#prisoner

I know that I'm already in the history books and that people are going to remember me as the prisoner of war and the fabricated stories, but you know, to me I was just another soldier over there doing my job. ↗

— Jessica Lynch

#another #books #doing #fabricated #going

Everyone is a prisoner of his own experiences. No one can eliminate prejudices - just recognize them. ↗

— Edward R. Murrow

#everyone #experiences #his #just #own

When you look at the startling ruins of Nuremberg, you are looking at a result of the war. When you look at the prisoners on view in the courthouse, you are looking at 22 of the causes. ↗

— Janet Flanner

#courthouse #look #looking #nuremberg #prisoners

A prisoner's shackles would always be a lawyers joy. ↗

— Dennis E. Adonis

#chance #deceit #freedom #lawyers #life

Not all political prisoners are innocents. ↗

— David Remnick

#political #political prisoners #prisoners

Mind is prison of one's potential which can be freed by his dreams. ↗

— Toba Beta

#prisoner-of-mind #dreams

The witty woman is a tragic figure in American life. Wit destroys eroticism and eroticism destroys wit, so women must choose between taking lovers and taking no prisoners. ↗

— Florence King

#american life #between #choose #destroys #eroticism

Most people are prisoners, thinking only about the future or living in the past. They are not in the present, and the present is where everything begins. ↗

— Carlos Santana

#begins #everything #future #in the past #living

A man man may dwell so long upon a thought that it may take him prisoner. ↗

— George Savile

#him #long #man #may #prisoner

I've wanted somehow to convey to you the sensations - the atmospheric pressure, you might say - of what it is to be seriously a long-term prisoner in an American prison. ↗

— Jack Henry Abbott

#atmospheric #convey #i #long-term #might