Prisoner Quotes

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 was never a prisoner to my footballing status.

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.

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.

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

Every invalid is a prisoner.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

I'm not an ordinary prisoner.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.