Prisoner Quotes
At twenty your choices are almost unlimited. At fifty you're a prisoner of past decisions. At seventy you have no free will left at all.
I've wanted somehow to convey to you the sensations - the atmospheric pressure, you might say - of what it is to be seriously a long-term prisoner in an American prison.
The child is not a prisoner of its inheritance; it holds its inheritance as a new creation which its future actions will unfold.
We learned that a former prisoner of war had more to teach us about what it takes to find a path to greatness than most books on corporate strategy.
Can the imagination, any more than the boy, be held prisoner ?" - from the foreword to the 1976 edition of "The Painted Bird
The hazards of the generalized prisoner's dilemma are removed by the match between the right and the good.
If the prisoner should ask the judge whether he would be content to be hanged, were he in his case, he would answer no. Then, says the prisoner, do as you would be done to.
...lying spread-eagled in the hall with only my ankle inside the room that kept me prisoner here. They really should have thought of that and tagged my neck or something.
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 is, now, for as long as this dwindling may take.
Ours is a civil fight, and imprisonment as a civil prisoner has got to be earned by the strict observance of the programme.
What freedom am I being offered while the organization of the people remains banned? Only free men can negotiate. A prisoner cannot enter into contracts.
The court was not previously aware of the prisoner's many accomplishments. In view of these, we see fit to impose the death penalty.
The demigods have left for alaska," Stheno said. "They fly straight to their death. Ah, small "d" death, I mean. Not our prisoner Death. Although, i suppose they're flying to him too.
No one complains of being a prisoner of love who has ever been a prisoner of loneliness.
The Duke of Clarence . . . a prisoner in the Tower, was secretly put to death and drowned in a barrel of Malmesey wine.
You have ten minutes. Tops. (Carlos) I have been knocked overboard, shot at, kidnapped, handcuffed, terrified, and held prisoner. I will not be told how long to take in the loo. (Gabrielle)
What are you? Stupid? Of course they have a guard. What part of ‘You’re a prisoner’ did you miss? (Delphine)
My name is Katniss Everdeen. My home is District Twelve. Peeta was taken prisoner. He is thought to be dead. Most likely is dead. It would probably be best if he were dead... - Katniss EverdeenS
You are brave, kicking a chained prisoner. They must sing heroic ballads about you on winter nights!" (Alanna)
Personal lyricism is the outcry of prisoner to prisoner from the cell in solitary where each is confined for the duration of his life.
In the innermost recesses of humanism, as its very soul, there rages a frantic prisoner who, as a Fascist, turns the world into a prison.
Let others probe the mystery if they can.Time-harried prisoners of Shall and Will -The right thing happens to the happy man.
Never did a prisoner, released from his chains, feel such relief as I shall on shaking off the shackles of power.
I would only read the novels that people classify as 'beach books' if I were being held prisoner and the only alternative was the 'Book of Mormon.'
Prison service vans that travel 90 miles to take a prisoner 90 yards; paedophiles free to leer at children in the very parks where they have committed horrific crimes.
But now, like a fallen sparrow On a golden chain, I'm forever bound in shadow, A prisoner to my pain.
Both sides were supposed to release all their prisoners, those were unconditional. There was some prisoner release that took place but it's not been satisfactory.
When you're president, you have more power to help more people, but you also are the prisoner of circumstances as well, and countervailing political forces more.
There is none of my uncle's marks upon you; he taught me how to know a man in love; in which cage of rushes I am sure you are not prisoner.
What, then, is the soul but a prisoner of your flesh? An undying yet constrained energy, bound and enslaved within a shuffling, steadily rotting suit of tissue and savage needs?
There is a depth to life which only comes from our connection to other people. However, we have to find it without becoming a prisoner.
War is not just the shower of bullets and bombs from both sides, it is also the shower of blood and bones on both sides.
It is often difficult to educate a child about the beauty of an open mind when he is a prisoner of societal conformity.
True education expands your imagination. False education fills your mind with dogma and makes you a prisoner of conformity.
The eyes of god are upon you, I mean the eyes of society. We are prisoners of societies in which we live
We have glorified wealth and freedom so much that it is impossible for most of us to truly believe that a man can truly be happy in a shack or within the confines of a prison cell.
What was a prisoner of war anyway? Less than a man, just material to be used to make the railway, like the teak sleepers and steel rails and dog spikes.