Quotes About Prison

Obesity is a prison; in the US we spend more to treat type 2 diabetes each year than is spent on education.

Oh my eye Betty Martin! Aren't I glad it isn't me that's going to school! It looks just like a prison.

Prison is a Socialist paradise where equality prevails, everything is supplied, and competition is eliminated.

I don't believe anyone can go through the prison experience without being changed by it. The experience becomes part of your identity forever.

Lying is a necessary evil, the truth may set you free but it could also be your prison.

Life isn't the prison of solitude. The prison of love is life. To be free is to isolate yourself from the tribe.

That's silly, the people in prison are thieves and murderers.' 'So are the ones in the castle. How else do you get to own a castle?

Tout le monde se fiche des "presque", Dante. Si les " presque" comptaient, toute la population adulte, hormis peut-être une ou deux bonnes sœurs, serait en prison.

The tradition that refuses to entertain doubt, or remains impervious to new thoughts and ideas, becomes a prison rather than a sustaining life force.

Every soul is engaged in a great work-the labor of personal liberation from the state of ignorance. The world is a great prison; its bars are the Unknown. And each is a prisoner until, at last, he earns the right to tear these bars from their moldering sockets, and pass, illuminated and inspired into the darkness, which becomes lighted by that presence

España! E escoitáronse só as voces das autoridades e dos gardas: Unha! España! Os presos seguían en silencio. Berraron os mesmos: Grande! España! E entón atronou toda a prisión: Libre!

An effective California prison term I picked up is "gimme five feet!" I usually decorate it with a few colorful adjectives. This tells street people that they've fucked up and picked a homeboy instead of a civilian. A homeboy won't let them get off the first shot; a civilian will. It is critical to remember that these guys know that their asses are on the line. They can't afford to pick the wrong target.

He imagined himself lying there, unable to sleep, thinking of his mother, separated from her by the unresponsive blankets tucked too tightly round him, feeling the ceaseless thumping of his heart in the silence of the night, the irrevocability of absence, the rigid stillness of repose, the agony of solitude and sleeplessness. If the room was a prison, the bed was a tomb.

Green shook her head: "She's a smart woman. I'd be surprised if she was involved. But . . . and I say but . . . she's obviously a sociopath. It wouldn't bother her that people died to get her into the Senate. It would bother her that she could go to prison for it. She's made that calculation, too. That's why she gets so angry when she sees you.

Alan hasn't lost it," I said. "And he's been in as long as I have." "That's true," Keyes said. "What's your answer to that, Rosenthal?" "I'm a seething cauldron of disconnected rage on the inside, Lieutenant.

When you been in stir a little while, you can smell a question comin' from hell to breakfast.

Homicide thats a big word means i killed a guy. seven years. im sprung in four for keep'n my nose clean. (18) the hich hiker is saying this to the truck driver and i think it puts alot of meanning to the book because the truck driver just realized that he could have just died. it adds suspense to the story and makes it kinda scary.

A company of believers is like a prison full of criminals; their intimacy and solidarity is based on what they can least justify about themselves.

Ever since his heart attack there is a gnawing in his stomach whose cause he can't locate until he realizes it is the terror of being trapped inside his perishing body, like being in a prison cell with a madman who might decide to kill him at any moment

There's a prison there, too, which always makes me feel included.

A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.

After doing two years in prison, trust me, I've seen a lot of tough guys pray. They're not just praying for themselves; they're praying for their family and the people they've let down.

The cell door opened. My hands went to my eyes. Why was the door opened? I wasn't dead yet. I think.

I met my fathers in prison, they too a part of a scene; digging death.