Quotes About Prison

I've told so many stories about him. For so many years I've been the girl in the legend, the girl in the fairy tale, the girl who sculpted Lincoln. That fame became my prison. It trapped me in myth. I'm not sure I remember the truth anymore...

She was one of those Southerners who knew from an early age that the South could never be more for them than a fragrant prison, administered by a collective of loving but treacherous relatives.

She was one of those Southerners who were aware from an early age that the South could never be more for them than a fragrant prison, administered by a collective of loving but treacherous relatives.

Ja pri?am pri?e. Mi svi izmišljamo pri?e. Pri?at ?u ti pri?e koje ?e te nasmijati. Volim da te gledam kako se smiješ. Nikad ne?u pobje?i iz ovog zatvora beskrajnih pri?a.

It came home to him then that he was separated from the people round him -- not as yet by bolts and bars, by prison walls, or by the sentence of the law, but by the intangible barriers which have separated the murderer from his kind ever since the mark was set on Cain.

And we're locked in. I am actually aware of that. I mean the guard is locked out

After all, love is for people who are ready to dream big and risk everything. Unfortunately, so is prison.

There is a difference between the inmates of your criminal prisons and the inmates of your cultural prison: The former understand that the distribution of wealth and power inside the prison had nothing to do with justice.

A loveless world is a dead world, and always there comes an hour when one is weary of prisons, of one's work, and of devotion to duty, and all one craves for is a loved face, the warmth and wonder of a loving heart.

The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness.

The day after the prison was transferred to the military intelligence command, they had an entire battalion - 1, 200, 1, 500 soldiers - arrive at Abu Ghraib just for force protection alone.

Is the prison that Mr. Scoundrel lives in at the end of his career a more uncomfortable place than the workhouse that Mr. Honesty lives in at the end of his career?

The upshot of it was, that Rosanna Spearman had been a thief, and not being of the sort that get up Companies in the City, and rob from thousands, instead of only robbing from one, the law laid hold of her, and the prison and the reformatory followed the lead of the law.

Vala] provides a profound analysis of man's limitations but no hint of escape from the prison - no suggestion that it is conceiving of the world as a prison that makes it a prison, that the key to the Gates of Paradise is in the mind.

Hapishaneler Hukukun ta?lar?yla in?a edilir, Kerhaneler Dinin tu?lalar?yla

He did get one thing right: Sometimes a sanctuary, sometimes a prison, that house on the hill has always been my home. I've spent my life yearning toward it, wanting to escape it, paralyzed by its hold on me. (There are many ways to be crippled, I've learned over the years, many forms of paralysis.) My ancestors fled to Maine from Salem, but like anyone who tries to run away from the past, they brought it with them.

You're with Rapier squad. Mopping-up detail, under Sergeant Gortoss." He gestured along the corridor in the opposite direction from where Ross had just come. "Turn left at the first pile of flaming debris and look for the most homicidally deranged bastard you can find. Ordinarily he'd be in a maximum-security prison, but when there's a war on, he's just the kind of chap you want inside the tent pissing out." "Yes sir," said Ross, by which he meant, "Holy mother of fuck.

Did you enjoy prison?' Mitchell asked. When they started asking really stupid questions was when you knew you'd truly pissed them off. 'Do you want to go back there?' 'To be honest, if it was between prison and connecting in Terminal Five at Heathrow, I'd choose T5. Just. So no.

Known collectively as Paracuellos, for the village outside Madrid where the shootings took place, this was the clearest equivalent in the history of the Republic at war to the prison sacas

White called Prisonface to life in order that he should suffer, be punished, mocked, reduced to rags and die.

To the struggling-self, it is a prison; to the awakening-Self, it is classroom

Dreams are excursions into the limbo of things, a semi-deliverance from the human prison.

On peut être libre à plusieurs, j'ai dit. Moi, j'ai connu des solitudes qui ressemblaient vachement à des prisons.

When you're in prison, you either embrace religion or you reject it. I embraced it it was a very spiritual time for me.