Prisoner Quotes

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.

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.

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

Every invalid is a prisoner.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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'm not an ordinary prisoner.

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

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.

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

Prison service vans that travel 90 miles to take a prisoner 90 yards; paedophiles free to leer at children in the very parks where they have committed horrific crimes.

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

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

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

A prisoner in the Inquisition is never allowed to see the face of his accuser, or of the witnesses against him, but every method is taken by threats and tortures, to oblige him to accuse himself, and by that means corroborate their evidence.

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.