Imprisoned Quotes

208 Imprisoned quotes by 175 unique authors

One of the striking features of the form of globalisation that has now been established is that it is based on the premise that goods… — Roberto Unger
In our natural state, we are glorious beings. In the world of illusion, we are lost and imprisoned, slaves to our appetites and our will… — Marianne Williamson
A man will be imprisoned in a room with a door that's unlocked and opens inwards; as long as it does not occur to him… — Ludwig Wittgenstein
The town has a sense, not of history, but of time, and the telephone poles seem to know this. If you lay your hand against… — Stephen King
If we maintain the open-mindedness of children, we challenge fixed ideas and established structures, including our own. We listen to people in other denominations and… — Brennan Manning
There is an inmost center in us all, where truth abides in fullness;....and, to know, rather consists in opening out a way where the imprisoned… — Robert Browning
I want to commit the murder I was imprisoned for. — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
In a library we are surrounded by many hundreds of dear friends imprisoned by an enchanter in paper and leathern boxes. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Do not allow yourself to be imprisoned by any affection. Keep your solitude. The day, if it ever comes, when you are given true affection,… — Simone Weil
She felt a board indifference toward the immediate world around her toward other children and adults alike. She took it as a regrettable accident to… — Ayn Rand
Let your imagination release your imprisoned possibilities — Robert H. Schuller
I could have waited years, now that I knew the end of the story. I was cold and wet and very happy. I could even… — Graham Greene
Her cheeks were flushed. She caught hold of the Savage's arm and pressed it, limp, against her side. He looked down at her for a… — Aldous Huxley
Men towering high above such political pygmies, men of refinement, of culture, of ability, are jeered into silence as mollycoddles. It is absurd to claim… — Emma Goldman
I suppose that it was inevitable that my word-base broadened. I could now for the first time pick up a book and read and now… — Alex Haley
I had no epiphany, no singular revelation, no moment of truth, but a steady accumulation of a thousand slights, a thousand indignities and a thousand… — Nelson Mandela
We are all imprisoned by the dictionary. We choose out of that vast, paper-walled prison our convicts, the little black printed words, when in truth… — Mervyn Peake
Any sensible ruler would have killed off Leonard, and Lord Vetinari was extremely sensible and often wondered why he had not done so. He'd decided… — Terry Pratchett
My hand is very tired but I want to go on writing. I keep resting and thinking. All day I have been two people -… — Dodie Smith
Respectability, regularity, and routine - the whole cast-iron discipline of a modern industrial society - have atrophied the artistic impulse, and imprisoned love so that… — Bertrand Russell
...they told me of color, that it was an illusion of the eye, an event in the perceiver's mind, not in the object; they told… — Matthew Tobin Anderson
Because those events are so real that they cast their shadow forward and backwards through all time, whenever men think of these matters at all.… — S.M. Stirling
Across town, over in the East Village, the graffiti was calling for the rich to be eaten, imprisoned, or taxed out of existence. Though it… — David Sedaris
I am at a loss to understand why people hold Miss Austen's novels at so high a rate, which seem to me vulgar in tone,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
He is solid; immovable, iron-willed. He showed me one day his killing bottle. I'm imprisoned in it. Fluttering against the glass. Because I can see… — John Fowles

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