Prisoner Quotes - Page 10

• You have ten minutes. Tops. (Carlos) I have been knocked overboard, shot at, kidnapped, handcuffed, terrified, and held prisoner. I will not be told how long to take in the loo. (Gabrielle)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Long, Overboard, Minutes

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• The witty woman is a tragic figure in American life. Wit destroys eroticism and eroticism destroys wit, so women must choose between taking lovers and taking no prisoners.

  Florence King

  Love, Witty, Figures

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• What I have experienced is nothing compared to what political prisoners in prisons suffer.

  Aung San Suu Kyi

  Political, Suffering, Prison

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• Jesus is the starving, the parched, the prisoner, the stranger, the naked, the sick, the dying. Jesus is the oppressed, the poor. To live with Jesus is to live with the poor. To live with the poor is to live with Jesus.

  Jean Vanier

  Jesus, Sick, Dying

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• Don’t worry, we’re not letting her out of our sight…and after the Nick incident, we’re not letting her out from behind this bar. (Aimee) Yeah, Prisoners R Us. (Tory)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Sight, Worry, Bars

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2008). “Acheron: A Dark-Hunter Novel”, p.706, St. Martin's Press

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• Bring on the shackles - I'm your prisoner

  Stephenie Meyer

  Shackles, Twilight Edward, Twilight Series

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• What are you? Stupid? Of course they have a guard. What part of ‘You’re a prisoner’ did you miss? (Delphine)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Stupid, Missing, Courses

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2010). “Dream Warrior”, p.54, Macmillan

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• 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.

  John Flanagan

  Remember You, Remembers You, Littles

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• True love, like any other strong and addicting drug, is boring — once the tale of encounter and discovery is told, kisses quickly grow stale and caresses tiresome… except, of course, to those who share the kisses, who give and take the caresses while every sound and color of the world seems to deepen and brighten around them. As with any other strong drug, true first love is really only interesting to those who have become its prisoners. And, as is true of any other strong and addicting drug, true first love is dangerous.

  Stephen King

  Love, Strong, Kissing

  Stephen King (2016). “The Dark Tower IV: Wizard and Glass”, p.421, Simon and Schuster

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• Since being a prisoner was a definite improvement over being dead, which was what she thought was going to happen when the Loundergs had attacked, Suzy was quite cheerful.

  Garth Nix

  Cheerful, Improvement, Happens

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  Unclose your mind. You are not a prisoner. You are a bird in flight, searching the skies for dreams.

  Haruki Murakami

  Dream, Healing, Fighting

  Haruki Murakami (2011). “Hard-Boiled Wonderland And The End Of The World”, p.183, Random House

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• I think I was the healthiest prisoner of conscience in the world.

  Aung San Suu Kyi

  Thinking, World, Conscience

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• I wear the black for the poor and the beaten down, Livin' in the hopeless, hungry side of town, I wear it for the prisoner who has long paid for his crime, But is there because he's a victim of the times. I wear the black for those who never read

  Johnny Cash

  Long, Black, Politics

  Song: Man In Black

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• I sort of tend to equate tattoos with prisoners, punks or people with a high level of self-confidence. I don’t necessarily have a covered-in-tattoos personality.

  Lena Dunham

  Tattoo, Self Confidence, People

  "Lena Dunham, ‘Girls’ Star, On ‘Labia Saturation,’ Oversharing And Her Tattoos". Interview with Christopher Rosen, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 9, 2012.

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• The U.S. has the largest prison population in the world: two million people. One out of every eight prisoners in the world is an African American. We are warehousing people as a profit to shareholders or for benefits to communities that get to host federal prisons. It is modern slavery. The whole future of America's black community is at risk. One out of every three young black men in Washington, D.C., is under one arm or the other of the criminal justice system. These are the continuing consequences of slavery.

  Randall Robinson

  Men, People, Justice

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• This love was a torment, and he resented bitterly the subjugation in which it held him; he was a prisoner and he longed for freedom. Sometimes he awoke in the morning and felt nothing; his soul leaped, for he thought he was free; he loved no longer; but in a little while, as he grew wide awake, the pain settled in his heart, and he knew that he was not cured yet.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Morning, Pain, Heart

  W. Somerset Maugham (2013). “The Essential W. Somerset Maugham Collection”, p.1854, eBookIt.com

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• It is true you cannot eat freedom and you cannot power machinery with democracy. But then neither can political prisoners turn on the light in the cells of a dictatorship.

  Corazon Aquino

  Peace, Light, Cells

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• To Garan's credit, the treatment of Dellian prisoners did change after that. One particularly laconic man, after a session in which Fire learned positively nothing, thanked her for it specifically. "Best dungeons I ever been in," he said, chewing on a toothpick. "Wonderful," Garan grumbled when he had gone. "We'll grow a reputation for our kindness to lawbreakers.

  Kristin Cashore

  Kindness, Men, Fire

  Kristin Cashore (2009). “Fire”, p.143, Penguin

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• The things that make you a functional citizen in society - manners, discretion, cordiality - don't necessarily make you a good writer. Writing needs raw truth, wants your suffering and darkness on the table, revels in a cutting mind that takes no prisoners.

  Natalie Goldberg

  Writing, Cutting, Darkness

  Natalie Goldberg (2008). “Old Friend from Far Away: The Practice of Writing Memoir”, p.113, Simon and Schuster

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• Finn smiled ruefully. "I'm a Prisoner, old man. Just like you.

  Catherine Fisher

  Men, Like You, Old Man

  Catherine Fisher (2010). “Sapphique”, p.121, Penguin

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• I was always mortified.Didn't they know they were tying thier mothers to the ground? Weren't chains ashamed of their prisoners?

  Janet Fitch

  Mother, Chains, Ashamed

  Janet Fitch (2002). “White Oleander”, Large Print Press

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• Change is freedom, change is life. It's always easier not to think for oneself. Find a nice safe hierarchy and settle in. Don't make changes, don't risk disapproval, don't upset your syndics. It's always easiest to let yourself be governed. There's a point, around age twenty, when you have to choose whether to be like everybody else the rest of your life, or to make a virtue of your peculiarities. Those who build walls are their own prisoners. I'm going to go fulfil my proper function in the social organism. I'm going to go unbuild walls.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Wall, Nice, Thinking

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• There is something about words. In expert hands, manipulated deftly, they take you prisoner.

  Diane Setterfield

  Hands, Experts

  "The Thirteenth Tale". Book by Diane Setterfield, 2006.

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• Dantes passed through all the stages of torture natural to prisoners in suspense. He was sustained at first by that pride of conscious innocence which is the sequence to hope; then he began to doubt his own innocence, which justified in some measure the governor's belief in his mental alienation; and then, relaxing his sentiment of pride, he addressed his supplications, not to God, but to man. God is always the last resource. Unfortunates, who ought to begin with God, do not have any hope in him till they have exhausted all other means of deliverance.

  Alexandre Dumas

  Mean, Pride, Men

  Alexandre Dumas (2016). “ALEXANDRE DUMAS Premium Collection – 27 Novels in One Volume: The Three Musketeers Series, The Marie Antoinette Novels, The Count of Monte Cristo, The Valois Trilogy and more (Illustrated): Historical Novels & Adventure Classics: Queen Margot, Taking the Bastille, The Man in the Iron Mask, The Sicilian Bandit, The Conspirators, The Hero of the People, The Queen’s Necklace…”, p.5997, e-artnow

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• I'm an orphan!" Constance cried gleefully. "I'm an orphan!" ~ The Prisoner's Dilemma

  Trenton Lee Stewart

  Orphan, Dilemma, Cried

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