Prisoner Quotes

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

That means presenting the issues in certain ways that will appeal to those people and then becoming a prisoner of your own language and thought process. That has always happened - it's just been intensified.

Due to the fact that I experienced personally the situation of a political prisoner, I have an historical commitment to all those that were or are prisoners just because they expressed their views, their public opinion, their own opinions.

I will be a model prisoner, as I have been a model citizen.

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

We have peace with God as soon as we believe, but not always with ourselves. The pardon may be past the prince's hand and seal, and yet not put into the prisoner's hand.

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.

It would be like the films I've seen where wardens would decide to be in a jail cell for a week, to get a sense of what it would be like to be a prisoner.

The prisoner is not the one who has commited a crime, but the one who clings to his crime and lives it over and over.

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

The middle class, that prisoner of the barbarian 20th century.

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.

As far as those kinds of things, I also played at the concert to call for the release of Nelson Mandela when he was a political prisoner in South Africa. We were celebrating his 70th birthday and calling for his release.

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.

A defence in the Inquisition is of little use to the prisoner, for a suspicion only is deemed sufficient cause of condemnation, and the greater his wealth the greater his danger.

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

I have become a prisoner of the peace movement. But you can't say that the termination is coming and then say that you are going back to your own garden to dig.

I was never a prisoner to my footballing status.

A prisoner of war is a man who tries to kill you and fails, and then asks you not to kill him.

American POWs from the last Iraq war, who were held prisoner and tortured by Iraq, are now being prevented by our government from suing the Iraqis who tortured them.

People come from a certain generation and a certain whole way of looking at things, and you really do become a prisoner of your own world.

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

An artist must never be a prisoner. Prisoner? An artist should never be a prisoner of himself, prisoner of style, prisoner of reputation, prisoner of success, etc.

I am not a prisoner of my sexuality like men younger than myself although I write about being a prisoner.

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.

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

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.

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 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.