Prisoner Quotes

507 Prisoner quotes by 407 unique authors

You think you know what is just and what is not. I understand. We all think we know." I had no doubt, myself, then, that… — J M Coetzee
Peace, in the sense of the absence of war, is of little value to someone who is dying of hunger or cold. It will not… — Dalai Lama
Jace shook his blond head in exasperation. "You had to make a crazy jail friend, didn't you? You couldn't just count ceiling tiles or tame… — Cassandra Clare
She tore a page from the book and ripped it in half. Then a chapter. Soon, there was nothing but scraps of words littered between… — Markus Zusak
we all suffer in our different ways from being prisoners of birth. — Jeffrey Archer
Some times I think this whole world Is one big prison yeard Some of us are prisoners The rest of us are guards — Bob Dylan
Power said to the world, "You are mine." The world kept it prisoner on her throne. Love said to the world, "I am thine." The… — Rabindranath Tagore
To Garan's credit, the treatment of Dellian prisoners did change after that. One particularly laconic man, after a session in which Fire learned positively nothing,… — Kristin Cashore
The widespread abuse of prisoners is a virtually foolproof indication that politicians are trying to impose a system--whether political, religious or economic--that is rejected by… — Naomi Klein
Socialists ignore the side of man that is the spirit. They can provide you shelter, fill your belly with bacon and beans, treat you when… — Ronald Reagan
The past is the one thing we are not prisoners of. We can do with the past exactly what we wish. What we can't do… — John Berger
Can the imagination, any more than the boy, be held prisoner ?" - from the foreword to the 1976 edition of "The Painted Bird — Jerzy Kosinski
But now, like a fallen sparrow On a golden chain, I'm forever bound in shadow, A prisoner to my pain. — Walter Dean Myers
the mind is its own beautiful prisoner. Mind looked long at the sticky moon opening in dusk her new wings then decently hanged himself,one afternoon.… — E E Cummings
I cannot be an optimist but I am a prisoner of hope. — Cornel West
Jesus is the starving, the parched, the prisoner, the stranger, the naked, the sick, the dying. Jesus is the oppressed, the poor. To live with… — Jean Vanier
Don’t worry, we’re not letting her out of our sight…and after the Nick incident, we’re not letting her out from behind this bar. (Aimee) Yeah,… — Sherrilyn Kenyon
Bring on the shackles - I'm your prisoner — Stephenie Meyer
What are you? Stupid? Of course they have a guard. What part of ‘You’re a prisoner’ did you miss? (Delphine) — Sherrilyn Kenyon
What are you looking at, foreigner?” the guard demanded roughly. The smile was a little unsettling. A prisoner shouldn’t smile at his captors like that.… — John Flanagan
Better to die fighting for freedom then be a prisoner all the days of your life. — Bob Marley
True love, like any other strong and addicting drug, is boring — once the tale of encounter and discovery is told, kisses quickly grow stale… — Stephen King
Since being a prisoner was a definite improvement over being dead, which was what she thought was going to happen when the Loundergs had attacked,… — Garth Nix
Unclose your mind. You are not a prisoner. You are a bird in fight, searching the skies for dreams. — Haruki Murakami
You have ten minutes. Tops. (Carlos) I have been knocked overboard, shot at, kidnapped, handcuffed, terrified, and held prisoner. I will not be told how… — Sherrilyn Kenyon

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