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When a prisoner sees the door of his dungeon open, he dashes for it without stopping to think where he shall get his dinner outside. — George Bernard Shaw

Forgive to set yourself free; love to set the prisoner free. — Debasish Mridha

One prisoner of conscience is one too many. — Aung San Suu Kyi

You know, it set you at war with yourself. — Elizabeth Wein

You are a prisoner of conformity when you care about what other people think. — Debasish Mridha

Work, he said, was a first-rate medicine for any illness. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Don't be a prisoner of people's opinion of you, become liberated in God's design of you. You are beautifully made. — Farshad Asl

A man who takes away another man's freedom is a prisoner of hatred, he is locked behind the bars of prejudice and narrow mindedness. — Nelson Mandela

I refuse to stay a prisoner to my body. I am going to free myself. — Leigh Hershkovich

He that becomes protector of sin shall surely become its prisoner. — Augustine Of Hippo

Paul was Nero's prisoner, but Nero was much more God's. — William Gurnall

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

Prisoners at the bar, have you anything to say in your defence? — Agatha Christie

Prejudice makes prisoners of both the hated and the hater. — Randy Shilts

The prisoner grows to love his chains. — Plato

Are you being held prisoner right now, or are these bullies on our side?" "They're on our side." Iko — Marissa Meyer

He was looking through the eyes of the prisoner. — Stephen King

I man is a prisoner of only his own mind. — Michael Hawkins

All Americans are the prisoners of racial prejudice. — Shirley Chisholm

Pictures bring you inside, whether you see yourself driving a new car or as a hapless prisoner who is being abused. — Jerry Della Femina

The best way to keep a prisoner from escaping is to make sure he never knows he's in prison. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

I will say, the one thing Mexico does well is punish prisoners. They do. They're good at that. — Tucker Carlson

Hi's nose was pressed to his window. I've changed my mind, Tory. This is the perfect place to hold someone prisoner. I'm keeping this on file. — Kathy Reichs

The Prisoner
All right,
Go ahead!
What's in a name?
I guess I'll be locked into
As much as I'm locked out of! — Edna St. Vincent Millay

Love has an effect few other things have: to empower you with happiness, and at the same time, strip you of all power, making you a prisoner of fear. — Layla Hagen

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

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

You are only a prisoner when you surrender. — Tad Williams

He was desire, and I was his prisoner, chained up by his kisses. Submissive to his touch. — Candace Knoebel

We are, each of us, our own prisoner. We are locked up in our own story. — Maxine Kumin

To know that you are a prisoner of your mind is the dawn of wisdom. — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

Kell used to feel like a possession. Now he felt like a prisoner. — Victoria Schwab

Like a prisoner awaiting his release, like a schoolboy when the end of term is near, like a migrant bird ready to fly south ... I long to be gone. — Malcolm Muggeridge

I cannot be an optimist but I am a prisoner of hope. — Cornel West

To forgive is to set a prisoner free and discover that the prisoner was yourself. — Diane Moody

I felt that it was getting very late indeed, but I did not say anything, for I felt under obligation to meet my host's wishes in ever way. — Bram Stoker

When you forgive, the prisoner you set free is yourself. — Helen Klein Ross

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

Unclose your mind. You are not a prisoner. You are a bird in fight, searching the skies for dreams. — Haruki Murakami

Potter, you can skin Malfoy's shrivelfig... — J.K. Rowling

People forget history nowadays,that is what the ego does, making one the prisoner of one's inflated present, ignoring the humble past one had lived. — Aporva Kala

Even when one sits in the prisoner's dock, it is interesting to hear talk about oneself. — Albert Camus

I am not the #Prisoner of my #Past neither the #Slave for my #Future !! — Tushar Upreti

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

To men who only aim at escaping felony, nothing short of the prisoner's dock is disgrace. — George Eliot

I am George Rogers Clark. You have just become a prisoner of the Commonwealth of Virginia. — George Rogers Clark

General, get up dress quick you are a prisoner! — John S. Mosby

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

Good Morning, Henry. How's it feel to be a prisoner for a day?' Henry looked at Keiko. 'Best day of my life.' Keiko found her smile all over again. — Jamie Ford

And since, through lack of vocation or from habit, [Julie] was prone to confuse pity with boredom, she felt herself practically a prisoner ... — Colette

Everyone is a prisoner of his own experiences. No one can eliminate prejudices
just recognize them. — Edward R. Murrow

