Top 1200 Prison Guards Quotes & Sayings - Page 16

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

Some of those 10, nine-year vets, they know some things that your typical college senior wouldn't. I've come across some guards in the NFL that know how to use their hands better than D-linemen in college. I guess they've learned from their enemies.

Closing the prison in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, is a promise President [Barack] Obama made it but has yet to fulfill.

Nodding, Cery strode to the door and stepped through. Though the burly guards eyes him suspiciously, Cery smiled back. Never make enemies of someone's lackeys, his father had taught him. Better still, make them like you a lot.

I'm going to make mistakes, I just have to be able to learn from them as quickly as possible. To learn faster, I watch film of myself and other good point guards, and then breaking down my mistakes and really analyzing them and seeing where I could have made better decisions.

Intellectual liberty is the air of the soul, the sunshine of the mind, and without it, the world is a prison, the universe is a dungeon.

While swimming in the heavily polluted rivers of south China, despite the pleadings of his security guards and his physician, he would chide his companions if they began to panic in the water: Maybe you're afraid of sinking, Don't think about it. If you don't think about it, you won't sink. If you do, you will.

I suppose that's why we watch dramas: to see the stuff that in real life you'd end up in prison for.

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'?

What mostly prevents black people from voting is that drug laws send them to prison, and then they can't vote.

I had never feared insomnia before--like prison, wouldn't it just give you more time to read?

Even behind prison walls I can see the heavy clouds and the blue sky over the horizon

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

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.

I will stay in prison till the moss grows on my eye lids rather than disobey God.

There are likable characters in prison. Sometimes the worst criminals are also some of the most charming people.

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.

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

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

If I pop everyone who calls me a diva then I'm going to spend the rest of my life in prison.

Saying no”, argues the author Kevin Ashton, “has more creative power than ideas, insights and talent combined. No guards time, the thread from which we weave our creations. The math of time is simple: you have less than you think and need more than you know.

There is no religion in which everyday life is not considered a prison; there is no philosophy or ideology that does not think that we live in alienation.

One of the best movies of the year was 'Rise of the Planet of the Apes.' That's not just an action movie - it's a prison film.

My parents divorced when I was 10, but when my father was there, he was trying to create almost like a little prison for me.

For without you, I swear, the town Has become like a prison to me. Distraction and the mountain And the desert, all I desire.

[On travel:] Who would be so besotted as to die without having made at least the round of this, his prison?

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

Prison is the only form of public housing that the government has truly invested in over the past 5 decades

The Federal prison population has increased more than 7-fold over the past 20 years.

Prison always has been a good place for writers, killing, as it does, the twin demons of mobility and diversion

No one doubts that having a criminal record - whether it results in community probation or prison - is a serious handicap.

To the United States the Third World often takes the form of a black woman who has been made pregnant in a moment of passion and who shows up one day in the reception room on the forty-ninth floor threatening to make a scene. The lawyers pay the woman off; sometimes uniformed guards accompany her to the elevators.

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

You know, the ancient Egyptians had a beautiful belief about death. When their souls got to the entrance to heaven, the guards asked two questions. Their answers determined whether they were able to enter or not. 'Have you found joy in your life?' 'Has your life brought joy to others?'

Always, I'm a competitor. Growing up, it's the same thing. I always wanted to compete and show how good I am. I did it in college to get the No. 1 pick, and now that I'm here, I'm going to keep getting better to prove I'm one of the best guards and players in the league. It's a long, slow grind, so I'm just taking my time every day.

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

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

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

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

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

Within yourself deliverance must be searched for, because each man makes his own prison.

The lack of space and a growing prison population has strained resources and put pressure on all levels of the penal system.

If somebody's in prison for non-violence, drug usage, and never committed a hard crime, they should be pardoned and let out.

What do people in prison say when they meet new friends? Give me your cell number.

In spite of the problems he was having he was going on with his life. There are thousands who don’t or won’t or can’t and plenty of them aren’t in prison either.

You wake up one day and you realize that all these years have gone by and I have this mortgage and I have this couch and I have this life and... is this going to be my prison?

One of the lessons learned during the Vietnam War was that the depiction of wounded soldiers, of coffins stacked higher than their living guards, had a negative effect on the viewing public. The military in Iraq specifically banned the photographing of wounded soldiers and coffins, thus sanitizing this terrible and bloody conflict.

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

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

Two places in this world make it impossible for a man to escape from himself: a battlefield and a prison cell.

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

Very few people in prison have voices that go beyond the wall. It's my job to do the work for them because they have no one.

Just hearing somebody's voice in center field, it helps our guards out to know where they need to go, when the screen is coming, when the back door is coming, when the flare is coming. When different things like that happen and we're talking, it helps us all out in the long run.

I remember watching an episode of 'Seinfeld' in which George can't understand why security guards can't sit down. He gets obsessed with it and eventually buys a chair for a security guard who sits down and goes to sleep. The shop gets robbed. That's a brilliant extrapolation of what is essentially observational comedy.

I've probably been spit on more that any person alive outside of, I would say, a member of the prison system.

Prison, blood, death, create enthusiasts and martyrs, and bring forth courage and desperate resolution.

Two men look out the same prison bars; one sees mud and the other stars.

I was an opportunist and got away with things because I was very young, but I went to prison and came out and remade my life.

So who or what is to blame for baseball games that go on forever? Two oft-cited culprits are constant replay calls and batters who leave the box in between every pitch to adjust their gloves and helmet and shin guards and elbow pads and then knock the dirt off their cleats before working up their stride for the next at-bat.

I've had some confrontations after I got out of prison and I'm proud of the fact that I dealt with them differently.