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A man will be imprisoned in a room with a door that's unlocked and opens inwards; as long as it does not occur to him to pull rather than push.
— Ludwig Wittgenstein
Time and the things that are imprisoned in time's memory
— Paulo Coelho
You get what you want and you become its slave.
— Ljupka Cvetanova
Self redemption is the first step to exoneration from guilt.
— Dennis E. Adonis
Can't you see the angel imprisoned in the block of stone trying to get out? I am trying to free him
— Michelangelo
Silence has built walls, walls that I attempt to break by pedaling faster, only to be imprisoned a hundred feet down the road.
— Doug Cooper
If you're late to the rescue, the imprisoned princess will just have to escape on her own!
— Kyo Shirodaira
What power would hell have if those imprisoned here would not be able to dream of heaven?
— Neil Gaiman
Our houses are such unwieldy property that we are often imprisoned rather than housed by them.
— Henry David Thoreau
With my somewhat vague aspiring mind, to be imprisoned in the rude details of a most material life was often irksome.
— Edward Carpenter
An obedient man is free when in prison," Quan said. "A disobedient man is imprisoned when free.
— Randy Alcorn
The Government of India had imprisoned Mr. Gandhi and they had been sitting outside his cell door begging him to help them out of their difficulties.
— Winston Churchill
Imprisoned quacks are always replaced by new ones.
— Rudolf Virchow
It is hard to think of something as a gift when you have been tormented and imprisoned for it.
— Cassandra Clare
Ibn Taymiyyah lived poorly. He was imprisoned and threatened. But I have never seen anyone as happy as him.
— Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya
People should not be imprisoned without having the ability to challenge the legality of that imprisonment.
— Jeff Bingaman
We are imprisoned in the realm of life, like a sailor on his tiny boat, on an infinite ocean.
— Anna Freud
I talk of love, a scholar's parrot may talk greek, but, self-imprisoned, always end where I begin.
— Phil Keaggy
I want to commit the murder I was imprisoned for.
— J.K. Rowling
Men might as well be imprisoned, as excluded from the means of earning their bread.
— John Stuart Mill
Are the prisons overpopulated, or is the population over-imprisoned ?
— Michel Foucault
The facts are to blame, my friend. We are all imprisoned by facts: I was born, I exist.
— Luigi Pirandello
Bradley Manning has been imprisoned without charge, under torture, which is what solitary confinement is.
— Noam Chomsky
Avoid trouble with those who are fanatics; they remain imprisoned in exclusivism and deserve compassion just as any other prisoner.
— Chico Xavier
I haven't read enough of the Bible. You know, I'm saving the Bible for if I ever get imprisoned, and the only reading material was the Bible.
— Barbara Ehrenreich
The main thing to understand is that we are imprisoned in some kind of work of art.
— Terence McKenna
They imprisoned Joseph to cage his abilities but God empowered him to manifest his potentials
— Ikechukwu Joseph
Our modern society is engaged in polishing and decorating the cage in which man is kept imprisoned.
— Nirmalananda
Man is not imprisoned by habit. Great changes in him can be wrought by crisis - once that crisis can be recognized and understood.
— Norman Cousins
Communists had it all wrong. It wasn't the rich who were imprisoned by their possessions, it was the poor.
— Jade Chang
No dictator, no invader, can hold an imprisoned population by force of arms forever.
— J. Michael Straczynski
The pain of being human is that we're all angels imprisoned in vessels of flesh.
— Steven Pressfield
In the same way, the action Adelaida Ivanovna Miusov was doubtless an echo of foreign influences, the chafings of a mind imprisoned
— Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Very few men imprisoned for economic crimes or even crimes of passion against the oppressor feel that they are really guilty.
— George Jackson
There is an artist imprisoned in each one of us. Let him loose to spread joy everywhere.
— Bertrand Russell
She seemed imprisoned in her sadness.
— Sena Jeter Naslund
To the soul's desires The body listens What the flesh requires Keeps the heart imprisoned
— Frank Herbert
God is present in the hungry, the homeless, the sick, and the imprisoned, as Jesus claimed in Matthew 25, and we serve God when we serve them.
— Philip Yancey
Let your imagination release your imprisoned possibilities
— Robert H. Schuller
When you are imprisoned by the rules of conformity, it tames your imaginative capacity and steals your free thinking abilities.
— Debasish Mridha
Imprisoned in a cage of sound, even the trivial seems profound
— John Betjeman
Ashley was imprisoned forever by words which were stronger than any jail.
