#prisoner

I'm not an ordinary prisoner. ↗

— Mikhail Khodorkovsky

#ordinary #prisoner

I sort of tend to equate tattoos with prisoners, punks or people with a high level of self-confidence. I don't necessarily have a covered-in-tattoos personality. ↗

— Lena Dunham

#high #high level #i #level #necessarily

My main point here is that if you are the child of God and God is a part of you, the in your imagination God suppose to look like you. And when you accept a picture of the deity assigned to you by another people, you become the spiritual prisoners of that other people. ↗

— John Henrik Clarke

#another #assigned #become #child #deity

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. ↗

— John Foxe

#condemnation #danger #deemed #defence #greater

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

— Solomon Ibn Gabirol

#once #prisoner #reveal #secret #slave

Only a free West can help the prisoners of today's left- and right-wing dictatorships. ↗

— Barbara Amiel

#free #help #only #prisoners #right-wing

Hermione, if Harry’s seen a Grim, that’s — that’s bad,” he said. “My — my uncle Bilius saw one and — and he died twenty-four hours later!” “Coincidence,” said Hermione airily, pouring herself some pumpkin juice. “You don’t know what you’re talking about!” said Ron, starting to get angry. “Grims scare the living daylights out of most wizards!” “There you are, then,” said Hermione in a superior tone. “They see the Grim and die of fright. The Grim’s not an omen, it’s the cause of death! And Harry’s still with us because he’s not stupid enough to see one and think, right, well, I’d better kick the bucket then! ↗

— J.K. Rowling

#harry-potter #hermione #j-k-rowling #prisoner-of-azkaban #ron

Better to make prime ministers out of prisoners than prisoners out of prime ministers. ↗

— Lord Caradon

#make #ministers #out #prime #prime ministers

Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds. ↗

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

#men #minds #only #own #prisoners

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. ↗

— James Keller

#ago #bear #carved #cell #condemned