Prisoner Quotes · Page 19

“I got triple life man, I got no problem snapping one of you by the neck. What’s the difference?” one prisoner casually…

— Damien Black

Since being a prisoner was a definite improvement over being dead, which was what she thought was going to happen when the…

— Garth Nix

Forgiveness sets the prisoner free. And realizing that prisoner was you. That's what forgiveness does. It sets you free.

— Victoria Osteen

“I can confidently state that the greatest rescues in my life have occurred when I’ve been saved from myself.”

— Craig D. Lounsbrough

There was a war crimes trial because an American prisoner had been shot trying to escape. He had obviously been recaptured and…

— Charles Guggenheim

Let others probe the mystery if they can.Time-harried prisoners of Shall and Will -The right thing happens to the happy man.

— Theodore Roethke

Teach us to pray that we may cause The enemy to flee, That we his evil power may bind, His prisoners to…

— Watchman Nee

In my business you cant trust anyone because you dont know whos your friend. Becoming successful means you become a prisoner

— Michael Jackson

I was not an anthropology student prior to the war. I took it up as part of a personal readjustment following some…

— Kurt Vonnegut

Until 1869, when they were banned, debtors' prisons were the great incinerators of British reputations. Those who were unable to pay their…

— Tina Brown

The reason Vladimir Putin released Pussy Riot, the Greenpeace activists who were kidnapped in international waters and kept in prison for two…

— Masha Gessen

"What is my job on the planet?" is one question we might do well to ask ourselves over and over again. Otherwise,…

— Jon Kabat-Zinn

So long as there are poor, - I am poor, - So long as there are prisons, - I am a prisoner,…

— Fulton J. Sheen

Cuban agents are assigned to a Catholic Church where their instructions are to beat, jail and intimidate the Ladies In White that…

— Marco Rubio

“I heard this story once," she said, "where this bloke got locked up for years and years and he learned amazin' stuff…

— Terry Pratchett

Narration is as much a part of human nature as breath and the circulation of the blood… storytelling is intrinsic to biological…

— A. S. Byatt

On healthcare we are the prisoner of our past. The way we got to develop any kind of medical insurance program was…

— Hillary Clinton

He had drawn many a thousand of these rations in prisons and camps, and though he'd never had an opportunity to weight…

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Despite all my public misconduct, in the past year, I had learned the Elemental spells, the Doppelschläferin, and the preparation and flying…

— Catherine Gilbert Murdock

“God is not needed to create guilt or to punish. Our fellow men suffice, aided by ourselves. You were speaking of the…

— Albert Camus

“In simple terms, madam? I am your prisoner. At the whim of your mercy-or devilment-for the remainder of the day and the…

— Marsha Canham

I'm happy that now we reveal something about the true Israel, because, you know, now it's Purim, when all the Jews putting…

— Udi Aloni

A defence in the Inquisition is of little use to the prisoner, for a suspicion only is deemed sufficient cause of condemnation,…

— John Foxe

“It costs about the same to house a maximum-security young adult prisoner for a year as it does to send his law-abiding…

— Robert Martensen

I was always mortified.Didn't they know they were tying thier mothers to the ground? Weren't chains ashamed of their prisoners?

— Janet Fitch

There are hundreds of prisons - sexual, political, cultural. But being a prisoner also gives you impetus.

— Gerald Stern

If you're going to be a prisoner of your own mind, the least you can do is make sure it's well furnished.

— Peter Ustinov

I did feel very sexy and desirable. Those prisoners looked at me like no man ever did. I don't care how many…

— Kathy Griffin

On average, drug prisoners spend more time in federal prison than rapists, who often get out on early release because of the…

— Michael Badnarik

If I were not a king, I would be a university man; and if it were so that I must be a…

— King James I

To gain customer insights, we must understand that we are prisoners of what we know and what we believe.

— Mohanbir Sawhney

I do not accept being a prisoner of fear. Of Communism, of fascism. That, one can bear. But of one's fear. No.…

— Adam Michnik

There's no reason to think a Guantanamo detainee is any more likely to escape from Supermax than any other federal prisoner.

— Dianne Feinstein

“I've never been free in my whole life. Inside I've always chased myself. I've become intolerable to myself. I live in a…

— Clarice Lispector

We are no more free agents than the queen of clubs when she victoriously takes prisoner the knave of hearts.

— Mary Wortley Montagu

The past is the one thing we are not prisoners of. We can do with the past exactly what we wish. What…

— John Berger

Avoid trouble with those who are fanatics; they remain imprisoned in exclusivism and deserve compassion just as any other prisoner.

— Chico Xavier

Personal lyricism is the outcry of prisoner to prisoner from the cell in solitary where each is confined for the duration of…

— Tennessee Williams

The big lock-up is about drugs. Here's the real scam. The drug war is one of the games to get more convictions…

— Jerry Brown

Why is it that there's more indignation over a photo of a prisoner with underwear on his head than over the video…

— Zell Miller