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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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
- from the foreword to the 1976 edition of "The Painted Bird — Jerzy Kosinski
A humble prisoner is more righteous than an arrogant judge.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
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
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
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
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
"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