Top 100 Quotes About Imprison
#1. Negation is the mind's first freedom, yet a negative habit is fruitful only so long as we exert ourselves to overcome it, adapt it to our needs; once acquired it can imprison us.
Emile M. Cioran
#2. You can't make someone love you." She held out her right hand to flash a ring with a gaudy stone set in it. "But you can imprison him in a ring for not loving you. See?
David Cody Weiss
#3. The professional military mind is by necessity an inferior and unimaginative mind; no man of high intellectual quality would willingly imprison his gifts in such a calling.
H.G.Wells
#6. Interesting. You Earth people glorify organized violence for 40 centuries, but you imprison those who employ it privately.
Leonard Nimoy
#7. What was any art but a mold to imprison for a moment the shining elusive element which is life itself- life hurrying past us and running away, to strong to stop, too sweet to lose.
Willa Cather
#8. It's better to end something and start another than to imprison yourself in hoping for the impossible. Life can never promise to always be happy but life gets better after you accept things you just can't change. For you Jelle, from me.. with luv. He-he!
Marione Ashley
#9. There are two powers in this world which cannot be matched. Beauty and Youth. Buy the beauty and imprison the youth. Give the best models, actress, and girls from town and nail them. I do not care how much it costs.
Ravindra Shukla
#10. There are many, many ways to be imprisoned. You don't need fences, handcuffs, chains, or steel bars. Your heart or your own mind can imprison you within yourself. Another human being can imprison you with their actions and thoughts.
Cary Allen Stone
#11. Energy is eternal delight; and from the earliest times human beings have tried to imprison it in some durable hieroglyphic. It is perhaps the first of all the subjects of art.
Kenneth Clark
#12. We are prisoners of our thoughts. We like to imprison everyone in the same prison and think that it will solve the problems of humanity. Yet everyone is unique; let them live freely and with harmony.
Debasish Mridha
#13. A heart filled with love is like a phoenix that no cage can imprison.
Rumi
#14. [T]he vote is the most powerful instrument ever devised by man for breaking down injustice and destroying the terrible walls which imprison men because they are different from other men.
Lyndon B. Johnson
#15. How was she to tie herself to a man without permitting him to imprison her? And was there some means of acquiring things without those things possessing her?
Clarice Lispector
#16. Love is an untamed force. When we try to control it, it destroys us. When we try to imprison it, it enslaves us. When we try to understand it, it leaves us feeling lost and confused.
Paulo Coelho
#17. Failure to communalize grief can imprison a person in endless swinging between rage and emotional deadness as a permanent way of being in the world.
Kevin Sites
#18. The young-old polarization and the male-female polarization are perhaps the two leading stereotypes that imprison people.
Susan Sontag
#19. Americans not only smoke more marijuana but also imprison more people for marijuana than any other western industrialized nation.
Eric Schlosser
#20. The twins hobbled forward. "Freaks and dames and boys and things, drinks and bones and shiny rings," said the twin on the left.
"Ashes and earth will imprison the frail, blood of love will lift the veil," said the other.
J.A. Redmerski
#21. I wonder why it is that we so often imprison ourselves in the opinions of other people. There can be no punishment worse than conspiring in our own diminishment.
Dawna Markova
#22. Our confession will either imprison us or set us free. Our confession is the result of our believing, and our believing is the result of our right or wrong thinking.
Kenneth E. Hagin
#23. You can imprison a man, but not an idea. You can exile a man, but not an idea.
You can kill a man, but not an idea.
Benazir Bhutto
#24. As politics is disconnected from its ethical and material moorings, it becomes easier to punish and imprison young people than to educate them.
Henry Giroux
#26. Every one with this writ may be a tyrant; if this commission be legal, a tyrant in a legal manner, also, may control, imprison, or murder any one within the realm.
James Otis
#27. When you are a prisoner yourself,
you imprison someone else.
Religious Leader Petra Cecilia Maria Hermans
Religion Of Blue Circle
October 30, 2016
Petra Hermans
#28. I'd been put into a box long before, after all. Each of us has. Are you the "difficult" child or the "histrionic" lover, the "argumentative" sibling or the "long-suffering" spouse? Boxes make us easier to understand, but they also imprison us because people don't see past them.
Martin Pistorius
#29. The force field may imprison Karm, but Prince Sebastian has imprisoned me. I'm trapped in a prison within a prison.
Trisha Wolfe
#30. Sometimes it's better to end something & try to start something new than imprison yourself in hoping for the impossible.
Karen Salmansohn
#31. Make me a captive, Lord,
And then I shall be free;
Force me to render up my sword,
And I shall conqueror be.
