#imprisoned

Lucy seemed to be imprisoned by a legion of people in her life who always wanted what was right for her. And as a result, in the eyes of everyone, she had everything... and yet she always, always felt she had nothing. No one. ↗

— C. JoyBell C.

#imprisoned #loneliness #saint-paul-trois-châteaux- #life

Man is not imprisoned by habit. Great changes in him can be wrought by crisis - once that crisis can be recognized and understood. ↗

— Norman Cousins

#crisis #great #great changes #habit #him

Prostitution, although hounded, imprisoned, and chained, is nevertheless the greatest triumph of Puritanism. ↗

— Emma Goldman

#chained #greatest #hounded #imprisoned #nevertheless

I was at a benefit for some imprisoned students in the '60s at San Francisco State, and there were lots of poets reading for the benefit: one was Elizabeth Bishop. ↗

— Thom Gunn

#bishop #elizabeth #francisco #i #imprisoned

No dictator, no invader, can hold an imprisoned population by force of arms forever. ↗

— J. Michael Straczynski

#dictator #force #forever #hold #imprisoned

I don't believe in depriving myself of any food or being imprisoned by a diet. ↗

— Joely Fisher

#any #being #believe #depriving #food

We are imprisoned in the realm of life, like a sailor on his tiny boat, on an infinite ocean. ↗

— Anna Freud

#his #imprisoned #infinite #life #like

Men might as well be imprisoned, as excluded from the means of earning their bread. ↗

— John Stuart Mill

#earning #excluded #imprisoned #means #men

But recently I began to feel that maybe I wouldn't be able to do what I want to do and need to do with American musicians, who are imprisoned behind these bars; music's got these bars and measures you know. ↗

— Sun Ra

#american #bars #began #behind #feel

When al-Qaeda was on the run from Afghanistan crossing through Iran, some were arrested and they are imprisoned. Some of them are charged with some actions in Iran. ↗

— Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani

#afghanistan #al-qaeda #arrested #charged #crossing