Prisoner Quotes - page 2

We know the Russian methods exactly. I haven't the faintest intention of being taken prisoner by the Russians. (Heinrich Müller)
American POWs from the last Iraq war, who were held prisoner and tortured by Iraq, are now being prevented by our government from suing the Iraqis who tortured them. View quote
Dana Rohrabacher
I was never a prisoner to my footballing status. View quote
Michel Patini
The demigods have left for alaska," Stheno said. "They fly straight to their death. Ah, small "d" death, I mean. Not our prisoner Death. Although, i suppose they're flying to him too. View quote
Rick Riordan
There are times when I flick through magazines and think I'm in danger of becoming a prisoner of my own hair. View quote
Brian May
There is something about words. In expert hands, manipulated deftly, they take you prisoner. View quote
Diane Setterfield
Depression is a prison where you are both the suffering prisoner and the cruel jailer. View quote
Dorothy Rowe
The line that connects the bombing of civilian populations to the mountain removed by strip mining ... to the tortured prisoner seems to run pretty straight. We're living, it seems, in the culmination of a long warfare - warfare against human beings, other creatures and the Earth itself. View quote
Wendell Berry
A person may dwell so long upon a thought that it may take him a prisoner. View quote
Edward Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax
What are you looking at, foreigner?” the guard demanded roughly. The smile was a little unsettling. A prisoner shouldn't smile at his captors like that. "I'm just making sure I can remember you,” Gilan told him. "Never know when that might be useful. View quote
John Flanagan
I'm feeling more and more thoughts that aren't songs, just reflections. I'm always been very shy and in some ways a prisoner in one language and I feel that the liberation of creativity has to be in all senses. So I've been deciding to publishing something very simple but very small at the same time, nothing egocentric. (Ana Tijoux)
I am not a prisoner of my sexuality like men younger than myself although I write about being a prisoner. View quote
Al Goldstein
I view my pitching on how confident I was out there, period. And if I lose that confidence, I can become a prisoner of my own mind. View quote
Barry Zito
And now, dear sister, I must leave this house or the retreating army will make me a prisoner in it by filling up the road I am directed to take. View quote
Dolley Madison
I will be a model prisoner, as I have been a model citizen. View quote
Edwin Edwards
Three hundred years ago a prisoner condemned to the Tower of London carved on the wall of his cell this sentiment to keep up his spirits during his long imprisonment: 'It is not adversity that kills, but the impatience with which we bear adversity.' View quote
James Keller
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. View quote
Kevin O'Leary
People come from a certain generation and a certain whole way of looking at things, and you really do become a prisoner of your own world. View quote
Matthew Shipp
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. View quote
Warren Christopher
I fell in love with my country when I was a prisoner in someone else's. I loved it not just for the many comforts of life here. I loved it for its decency, for its faith in the wisdom, justice, and goodness of its people. I loved it because it was not just a place, but an idea, a cause worth fighting for. I was never the same again; I wasn't my own man anymore; I was my country's. View quote
John McCain
Every man is a prisoner, and the greatest irony of all is to be the prisoner of another man. (Sidney Sheldon)
And the world is busting at its seams; And you're just a prisoner of your dreams. Holding on for your life 'cause you work all day To blow 'em away in the night. View quote
Bruce Springsteen
Against us is the law With its immensity of strength and power Against us is the law! Police know how to make a man A guilty or an innocent Against us is the power of police! The shameless lies that men have told Will ever more be paid in gold Against us is the power of the gold! Against us is racial hatred And the simple fact that we are poor My father dear, I am a prisoner Don't be ashamed to tell my crime The crime of love and brotherhood And only silence is shame. View quote
Joan Baez
Malcolm X had a special meaning for black convicts. A former prisoner himself, he had risen from the lowest depths to great heights. For this reason he was a symbol of hope, a model for thousands of black convicts who found themselves trapped in the vicious PPP cycle: prison-parole-prison. View quote
Eldridge Cleaver
Forgiveness is unlocking the door to set someone free and realising you were the prisoner! View quote
Max Lucado
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