#prisoner

There is nothing like scrubbing toilets for a living to make you question the choices you have made in life. ↗

— Raegan Butcher

#poetry #prisoners #humor

If you want to test cosmetics, why do it on some poor animal who hasn't done anything? They should use prisoners who have been convicted of murder or rape instead. So, rather than seeing if perfume irritates a bunny rabbit's eyes, they should throw it in Charles Manson's eyes and ask him if it hurts. ↗

— Ellen DeGeneres

#animal-rights #animal-testing #animal-welfare #animals #cosmetics

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

— Edie Brickell

#feel #inside #jailed #like #prisoner

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

— Eric Cantona

#memories #past #prisoner #quickly #very

Every invalid is a prisoner. ↗

— Marguerite Yourcenar

#invalid #prisoner

It is also asserted that the election settled the matters of the war and the torture of prisoners. These are dead issues that no longer need be addressed. ↗

— Andrew Greeley

#also #asserted #dead #election #issues

We have peace with God as soon as we believe, but not always with ourselves. The pardon may be past the prince's hand and seal, and yet not put into the prisoner's hand. ↗

— William Gurnall

#believe #god #hand #into #may

I've always been opposed myself to prisoners having the vote. ↗

— William Hague

#been #having #i #myself #opposed

New fathers, political prisoners, traumatised presidential aides, resolute schoolboys, MEPs addressing unfriendly chambers - we all find that Shakespeare has magically anticipated our precise circumstances. How he was possible, I still don't understand; but there isn't a day I'm not grateful that he speaks to me in my own language. ↗

— Daniel Hannan

#aides #anticipated #chambers #circumstances #day

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

— Ronnie Hawkins

#being #below #prisoner #rock #roll