#prisoners

Without history we are the prisoners of the accident of where and when we were born. ↗

— Donald Kagan

#born #history #prisoners #were #where

There are no 'political prisoners' as such in Bahrain. People are not arrested because they express their views, we only have criminals. ↗

— Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa

#bahrain #because #criminals #express #only

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

Nay, a heart of love is treasure, and the best the world contains. ↗

— Florence Morse Kingsley

#prisoners-of-the-sea #love

The anti-apartheid prisoners on the island, like so many in every age and nation, found that Shakespeare had a peculiar ability to gentle their condition. They used to gather clandestinely to read the plays; on one occasion, the book was passed around for each man to mark his favourite lines. ↗

— Daniel Hannan

#age #around #book #condition #each

In light of the Abu Ghraib prison scandal, critics are arguing that abuses of Iraqi prisoners are being produced by a climate of disregard for the laws of war. ↗

— John Yoo

#arguing #being #climate #critics #disregard

We differ on several issues. And this may include settlement, the release of prisoners, the wall closing institutions in Jerusalem. ↗

— Mahmoud Abbas

#differ #include #institutions #issues #jerusalem

When I'm forced by circumstances to be in a crowd of prisoners, it's all I can do to refrain from attack. ↗

— Jack Henry Abbott

#circumstances #crowd #forced #i #i can

Memorial bracelets memorializing prisoners of war, missing in action, killed in action, and those who died of wounds or injuries sustained in a combat theater are authorized. ↗

— James F. Amos

#authorized #combat #died #injuries #killed

Through my illness I learned rejection. I was written off. That was the moment I thought, Okay, game on. No prisoners. Everybody's going down. ↗

— Lance Armstrong

#everybody #game #going #i #illness