I sink in life's alarms
When by myself I stand;
Imprison me within Thine arms,
And strong shall be my hand
George Matheson
#33. Just as one can arrange bits of iron, etc, into a hermetically sealed box which imprison other pieces of matter, so one can arrange thoughts into a box too, which effectively imprisons other thoughts.
Nanamoli Thera
#34. Under unitary executive theory, the [George W.]Bush administration has claimed the right to seize American citizens in the United States and imprison them indefinitely without a charge.
Dick Durbin
#35. Having looked the past in the eye, having asked for forgiveness and having made amends, let us shut the door on the past - not in order to forget it but in order not to allow it to imprison us.
Desmond Tutu
#36. To imprison yourself and then beg to be freed; this is the dynamic of a victim mindset.
Steve Maraboli
#37. It is better to let 100 criminals go free than to imprison 1 innocent man.
Benjamin Franklin
#38. If you strike at, imprison, or kill us, out of our prisons or graves we will still evoke a spirit that will thwart you, and perhaps, raise a force that will destroy you! We defy you! Do your worst!
James Connolly
#39. Today we often use deadlines - real and imaginary - to imprison ourselves.
Arianna Huffington
#40. The only way to prevent prostitution altogether would be to imprison one half of the human race.
Isabel Paterson
#41. The past could liberate or imprison - it creates a nation's character, provides the nourishment or the poison a people imbibe in their very marrow.
F. Sionil Jose
#42. Perhaps the whole root of our trouble, the human trouble, is that we will sacrifice all the beauty of our lives, will imprison ourselves in totems, taboos, crosses, blood sacrifices, steeples, mosques, races, armies, flags, nations, in order to deny the fact of death, which is the only fact we have.
James Baldwin
#43. Tan Chau lies on the Thanh Hoa canal, which sings with freedom as it flows into the Mekong River on its way to the sea. Only the wind and the water, which you cannot imprison, are truly free.
James D. Redwood
#44. Do not imprison those about you to your way of thinking; give your companion the opportunity to interpret life as freely as you do.
Chico Xavier
#45. It Will be better to die quickly with only the taste of freedom on our lips than to live long lives pretending not to see the walls that imprison us.
Beth Revis
#46. It's habits that can imprison you and it's habits that can free you. But when thanks to God becomes a habit - so joy in God becomes your life.
Ann Voskamp
#47. Never let your mind imprison your achievements by imposing disbelief on you.
Israelmore Ayivor
#48. Questions that will free you might have answers that will imprison you again.
Nema Al-Araby
#49. Happiness! It is useless to seek it elsewhere than in this warmth of human relations. Our sordid interests imprison us within their walls. Only a comrade can grasp us by the hand and haul us free.
Antoine De Saint-Exupery
#50. I have learnt that greatness comes from within, it's like a plant, it doesn't grow unless you want it to, but you have to be careful that it doesn't imprison you in a mental state of mind.
Garvin Matthews
#51. If the word has the potency to revive and make us free, it has also the power to blind, imprison, and destroy.
Ralph Ellison
#52. Pedagogy, like language itself, can either liberate or imprison ideas, inspire of suffocate constructive thinking.
Hyman Bass
#53. Anyone that looked like that wouldn't need to tie up girls and imprison them in order to get them to marry him
Cassandra Clare
#54. A nation ringed by walls will only imprison itself.
Barack Obama
#55. is a very kingly, honourable, and frequent practice, when one prince desires the assistance of another, to secure him against an invasion, that the assistant, when he has driven out the invader, should seize on the dominions himself, and kill, imprison, or banish, the prince he came to relieve.
Jonathan Swift
#57. Don't let the unmet expectation to imprison your mind and ruin your life.
Euginia Herlihy
#58. I refuse to imprison our acts in the rigid mould of sentences.
Ella Maillart
#59. We can imprison ourselves with our wants, wishes, and false dreams.
Kilroy J. Oldster
#60. I am filled with fear and tormented with terrible visions of pain. Everywhere people are hurting one another, the planet is rampant with injustices, whole societies plunder groups of their own people, mothers imprison sons, children perish while brothers war. O, woe.
Robert Anton Wilson
#62. Keep your mind free and independent even when someone wants to imprison your body.
Debasish Mridha
#63. When a great truth once gets abroad in the world, no power on earth can imprison it, or prescribe its limits, or suppress it. It is bound to go on till it becomes the thought of the world.
