Quotes About Imprisoned

Words, when they've been captured and imprisoned on paper, become a barrier against the world, one best left unerected. Everything that happens is fluid, changeable. After they've passed, events are only as your memory makes them, and they shift shapes over time. Writing a thing down fixes it in place as surely as a rattlesnake skin strippd from the meat and stretched and tacked to a barn wall. Every bit as stationary, and every bit as false to the original thing. Flat and still and harmless.

imprisoned in the dark womb of our mother, we come to life without having seen her face, that we are given to her arms a stranger, and that, caught in that insoluble prison of being, we escape it never, no matter what arms may clasp us, what mouth may kiss us, what heart may warm us. Never, never, never, never, never.

like two r's trapped in a spanish songbook, tilli and max lurked in their shoebox castle, waiting to be rolled.

Imprisoned in every fat man, a thin one is wildly signalling to be let out.

Extensive analysis was conducted before deciding whether consumers would respond better to a male or female imprisoned in their phone. Almost every country in the world had a female Siri programmed - but not, initially, in the UK and France.

Imprisoned peace sets the war free

The days and nights spent imprisoned in her house doing nothing were getting to me. I refuse to take time for granted. One

They brought with them seventeen American POWs who were secretly imprisoned in Villa Marista for advanced experiments with drugs." It was hard to imagine being taken prisoner in Vietnam, tortured there, then being shipped to Cuba for more of the same.

at Florence which included diplomatic missions to various European courts. Imprisoned

In our natural state, we are glorious beings. In the world of illusion, we are lost and imprisoned, slaves to our appetites and our will to false power.

In each picture is a whole lifetime imprisoned, a whole lifetime of fears, doubts, hopes and joys.

Like nightmares, dreams were insidious things, and didn't like being locked away.

For those of us imprisoned in Poland, the Prague Spring was a harbinger of hope.

Estamos todos atrapados. Es 1734 para siempre.

The people in ships, however, took an equally singular view of England. Not only did it appear to them to be an island, and a very small island, but it was a shrinking island in which people were imprisoned.

She stole a piece of my heart but I couldn't ask for a better place I'd rather be imprisoned.

I don't want to play these games of statistics any more; I have done that. I don't want to be imprisoned by that, or by the morality that is expected of activists. I have never been that pristine person, that role model.

Only primitive man knew freedom, but a freedom imprisoned by the fear of the other and of nature.

Instead what we have is an Eros imprisoned by the narrow definition of romance and sexuality centered on the genitals.

She saw her mother's face, imprisoned in the emptiness of Empire and diplomacy.

It is the object which aroused the artist, stimulated his ideas and set of his emotions. These ideas and emotions will be imprisoned in his work for good.

It is the task of the translator to release in his own language that pure language that is under the spell of another, to liberate the language imprisoned in a work in his re-creation of that work.

salami tactics—slicing off layers of opposition one by one. Most people were distracted, some were imprisoned, and others were outmatched.

When fascists or Nazis or communists did well in elections in the 1930s or '40s, what followed was some combination of spectacle, repression, and salami tactics—slicing off layers of opposition one by one. Most people were distracted, some were imprisoned, and others were outmatched. The