#prisoner

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

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

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

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My wish for you... is that your skeptic-eclectic brain be flooded with the light of truth. ↗

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

#prisoner #russian #zek #skepticism

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

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

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

— Dennis E. Adonis

#chance #deceit #freedom #lawyers #life

The middle class, that prisoner of the barbarian 20th century. ↗

— Sinclair Lewis

#barbarian #century #class #middle #middle class

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