Prisoner Quotes · Page 27

Paul was Nero's prisoner, but Nero was much more God's.

— William Gurnall

American fighters of the Pacific War were not heroes. The desperation of island combat included exchanged barbarities of which no one would…

— James Carroll

President Obama has reduced the sentences of 22 federal prisoners who were arrested for drug-related crimes - eight of whom were serving…

— Jimmy Fallon

Jace shook his blond head in exasperation. "You had to make a crazy jail friend, didn't you? You couldn't just count ceiling…

— Cassandra Clare

If the prisoner should ask the judge whether he would be content to be hanged, were he in his case, he would…

— John Selden

Tortoise steps, slow steps, four steps like a tank with a tail dragging in the sand. Tortoise steps, land based, land locked,…

— Terry Tempest Williams

Visual supervision is a joke for development workers. Visual supervision is for prisoners.

— Tom DeMarco

I cannot be an optimist but I am a prisoner of hope.

— Cornel West

A jailer is as much a prisoner as his prisoner.

— Mahatma Gandhi

This is the woman who stopped the Stanford Prison Study. When I said it got out of control, I was the prison…

— Philip Zimbardo

“In the case of Albertine, I felt that I should never discover anything, that, out of that tangled mass of details of…

— Marcel Proust

I've always been opposed myself to prisoners having the vote.

— William Hague

The sky was black with vultures, named Depression. They would land on the shoulders of a prisoner and vomit on him... Even…

— Rick Joyner

The concentration camps, by making death itself anonymous (making it impossible to find out whether a prisoner is dead or alive), robbed…

— Hannah Arendt

The closest thing I could think of that men go through is like a prisoner of war being tortured, and then coming…

— Larkin Grimm

Your Village may be different from other people's Villages, but we are all prisoners.

— Patrick McGoohan

The world is a philosophical prison and Man is the philosophical prisoner.

— Kedar Joshi

I wonder about prisoners. They're told, "You are free, you are innocent, you can go anywhere." I'm sure they usually feel nothing.…

— Diana Vreeland

If this is the way Queen Victoria treats her prisoners, she doesn't deserve to have any.

— Oscar Wilde

I went back to work right away [after prison]. I was very lucky — a friend of mine created a job for…

— Piper Kerman

Playing a prisoner of war trapped in Pakistan for three years was a novelty for me. We made sure that we didn't…

— Akshay Kumar

Timeless is the creature who is wise. And timeless is the prisoner in disguise.

— Stevie Nicks

I remember when humor was gentle pokes. I used to call it 'arm around the shoulder' humor. Now they go for the…

— Robert Orben

For all the cruelty and hardship of our world, we are not mere prisoners of fate. Our actions matter, and can bend…

— Barack Obama

I had old bunk beds that my dad got from Seabrook Farms. They were first used by German prisoners during World War…

— David Mixner