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

Motioned to the sergeant-major to turn the prisoner around to show his back. — Diana Gabaldon

Care about what other people think and you will always be their prisoner. — Lao-Tzu

The past is a great place and I don't want to erase it or to regret it, but I don't want to be its prisoner either. — Mick Jagger

The prisoner falls in love with his chains. — Edsger Dijkstra

Learn from the past, but don't be a prisoner of it. — Jamie Larbi

Never be a good prisoner. Not unless you want to collude in your own imprisonment. — Orna Ross

The hazards of the generalized prisoner's dilemma are removed by the match between the right and the good. — John Rawls

I unscrewed my own scrap of paper and read out: "Help! I am prisoner in the tower. — Leonora Carrington

When you forgive, some deeper, divine generosity takes you over ... When you cannot forgive, you are a prisoner of the hurt done to you. — John O'Donohue

When you meditate you discover over and over again that you are not a prisoner of your mind. — Andrew Cohen

There he dwelt, a prisoner acting like a kind. — Philip Pullman

We are prisoners of our own metaphors, metaphorically speaking ... — R. Buckminster Fuller

'Shantaram' is fantastic. An Australian prisoner escapes & joins the mafia in India? Sign me up. I love stuff that is based on true stories. — Hasan Minhaj

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

Education has become a prisoner of contemporaneity. — Camille Paglia

There are few prisoners more closely guarded than princes. — Christina, Queen Of Sweden

Finn smiled ruefully. I'm a Prisoner, old man. Just like you. — Catherine Fisher

It was clearly a prisoner's craftwork; that is, the most painstaking work in the world, for prisoners have nowhere to hurry to. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

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

Care about people's approval and you will be their prisoner. — Laozi

A humble prisoner is more righteous than an arrogant judge. — Matshona Dhliwayo

In truth, Liesel was a prisoner too, just held by different kinds of bonds. — Nicki Elson

Even a prison the size of a universe is still a prison. And it is every prisoner's duty to escape. — John C. Wright

In war everybody is a prisoner. — Ursula K. Le Guin

Fuck the rabbit, eat it and go after a lion. — Stephen Richards

Timeless is the creature who is wise. And timeless is the prisoner in disguise. — Stevie Nicks

He was beginning to understand how those ridiculous tales had made her a prisoner of others' expectations. — Tessa Dare

I'm so very tired of being held prisoner by my own mind. — Kathryn Perez

When you enter a lake and when the nature wraps you up tightly never letting you go out, you will be the happiest prisoner on earth! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

I think I was the healthiest prisoner of conscience in the world. — Aung San Suu Kyi

We're not prisoners of the past. — Martin Seligman

Ever see moors murderer Ian Brady, study his photos, study Black, study Cannon, study Sutcliffe - study them all! Who says evil is not recognisable? — Stephen Richards

A prisoner of war is a man who tries to kill you and fails, and then asks you not to kill him. — Winston S. Churchill

Personal lyricism is the outcry of prisoner to prisoner from the cell in solitary where each is confined for the duration of his life. — Tennessee Williams

But now, like a fallen sparrow On a golden chain, I'm forever bound in shadow, A prisoner to my pain. — Walter Dean Myers

I had been shackled, a prisoner in my own mind — Tahereh Mafi

Prisoners are the greatest audience that an entertainer can perform to. — Johnny Cash

Mud can make you prisoner and the plains can make you dry. Snow can burn your eyes but only people make you cry. — Alan Jay Lerner

Depression is a prison where you are both the suffering prisoner and the cruel jailer. — Dorothy Rowe

Fear can hold you prisoner. Hope can set you free. — Stephen King

I can mingle with the stars and throw a party on Mars
I am a prisoner, locked up behind Xanax bars — Lil' Wayne

In the innermost recesses of humanism, as its very soul, there rages a frantic prisoner who, as a Fascist, turns the world into a prison. — Theodor W. Adorno

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

My son smiled. "You taught me well, Father."
"What did I teach you?"
"That a spear-point in a prisoner's liver is a very persuasive thing. — Bernard Cornwell

i was a prisoner of events — Nigel Blundell

It doesn't really matter if I am a prisoner of your will so long as I am not a prisoner of mine. christopher dutton — Christopher Dutton

And he was a top-security prisoner too. — J.K. Rowling

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. — Matthew Shipp