Top 1200 Prison Guards Quotes & Sayings - Page 15

Loneliness is the prison of the human spirit. When we are lonely, we pace back and forth in small, shut-in worlds.

My teams in Serbia always had really good point guards. But I have always loved to dribble the ball. Even when I was outside, just walking by myself, I would always love to dribble and imagine my defender there in front of me - what I would try to do.

The best way to keep a prisoner from escaping is to make sure he never knows he's in prison.

Prison guard unions have become the powerful political forces in some states, particularly California.

I do not care how brave a president is; I do not care how many medals he may wear. I do not care how well trained his guards may be. If he violates the will of the people, he shall be eliminated.

I think coming out, for me, is really about tearing down the prison wall.

Trying to explain the First Step Act in prison reform in a tweet or Facebook post is not easy.

Saying yes, opening up, and loving: these are the keys that will unlock the prison door.

My mind has never been in prison; I think all the time about what I should do on the day that I am released.

I will say that the prison regime is rather a good one for a writer because you have plenty of time to write.

the prison system, inherently unjust and inhumane, is the ultimate expression of injustice and inhumanity in the society at large.

Danbury wasn't a prison, it was a crime school. I went in with a Bachelor of marijuana, came out with a Doctorate of cocaine.

You know you've lived in LA to long when what you fear most about prison is a lack of organic produce.

This great purple butterfly, In the prison of my hands, Has a learning in his eye Not a poor fool understands.

I'm enjoying prison ministry, particularly with the women in Hudson County Jail who have suffered tremendously in their lives.

There be three sorts of government--monarchical, aristocratical, democratical; and they are apt to fall three several ways into ruin--the first, by tyranny; the second, by ambition; the last, by tumults. A commonwealth grounded upon any one of these is not of long continuance; but, wisely mingled, each guards the other and makes that government exact.

If bad taste were a felony, every writer I know would've done prison time.

I am pretty heavy into causes. I'm an active Democrat, I boycott grapes, and I work for prison reform.

I lost my sleep, and this is the greatest tragedy that can befall someone. It is much worse than sitting in prison.

I only hope those rumors I hear about what goes on in prison are greatly exaggerated.

Sometimes, promoting economic development means accepting the Herculean task of moving and modernizing a prison.

Common sense dictates the term hot fudge sundae has a totally different meaning in prison.

I wrote a million words in the first year, and I could never have done that outside of prison.

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

No 22-year-old should have to enter the real world already in a virtual debtors' prison.

I spent five years in prison, a free man for the first time in my whole life.

Wherever there's a prison, for the most part, especially where there's Black people, it's overcrowded. I don't know who really gets out.

She walks--the lady of my delight-- A sheperdess of sheep. Her flocks are thoughts. She keeps them white; She guards them from the steep. She feeds them on the fragrant height, And folds them in for sleep.

After the last notes of Gotterdammerung I felt as though I had been let out of prison.

I would prefer to remain in prison for another 20 years than bargain my beliefs for freedom.

Our surest protection against assault from abroad has been not all our guards, gates and guns, or even our two oceans, but our essential goodness as a people. Our richest asset has been not our material wealth but our values.

I call that mind free which protects itself against the usurpations of society, and which does not cower to human opinion: Which refuses to be the slave or tool of the many or of the few, and guards its empire over itself as nobler than the empire of the world.

Casting directors now just see me as the hard-core sniper or prison guard.

My kid wants to be a prison warden when he grows up so he can put thumb tacks on the electric chairs.

The NRA disgraced itself this morning with a self-serving press event in which they demonized the media and the entertainment industry for gun violence in America, and advocated a national data base for all mentally ill persons. They apparently want armed guards in all American schools, and it seems, armed volunteers as well. Shocking.

The iron bolt...mysteriously fastens the door of hope and holds our spirits in a gloomy prison.

How much has spending most of the offseason in prison affected Jamal Lewis' poor start?.

I don't want to leave prison having been pardoned, but rather with my head held high, with dignity.

Paranoia is an illness I contracted in institutions. It is not the reason for my sentences to reform school and prison. It is the effect, not the cause.

Be empty of worrying. Think of who created thought! Why do you stay in prison When the door is so wide open?

There's a particular hierarchy in the prison - class distinctions, high-school cliques. You have to learn how to navigate.

Great towns are but a large sort of prison to the soul; like cages to birds, or pounds to beasts.

The mellow sweetness of pumpkin pie off a prison spoon is something you will never forget.

In prison, those things withheld from and denied to the prisoner become precisely what he wants most of all.

The pathway to enlightenment is happiness. It doesn't really matter if you're successful, if you're in prison, if you're dying - if you have contact with light.

May was young and beautiful, we were legally married, but she was caught in the prison of my skin.

My prison shall be my grave before I will budge a jot; for I owe my conscience to no mortal man.

I found fame to be somewhat of a prison. The more famous you were, the smaller the cell that you had to live in.

Keeping my family out of prison best I can. That is success to me. I created that without selling records.

For one crime which is expiated in prison ten thousand are committed thoughtlessly by those who condemn.

Martha Stewart is getting out of prison so today the terror alert was raised from orange to pesto.

I was just coming out of prison, I was married, and I had a kid, and I didn't know what to do, so I tried stand-up.

Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison.

Prison is essentially a shortage of space made up for by a surplus of time; to an inmate, both are palpable.

Why do men carry guns and build prison camps, when the nurturing earth is made for freedom?

Increasingly, poor minority and white youth are being funneled directly from schools into prison.

Letting people out of prison without professional staff to oversee their rehabilitation is irresponsible.

We have real cliched ideas of what prison life is like. It is not a happy place. It's a desperate, sad situation.

When a black man is stopped by a cop for no apparent reason, that is covert racism. When a black woman shops in a fancy store and is followed by security guards, that is covert racism. It is more subtle than 1960s racism, but it is still racism.

When I was in prison, I was wrapped up in all those deep books. That Tolstoy crap - people shouldn't read that stuff.