#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

I remember when humor was gentle pokes. I used to call it 'arm around the shoulder' humor. Now they go for the jugular and they take no prisoners. It's mean, mean stuff. ↗

— Robert Orben

#around #call #gentle #go #humor

If we go to Chihuahua we must be considered as prisoners of war? ↗

— Zebulon Pike

#considered #go #must #prisoners #war

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

— Toba Beta

#prisoner-of-mind #dreams

There is no greater hell than to be a prisoner of fear. ↗

— Ben Jonson

#greater #hell #prisoner #than

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

That means presenting the issues in certain ways that will appeal to those people and then becoming a prisoner of your own language and thought process. That has always happened - it's just been intensified. ↗

— Robert Scheer

#appeal #becoming #been #certain #certain ways

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

Kenyataan terpahit dalam hidup adalah ketika melihat orang yang kita cintai terluka dan menangis karena kita. Dan kita tidak dapat melakukan apapun untuk mencegahnya. ↗

— Irin Sintriana

#novel #prisoner-of-ur-heart #love

In the decline of the day, near Kentucky river, as we ascended the brow of a small hill, a number of Indians rushed out of a thick cane-brake upon us, and made us prisoners. ↗

— Daniel Boone

#brow #day #decline #hill #indians