Best 138 quotes in «prisoner quotes» category

You can grow up being a troublemaker and then before you know it the next thing you’re doing is listening to Frank Zappa whilst chilling out…now that’s the intelligent way out. What would a psychiatrist say about that?

Your existence is defiance: as those around you perish, you gather those passed souls and rise with them, as if your voice and leadership is made stronger by a long line of ancestors who stand tall, in spirit, with you. And I think that's what I loved most about your description of your physical self: 'I would not change anything about me. I represent my ancestors.

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.

... all Americans are the prisoners of racial prejudice.

You want to know about the place called Hell?" he asked the curious animal. "There is no Hell," he said. "Hell is in here." He touched the raw, pink skin of his chest with the tips of his fingers. "And it will forever brun inside me for what I have done.

A jailer is as much a prisoner as his prisoner.

Dinner with water is dinner for prisoners

Bring on the shackles - I'm your prisoner

Help! I'm being held prisoner by my heredity and environment.

Don't be a prisoner of your own style!

Freedom is an elusive concept. Some men hold themselves prisoner even when they have the power to do as they please and go where they choose, while others are free in their hearts, even as shackles restrain them.

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

Everywhere men have unlocked the prisoners within, and from under the disguising skins the apes have leapt joyfully out.

I live a very dull life here... indeed I think I am more like a state prisoner than anything else.

I gained an inner peace, the serenity of a prisoner, so to speak.

I rap for listeners, blunt heads, fly ladies and prisoners

If anyone has it rough at Guantanamo, it is the guards. They are constantly harassed and threatened by some of these terrorists. Prisoners tell guards, we know where your families are. We know where your wife is, your children, and we are going to kill them.

Listen, just do what you think is right, and we'll support it." ~ Sticky Washington, The Prisoner's Dilemma

It is not the prisoners who need reformation, it is the prisons.

John McCain was a prisoner of war.

Many working families are both prisoners and architects of the time bind in which they find themselves.

No one complains of being a prisoner of love who has ever been a prisoner of loneliness.

Mordovian prisoners are afraid of their own shadows. They are completely terrified.

Never did a prisoner, released from his chains, feel such relief as I shall on shaking off the shackles of power.

I was always mortified.Didn't they know they were tying thier mothers to the ground? Weren't chains ashamed of their prisoners?

My obsessions used to be my protectors, but now they have taken me prisoner.

Personal lyricism is the outcry of prisoner to prisoner from the cell in solitary where each is confined for the duration of his life.

Ours is a civil fight, and imprisonment as a civil prisoner has got to be earned by the strict observance of the programme.

The prisoner is not the one who has commited a crime, but the one who clings to his crime and lives it over and over.

The hazards of the generalized prisoner's dilemma are removed by the match between the right and the good.

The prisoner falls in love with his chains.

Prison life, fortunately, I spent a lot of years, about 18 years with other prisoners, and, as I say, they enriched your soul.

There are few prisoners more closely guarded than princes.

The West has political prisoners.

The lives of prisoners of war after they are returned is almost never discussed, never explored.

There is no greater hell than to be a prisoner of fear.

The voluntary captive The speechless the prisoner Which I hide in my very depths.

Those who build walls are their own prisoners. I'm going to go fulfill my proper function in the social organism. I'm going to unbuild walls.

Those who build walls are their own prisoners.

The unhappy are prisoners of a single round of thought.

We have not come here to take prisoners But to surrender ever more deeply To freedom and joy.

Timeless is the creature who is wise. And timeless is the prisoner in disguise.

What are you? Stupid? Of course they have a guard. What part of ‘You’re a prisoner’ did you miss? (Delphine)

When those pictures of Abu Ghraib came out, I thought, my gosh, this is like the tiger cages for prisoners in Vietnam all over again. Only we were actually doing it ourselves, we weren't hiring another government to do it.

To me I just, I'm a geek when it comes to cinematographers . And when it comes to Robert and when it comes to someone like Roger Deakins who shot Prisoners and he shot Jarhead.

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

What I have experienced is nothing compared to what political prisoners in prisons suffer.

When we are attentive to our actions we are not prisoners to our habits.

Yes. And release prisoners who are incarcerated for pot.

You cannot be a prisoner of your past against your will. Because you can only live in the past inside your mind.