Meant to be Quote by Michael Chabon Download Open image “The world like our heads was meant to be escaped from, they are prisons world and head alike.” — Michael Chabon ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.4 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Meant to be Prison Were meant to be World
Unfortunately, prisons try very hard to make us inhuman and unreal by denying our image, and thus our existence, to the rest of the… — Chelsea Manning Copy Share Image
Prisons are the temples where devils learn to prey. Every time we turn the key we twist the knife of fate, because every time… — Gregory David Roberts Copy Share Image
Most prisons in this country are in the middle of nowhere, which makes it much easier for us all to throw those people away.… — W. Kamau Bell Copy Share Image
The world is itself but a larger prison, out of which some are daily selected for execution. — Walter Raleigh Copy Share Image
The world of the Takers is one vast prison, and except for a handful of Leavers scattered across the world, the entire human race… — Daniel Quinn Copy Share Image
The world is not a prison house but a kind of spiritual kindergarten where millions of bewildered infants are trying to spell God with… — Edwin Arlington Robinson Copy Share Image
All prisons that have existed in our society to date put people away as no human being should ever be put away. — Barbara Deming Copy Share Image
The world is but a large prison, out of which some are daily selected for execution. — Walter Raleigh Copy Share Image
“The world itself is but a large prison, out of which some are daily led to execution.” — Sir Walter Raleigh Copy Share Image
Entertainment is a sacred pursuit when done well. When done well, it raises the quality of human life. — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
“Anyway, it's a pretty good story," I said. "You have to admit." "Yeah?" He crumpled up the Kleenex, having dispatched the solitary tear. "You… — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
There were so many Pittsburgh poets in my hallway that if, at that instant, a meteorite had come smashing through my roof, there would… — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
“Badass.'" My grandfather sampled the flavor of the word. It did not seem to revolt him, but it was nothing he needed ever to… — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
See you in the funny papers," he said. Jaunty, he reminded himself; always jaunty. In my panache is their hope for salvation. — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
“I didn't want to be left alone with Timothy, not because I was afraid of him but because I was afraid that somebody would… — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
“He had already seized this particular day once, but he was prepared, if need be, to go ahead and seize the motherfucker all over… — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
“We figure he must have let him out. The perpetrator, I mean. He's blind and we figure he just wandered off and maybe got… — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
“Then I reminded myself that I was always willing to listen to arguments in favor of avoiding an unpleasant chore, and I shook my… — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
“Love great first lines and paragraphs. From The Yiddish Policemen's Union: Nine months Landsman's been flopping at the Hotel Zamenhof without any of his… — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
“Life blew in gusts from the hole in the side of the elephant with a rank smell and a comic flatulence.” — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
Not only would I never want to belong to any club that would have me for a member--if elected I would wear street shoes… — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
Christianity was never meant to be defined by its disciplines, but by its passions. — Bill Johnson Copy Share Image
I think that's the beauty of the current setup, is that Legends is meant to be a bit of a revolving door. — Wentworth Miller Copy Share Image
Marriage is meant to be more about your surrender than about your satisfaction. — Scott Means Copy Share Image
Our sweetest experiences of affection are meant to be suggestions of that realm which is the home of the heart. — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
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Some things in this world just ain't meant to be, not in the times we want 'em to, and the heart has to hold… — James McBride Copy Share Image
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I feel some people are not meant to be together but that doesn't mean they are bad. — Divya Agarwal Copy Share Image
I had no illusions about love anymore. It came, it went, it left casualties or it didn't. People weren't meant to be together forever,… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
The young man knows that he is irretrievably lost. This is no town of cats, he finally realizes. It is the place where he… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Football is not a game meant to be played being nice to each other and all that, like 'Kumbaya.' — Jalen Ramsey Copy Share Image
What would it have meant to be happy? What would it have meant if things had been bright, clear, good between us? — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image