— Margaret Mitchell
While the Governor, and the Mayor, and countless officers of the Commonwealth are at large, the champions of liberty are imprisoned.
— Henry David Thoreau
Her beauty has captured me, imprisoned my capacity for language. All I can do is pay homage to the temple of her body.
— Jasinda Wilder
We are imprisoned in our small selves, thinking only of the comfortable conditions for this small self, while we destroy our large self.
— Thich Nhat Hanh
We are not imprisoned by circumstances, setbacks, mistakes or staggering defeats, we are freed by our choices.
— James C. Collins
No one ever laid out the sequence of events that led to my mother being prosecuted and imprisoned for alleged welfare fraud.
— Chris Gardner
He did not often think of people as individuals, but rather as antidotes for the poison of his loneliness, as escapes from the imprisoned ghosts.
— John Steinbeck
I am gagged and imprisoned. I can't even speak. I want to kick a football in a park with my son. Ordinary, banal life: my impossible dream.
— Salman Rushdie
No person can do this or that to keep another from being truly free. We are always free. Even if imprisoned.
— Leigh LaValle
We are powerfully imprisoned in these Dark Ages simply by the terms in which we have been conditioned to think.
— R. Buckminster Fuller
I was imprisoned in Missouri in 1854 for preaching the gospel to Negroes, though I was never subjected to violence.
— Hiram Rhodes Revels
You may think you will never get caught for your wrongdoing, but be assured that you will be imprisoned by your wrongdoing.
— Debasish Mridha
At Florence which included diplomatic missions to various European courts. Imprisoned
— Niccolo Machiavelli
You can never really know what a guru is as long as you are imprisoned by your own thoughts and circular ego.
— Krishna Das
Her physical beauty had initially caught my attention, but it was her spirit that imprisoned my heart and soul forever. - Jonathan
— Helen Boswell
The philosopher is not the spokesman of his age, but an angel imprisoned in time.
— Nicolas Gomez Davila
Great leaders don't just know the sweet spots of their people. They tap into and unchain the infinite potential imprisoned within their people...
— Assegid Habtewold
In Presence, there is no outcome. It is our involvement in the outcome that keeps us imprisoned in an imagined future. In Presence, there is only now.
— Leonard Jacobson
Prostitution, although hounded, imprisoned, and chained, is nevertheless the greatest triumph of Puritanism.
— Emma Goldman
Similarly, the Marquis is presented in this film as someone who would disturb the status quo and therefore must be kept imprisoned.
— Philip Kaufman
Guilt keeps people imprisoned in themselves.
— Iris Murdoch
Sill. Their horses and weapons were confiscated, and they were imprisoned. In a field just
— N. Scott Momaday
The gods," he said. "Imprisoned in a thought. And perhaps they were never more than a dream.
— Terry Pratchett
I'll do as I please. My mind is not to be imprisoned.
— Pramoedya Ananta Toer
Most of us are imprisoned by something. We're living in darkness until something flips on the switch.
— Wynonna Judd
But it is impossible to go through life without trust; that is to be imprisoned in the worst cell of all, oneself.
— Graham Greene
The soul is content to stay imprisoned in the human body ... for through the eyes all the various things of nature are represented to the soul.
— Leonardo Da Vinci
Please don't waste-away in front of a TV waiting to win a lottery during the precious few hours you are not imprisoned in corporate shackles.
— Bryant McGill
The work of the eyes is done. Go now and do the heart-work on the images imprisoned within you.
— Rainer Maria Rilke
Through my work with PETA, I have learned a great deal about chimpanzee behavior and the plight of chimpanzees imprisoned in laboratories.
— Woody Harrelson
No longer will you be a weird Robinson Crusoe, imprisoned on an island of night surrounded by oceans of death.
— Richard Matheson
We are imprisoned by the truth we dare not see. We are imprisoned by the questions we dare not ask.
— Kelley Armstrong
The West Bank is essentially imprisoned.
— Noam Chomsky
No, my girl, you know nothing of how we women are imprisoned in our lives, but there are ways to determine the sentence we must serve.
— Gregory Maguire
Lovely. Imprisoned in a nursery school dungeon.
— Rick Riordan
American high schools have physically imprisoned young people, stripped them of civil liberties and fed them a diet of p.c. pap.
— Camille Paglia
When I was first imprisoned, the hardest thing was that my thoughts were still those of a free man.
— Albert Camus