Top 459 Prisoner Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

I've spent most of my life in prison. I was a prisoner of my fear and my low self-esteem.

Sick of being a prisoner of my childhood, I want to put it behind me.

I created something that became a phenomenon without becoming a prisoner to it.

Love cannot be held prisoner because it is a river and will overflow its banks.

I don't want to be a prisoner in a palace, living in such a constricted way - too tight!

Always late: thus I make you the prisoner of my freedom.

There is something about words. In expert hands, manipulated deftly, they take you prisoner.

You can feel very quickly as a prisoner of your past, of the memories.

On average, a prisoner in the U.S. spends around ten years on Death Row before execution.

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

My arrest in Egypt happened in 2002, and I was convicted to five years as a political prisoner.

One of my very favorite television shows growing up was 'The Prisoner.'

Every child should feel safe at school without feeling like a prisoner.

But now, like a fallen sparrow On a golden chain, I'm forever bound in shadow, A prisoner to my pain.

There are times when I flick through magazines and think I'm in danger of becoming a prisoner of my own hair.

Only free men can negotiate. A prisoner cannot enter into contracts.

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

Rock 'n' roll was two pegs below being a prisoner of war back then.

Modern man is a prisoner who thinks he is free because he refrains from touching the walls of his dungeon.

My obsessions used to be my protectors, but now they have taken me prisoner.

I am George Rogers Clark. You have just become a prisoner of the Commonwealth of Virginia.

I have always had plenty of friends, and now at age sixty, I face four walls as a common prisoner.

Depression is a prison where you are both the suffering prisoner and the cruel jailer.

One evening, when we were already resting on the floor of our hut, dead tired, soup bowls in hand, a fellow prisoner rushed in and asked us to run out to the assembly grounds and see the wonderful sunset. Standing outside we saw sinister clouds glowing in the west and the whole sky alive with clouds of ever-changing shapes and colors, from steel blue to blood red. The desolate grey mud huts provided a sharp contrast, while the puddles on the muddy ground reflected the glowing sky. Then, after minutes of moving silence, one prisoner said to another, "How beautiful the world could be.

I am a President held prisoner, that I haven't resigned and I will not resign.

General, get up dress quick you are a prisoner!

Unclose your mind. You are not a prisoner. You are a bird in flight, searching the skies for dreams.

And don't forget, a prisoner's wife must always think good thoughts.

Tis base to plead the unhappy prisoner's cause, With eloquence that's bought.

The court was not previously aware of the prisoner's many accomplishments. In view of these, we see fit to impose the death penalty.

The thoughts of a prisoner - they're not free either. They keep returning to the same things.

You feel like a prisoner if you don't create. You're jailed up inside of yourself.

Everyone is a prisoner of his own experiences. No one can eliminate prejudices - just recognize them.

I'm not obsessed by looks. I think you can become a prisoner of your own image.

The voluntary captive The speechless the prisoner Which I hide in my very depths.

The idea that a prisoner would confess to a complete stranger that he had committed a crime - I just didn't buy that.

Better to die fighting for freedom then be a prisoner all the days of your life.

Listen, just do what you think is right, and we'll support it." ~ Sticky Washington, The Prisoner's Dilemma

If you're going to be a prisoner of your own mind, the least you can do is make sure it's well furnished.

The hazards of the generalized prisoner's dilemma are removed by the match between the right and the good.

The Duke of Clarence . . . a prisoner in the Tower, was secretly put to death and drowned in a barrel of Malmesey wine.

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

Cease being a prisoner of the body; using the secret key of Kriya, learn to escape into Spirit.

Care about people's approval and you will be their prisoner.

Arrival = Prison, and the artist must never be a prisoner.

In the final choice a soldier's pack is not so heavy as a prisoner's chains.

What are you? Stupid? Of course they have a guard. What part of ‘You’re a prisoner’ did you miss? (Delphine)

I was really self conscious as a kid, I felt terrible - like a prisoner in my own body.

I'm no longer a prisoner of my fears. Which really just means I'm using real butter.

Finn smiled ruefully. "I'm a Prisoner, old man. Just like you.

Education has become a prisoner of contemporaneity. It is the past, not the dizzy present, that is the best door to the future.

Even when one sits in the prisoner's dock, it is interesting to hear talk about oneself.

Forgiveness is unlocking the door to set someone free and realising you were the prisoner!

Care about what other people think and you will always be their prisoner.

There are hundreds of prisons - sexual, political, cultural. But being a prisoner also gives you impetus.

Help! I'm being held prisoner by my heredity and environment.

If you can't do anything about it then let it go. Don't be a prisoner to things you can't change.

To men who only aim at escaping felony, nothing short of the prisoner's dock is disgrace.

Each man is his own prisoner, in solitary confinement for life.

We know the Russian methods exactly. I haven't the faintest intention of being taken prisoner by the Russians.