Prisoner Quotations | Page 2

I live a very dull life here . . . indeed I think I am more like a state prisoner than anything else.

In our view at this stage, the Israelis have done what they said they would do at Wye concerning prisoner releases.

By wearing Judy Miller's prisoner number, reporters and other participants in the race will show solidarity with our colleague who is unable to participate along with us,

Before we had the new jail we were paying rent (for prisoner housing) and we hoped after building the new jail we could be on the receiving end of that. And we have, somewhat, but we had hoped we would have more interest.

How can the prisoner be asked to recognize his jailer?

Since being a prisoner was a definite improvement over being dead, which was what she thought was going to happen when the Loundergs had attacked, Suzy was quite cheerful.

Even when we tell kids to go play, what do the kids do? They come up with a set of constraints and structures. "Oh, we're gonna build a fort out of clothes, and now that we're in the fort we're going to pretend that we're prisoners," or whatever.

I am prisoner of a gaudy and unlivable present, where all forms of human society have reached an extreme of their cycle and there is no imagining what new forms they may assume.

He's in custody in state juvenile detention. He's their prisoner and they don't have to take him anywhere they don't want to.

I can make it absolutely clear that in relation to convicted prisoners, the result of this is not that every convicted prisoner is in the future going to get the right to vote.

We are all prisoner, but the name of our cure is not freedom

I got very well acquainted with Joe Stalin, and I like old Joe! He is a decent fellow. But Joe is a prisoner of the Politburo.

I'm not an ordinary prisoner.

Every invalid is a prisoner.

We are prisoners of our own metaphors, metaphorically speaking...

I will not be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed, or numbered !My life is my own.

The unhappy are prisoners of a single round of thought.

Right now you are a prisoner of each application you use. You have only the options that were given you by the developer of that application.

Let others probe the mystery if they can.Time-harried prisoners of Shall and Will -The right thing happens to the happy man.

Every man is a prisoner, and the greatest irony of all is to be the prisoner of another man.

Is the prisoner a prisoner because he lives in a cage or because he knows that he lives in a cage?

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

[To a group of women prisoners:] You're luckier than I am. You're wanted and I'm not.

We're not prisoners of the past.

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

Prisoners are the greatest audience that an entertainer can perform to.

The idea that he will be part of a prisoner exchange is absurd. He is 100 percent certain that he will walk out of there before President Bush's term expires. That is a delusion.

The past is the one thing we are not prisoners of. We can do with the past exactly what we wish. What we can't do is to change its consequences.

It is true I wished to escape; and so I wish still: is not this lawful for all prisoners?

John McCain was a prisoner of war.

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

My arrest was on every bloody TV set. The other prisoners all knew who I was and asked me to sing.

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

Structures of which we are unaware hold us prisoner.

... all Americans are the prisoners of racial prejudice.

We are all prisoners of our thoughts.

Words on the page are never prisoners of the page

If any of my men kill prisoners, I'll kill them.

You are only a prisoner when you surrender.

Visual supervision is a joke for development workers. Visual supervision is for prisoners.

Bring on the shackles - I'm your prisoner

Forgiveness sets the prisoner free. And realizing that prisoner was you. That's what forgiveness does. It sets you free.

I will say, the one thing Mexico does well is punish prisoners. They do. They're good at that.

I'm an orphan!" Constance cried gleefully. "I'm an orphan!" ~ The Prisoner's Dilemma

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

We are the prisoners of history. Or are we?

Those who build walls are their own prisoners.

In war everybody is a prisoner.

Paul was Nero's prisoner, but Nero was much more God's.

When a prisoner sees the door of his dungeon open he dashes for it without stopping to think where he shall get his dinner.

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

I'm not an optimist; I'm a prisoner of hope.

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

It is not the prisoners who need reformation, it is the prisons.

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

The prisoner grows to love his chains.

Ours is a civil fight, and imprisonment as a civil prisoner has got to be earned by the strict observance of the programme.

A jailer is as much a prisoner as his prisoner.

We are the prisoners of ideas.

Fear can hold you prisoner. Hope can set you free.