Prisoner Quotes

Forgiveness is setting the prisoner free, only to find out that the prisoner was me.

If you can't do anything about it then let it go. Don't be a prisoner to things you can't change.

Fear can hold you prisoner. Hope can set you free.

We are, each of us, our own prisoner. We are locked up in our own story.

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

The past is the one thing we are not prisoners of. We can do with the past exactly what we wish. What we can't do is to change its consequences.

Avoid trouble with those who are fanatics; they remain imprisoned in exclusivism and deserve compassion just as any other prisoner.

Forgiveness sets the prisoner free. And realizing that prisoner was you. That's what forgiveness does. It sets you free.

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

If you're going to be a prisoner of your own mind, the least you can do is make sure it's well furnished.

You are only a prisoner when you surrender.

To know that you are a prisoner of your mind is the dawn of wisdom.

... all Americans are the prisoners of racial prejudice.

We're not prisoners of the past.

There are few prisoners more closely guarded than princes.

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

We are prisoners of our own metaphors, metaphorically speaking.

Structures of which we are unaware hold us prisoner.

I will say, the one thing Mexico does well is punish prisoners. They do. They're good at that.

Paul was Nero's prisoner, but Nero was much more God's.

I will not be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed, or numbered !My life is my own.

When you meditate you discover over and over again that you are not a prisoner of your mind.

Prisoners are the greatest audience that an entertainer can perform to.

Prejudice makes prisoners of both the hated and the hater.

Those who build walls are their own prisoners.

Visual supervision is a joke for development workers. Visual supervision is for prisoners.

I cannot be an optimist but I am a prisoner of hope.

Love cannot be held prisoner because it is a river and will overflow its banks.

We are all prisoners of our thoughts.

The thoughts of a prisoner - they're not free either. They keep returning to the same things.

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.

It is true I wished to escape; and so I wish still: is not this lawful for all prisoners?

Education has become a prisoner of contemporaneity.

You're a tourist in sexual perversion. I'm a prisoner there.

Women are strong now. Women are dominating the charts, and women are doing it for themselves. We're kicking butt and taking no prisoners.

The unhappy are prisoners of a single round of thought.

I believe that free and civilized societies do not hold prisoners incommunicado.

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

Your secret is your prisoner; once you reveal it, you become its slave.

People don't even know that we have political prisoners.

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

The curiosity to see the prisoners appears to be unabated

[To a group of women prisoners:] You're luckier than I am. You're wanted and I'm not.

I was happy not to be in his place. He could command my death, but not his. But then, what kind of power was his? He was a prisoner of himself.

My arrest was on every bloody TV set. The other prisoners all knew who I was and asked me to sing.

Is the prisoner a prisoner because he lives in a cage or because he knows that he lives in a cage?

Every invalid is a prisoner.

Many working families are both prisoners and architects of the time bind in which they find themselves.

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.

Whatever we think of the past, we must not be prisoners to it.