Top 1200 Prison Guards 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 call that mind free which jealously guards its intellectual rights and powers, which calls no man master, which does not content itself with a passive or hereditary faith, which opens itself to light whencesoever it may come, which receives new truth as an angel from Heaven.

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

The mother is everything - she is our consolation in sorrow, our hope in misery, and our strength in weakness. She is the source of love, mercy, sympathy, and forgiveness. He who loses his mother loses a pure soul who blesses and guards him constantly

Waitresses, soldiers, rickshaw drivers, old ladies selling vegetables - my father would schmooze anybody. He was Clintonesque before the word existed. And, of course, it paid dividends. Ill-tempered guards at the most notorious border crossings waved him through with cheery smiles. Haughty maitre d's fawned over him.

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

In some cities such as Washington, DC, that 75 percent of young black men can expect to serve time in prison.

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

[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.

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.

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

Stone's Rules exist because sometimes the truth is too painful, and the lies will land you in prison.

A cement mixer collided with a prison van on the Kingston Pass. Motorists are asked to be on the lookout for 16 hardened criminals.

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

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.

The gold standard did not collapse. Governments abolished it in order to pave the way for inflation. The whole grim apparatus of oppression and coercion, policemen, customs guards, penal courts, prisons, in some countries even executioners, had to be put into action in order to destroy the gold standard.

I was held in the Mazra Tora Prison for my role as leader of the pan-Islamist organisation Hizb ut-Tahrir in Alexandria.

Custom is a prison, locked and barred by those who long ago were dust, the keys of which are in the keeping of the dead.

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

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

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

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

We can't have cellphones, TV, radio or the Internet. If the president died, we'd have no idea. There's no normalcy. It's just like prison, with cameras.

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.

The closest thing to hell on earth is prison. It's the worst experience I've ever had in my life. Besides death.

The courage of the Syrian protesters is remarkable, for they face prison, torture, or death every time they lift a banner.

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.

I remember meeting President Obama and looking at him, thinking, 'Damn, this dude is really our president. He really went out and did it!' If you look at stories like that, and other stories that I'm sure you could compare to, it's just about freeing your mind and taking those guards down.

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

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

If you begin to have a relationship where you're doing what the guards want, and once you're out you will see that as a treason, a treason to your country, a treason to yourself, a treason to everybody, so you have to be very cautious on what is the perspective you're looking at yourself, and you have always to see yourself like from the outside.

When you're playing a good team, not too many point guards want to go one on one. When you're playing a not-so-good team, teams that are fighting to make the playoffs, guys are going to want to try and get their own. It's just a different read of each team.

You know and we have about 60 to 70 percent black men in prison today and it's because of the negativity they have in their own hearts.

Our rooms were bugged, our phones were tapped, and our lawyer's rooms were broken into and their files stolen. We finally had to hire armed guards with pistols to be able to maintain our records. It was hard to believe we weren't in Russia.

I kind of watch a guy like Aleister Black go around, and he does whatever he wants. He Black Masses whoever he wants. He beats up security guards; he threatens general managers. Tommaso Ciampa does whatever he wants.

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.

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

Public school felt like prison - cinderblock walls, fluorescent lights, metal lockers. It was so sterile and unstimulating.

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

On a planet that increasingly resembles one huge Maximum Security prison, the only intelligent choice is to plan a jail break.

I think it [Brexit] is wonderful.We've got to decide in this country who we are.We made a momentous decision.It's a bit like a prison break.

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.

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

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

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.

As far as I am concerned I would rather spend the rest of my life in prison than marry again.

In Delhi the cars are getting bigger and sleeker, the hotels are getting posher, the gates are getting higher, and the guards are no longer the old chowkidars, the watchmen, but they are fellows with guns. And yet the poor are packed into every crevice like lice in the city. People don't see that anymore. It's as if you shine a light very brightly in one place, the darkness deepens around.

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.

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.

You utter a vow or forge a signature and you may find yourself bound for life to a monastery, a woman or prison.

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.

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.

When the dead do walk seek water's run, for this the Dead will always shun. Swift river's best or broadest lake to ward the dead and have and make. If water fails thee, fire's thy friend, if neither guards it will be thy end.

Men have looked away from themselves and at things so long that they have come to esteem the religious, learned and civil institutions as guards of property, and they deprecate assaults on these, because they feel them to be assaults on property. They measure their esteem of each other by what each has, and not by what each is.

We don't want you convicted for condiment theft. You go to that prison, you'll meet big-time operators. Maple syrup stealers.

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

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

Back to prison. Maybe if you fake a heart attack, I can make a break for it. (Rose Hathaway says to Lissa Dragomir)

Observations,” he says. “Four imperial Unseelie guards were the only commonality I was able to isolate endemic to both scenes.” They’d been standing, armed, at the dock doors, overseeing the delivery. He gives me a sidewise look. “Wow. That was, like, a whole sentence. With nouns and verbs and connective tissue. Endemic. Fancy word.

The lowest point for me was ending up in prison after a violent event. I realised I was way out of my depth.