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Quotes About Prisoner

For what's the point in thinking about an end to your present sorrows, when you're a prisoner of events, a prisoner of time.
~ Rose Tremain
Prayer is helplessness casting itself on Power, infirmity leaning on Strength, misery reaching to Mercy, and a prisoner clamoring for Relief.
~ Fulton J. Sheen
Vos sois hijo mío, Dantés! —exclamó el anciano—. Sois el hijo de mi prisión. Mi estado me condenaba al celibato, y Dios os envió a mí para consuelo juntamente del hombre que no podía ser padre, y del preso que no podía ser libre.
~ Alexandre Dumas
El carruaje partió inmediatamente, y aprovechando Artagnan la oscuridad que reinaba en la bóveda bajo la cual pasaba, se arrojó en brazos del prisionero exclamando: - ¡Rochefort! ¿Sois vos? ¡No me equivoco...!
~ Alexandre Dumas
Pensando all'ideale dimenticò il presente e con la filosofia dimenticò d'essere prigioniero.
~ Alexandre Dumas
I have to admit that my historical work is my favourite occupation. When I go back to the past, I forget the present. I walk free and independently through history, and forget that I am a prisoner.
~ Alexandre Dumas
She could hear singing in the distance. One of the Breakers' marches, out on the Middleway. So long kept prisoner, they loved to march. So long kept silent, they loved to sing. To blurt their opinions from every street corner. Food and fuel might be in short supply, but of opinion there was a glut.
~ Joe Abercrombie
Padecer depresión y ansiedad consiste en un proceso por el que te conviertes en prisionero de tu ego y no dejas que entre el aire del exterior.
~ Johann Hari
It reminds me of the Irish prisoner who dug a tunnel under the prison wall and managed to escape. He comes out right in the middle of a school playground where little children are playing. Of course, when he emerges from the tunnel he can't restrain himself anymore and begins to jump up and down, crying, "I'm free, I'm free, I'm free! A little girl there looks at him scornfully and says, "That's nothing. I'm four.
~ Anthony de Mello
Stop for a moment and contemplate in horror the endless list of attachments that you have become a prisoner to. Think of concrete things and persons, not abstractions. Once your attachment had you in its grip, you began to strive with every waking minute of your life to rearrange the world around you so that you could attain and maintain the objects of your attachment.
~ Anthony de Mello
Any delusions of Free Will he harbored now must be merely the prisoner rattling his cage. His curse lay in the fact that he saw the cage. He saw it!
~ Frank Herbert
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
Anytime you cast a movie and you need someone famous in the lead part, you're a prisoner of whoever happens to be famous in the six-month window in which you're trying to get a film financed.
~ Alexander Payne
But how do you know who's a watcher and who's a prisoner?" I asked, pulling into the empty parking lot. "That's the point. Even the watchers are prisoners.
~ Robyn Schneider
Across the hillside, above the chaos of Montfort's left flank, a scarlet banner was raised by Edward's men, the dragon at its centre a terror wreathed in golden flames, a sign that there was to be no mercy. The noblemen who survived the battle would be taken prisoner and ransomed, but no such chivalry awaited the foot soldiers beyond.
~ Robyn Young
In 260 CE, the emperor Valerian was taken prisoner, along with much of his army, while campaigning against them.
~ Roderick Beaton
I cured myself of shyness when it finally occurred to me that people didn't think about me half as much as I gave them credit for. The truth was, nobody gave a damn. Like most teenagers, I was far too self-centered. When I stopped being prisoner to what I worried was others' opinions of me, I became more confident and free.
~ Lucille Ball
But i am a prisoner of perception, a compulsory witness.
~ Saul Bellow
I am a prisoner of perception, a compulsory witness.
~ Saul Bellow
You may know that a prisoner's guilt is independent of whether you're hungry or not, but she'll still seem like a better parole candidate when you've recently had a snack.
~ John Brockman
For a timely sweet and beautiful; however, permanently, the life-sucking virus, and cruelty which factually, lineage and design the ways for the interest on money that, one borrows and loans from banks, and whatever such other gambling establishments. Indeed, each one is a slave, victim, and even a prisoner of banking interest accordingly; thus, only the bankers hold the global ownership and public breathes in a rental life with tax.
~ Ehsan Sehgal
For a timely sweet and beautiful; however, permanently, the life-sucking virus, and cruelty which factually, lineage and design the ways for the interest on money that, one borrows and loans from banks, and whatever such other gambling establishments. Indeed, each one is a slave, victim, and even a prisoner of banking interest accordingly; thus, only the bankers hold the global ownership, and the public breathes in a rental life with tax.
~ Ehsan Sehgal
A já myslel, že tÄ› jako vále?ného zajatce propustili! PÃ…â"¢esnÄ› tak... Mezinárodní právo nás trochu jako chránilo jako polské zajatce. Ale Ã…â"¢íÅ¡ského Žida mohl zabít na ulici kdekdo!
~ Art Spiegelman
You can feel very quickly as a prisoner of your past, of the memories.
~ Eric Cantona