Top 1200 Prison Break Quotes & Sayings - Page 17

Beliefs are either the keys to your freedom, Or they can also become the giant locks to the prison That keeps you from achieving what you want.

I'd gotten to the place where I wanted to quit using drugs but couldn't and finally I landed in that prison cell where everything was cut.

If you want to know how many prison cells to build, look at the number of third graders who can't read.

If I'm going to break them, I'm going to break them both.

Society created the prison in its own image; will history, with its penchant for paradox, reverse those roles?

I told my cellmates about the oppression of the whites and apartheid. I helped organize hunger strikes and the like in my prison.

Grunge, like Nirvana and all that. Heavy metal, Iron Maiden, Metallica, Guns and Roses, drum and bass. I like to listen to it and try and break down what makes a fan of that music say 'Ah fuck that other music', do you get me? Trying to figure out what makes them tick, I always try and break that down with every piece of music. But the energy in that music, I love it.

That there is also freedom in captivity, only a prisoner can claim. Coming from a prison guard, this statement would be blasphemy.

I Don't Want To Live Long. I Would Rather Get The Death Penalty Than Spend The Rest Of My Life In Prison

Freedom or prison--what's the difference? A man must develop unwavering will power subject only to his reason.

I'm not excusing crime or those who bring poison into the community, but I do want brothers and sisters in prison to know someone cares.

A garden was the primitive prison, till man with Promethean felicity and boldness, luckily sinned himself out of it.

I know no other way out of what is both the maze of the eternal present and the prison of the self except with a string of words.

I'd like to think that if I were in prison for a crime I didn't commit, someone would be trying to get me the hell out of there.

We who live in prison, and in whose lives there is no event but sorrow, have to measure time by throbs of pain, and the record of bitter moments.

In the innermost recesses of humanism, as its very soul, there rages a frantic prisoner who, as a Fascist, turns the world into a prison.

[People] earn extra money [in prison] selling contraband, dope, and things of that sort to the inmates, and so that really it's an exploiter.

Mexico's No. 1 drug lord has escaped from prison and may be headed to the U.S. So Donald Trump was wrong. They ARE sending us their best.

Restoring the right to vote to individuals who have served their term in prison is also a common-sense public safety measure.

American journalists and politicians made a perfect spectacle of themselves in discussing the Abu Ghraib prison controversy.

America is the land of the second chance - and when the gates of the prison open, the path ahead should lead to a better life.

People, when they get out of a long stretch of prison, are completely mal-adapted to society. Comfort for them is when there is a threat.

The one public system in which America goes out of its way to provide services to African-Americans is prison.

I went to prison; therefore, I've been rehabilitated, and now I want to get on with my life. I have paid for what I did, end of story.

Prison officers face enormous pressure. The levels of violence inside our prisons are too high.

But you see, that's the gilded prison of fashion. We're riding in private jets, and meantime I was so incredibly, painfully sad and lonely.

Like the bright, cool dawn after a night of prison and of thunder, Man can taste that freedom sought so long.

I'm feeling pretty good. A lot of people don't know this, but I am not currently in prison, which feels great.

There are only two places in the world where time takes precedence over the job to be done. School and prison.

People aren't wired to be alone. Even in the stressful population of prison, solitary confinement is still considered a cruel punishment.

Jesus Christ came into my prison cell last night, and every stone flashed like a ruby.

Are there other people who, when watching a documentary set in a prison, secretly think, as I have, 'Wish I had all that time to read'?

Probably the only place where a man can feel really secure is in a maximum security prison, except for the imminent threat of release.

If you can give it, I can take it 'Cause if this heart is gonna break it's gonna take a lot to break it I know tonight, somebody's gonna win the fight So if you're so tough, come on and prove it Your heart is down for the count and you know you're gonna lose it Tonight you're gonna go down in flames Just like Jesse James

Money will determine whether the accused goes to prison or walks out of the courtroom a free man.

If all the Atheists & Agnostics left America, they'd lose 93% of The National Academy of Sciences & less than 1% of the prison population.

I certainly didn't emerge from prison regretting anything I ever wrote, nor did I feel remorse for my crime in the least.

To send a child to rot in the prison of Cuba for the alleged sake of his own well-being is criminal hypocrisy.

Backstage at the Apollo isn't a fun place to be. It's a bit like a prison: small rooms filled with warm Diet Coke.

If we continue as we have for the past 20 years in California, in the year 2020, everybody in the State will either be in prison or running one.

I come from Eastside Buffalo and prison cells. That's the beauty about hip-hop. It just brings everybody together.

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

Like most people who go to prison for an unfair thing, we become more persuaded in our own beliefs.

The prison psychiatrist asked me if I thought sex was dirty. I told him only when it's done right.

I remember the people I knew in prison; I was very fortunate to know them - they came from 1910, 1920, 1930.

Why would anyone expect Tyson to come out smarter? He went to prison for four years, not Princeton.

Win by losing. Before your outer walls break, as break they must, build an inner place to protect your truth. Protect that you are infinite life, choosing its playground; protect that the world you know exists with your consent and for your own good reasons; protect that your purpose and mission is to shine love in your own playful way, in the moments you decide will be most dramatic.

The guns on the walls that surround the prison accurately, though unwittingly, index the true character of the penitentiary in our day.

Stack the cards in your favour, and in a casino, you'll get arrested and put in prison, but in business and in life, it's the right thing to do.

The only thing I remember writing in prison is a couple of poems for an inmate magazine they did once a year.

I love when they show the really gay prisoner in prison shows. He's the cutest inside but you know on the street he would be the ugliest.

I still remember, 40 years ago, when I was shackled and put in prison... Being an American citizen didn't mean a thing.

You must set down all the rules to your cat at the beginning of your relationship. You cannot add rules as you go along. Once these rules are set, you must never, under any circumstances, break any of them. Dare to break a rule, and you will never live it down. Trust me.

Envy, like a cold prison, benumbs and stupefies; and, conscious of its own impotence, folds its arms in despair.

Listen, the conditions in prison as a whole - you're not sleeping in a comfortable bed, you're not eating good food, and this is for long periods of time.

What the cops did to Rodney King was wrong, and the officers who beat him should be sent straight to prison.

By the way, the food in prison was disgusting. Like, baked beans every day for breakfast, lunch and dinner.

I would rather be free in my mind, and be locked up in a prison cell, than to be a coward and not be able to say what I want.

The United States has more women and girls in prison than any other industrialized nation on earth.

History is full of people who went to prison or were burned at the stake for proclaiming their ideas. Society has always defended itself.