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Quotes About Jailer

A boy is a magical creature you can lock him out of your workshop, but you can't lock him out of your heart. You can get him out of your study, but you can't get him out of your mind. Might as well give up he is your captor, your jailer, your boss and your master a freckled-faced, pint-sized, cat-chasing bundle of noise. But when you come home at night with only the shattered pieces of your hopes and dreams, he can mend them like new with two magic words Hi, Dad
~ Alan Marshall Beck
I never said you were supposed to be a jailer, i only said a normal person would have questioned why someone would create a decoy nun and then crawl out the window.
~ Janette Rallison
I needed a man," Call replied. "I was hoping he might turn out to be a fighter." "No, he's just a jailer," Billy said.
~ Larry McMurtry
It would have made a fine picture, worthy of Rembrandt, the gloomy winding stairs illuminated by the reddish glare of the cresset of Gryphus, with his scowling jailer's countenance at the top, the melancholy figure of Cornelius bending over the banister to look down upon the sweet face of Rosa, standing, as it were, in the bright frame of the door of her chamber, with embarrassed mien at being thus seen by a stranger.
~ Alexandre Dumas
The jailer brought him his breakfast. Dantes raised himself up and began to talk about everything; about the bad quality of the food, about the coldness of his dungeon, grumbling and complaining, in order to have an excuse for speaking louder, and wearying the patience of his jailer, who out of kindness of heart had brought broth and white bread for his prisoner.
~ Alexandre Dumas
Life is the jailer, death the angel sent to draw the unwilling bolts and set us free.
~ James Russell Lowell
Life is the jailer of the soul in this filthy prison, and its only deliverer is death.
~ Charles Caleb Colton
Let fear be a counselor and not a jailer.
~ Anthony Robbins
Conformity is that jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.
~ John F. Kennedy
Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth. [Address before the United Nations, September 25 1961]
~ John F. Kennedy
Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.
~ John F. Kennedy
The worst crime committed by totalitarian mind-sets is that they force their citizens, including their victims, to become complicit in their crimes. Dancing with your jailer, participating in your own execution, that is an act of utmost brutality.
~ Azar Nafisi
Again and again as we discussed Lolita in that class, our discussions were colored by my students' hidden personal sorrows and joys. Like tearstains on a letter, these forays into the hidden and the personal shaded all our discussions of Nabokov. And more and more I thought of that butterfly; what linked us so closely was this perverse intimacy of victim and jailer.
~ Azar Nafisi
They had not become part of the crowd who watched the executions, but they did not have the power to protest them, either. The only way to leave the circle, to stop dancing with the jailer, is to find a way to preserve one's individuality, that unique quality which evades description but differentiates one human being from the other.
~ Azar Nafisi
Approved attributes and their relation to face make every man his own jailer; this is a fundamental social constraint even though each man may like his cell.
~ Erving Goffman
The worst imposition of all was to be instructed to take on some costly, long-standing obligation to the crown. Such was the fate of Bess of Hardwick's husband, the sixth Lord Shrewsbury. For sixteen years he was required to act as jailer to Mary, Queen of Scots, which in effect meant maintaining the court of a small, fantastically disloyal state in his own home.
~ Bill Bryson
The jailer is another kind of captive—is the jailer envious of his prisoner's dreams?
~ Gerard de Nerval
Womb? Weary? He rests. He has travelled. With? Sinbad the Sailor and Tinbad the Tailor and Jinbad the Jailer and Whinbad the Whaler and Ninbad the Nailer and Finbad the Failer and Binbad the Bailer and Pinbad the Pailer and Minbad the Mailer and Hinbad the Hailer and Rinbad the Railer and Dinbad the Kailer and Vinbad the Quailer and Linbad the Yailer and Xinbad the Phthailer.
~ James Joyce
He's a sucking chest wound of a human being. But if you're going to have a jailer, better a clueless one than one who's really on the ball.
~ Cory Doctorow
Here is your declaration of release from bondage of the world. And here as well is all the world released. You do not see what you have done by giving to the world the role of jailer to the Son of God.
~ Helen Schucman
He invited his white jailer to attend his inauguration as an honored guest, the first of many gestures he would make in his spectacular way, showing his breathtaking magnanimity and willingness to forgive. He would be a potent agent for the reconciliation he
~ Desmond Tutu
Life is the jailer, Death the angel sent To draw the unwilling bolts and set us free.
~ Unknown
Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.
~ John F. Kennedy
Lilith watched them enviously. They didn't lie often to humans because their sensory language had left them with no habit of lying—only of withholding information, refusing contact. Humans, on the other hand, lied easily and often. They could not trust one another. They could not trust one of their own who seemed too close to aliens, who stripped off her clothing and lay down on the ground to help her jailer.
~ Octavia E. Butler