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I have learned some things. Modern life is warfare without end: take no prisoners, leave no wounded, eat the deadthat's environmentally sound. — James Crumley
There is no way around the contradictions and dangers inherent in Israel's decision to free over 1,000 prisoners in order to liberate Gilad Shalit.
— Elliott Abrams
Through my illness I learned rejection. I was written off. That was the moment I thought, Okay, game on. No prisoners. Everybody's going down.
— Lance Armstrong
Dreamers are risk takers, they go where the most people couldn't go. They break grounds, they take no prisoners.
— Euginia Herlihy
The prisoners still keep killing each other thay hung six yesterday thay fight all most every night in the stockade.
— Joseph Williams
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
Sometimes I doubt that anyone with a philosophical turn of mind is fit to judge anyone. He never comprehends the concept of guilt.
— Jack Henry Abbott
Of the seventeen thousand prisoners who passed through Tuol Sleng, only seven survived.
— Reif Larsen
And if Bradley Manning really did as he is accused, he is a hero, an example to us all and one of the world's foremost political prisoners.
— Julian Assange
More than 90 percent of all the prisoners in our American prisons have been abused as children.
— John A. Powell
Living in the past, can only hold those who live there, as its prisoners.
— Ellen J. Barrier
All Americans are the prisoners of racial prejudice.
— Shirley Chisholm
One of the prisoners, Grigoryev, went mad as soon as he was untied, and never regained his sanity.
— Fyodor Dostoyevsky
I will say, the one thing Mexico does well is punish prisoners. They do. They're good at that.
— Tucker Carlson
Words on the page are never prisoners of the page
— Sonya Hartnett
The big lock-up is about drugs. Here's the real scam. The drug war is one of the games to get more convictions and prisoners.
— Jerry Brown
Charles, throughout his imprisonment, had had to pay heavily for his bad food, and for his guard, and towards the living of the poorer prisoners.
— Charles Dickens
In the battle of Kunu-ri, more than 5,000 American soldiers were killed, wounded or taken as prisoners of war. Ninety percent of my unit was killed.
— Charles B. Rangel
In some ways, we are traveling in time now. We just happened to be prisoners of the present in the eternal transition from the past to the future.
— Neil DeGrasse Tyson
It would be better to drown these prisoners in the Dead Sea if possible, since that's the lowest point in the world.
— Avigdor Lieberman
I have a lot of fans who are in the prison system, where ramen noodles are a kind of staple. Prisoners are always sending me recipes.
— Chuck Palahniuk
No one is my enemy or the Gospel's ... just prisoners of war that Christ longs to set free.
— Bill Myers
The better question was, what was holding us prisoners?
— Skye Warren
The prisoners of the cultures are mostly the women! House is the name of the prison!
— Mehmet Murat Ildan
Build the prisons and they will commit the crimes.
— Brian Spellman
Yet in one way or another all of us - readers and writers alike - are ultimately prisoners of the documents. And the chains are hard to see
— Charles Tilly
This is what happens in prisons I think you're not giving the prisoners the credit for how ingenious they are.
— Philip Davies
Only two of the prisoners were found sane enough to be hanged, and the rest were committed to various institutions.
— H.P. Lovecraft
There is nothing like scrubbing toilets for a living to make you question the choices you have made in life.
— Raegan Butcher
We are the prisoners of history. Or are we?
— Robert Penn Warren
Nay, a heart of love is treasure, and the best the world contains.
— Florence Morse Kingsley
We shall remain prisoners of culture unless we become aware of the process and force ourselves to confront it and to deprogram it.
— John Howard Griffin
Everywhere men have unlocked the prisoners within, and from under the disguising skins the apes have leapt joyfully out.
— Osbert Sitwell
They made you hate everyone, even the ones who were like you. That is what they do, so the prisoners will not rise up against them.
— David Baldacci
When it comes to the cause of justice, I take no prisoners and I don't believe in compromise.
— Mary Frances Berry
Men are prisoners of their genitalia and women are the keepers of the keys to paradise.
— Pat Conroy
I have never understood the liberal assumption that if there were justice in the world, there would be fewer rather than more prisoners.
