quotes about Prisoner
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The thoughts of a prisoner - they're not free either. They keep returning to the same things.
-- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn -
I was happy not to be in his place. He could command my death, but not his. But then, what kind of power was his? He was a prisoner of himself.
-- Anchee Min -
Don't be a prisoner of your own style!
-- Armin van BuurenSource : Twitter post from Apr 27, 2011
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I was a prisoner, but I always felt free because I was not frightened So for me real freedom is freedom from fear.
-- Aung San Suu Kyi -
As you look at me and listen to me, please remember the often repeated truth that one prisoner of conscience is one too many.
-- Aung San Suu Kyi -
There is no greater hell than to be a prisoner of fear.
-- Ben Jonson -
Avoid trouble with those who are fanatics; they remain imprisoned in exclusivism and deserve compassion just as any other prisoner.
-- Chico Xavier -
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Forgiveness is setting the prisoner free, only to find out that the prisoner was me.
-- Corrie Ten Boom -
Blind certainty, a close-mindedness that amounts to an imprisonment so total that the prisoner doesn't even know he's locked up.
-- David Foster -
We are all prisoners of our time and place.
-- David Henry HwangSource : David Henry Hwang (1988). “M. Butterfly”, p.38, Dramatists Play Service Inc
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You are not a prisoner of your thoughts. You have the ability to control what you are thinking.
-- Deepak Chopra -
There is something about words. In expert hands, manipulated deftly, they take you prisoner.
-- Diane Setterfield -
Without history we are the prisoners of the accident of where and when we were born.
-- Donald KaganSource : Interview with Bruce Cole, www.neh.gov. May/June 2005.
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You feel like a prisoner if you don't create. You're jailed up inside of yourself.
-- Edie Brickell -
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I will be a model prisoner, as I have been a model citizen
-- Edwin Edwards -
Since being a prisoner was a definite improvement over being dead, which was what she thought was going to happen when the Loundergs had attacked, Suzy was quite cheerful.
-- Garth Nix -
The lives of prisoners of war after they are returned is almost never discussed, never explored.
-- Gideon Raff -
I got very well acquainted with Joe Stalin, and I like old Joe! He is a decent fellow. But Joe is a prisoner of the Politburo.
-- Harry S. Truman -
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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.
-- Henry Miller -
I am a President held prisoner, that I haven't resigned and I will not resign.
-- Hugo Chavez -
We are all prisoner, but the name of our cure is not freedom
-- Iris Murdoch -
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.
-- Jim Bishop -
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It is true I wished to escape; and so I wish still: is not this lawful for all prisoners?
-- Joan of Arc -
The past is the one thing we are not prisoners of. We can do with the past exactly what we wish. What we can't do is to change its consequences.
-- John Berger -
More than 90 percent of all the prisoners in our American prisons have been abused as children.
-- John Powell -
The hazards of the generalized prisoner's dilemma are removed by the match between the right and the good.
-- John Rawls -
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The African prisoners are orderly and peaceable among themselves.
-- Lewis Tappan -
Most of the prisoners told the interpreter that they are from Mandingo.
-- Lewis Tappan -
The curiosity to see the prisoners appears to be unabated
-- Lewis Tappan -
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We are, each of us, our own prisoner. We are locked up in our own story.
-- Maxine KuminSource : Maxine Kumin (1978). “The retrieval system: poems”, Viking Pr
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Is the prisoner a prisoner because he lives in a cage or because he knows that he lives in a cage?
-- Michael Moorcock -
I was never a prisoner to my footballing status.
-- Michel Patini -
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Mordovian prisoners are afraid of their own shadows. They are completely terrified.
-- Nadezhda TolokonnikovaSource : "Pussy Riot's Nadezhda Tolokonnikova: Why I have gone on hunger strike" by Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, www.theguardian.com. September 23, 2013.
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[To a group of women prisoners:] You're luckier than I am. You're wanted and I'm not.
-- Nancy Astor -
Tis base to plead the unhappy prisoner's cause, With eloquence that's bought.
-- Ovid -
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Women are strong now. Women are dominating the charts, and women are doing it for themselves. We're kicking butt and taking no prisoners.
-- Patti LaBelle -
Structures of which we are unaware hold us prisoner.
-- Peter Senge -
We are prisoners of our own metaphors, metaphorically speaking...
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Prejudice makes prisoners of both the hated and the hater.
-- Randy ShiltsSource : Randy Shilts (2011). “And the Band Played On: Politics, People and the AIDS Epidemic”, p.496, Souvenir Press
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We are the prisoners of history. Or are we?
-- Robert Penn Warren -
... all Americans are the prisoners of racial prejudice.
-- Shirley Chisholm -
Every man is a prisoner, and the greatest irony of all is to be the prisoner of another man.
-- Sidney Sheldon -
You shouldn't be a prisoner of your own ideas.
-- Sol LeWittSource : Interview with Saul Ostrow, bombmagazine.org. October 1, 2003.
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Your secret is your prisoner; once you reveal it, you become its slave.
-- Solomon Ibn Gabirol -
Fear can hold you prisoner. Hope can set you free.
-- Stephen KingSource : "The Shawshank Redemption", www.imdb.com. 1994.
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You are only a prisoner when you surrender.
-- Tad WilliamsSource : Tad Williams (2007). “Shadowplay: Shadowmarch”, p.657, Penguin
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Right now you are a prisoner of each application you use. You have only the options that were given you by the developer of that application.
-- Ted Nelson -
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Let others probe the mystery if they can.Time-harried prisoners of Shall and Will -The right thing happens to the happy man.
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I believe that free and civilized societies do not hold prisoners incommunicado.
-- Tom McClintock -
If you can't do anything about it then let it go. Don't be a prisoner to things you can't change.
-- Tony Gaskins -
I'm an orphan!" Constance cried gleefully. "I'm an orphan!" ~ The Prisoner's Dilemma
-- Trenton Lee Stewart -
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Listen, just do what you think is right, and we'll support it." ~ Sticky Washington, The Prisoner's Dilemma
-- Trenton Lee Stewart -
Paul was Nero's prisoner, but Nero was much more God's.
-- William Gurnall -
I've always been opposed myself to prisoners having the vote.
-- William Hague -
Hemingway was a prisoner of his style. No one can talk like the characters in Hemingway except the characters in Hemingway. His style in the wildest sense finally killed him.
-- William S. Burroughs -
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People don't even know that we have political prisoners.
-- Sekou Odinga -
When you meditate you discover over and over again that you are not a prisoner of your mind.
-- Andrew Cohen -
There are few prisoners more closely guarded than princes.
-- Christina, Queen of SwedenSource : Christina (Queen of Sweden) (1753). “The Works of Christina Queen of Sweden: Containing Maxims and Sentences in Twelve Centuries, and Reflections on the Life and Actions of Alexander the Great”, p.98
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I began to feel that, in a sense, we were all prisoners of our own history.
-- Roland Joffe -