Prisoner Quotes
507 quotes by 419 authors
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Through my illness I learned rejection. I was written off. That was the moment I thought, Okay, game on. No prisoners. Everybody's going down.
— Lance Armstrong
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You go to London, you see a TV set in every cell and the sign up that all the officers must treat prisoners with dignity.…
— Joe Arpaio
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On average, drug prisoners spend more time in federal prison than rapists, who often get out on early release because of the overcrowding in prison…
— Michael Badnarik
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I'm not obsessed by looks. I think you can become a prisoner of your own image.
— Juliette Binoche
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The reporter is the daily prisoner of clocked facts. On all working days, he is expected to do his best in one swift swipe at…
— Jim Bishop
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In the decline of the day, near Kentucky river, as we ascended the brow of a small hill, a number of Indians rushed out of…
— Daniel Boone
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As far as those kinds of things, I also played at the concert to call for the release of Nelson Mandela when he was a…
— Jackson Browne
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You can feel very quickly as a prisoner of your past, of the memories.
— Eric Cantona
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I am a President held prisoner, that I haven't resigned and I will not resign.
— Hugo Chavez
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A prisoner of war is a man who tries to kill you and fails, and then asks you not to kill him.
— Winston Churchill
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My main point here is that if you are the child of God and God is a part of you, the in your imagination God…
— John Henrik Clarke
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In prison, those things withheld from and denied to the prisoner become precisely what he wants most of all.
— Eldridge Cleaver
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It is true you cannot eat freedom and you cannot power machinery with democracy. But then neither can political prisoners turn on the light in…
— Corazon Aquino
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Most men in a concentration camp believed that the real opportunities of life had passed. Yet, in reality, there was an opportunity and a challenge.…
— Viktor E. Frankl
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A defence in the Inquisition is of little use to the prisoner, for a suspicion only is deemed sufficient cause of condemnation, and the greater…
— John Foxe
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Three hundred years ago a prisoner condemned to the Tower of London carved on the wall of his cell this sentiment to keep up his…
— James Keller
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Every time we sign a treaty with another country, the treaty (should) include prisoner transfer provisions.... Under these provisions, the country in which the crimes…
— Kathleen Brown
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Teach us to pray that we may cause The enemy to flee, That we his evil power may bind, His prisoners to free.
— Watchman Nee
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Love withers with predictability; its very essence is surprise and amazement. To make love a prisoner of the mundane is to take its passion and…
— Leo Buscaglia
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He that wrongs a friend Wrongs himself more, and ever bears about A silent court of justice in his breast, Himself the judge and jury,…
— Alfred Lord Tennyson
Who Wrote These Prisoner Quotes
419 authors contributed a total of 507 Prisoner Quotes, led by these top contributors: