Quotes About Imprison
There is no man who desires as passionately as a Russian. If we could imprison a Russian desire beneath a fortress, that fortress would explode.
~ Joseph de Maistre
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During war we imprison the rights of man.
~ Jean Giraudoux
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What was any art but a mold in which to imprison for a moment the shining elusive element which is life itself — life hurrying past us and running away, too strong to stop, too sweet to lose.
~ Willa Cather
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Spiritual stagnation is the real hell. As long as souls believe they are a human body, they will continue to imprison themselves in the outer dimensions of the universe.
~ William Buhlman
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The individual is not a cog in a monstrous machine; it is within his power to modify the very laws which imprison him and the very relationship maintained by the Judge with the accused and witnesses. If it is true, as the Baal Shem says, that it is possible for man to hide the light of dawn emanating from the forest simply by shielding his eyes with his hands, still it is no less true that he can rediscover it by merely moving his hands.
~ Elie Wiesel
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What was any art but a mould in which to imprison for a moment the shining elusive element which is life itself - life hurrying past us and running away, too strong to stop, too sweet to lose.
~ Willa Cather
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He wanted to imprison his nameless misery in words.
~ Aldous Huxley
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Society always tries to enslave, imprison, and execute its greatest men, those who dare to stand apart and rise above.' He scratched his chin. 'That's why I'm keeping a low profile--so the bastards don't get me.
~ Sam Torode
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Society always tries to enslave, imprison, and execute its greatest men, those who dare to stand apart and rise above.
~ Sam Torode
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A heart filled with love is like a phoenix that no cage can imprison.
~ Rumi
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Trump proposed to relax libel laws against journalists, encouraged violence against his critics at his rallies, would not commit to respecting the outcome of the 2016 election if it went against him, tried to discredit the popular vote count that did go against him, threatened to imprison his opponent in the election, and attacked the legitimacy of the judicial system when it challenged his decisions—all hallmarks of a dictator
~ Steven Pinker
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A true and worthy ideal frees and uplifts a people; a false ideal imprisons and lowers.
~ W. E. B. Du Bois
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I'm a big defense hawk and a big fiscal conservative, but in this case, Pakistan continues to imprison the man who gave us Osama bin Laden and continue to have a major ideological bent within the middle echelons of their government that, I think, should cause all of us pause given the size and nature of their nuclear arsenal.
~ Trent Franks
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Nossos sonhos podem obscurecer as linhas intransigentes que desenham os contornos que nos aprisionam?
~ Sylvia Plath
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Or, you know, you could interview the perfectly willing Epic walking beside you." I coughed into my hand. "Well, um, this scheme may have started because I was thinking about how to rescue you from your powers. I figured if I knew how long it took, and what was required to hold an Epic … You know. It might help you." "Aw," she said. "That has to be the sweetest way someone has ever told me they were planning to kidnap and imprison me.
~ Brandon Sanderson
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All I dream of is to be able to leave Egypt. If I found out I was banned from traveling, I won't let them imprison me.
~ Sarah Hegazi
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Order, though practical and effi-cient, can imprison. Although it promotes movement, in the end it can also freeze movement. The check-list, though es-sential for action, can sterilize discovery. An atmosphere penetrated with disorder, by contrast, is like an apparatus that has a certain play in it, and it is precisely this play that provokes invention.
~ Michel Serres
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When love invades your life, it captures your heart, imprisons your mind, and frees your soul.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
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Self-doubt imprisons those that never overcome it.
~ Obiora Embry
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A wall is the defense of a country that values inaction. But a wall imprisons the people of a country as much as it protects them.
~ Christopher Moore
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[W]hat was any art but an effort to make a sheath, a mould in which to imprison for a moment the shining, elusive element which is life itself, — life hurrying past us and running away, too strong to stop, too sweet to lose?
~ Willa Sibert Cather
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Only himself manacles man: concept and action are the gaolers of Fate—they imprison, being base; they're additionally the angels of Freedom—they release, being noble.
~ James Allen
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Only himself manacles man: thought and action are the gaolers of Fate—they imprison, being base; they are also the angels of Freedom—they liberate, being noble.
~ James Allen
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Perhaps the whole root of our trouble, the human trouble, is that we will sacrifice all the beauty of our lives, will imprison ourselves in totems, taboos, crosses, blood sacrifices, steeples, mosques, races, armies, flags, nations, in order to deny the fact of death, which is the only fact we have. It
~ James Baldwin
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