Quotes with prisoners

  • Prayerless people cut themselves off from God's peace and from his prevailing power, and a common result is that they feel overwhelmed, overrun, beaten down, pushed around, and defeated by a world operating with a take-no-prisoners approach.
  • The witty woman is a tragic figure in American life. Wit destroys eroticism and eroticism destroys wit, so women must choose between taking lovers and taking no prisoners.
  • Two prisoners whose cells adjoin communicate with each other by knocking on the wall. The wall is the thing which separates them but is also their means of communication. It is the same with us and God. Every separation is a link.
  • I never saw a man who looked with such a wistful eye upon that little tent of blue which prisoners call the sky.
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  • Oscar Wilde I never saw a man who looked with such a wistful eye upon that little tent of blue which prisoners call the sky.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Franklin D. Roosevelt Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.
    Franklin D. Roosevelt
    American statesman (1882 - 1945)
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  • Carlos Santana Most people are prisoners, thinking only about the future or living in the past. They are not in the present, and the present is where everything begins.
    Carlos Santana
    Mexican and American guitarist (1947 - )
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  • Barbara Amiel Only a free West can help the prisoners of today's left- and right-wing dictatorships.
    Barbara Amiel
    British journalist, writer, and socialite (1940 - )
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  • Nelson Mandela Only free men can negotiate. Prisoners cannot enter into contracts.
    Nelson Mandela
    South African anti-apartheid revolutionary and political leader (1918 - 2013)
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  • William C. Bryant Pain dies quickly, and lets her weary prisoners go; the fiercest agonies have shortest reign.
    William C. Bryant
    American poet, editor (1794 - 1878)
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  • Bill Hybels Prayerless people cut themselves off from God's peace and from his prevailing power, and a common result is that they feel overwhelmed, overrun, beaten down, pushed around, and defeated by a world operating with a take-no-prisoners approach.
    Too Busy Not to Pray
    Bill Hybels
    American church figure and author (1951 - )
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  • Agnes Smedley So I had to be the doctor to these wounded men until we could remove them to the hospital. There were fifty-four women and forty little boys with the Red Army prisoners, and I went daily to take care of them also.
    Agnes Smedley
    American journalist and writer (1892 - 1950)
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  • George Bernard Shaw The first prison I ever saw had inscribed on it 'CEASE TO DO EVIL: LEARN TO DO WELL'; but as the inscription was on the outside, the prisoners could not read it.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Florence King The witty woman is a tragic figure in American life. Wit destroys eroticism and eroticism destroys wit, so women must choose between taking lovers and taking no prisoners.
    Florence King
    American Author, Critic (1936 - 2016)
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  • Arundhati Roy Torture has been privatized now, so you have obviously the whole scandal in America about the abuse of prisoners and the fact that, army people might be made to pay a price, but who are the privatized torturers accountable too?
    Arundhati Roy
    Indian author (1961 - )
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  • John Donne We are all conceived in close prison; in our mothers wombs, we are close prisoners all; when we are born, we are born but to the liberty of the house; prisoners still, though within larger walls; and then all our life is but a going out to the place of execution, to death.
    John Donne
    English poet (1572 - 1631)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson We are prisoners of ideas.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Simone Weil Two prisoners whose cells adjoin communicate with each other by knocking on the wall. The wall is the thing which separates them but is also their means of communication. It is the same with us and God. Every separation is a link.
    Simone Weil
    French philosopher (1909 - 1943)
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