Prisoner Quotes

507 Prisoner quotes by 407 unique authors

Fill your bowl to the brim and it will spill. Keep sharpening your knife and it will blunt. Chase after money and security and your… — Laozi
To gain customer insights, we must understand that we are prisoners of what we know and what we believe. — Unknown Author
"Who is secure in all his basic needs? Who has work, spiritual care, medical care, housing, food, occasional entertainment, free clothing, free burial, free everything?… — Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn
Education has become a prisoner of contemporaneity. It is the past, not the dizzy present, that is the best door to the future. — Camille Paglia
We have not come here to take prisoners But to surrender ever more deeply To freedom and joy. — Hafez
If you can't do anything about it then let it go. Don't be a prisoner to things you can't change. — Tony Gaskins
There is a doctrine whispered in secret that a man is a prisoner who has no right to open the door and run away; this… — Socrates
Men are tied up to their families and possessions more helplessly than in a prison. There is an occasion for the prisoner to be released,… — Gautama Buddha
The small man builds cages for everyone he knows While the sage, who has to duck his head when the moon is low, Keeps dropping… — Hafez
The Duke of Clarence . . . a prisoner in the Tower, was secretly put to death and drowned in a barrel of Malmesey wine. — Unknown Author
Tonight I feel like a prisoner on fire, waiting desperately... denied, sentenced forever more. Only your love can set me free. — Michael Bolton
Prison officials have been more concerned about sparing the sensitivities of executioners and witnesses than protecting the condemned prisoner from pain. They are more concerned… — Jamie Fellner
The red tape for family members who want to speak to a loved one is a reality, ... The warehousing of prisoners is a reality.… — Christopher Bullock
You have been a prisoner of a little pond I am the ocean and its turbulent flood Come merge with me leave this world of… — Unknown Author
It so happened that I was on a German sailing vessel on the way to Australia when the ship was captured, and on the high… — Fritz Sauckel
I did feel very sexy and desirable. Those prisoners looked at me like no man ever did. I don't care how many people they killed. — Kathy Griffin
The plane seems exultant now, even arrogant. We did it, we did it! We're up, above you. We were dependant on you just now, prisoners… — Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Prisoners at the bar, have you anything to say in your defence? — Agatha Christie
Passion has overthrown tyrants and freed prisoners and slaves. Passion has brought justice where there was savagery. Passion has created freedom where there was nothing… — Jim Butcher
As our country bled . . . its leader's wife came to this podium piously to call for a new human order, this when thousands… — Corazon Aquino
All modern U.S. presidents are perforce politicians, prisoners of their past pronouncements, their party, their constituency, and their colleagues. — Tony Judt
We need to 'go out,' then, in order to experience our own anointing, its power and its redemptive efficacy: to the 'outskirts' where there is… — Pope Francis
Due to the fact that I experienced personally the situation of a political prisoner, I have an historical commitment to all those that were or… — Dilma Rousseff
The African prisoners are orderly and peaceable among themselves. — Lewis Tappan
Most of the prisoners told the interpreter that they are from Mandingo. — Lewis Tappan

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