You can feel very quickly as a prisoner of your past, of the memories.
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.
The world is a philosophical prison and Man is the philosophical prisoner.
The Duke of Clarence. . . a prisoner in the Tower, was secretly put to death and drowned in a barrel of Malmesey wine.
What are you? Stupid? Of course they have a guard. What part of ‘You’re a prisoner’ did you miss? (Delphine)
We consider a prisoner unfortunate. He is unfortunate in two ways-because he has done something wrong and because he is deprived of his liberty. Therefore we should treat him kindly, because of his misfortune, for otherwise he would become hard and bitter and would not be sorry he had done wrong.
I am always sorry for the Puritan, for he guided his life against desire and against nature. He found what he thought was comfort, for he believed the spirit's safety was in negation, but he has never given the world one minute's joy or produced one symbol of the beautiful order of nature. He sought peace in bondage and his spirit became a prisoner.
Care about people's approval and you will be their prisoner.
We are the prisoners of ideas.
I'm not obsessed by looks. I think you can become a prisoner of your own image.
Your secret is your prisoner; once you reveal it, you become its slave.
There is no greater hell than to be a prisoner of fear.
Show me the prison, Show me the jail, Show me the prisoner whose life has gone stale. And I'll show you a young man with so many reasons why And there, but for fortune, go you or I.
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.
Private Manning is the world's pre-eminent prisoner of conscience, having remained true to the Nuremberg principle that every soldier has the right to 'a moral choice. ' His suffering mocks the notion of the land of the free.
The West has political prisoners.
Forgiveness is unlocking the door to set someone free and realising you were the prisoner!
Mordovian prisoners are afraid of their own shadows. They are completely terrified.
Not all political prisoners are innocents.
Rock 'n' roll was two pegs below being a prisoner of war back then.