Prisoner Quotes

507 Prisoner quotes by 407 unique authors

The son will run away from the family not at eighteen but at twelve, emancipated by his gluttonous precocity; he will fly not to seek… — Charles Baudelaire
As I travel through my country, people often ask me how it feels to have been imprisoned in my home -first for six years, then… — Aung San Suu Kyi
It was man who ended the Cold War in case you didn't notice. It wasn't weaponry, or technology, or armies or campaigns. It was just… — John le Carre
When you forgive, some deeper, divine generosity takes you over... When you cannot forgive, you are a prisoner of the hurt done to you. — John O'Donohue
So I had to be the doctor to these wounded men until we could remove them to the hospital. There were fifty-four women and forty… — Agnes Smedley
The deep problem facing everyone is how to break free when being a prisoner is the only comfortable way you know how to live. — Deepak Chopra
The thoughts of a prisoner - they're not free either. They keep returning to the same things. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
I never saw a man who looked With such a wistful eye Upon that little tent of blue Which prisoners call the sky. — Oscar Wilde
More than 90 percent of all the prisoners in our American prisons have been abused as children. — John Powell
Show me the prison, Show me the jail, Show me the prisoner whose life has gone stale. And I'll show you a young man with… — Phil Ochs
In my business you cant trust anyone because you dont know whos your friend. Becoming successful means you become a prisoner — Michael Jackson
Forgiveness is setting the prisoner free, only to find out that the prisoner was me. — Corrie Ten Boom
The life we led was a proof of man's capacity for adaptation.I think that even the condemned souls in purgatory after time develop a sort… — Arthur Koestler
The Gods on the death of his wife Yang Kai-hui I lost my proud poplar and you your willow As poplar and willow they soar… — Mao Zedong
The will of man without the grace of God is not free at all, but is the permanent prisoner and bondslave of evil since it… — Martin Luther
We spend our lives trying to unlock the mystery of the universe, but there was a Turkish prisoner, Bahá’u’lláh, in Akka, Palestine who had the… — Leo Tolstoy
A prisoner unaware is the kind of prisoner most vulnerable to her captors, the easiest prey there is. — Beth Moore
A person may dwell so long upon a thought that it may take him a prisoner. — E. F. L. Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax
We are the prisoners of history. Or are we? — Robert Penn Warren
The critic is a prisoner to his own experiences and perspectives, erroneously believing his limited experiences are the sum of all truth — T.D. Jakes
I am a prisoner of a gaudy and unlivable present, where all forms of human society have reached an extreme of their cycle and there… — Italo Calvino
Hundreds of political prisoners still suffer in Tibetan prisons. Freedom of speech is not allowed in any sense. It is illegal to possess a photo… — Joanna Lumley
The unfortunate are not as miserable as the world imagines. That urchins, the handicapped, orphans, prisoners and others are much happier than people think. And… — Manu Joseph
Love cannot be held prisoner because it is a river and will overflow its banks. — Paulo Coelho
In my judgement, this new paradigm renders obsolete Geneva's strict limitations on questioning of enemy prisoners and renders quaint some of its provisions. — Alberto Gonzales

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