Prisoner Quotes - Page 11

• We have not come here to take prisoners But to surrender ever more deeply To freedom and joy.

  Hafez

  Spiritual, Joy, Surrender

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• If you can't do anything about it then let it go. Don't be a prisoner to things you can't change.

  Tony Gaskins

  Life, Let It Go, Can't Change

  Twitter post from Nov 04, 2016

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• There is a doctrine whispered in secret that a man is a prisoner who has no right to open the door and run away; this is a great mystery which I do not quite understand.

  Socrates

  Running, Suicidal, Men

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• Men are tied up to their families and possessions more helplessly than in a prison. There is an occasion for the prisoner to be released, but householders entertain no desire to be relieved from the ties of family. When a man's passion is aroused nothing prevents him from ruining himself. Even into the jaws of a tiger will he jump. Those who are thus drowned in the filth of passion are called the ignorant. Those who are able to overcome it are saintly Arhats.

  Gautama Buddha

  Passion, Men, Ties

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• The small man builds cages for everyone he knows While the sage, who has to duck his head when the moon is low, Keeps dropping keys all night long For the beautiful rowdy prisoners.

  Hafez

  Beautiful, Spiritual, Wisdom

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• The Duke of Clarence . . . a prisoner in the Tower, was secretly put to death and drowned in a barrel of Malmesey wine.

  Robert Fabyan

  Wine, Towers, Dukes

  'The New Chronicles of England and France' pt. 2 (1477); early editions have the spelling malvesye

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• Tonight I feel like a prisoner on fire, waiting desperately... denied, sentenced forever more. Only your love can set me free.

  Michael Bolton

  Passion, Fire, Waiting

  Song: Save Me, 1991

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• Prison officials have been more concerned about sparing the sensitivities of executioners and witnesses than protecting the condemned prisoner from pain. They are more concerned with appearances than with the reality.

  Jamie Fellner

  Pain, Reality, Prison

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• The red tape for family members who want to speak to a loved one is a reality, ... The warehousing of prisoners is a reality. ... All of this needs to be looked at, not just medical care.

  Christopher Bullock

  Reality, Needs, Tape

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• You have been a prisoner of a little pond I am the ocean and its turbulent flood Come merge with me leave this world of ignorance

  Rumi

  Ocean, Ignorance, Unity

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• It so happened that I was on a German sailing vessel on the way to Australia when the ship was captured, and on the high seas I was made prisoner by the French.

  Fritz Sauckel

  Inspirational, Funny, Sea

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• I did feel very sexy and desirable. Those prisoners looked at me like no man ever did. I don't care how many people they killed.

  Kathy Griffin

  Sexy, Men, People

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• The plane seems exultant now, even arrogant. We did it, we did it! We're up, above you. We were dependant on you just now, prisoners fawning on you for favors, for wind and light. But now, we are free. We are up! We are off! Like someone singing ecstatically, climbing, soaring- a sustained note of power and joy.

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh

  Light, Climbing, Wind

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• Prisoners at the bar, have you anything to say in your defence?

  Agatha Christie

  Bars, Defence

  Agatha Christie (1977). “Masterpieces of murder”, Dodd Mead

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• The works of mercy are the opposite of the works of war, feeding the hungry, sheltering the homeless, nursing the sick, visiting the prisoner. But we are destroying crops, setting fire to entire villages and to the people in them. We are not performing the works of mercy but the works of war.

  Dorothy Day

  War, Nursing, Fire

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• The prisoners for better security against conversation shall have a canvas bag put over the head of each and tied around the neck, with a holes for proper breathing and eating, but not seeing.

  Edwin M. Stanton

  Breathing, Bags, Necks

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• Should you encounter the enemy, he will be defeated! No quarter will be given! Prisoners will not be taken! Whoever falls into your hands is forfeited. Just as a thousand years ago the Huns under their King Attila made a name for themselves, one that even today makes them seem mighty in history and legend, may the name German be affirmed by you in such a way in China that no Chinese will ever again dare to look cross-eyed at a German.

  Wilhelm II

  Kings, Fall, Taken

  "Hun Speech". Address in Bremerhaven to the German Expeditionary Force Prior to its Departure for China, germanhistorydocs.ghi-dc.org. July 27, 1900.

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• If I read this to you and did not tell you that it was an FBI agent describing what Americans had done to prisoners in their control, you would most certainly believe this must have been done by Nazis, Soviets in their gulags or some mad regime - Pol Pot or others - that had no concern for human beings.

  Dick Durbin

  Believe, Fbi Agents, Mad

  Speech on the Senate floor, www.washingtontimes.com. June 16, 2005.

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• I view my pitching on how confident I was out there, period. And if I lose that confidence, I can become a prisoner of my own mind.

  Barry Zito

  Views, Mind, Pitching

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• 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

  Hero, Political, World

  Official Statement by Julian Assange from the Ecuadorian Embassy, www.wikileaks.org. August 19, 2012.

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• Ignorance has been well represented under the similitude of a dungeon, where, though it is full of life, yet darkness and silence reign. But in society the bars and locks have been broken; the dungeon itself is demolished; the prisoners are out; they are in the midst of us. We have no security but to teach and renovate them.

  Horace Mann

  Ignorance, Broken, Silence

  Horace Mann (1867). “Thoughts”, p.118

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• Both sides were supposed to release all their prisoners, those were unconditional. There was some prisoner release that took place but it's not been satisfactory.

  Warren Christopher

  Unconditional Love, Sides, Release

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• I am not a prisoner of my sexuality like men younger than myself although I write about being a prisoner.

  Al Goldstein

  Writing, Men, Sexuality

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• Many abused children cling to the hope that growing up will bring escape and freedom. But the personality formed in an environment of coercive control is not well adapted to adult life. The survivor is left with fundamental problems in basic trust, autonomy, and initiative. She approaches the tasks of early adulthood-establishing independence and intimacy-burdened by major impairments in self-care, in cognition and memory, in identity, and in the capacity to form stable relationships. She is still a prisoner of her childhood; attempting to create a new life, she reencounters the trauma.

  Judith Lewis Herman

  Growing Up, Memories, Children

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• The resurrection of Jesus was simply God's unwillingness to take our 'no' for an answer. He raised Jesus, not as an invitation to us to come to heaven when we die, but as a declaration that he himself has now established permanent, eternal residence here on earth. He is standing beside us, strengthening us in this life. The good news of the resurrection of Jesus is not that we shall die and go home to be with him, but that he has risen and comes home with us, bringing all his hungry, naked, thirsty, sick prisoner brothers with him.

  Clarence Jordan

  God, Death, Christian

  Clarence Jordan (2005). “The Substance of Faith: and Other Cotton Patch Sermons”, p.26, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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