apparition once, cheated of life by a diseased society intent upon deprivation of body and soul, identity as we would have it. i am haunted at times by what could have been.

– Scott C. Holstad

added by scottholstad
1 year ago

You see a lot of mischief online in ways that torment and exploit the privacy of women, girls and minorities... [ and yet ] we're gnashing our teeth when people are using online tools to protect themselves, i'm not saying that this is the way to do it... but when you have no other alternative, when you don't have accountability, people take self-protective measures into their own hands.

– Danielle Citron

Found on CNN
1 year ago

He spent most of my life in that cycle of ruinous behavior. His bouts of drinking always causing periods of torment and sorrow.

– Jamie Lynn

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

I’ve struggled to find a word that could hold in its meaning both the attack and my experience of it. The closest I found is this: ‘severe or excruciating pain or suffering (of body or mind); anguish, agony, torment; the infliction of such.’ This is a definition of torture, for four hours I experienced literal torture of body and of mind, not knowing if I would survive the next minute—yet needing to find some way to save my life.

– Lauret Savoy

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

He can’t just use that as a defense, he wasn’t court appointed to oppress her or abuse her or torment her.

– Sarah Wentz

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

It is unacceptable for any employer to try to silence a worker because he or she was a victim of any type of harassment or discrimination -- whether due to race, sexual orientation, religion, age or any other characteristic, sB 331 will empower survivors to speak out -- if they so wish -- so they can hold perpetrators accountable and hopefully prevent abusers from continuing to torment and abuse other workers.

– Connie Leyva

Found on CNN
3 years ago

Individual hospitals can not and should not make these individual choices, that is why the governor of New York is organizing resources so that individual hospitals are not overwhelmed and distributing personal protective equipment( PPE) and ventilators to hospitals as needed as well Ultimately, physicians are having to choose who has a better chance of making it and turning the attention to them, similar to the scenes of torment and tragedy in an overwhelmed Italylast month. Sometimes, that entails choosing a younger person over an older one, or a person with a relatively healthy history over someone who has already battled and survived the likes of cancer.

– Holly Wilson

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

Unleashing each and every The House committee to torment the President with legislative subpoena after legislative subpoena is a recipe for constitutional crisis.

– Jay Sekulow

Found on CNN
4 years ago

Because it’s the pain that brings me pleasure It’s that torment that I treasure It’s the suffering that keeps me alive It’s in this misery that I thrive

– XinR Alarm

added by anonymous
5 years ago

God, if you exist behind the Holy Scriptures then you have abandoned me. In war hundreds are killed and tortured and they are left there to rot and feed the vultures. And yet, we glorify our warriors. We give them laurel wreaths and honors. But all I get is torment, I cannot be humiliated this way. Give me an illness that will kill me fast. I cannot do it myself, I must go to heaven. Amen.

– Elizabeth Báthory

added by regnumveritatis
5 years ago

It just boggles my mind you would torment and beat and place a kid in the oven and yet you walk around on two feet, animals don’t treat their kids the way this guy treated this little girl.

– Volusia County Sheriff Mike Chitwood

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

The heights of self-torment is not acting on what makes you feel good!

– RAMANA PEMMARAJU

added by anonymous
6 years ago

Remembering our past can be a healthy exercise. We should yet beware of manipulations of our memory. By sticking to things that torment us, we can be tempted to brood over what should have, could have or would have been done.(no shoulda,coulda,woulda). When we walk down the memory lane, we learn from the past and pick for the present the fundamentals, which can be brought into play for the future. ("Walking down the memory lane" )

– Erik Pevernagie

added by anonymous
8 years ago

It's a simple truth that the greater your accomplishments -- your victories -- the greater opposition, torment, and discouragement your enemies will throw in your path. Expect it and don't become a victim of it, so I'm telling our fans expect those people that are our enemies to talk bad about us.

– Steve Spurrier

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

We have felt joy for what befell the people of France in terms of torment, as their blood was spilled inside their country.

– The SITE intelligence group

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

The last few days has been torment. It's brought everything back. We're just reliving what we've gone through, it's a horrible nightmare.

– Sarah Bajc on Monday

Found on CNN
9 years ago

Torment, for some men, is a need, an appetite, and an accomplishment.

– Emil Cioran

added by anonymous
10 years ago

As I was walking among the fires of Hell, delighted with the enjoyments of Genius; which to Angels look like torment and insanity. I collected some of their Proverbs.

– William Blake, "The Marriage of Heaven and Hell", 1790

added by anonymous
13 years ago

A poet is an unhappy being whose heart it torn by secret sufferings, but whose lips are so strangely formed that when the sighs and the cries escape them, they sound like beautiful music... and then people crowd about the poet and say to him: "Sing for us soon again;" that is as much as to say. "May new sufferings torment your soul."

– Soren Kierkegaard

added by anonymous
13 years ago

Thoughts are tyrants that return again and again to torment us.

– Emily Bronte, Wuthering Heights

added by anonymous
13 years ago

You may be deceived if you trust too much, but you will live in torment if you don't trust enough.

– Frank H. Crane

added by anonymous
14 years ago

Ardeat ipsa licet, tormentia gaudet amantis. (Though she may herself burn, she delights in her lover's torment.)

– Juvenal

added by anonymous
14 years ago

Today's society has decided it's better to assume, deceive or lie to ourselves to spare our own feelings. When accepted the truth will set us free. Anything aside from that will torment us. Feelings are made from thoughts; thoughts can be controled. We fall in love because we THINK about how wonderful someone is; we hate because we can't stop THINKING about what they did to us. In the end, WE control our own thoughts and feelings.

– Shannon Stewart

added by anonymous
14 years ago

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