Prisoner Quotes

We are prisoners of our own metaphors, metaphorically speaking.

You feel like a prisoner if you don't create. You're jailed up inside of yourself.

Paul was Nero's prisoner, but Nero was much more God's.

I will say, the one thing Mexico does well is punish prisoners. They do. They're good at that.

Structures of which we are unaware hold us prisoner.

Tonight I feel like a prisoner on fire, waiting desperately... denied, sentenced forever more. Only your love can set me free.

I will not be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed, or numbered !My life is my own.

Change your mind as often as possible. Just because you thought something yesterday doesn't mean you have to think it today. Don't ever become a prisoner of your own opinion

When you meditate you discover over and over again that you are not a prisoner of your mind.

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 ignorance

Man is a prisoner who has no right to open the door of his prison and run away... A man should wait, and not take his own life until God summons him.

In my business you cant trust anyone because you dont know whos your friend. Becoming successful means you become a prisoner

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 Key.

Care about people's approval and you will be their prisoner.

Terrorism is not a matter that can be left to law enforcement, with its deliberative process, built-in delays, and safeguards that may let the prisoner go free on procedural grounds.

In prison, those things withheld from and denied to the prisoner become precisely what he wants most of all.

The ever-present phenomenon ceases to exist for our senses. It was a city dweller, or a prisoner, or a blind man suddenly given his sight, who first noted natural beauty.

Prejudice makes prisoners of both the hated and the hater.

Love withers with predictability; its very essence is surprise and amazement. To make love a prisoner of the mundane is to take its passion and lose it forever.

Prisoners are the greatest audience that an entertainer can perform to.

I believe that man is the product of natural evolution that is born from the conflict of being a prisoner and separated from nature, and from the need to find unity and harmony with it.

I have always had plenty of friends, and now at age sixty, I face four walls as a common prisoner.

Why is it that there's more indignation over a photo of a prisoner with underwear on his head than over the video of a young American with no head at all?

Visual supervision is a joke for development workers. Visual supervision is for prisoners.

We are all prisoners of our thoughts.

Angry men are blind and foolish, for reason at such time takes flight and, in her absence; wrath plunders all the riches of the intellect, while the judgment remains the prisoner of its own pride.

Come Sleep! Oh Sleep, the certain knot of peace, the baiting-place of wit, the balm of woe, the poor man's wealth, the prisoner's release, the indifferent judge between the high and low.

Love cannot be held prisoner because it is a river and will overflow its banks.

One of my biggest fears is not being able to break out of a rut; of becoming a prisoner to my ways, unable to change course. But in my mid-thirties, I learned you can change your thinking.

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 is no imagining what new forms they may assume.

I have become a prisoner of the peace movement. But you can't say that the termination is coming and then say that you are going back to your own garden to dig.

In the final choice a soldier's pack is not so heavy as a prisoner's chains.

I cannot be an optimist but I am a prisoner of hope.

How quickly a zek (a prisoner) gets cheeky-or, putting it in literary language, how quickly a man's requirements grow.

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 so many reasons why And there, but for fortune, go you or I.

The thoughts of a prisoner - they're not free either. They keep returning to the same things.

Even when one sits in the prisoner's dock, it is interesting to hear talk about oneself.

A man who takes away another man's freedom is a prisoner of hatred, he is locked behind the bars of prejudice and narrow mindedness.

I get it,' said the prisoner. 'Good Cop, Bad Cop, eh?' If you like.' said Vimes. 'But we're a bit short staffed here, so if I give you a cigarette would you mind kicking yourself in the teeth?

You're a prisoner of your own illusions - about yourself and about the world.

Education has become a prisoner of contemporaneity.

And now, dear sister, I must leave this house or the retreating army will make me a prisoner in it by filling up the road I am directed to take.

Those who build walls are their own prisoners.

You're a tourist in sexual perversion. I'm a prisoner there.

The reporter is the daily prisoner of clocked facts. On all working days, he is expected to do his best in one swift swipe at each story.

It is true I wished to escape; and so I wish still: is not this lawful for all prisoners?

I only escaped from Tibet because I feared my people would resort to desperate violence if the Chinese took me as their prisoner.

I am a President held prisoner, that I haven't resigned and I will not resign.

The only conception of freedom I can have is that of the prisoner or the individual in the midst of the State. The only one I know is freedom of thought and action.

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 world gave it the freedom of her house.