Prison Quotes - Page 9

I had never feared insomnia before--like prison, wouldn't it just give you more time to read?

The severest prosecutions have never been followed by revelations changing a divine law, obedience to which brought imprisonment or martyrdom. Though I go to prison, God will not change his law of celestial marriage.

One of the men attached to the prison was the occasion of great amusement on the part of the prisoners, as well as the spectators, by taking a large lump of ice to show these strangers from the tropics

The world is a prison in which solitary confinement is preferable.

It is true I wished to escape; and so I wish still: is not this lawful for all prisoners?

The reporter is the daily prisoner of clocked facts. On all working days, he is expected to do his best in one swift swipe at each story.

We must beware the revenge of the starved senses, the embittered animal in its prison.

I'd rather be in prison in California than free anywhere else.

As far as I am concerned I would rather spend the rest of my life in prison than marry again.

The most anxious man in a prison is the governor.

One should not be deceived: great spirits are skeptics ... Strength, FREEDOM which is born of the strength and overstrength of the spirit, proves itself by skepticism. Men of conviction are not worthy of the least consideration in fundamental questions of value and disvalue. Convictions are prisons.

When I left prison, I had to figure out how to embrace my past.

The United States now has more prison inmates than full-time farmers.

Marriage can either be a classroom where people become wiser and better, or a prison where people become resentful; and bitter.

I never imagined that I'd be out of prison.

Education has become a prisoner of contemporaneity.

The thoughts of a prisoner - they're not free either. They keep returning to the same things.

Going to Starbucks for coffee is like going to prison for sex. You know you're going to get it, but it's going to be rough.

Hemingway was a prisoner of his style. No one can talk like the characters in Hemingway except the characters in Hemingway. His style in the wildest sense finally killed him.

And while God had work for Paul, he found him friends both in court and prison. Let persecutors send saints to prison, God can provide a keeper for their turn.

He is coming! He is coming! Like a bridegroom from his room, Came the hero from his prison To the scaffold and the doom.

The guilty is he who meditates a crime; the punishment is his who lays the plot.

I believe that free and civilized societies do not hold prisoners incommunicado.

Ill husbandry lieth In prison for debt: Good husbandry spieth Where profit get.

Sometimes the longer you are inside a prison, the harder it is to fathom what is possible beyond its walls.