— Anthony Daniels
We are the prisoners of our thoughts; we are conformists. We fear new thoughts, new ideas, and new adventures.
— Debasish Mridha
The curiosity to see the prisoners appears to be unabated.
— Lewis Tappan
We are the prisoners of conformity. To get out of this prison, education is the only door and only opportunity.
— Debasish Mridha
I've always been opposed myself to prisoners having the vote.
— William Hague
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television — Norman Mailer
She fought back the only way she knew how - by caring for her fellow prisoners and helping them to stay strong.
— Kristin Hannah
I never saw a man who looked With such a wistful eye Upon that little tent of blue Which prisoners call the sky,
— Oscar Wilde
The vast majority of prisoners at Abu Ghraib, even after interrogation, had no further intel value whatsoever.
— Janis Karpinski
Morality is not man's prison but rather the divine element in him.
— Pope Benedict XVI
Teach us to pray that we may cause The enemy to flee, That we his evil power may bind, His prisoners to free.
— Watchman Nee
There was never in my mind a desire to give in on the subject of freeing the political prisoners.
— Robert Bourassa
The blues aren't pessimistic. We're prisoners of hope but we tell the truth and the truth is dark.
— Cornel West
Slaves of Plastic! Leather-shoe chino-pants prisoners! Haircut junkies! Dacron-shiffers!
— Allen Ginsberg
the slaughterhouse where we had been locked up at night as prisoners of war.
— Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
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
You don't have to be very bright to carry a handbarrow. So the squad leader gave such work to people who'd been in positions of authority.
— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Eleven hundred defenceless prisoners of both sexes and all ages had been killed by the populace;
— Charles Dickens
Pain dies quickly, and lets her weary prisoners go; the fiercest agonies have shortest reign.
— William C. Bryant
We're not prisoners of the past.
— Martin Seligman
They were dealt with as in war, and they naturally employed the means that were used against them.
— Leo Tolstoy
The mad joy over the prisoners who were saved, had astounded him scarcely less than the mad ferocity against those who were cut to pieces.
— Charles Dickens
We differ on several issues. And this may include settlement, the release of prisoners, the wall closing institutions in Jerusalem.
— Mahmoud Abbas
Women are dominating the charts, and women are doing it for themselves. We're kicking butt and taking no prisoners.
— Patti LaBelle
The prisoners eyed the clothes some time, and laughed a good deal among themselves before they put them on.
— Lewis Tappan
A society is measured by the treatment of its prisoners
— Winston S. Churchill
Love took prisoners no matter what the circumstances; it broke open the heart with no regard for consequences.
— Andrea Hurst
The degree of a nation's civilization can be seen in the way it treats its prisoners
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
The word deadline is defined as "a boundary line in a prison that prisoners can cross only at the risk of being shot." I
— Gary Reilly
Only a free West can help the prisoners of today's left- and right-wing dictatorships.
— Barbara Amiel
we Do as the ascendants to GOD ; the prisoners and the unemployeds Do , we Forget the Pain & Raise Hope ~
— Mahmoud Darwish
If the prisoner is beaten, it is an arrogant expression of fear.
— Ghassan Kanafani
The unhappy are prisoners of a single round of thought.
— Mason Cooley
My past takes no hostages, no prisoners. I've let go of yesterday and am free to receive the beautiful gift of the present.
— Jaeda DeWalt
I live on the limit, Vyvyan. The limit, because I'm a rider at the gates of dawn and I take no prisoners!
— Rik Mayall
Those who build walls are their own prisoners. I'm going to go fulfill my proper function in the social organism. I'm going to unbuild walls.
— Ursula K. Le Guin
We cannot run away from the needs of LGBTI, sex workers, drug users, prisoners, and people with a disability.
— Michel Sidibe
The fate of all of us here has been to know that we are prisoners of power. No one knows why us in particular, but what a great fortune!
— Carlos Castaneda
The lives of prisoners of war after they are returned is almost never discussed, never explored.
— Gideon Raff
Many working families are both prisoners and architects of the time bind in which they find themselves.
— Arlie Russell Hochschild
Only the prisoners who were hit. An undamaged
— Jonas Jonasson
