#prisoner

The prisoner is not the one who has commited a crime, but the one who clings to his crime and lives it over and over. ↗

— Henry Miller

#crime #his #lives #over #prisoner

We are no more free agents than the queen of clubs when she victoriously takes prisoner the knave of hearts. ↗

— Mary Wortley Montagu

#clubs #free #free agents #hearts #knave

I think I was the healthiest prisoner of conscience in the world. ↗

— Aung San Suu Kyi

#healthiest #i #i think #prisoner #think

What I have experienced is nothing compared to what political prisoners in prisons suffer. ↗

— Aung San Suu Kyi

#experienced #i #nothing #political #political prisoners

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

It's very good of you--" "No, no, not at all. It's my hobby. Not proposing to people, I don't mean, but investigating things. Well, cheer-frightfully-ho and all that. And I'll call again, if I may." "I will give the footman orders to admit you," said the prisoner, gravely, "you will always find me at home. ↗

— Dorothy L. Sayers

#gallows-humor #prisoner #proposal #humor

Di mana pun aku berada, aku selalu berdoa agar kamu bahagia. ↗

— Irin Sintriana

#prisoner-of-ur-heart #love

There was never in my mind a desire to give in on the subject of freeing the political prisoners. ↗

— Robert Bourassa

#freeing #give #mind #never #political

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