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Prisoner Quotes - Page 2

Those who build walls are their own prisoners.

Those who build walls are their own prisoners.

Ursula K. Le Guin

Wall, Prisoner, Disapproval

Ursula K. LeGuin (2015). “The Dispossessed”, p.143, Hachette UK

Visual supervision is a joke for development workers. Visual supervision is for prisoners.

Development, Prisoner, Supervision

Tom DeMarco, Tim Lister (2013). “Peopleware: Productive Projects and Teams”, p.164, Addison-Wesley

Love cannot be held prisoner because it is a river and will overflow its banks.

Love, Rivers, Prisoner

You're a tourist in sexual perversion. I'm a prisoner there.

Tourists, Prisoner, Perversion

I cannot be an optimist but I am a prisoner of hope.

Optimist, Prisoner

Twitter post from Jan 12, 2013

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

Wish, Prisoner, Stills

Saint Joan (of Arc), Thomas de Courcelles, Guillaume Manchon, Pierre Cauchon (1907). “Jeanne D'Arc, Maid of Orleans, Deliverer of France: Being the Story of Her Life, Her Achievements, and Her Death, as Attested on Oath and Set Forth in Original Documents”

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.

Stories, Facts, Prisoner

Education has become a prisoner of contemporaneity.

Education, Prisoner

Camille Paglia (2011). “Sex, Art, and American Culture: Essays”, p.8, Vintage

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

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Prison, Prisoner

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.

William S. Burroughs

Character, Style, Prisoner

William S. Burroughs (1985). “The Adding Machine: Collected Essays”, Calder Publications

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

Believe, Prisoner, Civilized Society

Your secret is your prisoner; once you reveal it, you become its slave.

Solomon Ibn Gabirol

Secret, Slave, Prisoner

People don't even know that we have political prisoners.

People, Political, Prisoner

Source: www.truth-out.org

Women are strong now. Women are dominating the charts, and women are doing it for themselves. We're kicking butt and taking no prisoners.

Strong, Kicking It, Prisoner

FaceBook post by Patti LaBelle from Jan 25, 2013

The unhappy are prisoners of a single round of thought.

Unhappy, Unhappiness, Prisoner

The curiosity to see the prisoners appears to be unabated

Curiosity, Prisoner

I am a President held prisoner, that I haven't resigned and I will not resign.

President, Prisoner, Resigned

I will be a model prisoner, as I have been a model citizen

House, Citizens, Prisoner

The prisoner grows to love his chains.

Chains, Prisoner, Grows

My arrest was on every bloody TV set. The other prisoners all knew who I was and asked me to sing.

Tvs, Prisoner, Bloody

[To a group of women prisoners:] You're luckier than I am. You're wanted and I'm not.

Groups, Prisoner, Wanted

Mordovian prisoners are afraid of their own shadows. They are completely terrified.

Nadezhda Tolokonnikova

Shadow, Prisoner, Terrified

"Pussy Riot's Nadezhda Tolokonnikova: Why I have gone on hunger strike" by Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, www.theguardian.com. September 23, 2013.

Is the prisoner a prisoner because he lives in a cage or because he knows that he lives in a cage?

Michael Moorcock

Cages, Prisoner, Knows

Every invalid is a prisoner.

Marguerite Yourcenar

Prisoner

Marguerite Yourcenar (1957). “Hadrian's Memoirs”

When I say the people around me, I mean the prisoners, the guards.

Mean, People, Prisoner

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