Best 138 quotes in «prisoner quotes» category

What is it you do for your family? Aside from trying to put it in your sister, I mean?

When people become prisoners of daily habits and happen to be hostages of choices, which they made in the past, but which they finally do not actually want, they experience the need to abandon their corporeal prison at a certain time in life. ( "Corporeal prison" )

When one faces pain on a daily basis, one either learns to live with it or let it consume him.

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?

You are as free as a prisoner in an open air prison

Work, he said, was a first-rate medicine for any illness.

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.

You are my son Dantés! You are the child of my captivity. My priestly office condemned me to celibacy: God sent you to me both to console the man who could not be a father and the prisoner who could not be free

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?

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.

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

A jailer is as much a prisoner as his prisoner.

Bring on the shackles - I'm your prisoner

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.

Dinner with water is dinner for prisoners

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

Don't be a prisoner of your own style!

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

John McCain was a prisoner of war.

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

The prisoner falls in love with his chains.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

There are few prisoners more closely guarded than princes.

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

The unhappy are prisoners of a single round of thought.

Those who build walls are their own prisoners.

The West has political prisoners.

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.

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

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

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.