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Last updated on November 13, 2024.
A ship in dock, surrounded by quays and the walls of warehouses, has the appearance of a prisoner meditating upon freedom in the sadness of a free spirit put under restraint.
The reporter is the daily prisoner of clocked facts. On all working days, he is expected to do his best in one swift swipe at each story.
Pictures bring you inside, whether you see yourself driving a new car or as a hapless prisoner who is being abused.
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We spend our lives trying to unlock the mystery of the universe, but there was a Turkish prisoner, Bahá’u’lláh, in Akka, Palestine who had the Key.
'Prisoner' is not a direct 'I've just been divorced' album, although that fire is burning very well on the record.
I believe that man is the product of natural evolution that is born from the conflict of being a prisoner and separated from nature, and from the need to find unity and harmony with it.
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 past is a great place and I don't want to erase it or to regret it, but I don't want to be its prisoner either.
Come on you raver, you seer of visions, come on you painter, you piper, you prisoner, and shine.
To be a prisoner means to be defined as a member of a group for whom the rules of what can be done to you, of what is seen as abuse of you, are reduced as part of the definition of your status.
We are no more free agents than the queen of clubs when she victoriously takes prisoner the knave of hearts.
Terrorism is not a matter that can be left to law enforcement, with its deliberative process, built-in delays, and safeguards that may let the prisoner go free on procedural grounds.
The prisoner never loves his warden, even if he obeys the rules from time to time.
I do not accept being a prisoner of fear. Of Communism, of fascism. That, one can bear. But of one's fear. No. Never.
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.
We bury our seeds and wait,
Winter blocks the road,
Flowers are taken prisoner underground,
But then green justice tenders a spear
There was a military police brigade with over 3,400 soldiers getting ready to go home because their mission - prisoner-of-war operations - was finished.
I'm an orphan!" Constance cried gleefully. "I'm an orphan!" ~ The Prisoner's Dilemma
Avoid trouble with those who are fanatics; they remain imprisoned in exclusivism and deserve compassion just as any other prisoner.
In my business you cant trust anyone because you dont know whos your friend. Becoming successful means you become a prisoner
One of the frustrations of prison life, which is also one of its intended consequences, is that the prisoner is made ineffective. He is unable to be of much use. The aim is to render him powerless.
Can the imagination, any more than the boy, be held prisoner ?" - from the foreword to the 1976 edition of "The Painted Bird
Every movement of mine was under the control of the Vietnamese government, a communist country. I was just a prisoner without walls.
I view my pitching on how confident I was out there, period. And if I lose that confidence, I can become a prisoner of my own mind.
If you care too much about what other people think, you will always be their prisoner. Lao Tzu
The will of man without the grace of God is not free at all, but is the permanent prisoner and bondslave of evil since it cannot turn itself to good.
Every time you are tempted to react in the same old way, ask if you want to be a prisoner of the past or a pioneer of the future.
At twenty your choices are almost unlimited. At fifty you're a prisoner of past decisions. At seventy you have no free will left at all.
Nobody wants a political prisoner, but a political emigrant is no problem.
Never did a prisoner, released from his chains, feel such relief as I shall on shaking off the shackles of power.
I've wanted somehow to convey to you the sensations - the atmospheric pressure, you might say - of what it is to be seriously a long-term prisoner in an American prison.
I am not a prisoner of conscious, but people try to make me one sometimes. It is both a gift and a curse. It's a high honour but can create limitations - I have to be fluid.
Just saw a t-shirt at the gym said, body by torture. That's a lot less ironic if you're a political prisoner in the Middle East.
You have been a prisoner of a little pond I am the ocean and its turbulent flood Come merge with me leave this world of ignorance
Paul was Nero's prisoner, but Nero was much more God's.
There is a doctrine whispered in secret that a man is a prisoner who has no right to open the door and run away; this is a great mystery which I do not quite understand.
There is none of my uncle's marks upon you; he taught me how to know a man in love; in which cage of rushes I am sure you are not prisoner.
You're a prisoner of your own illusions - about yourself and about the world.
'Shantaram' is fantastic. An Australian prisoner escapes & joins the mafia in India? Sign me up. I love stuff that is based on true stories.
Ours is a civil fight, and imprisonment as a civil prisoner has got to be earned by the strict observance of the programme.
If you know only one language, you're a prisoner, stuck in the tyranny of that one language.
I was a prisoner, but I always felt free because I was not frightened So for me real freedom is freedom from fear.
I have the responsibility to tell everybody that I am not the only political prisoner in Hong Kong and that there will be more coming.
You are brave, kicking a chained prisoner. They must sing heroic ballads about you on winter nights!" (Alanna)
A political prisoner is someone who is out fighting for his or her people's rights and freedom and is imprisoned for that alone.
I only escaped from Tibet because I feared my people would resort to desperate violence if the Chinese took me as their prisoner.
Only a prisoner who has been confined for long behind high walk can appreciate the extraordinary psychological value of these outside walks and open views.
When you meditate you discover over and over again that you are not a prisoner of your mind.
It so happened that I was on a German sailing vessel on the way to Australia when the ship was captured, and on the high seas I was made prisoner by the French.
Your secret is your prisoner; once you reveal it, you become its slave.
Bill Gallagher's new version of 'The Prisoner' is an enthralling commentary on modern culture. It is witty, intelligent and disturbing. I am very excited to be involved.
Television is a prisoner of dialogue and steady-cam. People walk down a hall, and the camera follows them around a corner.
I live a very dull life here... indeed I think I am more like a state prisoner than anything else.
A prisoner of war is a man who tries to kill you and fails, and then asks you not to kill him.
I can mingle with the stars and throw a party on Mars
I am a prisoner, locked up behind Xanax bars
The jury passing on the prisoner's life may in the sworn twelve have a thief or two guiltier than him they try.
In this, our age of infamy Man's choice is but to be A tyrant, traitor, prisoner: No other choice has he.
Prayer is helplessness casting itself on Power, infirmity leaning on Strength, misery reaching to Mercy, and a prisoner clamoring for Relief.
A person may dwell so long upon a thought that it may take him a prisoner.
