Prisoner Quotes

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

When people laugh at your institutions and convince you that you have to adopt theirs - adopt their dress, adopt their taste in food - you are a prisoner to those people.

The curiosity to see the prisoners appears to be unabated

The unhappy are prisoners of a single round of thought.

Always late: thus I make you the prisoner of my freedom.

As so often happens in marriage, roles that had begun almost playfully, to give line and shape to our lives, had hardened like suits of armor and taken us prisoner.

Women are strong now. Women are dominating the charts, and women are doing it for themselves. We're kicking butt and taking no prisoners.

Man is a prisoner who has no right to open the door of his prison and run away. . . . A man should wait, and not take his own life until God summons hiom.

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.

My keepers, why keepers, I'm in no danger of stirring an inch, ah I see, it's to make me think I'm a prisoner, frantic with corporeality, rearing to get out and away.

People don't even know that we have political prisoners.

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

There is a doctrine whispered in secret that a man is a prisoner who has no right to open the door and run away; this is a great mystery which I do not quite understand.

Your secret is your prisoner; once you reveal it, you become its slave.

I believe that free and civilized societies do not hold prisoners incommunicado.

Turn to page three hundred and ninety-four.

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.

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

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

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

Whatever we think of the past, we must not be prisoners to it.

If there is anything that is important to America, it is that you are not a prisoner of the past.

You can feel very quickly as a prisoner of your past, of the memories.

It so happened that I was on a German sailing vessel on the way to Australia when the ship was captured, and on the high seas I was made prisoner by the French.

We know the Russian methods exactly. I haven't the faintest intention of being taken prisoner by the Russians.

The world is a philosophical prison and Man is the philosophical prisoner.

When I say the people around me, I mean the prisoners, the guards.

We are no more free agents than the queen of clubs when she victoriously takes prisoner the knave of hearts.

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

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

Is the prisoner a prisoner because he lives in a cage or because he knows that he lives in a cage?

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

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

[To a group of women prisoners:] You're luckier than I am. You're wanted and I'm not.

My arrest was on every bloody TV set. The other prisoners all knew who I was and asked me to sing.

The prisoner grows to love his chains.

We bury our seeds and wait, Winter blocks the road, Flowers are taken prisoner underground, But then green justice tenders a spear

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.

For my part, if a man must needs be a knave I would have him a debonair knave... It makes your sin no worse as I conceive, to do it à la mode and stylishly.

The word 'religion' takes on a sinister cast when one examines its root, religare, meaning 'to bind,' which in turn means 'to hold, to make prisoner, to restrain.

The Germans are prisoners of their past.

Without history we are the prisoners of the accident of where and when we were born.

He that discovers himself, till he hath made himself master of his desires, lays himself open to his own ruin, and makes himself prisoner to his own tongue.

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.

Arrival = Prison, and the artist must never be a prisoner.

Only a prisoner who has been confined for long behind high walk can appreciate the extraordinary psychological value of these outside walks and open views.

A ship in dock, surrounded by quays and the walls of warehouses, has the appearance of a prisoner meditating upon freedom in the sadness of a free spirit put under restraint.

The African prisoners are orderly and peaceable among themselves.

Each man is his own prisoner, in solitary confinement for life.

Rock 'n' roll was two pegs below being a prisoner of war back then.