Imprisons Quotes
28 quotes by 25 authors
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War is a great destroyer. And human history has arrived at a pivotal moment. We can choose a path built on cooperation, where our caring…
— Judith Hand
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A sense of duty imprisons you.
— Jenny Holzer
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In spiritual life there is no room for compromise. Awakening is not negotiable; we cannot bargain to hold on to things that please us while…
— Jack Kornfield
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When we have passed the tests we are sent to Earth to learn, we are allowed to graduate. We are allowed to shed our body,…
— Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
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If we are ready to tear down the walls that confine us, break the cage that imprisons us, we will discover what our wings are…
— Michael Elmore-Meegan
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The new growth in the plant swelling against the sheath, which at the same time imprisons and protects it, must still be the truest type…
— Jane Addams
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Bitterness imprisons life; love releases it.
— Harry Emerson Fosdick
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Every word is an adamantine shell which encloses a great explosive force. To discover its meaning you must let it burst inside you like a…
— Nikos Kazantzakis
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The United States imprisons a larger percentage of its black population than South Africa did at the height of apartheid. In Washington, D.C., our nation’s…
— Michelle Alexander
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No other country in the world imprisons so many of its racial or ethnic minorities. The United States imprisons a larger percentage of its black…
— Michelle Alexander
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If one yearns to see the face of the Divine, one must break out of the aquarium, escape the fish farm, to go swim up…
— Tom Robbins
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The same protection you create for yourself becomes the wall that imprisons you.
— Tony Robbins
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The choice that frees or imprisons us is the choice of love or fear. Love liberates. Fear imprisons.
— Gary Zukav
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He who defines his conduct by ethics imprisons his song-bird in a cage.
— Khalil Gibran
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Self-pity imprisons us in the walls of our own self-absorption. The whole world shrinks down to the size of our problem, and the more we…
— Kevin Malarkey
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Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison.
— Henry David Thoreau
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For it is often the way we look at other people that imprisons them within their own narrowest allegiances. And it is also the way…
— Amin Maalouf
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Out of the closets and into the museums, libraries, architectural monuments, concert halls, bookstores, recording studios and film studios of the world. Everything belongs to…
— William S. Burroughs
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The ordinary procedure of the nineteenth century is that when a powerful and noble personage encounters a man of feeling, he kills, exiles, imprisons or…
— Stendhal
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[Christian rebellion] arises from the doctrine of mankind made in the image of God, and therefore protests against all forms of dehumanization. It sets itself…
— John Stott
Who Wrote These Imprisons Quotes
25 authors contributed a total of 28 Imprisons Quotes as follows: