Quotes About Prison

Not when she was trapped inside these walls. It was a prison she'd made for herself—to keep safe. Only she didn't feel safe. Or alive.

Djugashvili had furnished evidence in writing of the theoretical learning that he was to display in the Baku prison. In a series of articles published in Bolshevik newspapers in Tiflis under the general title Anarchism or Socialism?, he defended Marxism against critical attacks that were being leveled against it by Georgian followers of the Russian anarchist philosopher Pyotr Kropotkin.

Cualquiera con dos dedos de frente sabía que la sequía y el calor impropio de la estación se debían a la mano del Oscuro tocando el mundo, pero ni siquiera las Aes Sedai daban crédito a las afirmaciones de Elayne y Nynaeve de que esos otros sucesos eran igualmente reales, que las burbujas malignas ascendían desde la prisión del Oscuro a medida que los sellos se debilitaban, y, tras llegar a la superficie, se deslizaban por el Entramado hasta que estallaban.

but there it was. Home was prison was home.

The ingenious way in which Dennison and his colleagues broke out of their seemingly impregnable prison, using only a steel belt buckle, a tungsten filament, three hens' eggs, and twelve chemicals that can be readily obtained from the human body, is too well known to be repeated here.

Others were avoiding debtors' prison; once they obtained a berth on a ship

stopped what they were doing and ran out of doors to stare. The news spread from the prison as fast

The shape of my life had altered when Bellingham enlisted me. It changed again when I escaped the prison. It shattered when Isabel left.

The Turks have dreary jails.

Set your mind at rest," he said. "I don't steal from clients, I just overcharge them. It's a lot more lucrative in the long run and you spend less time in prison.

OPIATE, n. An unlocked door in the prison of Identity. It leads into the jail yard.

It took me a beat down to execute you Angel but the pleasure will be all mines! - Warden Pinnacle From the book Framed: The Second Book Of The Thousand Years War.

The prison guards are capable of committing daily atrocities and obscenities, smiling the smile of the angels all the while.

And no one was reporting from the prison at Camp Funston, Kansas, where conscientious objectors to military service were shackled to their cell bars on tiptoe for eight hours a day.

The first rule for escaping prison in the United States is always having someone more important than yourself to incriminate.

Happiness is a prison, Evey. Happiness is the most insidious prison of all.

William Julius Wilson makes this point in his book, When Work Disappears. In his view, it is massive unemployment and not the lack of family values that has devastated our inner-cities and placed one-third of our young men-denied even menial jobs when they lacked education and skills-in prison or in the jaws of the criminal court system, most of them for nonviolent drug offenses.2

Spiffed up a bit, Vaughn could be cute. Maybe Orchid saw past the trashy clothes. Then again, some people wrote love letters to murderers in prison. There really was no accounting for taste.

Gerçekten, kad?nlar?n pencerelerine takt?rd?klar? demir parmakl?klar bana göre cinsel ?iddetin kol gezdi?i bir toplumun en aç?k belirtisidir ve böyle bir toplumda hapishaneye t?k?lanlar kurbanlar?n kendileridir.

During the investigation, Galileo lived in a Vatican palace with a servant, his food and wine provided by the Tuscan ambassador. He was never in prison and was neither tortured nor in fear of torture. The tribunal of cardinals read and voted on the report of the two officials who dealt with the accused; three refused to vote, and the pope never confirmed the verdict. As Descartes remarked, the action taken against Galileo was merely the disciplinary action of a committee.

A prison cell, in which one waits, hopes - and is completely dependent on the fact that the door of freedom has to be opened from the outside, is not a bad picture of Advent

If I should still be kept in this hole over Christmas, don't worry about it. I'm not really anxious about it. One can keep Christmas as a Christian even in prison - more easily than family occasions, anyhow.

All we can do is to live in assurance and faith – you out there with the soldiers, and I in my cell. – I've just come across this in the Imitation of Christ: Custodi diligenter cellam tuam, et custodiet te ('Take good care of your cell, and it will take care of you'). – May God keep us in faith.

The Eighth [Quartet] is an autobiographical quartet, it quotes a song known to all Russians 'Exhausted by the hardships of prison'.