Prisoner Quotes

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

I was never a prisoner to my footballing status.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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 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.

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.

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.