Prisoner Quotes

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.

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.

A political prisoner is someone who is out fighting for his or her people's rights and freedom and is imprisoned for that alone.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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