Quotes of: Prisoner Keyword

The fences I thought meant security were the walls of a prison instead…A fearful spirit is never from the Lord (2 Timothy 1:7). It’s the prison, not the cliff, that’s the scary place. It’s awful to realize that my female anxieties can hinder ...

The Monday Morning Club: You're Not Alone -- Encouragement for Women in Ministry

There is a larger lesson here, because the book encompasses not just the lives of prisoners in a Soviet prison camp, but every one of us. Shukhov squeezes everything he can out of a mouthful of soup or a bite of bread…So frozen that he can’t even...

One Day In The Life Of Ivan Denisovich

Sirius Black: Enough talk,Remus! C'mon, let's kill him! Professor Lupin: Wait! Sirius Black: I did my waiting! Twelve years of it! In Azkaban! Professor Lupin: Very well, kill him. But wait one more minute. Harry has the right to know why. Harry: I k...

Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

Dumbledore: Mysterious thing, time. Powerful, and when meddled with, dangerous. Sirius Black is in the topmost cell of the dark tower. You know the laws, Miss Granger. You must not be seen, and you would do well, I feel, to return before this last ch...

Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

Professor Snape: A remarkable feat, don't you think? To enter the castle on ones own, completely undetected? Dumbledore: Quite. Professor Snape: Any theories on how he might have managed it? Dumbledore: Many. Each as unlikely as the next. Professor S...

Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

Aunt Marge: [to Vernon] You mustn't blame yourself about how this one turned out, Vernon. It's all to do with blood. Bad blood will out. [to Petunia] Aunt Marge: What is it the boy's father did, Petunia? Aunt Petunia: Nothing. He didn't work. He was ...

Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

[first lines] Dalton Russell: My name is Dalton Russell. Pay strict attention to what I say because I choose my words carefully and I never repeat myself. I've told you my name: that's the Who. The Where could most readily be described as a prison ce...

Inside Man

Kindness is in a prison till it finds Release in words or deeds.

The Cats of Rome: New and Selected Poems

The day after the prison was transferred to the military intelligence command, they had an entire battalion - 1,200, 1,500 soldiers - arrive at Abu Ghraib just for force protection alone.

Janis Karpinski

In prison, you learn to count each day and each moment. You even count the bad 'meals' and the unbearable ones.

13

If the prisoner is beaten, it is an arrogant expression of fear.

All That's Left to You: A Novella and Short Stories

Prison always has been a good place for writers, killing, as it does, the twin demons of mobility and diversion

Hyperion

He regarded marriage as an arbitrary and essentially adversarial relationship, akin to the yoking of prisoners on the chain gang.

If the River Was Whiskey

America's prisons have become warehouses for the mentally ill.

Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption

I refuse to stay a prisoner to my body. I am going to free myself.

Shattered Illusions

Trapped, cutting herself against the jagged edges of her emotions, she was a prisoner of her own spirit.

Shattered Illusions

Fear is a prison where you are the jailer. Free yourself!

Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life

If practice makes you perfect shouldn't good behavior be added to the curriculum

Letters to a Prisoner

When you are born into bondage you can't see the prison.

Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life

The president of the US is the leader of the free world, if by free world you mean the country with the largest prison system.

Sleepwalking is restercise

Don’t sanctuaries become prisons, and vice versa, foremost in the mind?

On Such a Full Sea