Prisoner Quotes

507 Prisoner quotes by 407 unique authors

Cease being a prisoner of the body; using the secret key of Kriya, learn to escape into Spirit. — Lahiri Mahasaya
Prepare yourself for the coming astral journey of death by daily riding in the balloon of God-perception. Through delusion you are perceiving yourself as a… — Lahiri Mahasaya
How many of us would be able to overcome our desires and resist the temptation of sin? How many of us even lower our gaze… — Ibn Taymiyyah
I cured myself of shyness when it finally occurred to me that people didn't think about me half as much as I gave them credit… — Lucille Ball
Blind certainty, a close-mindedness that amounts to an imprisonment so total that the prisoner doesn't even know he's locked up. — David Foster
In the wake of newly-alleged prisoner abuse this week, Senator John McCain said that continued mistreatment of Iraqi prisoners is hurting the nation's image. Also… — Amy Poehler
Vegetarianism is a link to perfection and peace. But it's a small link. There are lots of other issues: apartheid , vivisection, political prisoners, the… — River Phoenix
You are not a prisoner of your thoughts. You have the ability to control what you are thinking. — Deepak Chopra
Your Village may be different from other people's Villages, but we are all prisoners. — Patrick McGoohan
Since 1957, black people have experienced double-digit unemployment - in good times and bad times. Look at the population of African Americans in prison. They… — Danny Glover
Help! I'm being held prisoner by my heredity and environment. — Unknown Author
I went back to work right away [after prison]. I was very lucky — a friend of mine created a job for me at his… — Piper Kerman
It was both odd and unjust, a real example of pitiful arbitrariness of existance, that you were born into a particular time & held prisoner… — Daniel Kehlmann
Because it would be too agonizing to cope with the possibility that anyone, including our selves, could become a prisoner, we tend to think of… — Angela Davis
The line that connects the bombing of civilian populations to the mountain removed by strip mining ... to the tortured prisoner seems to run pretty… — Wendell Berry
Having found the bomb we have used it. We have used it against those who attacked us without warning at Pearl Harbor, against those who… — Harry S. Truman
Pain dies quickly, and lets her weary prisoners go; the fiercest agonies have shortest reign. — William C. Bryant
Torture has been privatized now, so you have obviously the whole scandal in America about the abuse of prisoners and the fact that, army people… — Arundhati Roy
Is the prisoner a prisoner because he lives in a cage or because he knows that he lives in a cage? — Michael Moorcock
I love my mother, not as a prisoner of atherosclerosis, but as a person; and I must love her enough to accept her as she… — Madeleine L'Engle
Those who build walls are their own prisoners. I'm going to go fulfill my proper function in the social organism. I'm going to unbuild walls. — Ursula K. Le Guin
Freedom is an elusive concept. Some men hold themselves prisoner even when they have the power to do as they please and go where they… — Brian Herbert
As you look at me and listen to me, please remember the often repeated truth that one prisoner of conscience is one too many. — Aung San Suu Kyi
I should be judged as a captain who went from Spain to the Indies to conquer a people numerous and warlike, whose manners and religion… — Christopher Columbus
If there is anything that is important to America, it is that you are not a prisoner of the past. — David Halberstam

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