Prisoner Quotes - Page 12

• There are times when I flick through magazines and think I'm in danger of becoming a prisoner of my own hair.

  Brian May

  Thinking, Hair, Magazines

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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

  Prison Life, Literature, Crime

  Henry Miller (2007). “Sexus: The Rosy Crucifixion I”, p.341, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Here's how I think of my money - as soldiers - I send them out to war everyday. I want them to take prisoners and come home, so there's more of them.

  Kevin O'Leary

  War, Home, Thinking

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• Money is my military, each dollar a soldier. I never send my money into battle unprepared and undefended. I send it to conquer and take currency prisoner and bring it back to me.

  Kevin O'Leary

  Military, Soldier, Battle

  Kevin O'Leary (2011). “Cold Hard Truth: On Business, Money & Life”, p.147, Doubleday Canada

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• I remember when humor was gentle pokes. I used to call it 'arm around the shoulder' humor. Now they go for the jugular and they take no prisoners. It's mean, mean stuff.

  Robert Orben

  Mean, Stuff, Arms

  "What's So Funny? Humor Comes Under Harsh Glare of Political Correctness". Press-Telegram, October 23, 1993.

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• A political prisoner is someone who is out fighting for his or her people's rights and freedom and is imprisoned for that alone.

  Leonard Peltier

  Fighting, Rights, People

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• 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.'

  Tom Robbins

  Beach, Book, People

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• Modern presidential debating only started with Richard Nixon and John F.Kennedy in 1960, although the proximity of that to the Lincoln-Douglas centennial is more than accidental. The reason is, I think, the medium. Abraham Lincoln and Stephen A. Douglas were talking, but the talking was in terms of logic, development, and reasoning. Television, as a medium, resists those qualities in speaking - it favors quick cuts, one-liners, and talking points. I think the modern debates are largely the prisoners of the televised medium

  Allen C. Guelzo

  Cutting, Thinking, Presidential

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• If people are encouraged to come out and say they're HIV-positive and they're given their treatments, then obviously, the people who are marginalized - like intravenous drug users, prisoners, people are made to feel less-than - if they're given the support of the government, and they're given the funding, then it's going to help solve the spread of AIDS and HIV in America.

  Elton John

  People, Support, Drug

  Source: www.wbur.org

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• They came to know the incorrigible sorrow of all prisoners and exiles, which is to live in company with a memory that serves no purpose.

  Albert Camus

  Memories, Sorrow, Purpose

  Albert Camus (1960). “The plague: translated from the French”

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• ...and every Wednesday the perfumed young lady slips me a hundred-crown note to leave her alone with the convict. And by Thursday the hundred crowns are already gone in so much beer. And when the visiting hour is over, the young lady comes out with the stink of jail in her elegant clothes; and the prisoner goes back to his cell with the lady's perfume in his jailbird's suit. And I'm left with the smell of beer. Life is nothing but trading smells.

  Italo Calvino

  Beer, Cells, Smell

  Italo Calvino (2012). “If on a winter's night a traveler”, p.76, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• She tore a page from the book and ripped it in half. Then a chapter. Soon, there was nothing but scraps of words littered between her legs and all around her. The words. Why did they have to exist? Without them, there wouldn't be any of this. Without words, the Führer was nothing. There would be no limping prisoners, no need for consolation or wordly tricks to make us feel better. What good were the words? She said it audibly now, to the orange-lit room. "What good are the words?

  Markus Zusak

  Book, Feel Better, Orange

  Markus Zusak (2016). “The Book Thief: 10th Anniversary Edition”, p.387, Random House

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• The middle class, that prisoner of the barbarian 20th century.

  Sinclair Lewis

  Class, Barbarians, Century

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• we all suffer in our different ways from being prisoners of birth.

  Jeffrey Archer

  Suffering, Way, Different

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• You shouldn't be a prisoner of your own ideas.

  Sol LeWitt

  Ideas

  Interview with Saul Ostrow, bombmagazine.org. October 1, 2003.

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• 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.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  House, Thrones, World

  Rabindranath Tagore, Mohit Kumar Ray (2007). “Poems”, p.407, Atlantic Publishers & Dist

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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

  Strong, Kicking It, Dominating

  FaceBook post by Patti LaBelle from Jan 25, 2013

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• Socialists ignore the side of man that is the spirit. They can provide you shelter, fill your belly with bacon and beans, treat you when you're ill, all the things guaranteed to a prisoner or a slave. They don't understand that we also dream.

  Ronald Reagan

  Dream, Men, Shelter

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• 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

  Past, Wish, Can Do

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• Can the imagination, any more than the boy, be held prisoner ?" - from the foreword to the 1976 edition of "The Painted Bird

  Jerzy Kosinski

  Boys, Imagination, Bird

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• Jace shook his blond head in exasperation. "You had to make a crazy jail friend, didn't you? You couldn't just count ceiling tiles or tame a pet mouse like normal prisoners do?

  Cassandra Clare

  Crazy, Jail, Pet

  Cassandra Clare (2011). “Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instrument Series (4 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels”, p.1055, Simon and Schuster

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• Peace, in the sense of the absence of war, is of little value to someone who is dying of hunger or cold. It will not remove the pain of torture inflicted on a prisoner of conscience. It does not comfort those who have lost their loved ones in floods caused by senseless deforestation in a neighboring country. Peace can only last where human rights are respected, where the people are fed, and where individuals and nations are free.

  Dalai Lama

  Inspirational, Country, Peace

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• You think you know what is just and what is not. I understand. We all think we know." I had no doubt, myself, then, that at each moment each one of us, man, woman, child, perhaps even the poor old horse turning the mill-wheel, knew what was just: all creatures come into the world bringing with them the memory of justice. "But we live in a world of laws," I said to my poor prisoner, "a world of the second-best. There is nothing we can do about that. We are fallen creatures. All we can do is to uphold the laws, all of us, without allowing the memory of justice to fade.

  J. M. Coetzee

  Horse, Children, Memories

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• She's like a prisoner inside stone walls, and every day the walls get a little thicker, the doorways a little narrower.

  Megan Whalen Turner

  Wall, Challenges, Doorways

  "The Queen of Attolia". Book by Megan Whalen Turner, 2000.

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• If this is the way Queen Victoria treats her prisoners, she doesn't deserve to have any.

  Oscar Wilde

  Queens, Way, Treats

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