Prisoner Quotes

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

We are no more free agents than the queen of clubs when she victoriously takes prisoner the knave of hearts.

Hemingway was a prisoner of his style. No one can talk like the characters in Hemingway except the characters in Hemingway. His style in the wildest sense finally killed him.

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

Otherwise, to be a movie star, it's a lot of compromise and also a lot of headaches. You can't do what you want. You become a prisoner of your fame. This happened to me in France and I don't want it.

Three hundred years ago a prisoner condemned to the Tower of London carved on the wall of his cell this sentiment to keep up his spirits during his long imprisonment: 'It is not adversity that kills, but the impatience with which we bear adversity.

Playing a prisoner of war trapped in Pakistan for three years was a novelty for me. We made sure that we didn't talk about India versus Pakistan but about the emotions of people on both sides and how terrorism affects us all.

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

I know that I'm already in the history books and that people are going to remember me as the prisoner of war and the fabricated stories, but you know, to me I was just another soldier over there doing my job.

Every invalid is a prisoner.

Your secret is your prisoner; once you reveal it, you become its slave.

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.

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.

I think I was the healthiest prisoner of conscience in the world.

You shouldn't be a prisoner of your own ideas.

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

Among those people lucky enough, if you will, to have actually been brought to trial as a political prisoner, several historians have said there has not been one acquittal since the Bolshevik Revolution.

To Mr. Seward: It is my desire that, in case Maximillian will surrender, he be sent here a prisoner of war, but that in the event of his continuing the war, or refusing to surrender, then he be shot.

Bush sees the evil as out there in the wider world, residing in people who 'hate freedom'. Look at his immediate response to the pictures of prisoner abuse; this is not what Americans do, these are not our values.

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

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

There was a war crimes trial because an American prisoner had been shot trying to escape. He had obviously been recaptured and shot, and that violated the Geneva Convention.

There is no greater hell than to be a prisoner of fear.

Both sides were supposed to release all their prisoners, those were unconditional. There was some prisoner release that took place but it's not been satisfactory.

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

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

I'm not an ordinary prisoner.

A man man may dwell so long upon a thought that it may take him prisoner.

And now, dear sister, I must leave this house or the retreating army will make me a prisoner in it by filling up the road I am directed to take.

To forgive is to set a prisoner free and discover that the prisoner was you.