Frederick Douglass
#64. Sometimes your mind can imprison your body and can put your body under some constraints. There is only one way for your body to be free: To free your mind!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#65. The sculptor who deals with form seeks to imprison beauty in a marble statue that will withstand the ravages of time during millenniums; but a marble statue is cold and speaks to but a few of the most evolved who are able to infuse the statue with their own life.
Max Heindel
#66. Nothing can be more abhorrent to democracy than to imprison a person or keep him in prison because he is unpopular. This is really the test of civilization.
Winston Churchill
#67. If you come from a wealthy country with open borders, unless you seriously believe you can kill, imprison or occupy all your enemies, you have to make a world with more friends and fewer enemies - with more partners and fewer terrorists.
William J. Clinton
#68. Paired opposites define your longings and those longings imprison you.
Frank Herbert
#70. All this is always for nothing," he says. "Don't you understand that yet? Every death is a pointless death; every battle should have been avoided. But if Edward can defeat the queen, and imprison her along with her husband, then it will indeed be over.
Philippa Gregory
#71. Truth will never imprison you. Only the repression of your conscience will. This is what is meant by 'THE TRUTH WILL SET YOU FREE'.
Suzy Kassem
#72. What can my enemies do to me? My paradise is in my heart, it is with me wherever I go. To imprison me is to provide me with seclusion. To send me into exile is to send me away in the Path of Allah. And to kill me is to make me a martyr.
Ibn Taymiyyah
#73. There is in fact something obscene and sinister about photography, a desire to imprison, to incorporate, a sexual intensity of pursuit.
William S. Burroughs
#74. The United States now imprisons more people16 for drug offenses than Western European nations imprison for all crimes combined. No human society has ever before imprisoned this high a proportion of its population.
Johann Hari
#75. Like the truth, retirement can set you free. Or, like work, retirement can imprison you.
Ernie J Zelinski
#76. Dreams are things from the past. They aren't from the future. That wasn't you imprisoned there. You imprison your dreams. You understand?
Yeah, I'd say. But I wasn't convinced.
Haruki Murakami
#77. Oh! how near are genius and madness! Men imprison them and chain them, or raise statues to them.
Denis Diderot
#78. The secret of meditation is the art of unlearning. Mind is learning; meditation is unlearning: that is - die constantly to your experience; let it not imprison you; experience becomes a dead weight in the living and flowing, riverlike consciousness.
Rajneesh
#79. With the first commandment, Mohammed tried to imprison common sense. And with the second commandment, the beautiful, romantic side of mankind was enslaved.
Ayaan Hirsi Ali
#80. For several years he hadn't moved outside a large, airy room, but this was OK, because he spent most of his time inside his own head in any case. There's a certain type of person it's very hard to imprison.
Terry Pratchett
#81. The bones of the skeleton which support the body can become the bars of the cage which imprison the spirit.
J. Ruth Gendler
#82. Not only will atomic power be released, but someday we will harness the rise and fall of the tides and imprison the rays of the sun.
Thomas A. Edison
#83. Money and power can liberate only if they are used to do so. They can imprison and inhibit more finally than barred windows and iron chains.
Maya Angelou
#84. When a great truth gets abroad in the world, no power on earth can imprison it, or prescribe its limits, or suppress it.
Colum McCann
#85. A horse is freedom so indominable that it becomes useless to imprison it to serve man: it lets itself be domesticated, but with a simple, rebellious toss of the head-shaking its mane like an abundance of free-flowing hair-it shows that its inner nature is always wild, translucent and free.
Clarice Lispector
#86. He wanted to imprison his nameless misery in words.
Aldous Huxley
#87. What was any art but an effort to make a sheath, a mold in which to imprison for a moment the shining, elusive element which is life itself.
Willa Cather
#88. Anyone who tries to imprison love will cut off the spring that feeds it, and the trapped water will grow stagnant and rank.
Paulo Coelho
#89. A country that goes out of its way to imprison the innocent has no business preaching democracy to the world.
Paul Craig Roberts
#90. Society always tries to enslave, imprison, and execute its greatest men, those who dare to stand apart and rise above.' He scratched his chin. 'That's why I'm keeping a low profile--so the bastards don't get me.
Sam Torode
#91. You cannot imprison me!" He bellowed. "I am Hyperion! I am-" The bark closed over his face.
Grover took his pipes from his mouth. "You are a very nice maple tree.
Rick Riordan
#92. What was any art but a mould in which to imprison for a moment the shining elusive element which is life itself - life hurrying past us and running away, too strong to stop, too sweet to lose.
Willa Cather
#93. There is no man who desires as passionately as a Russian. If we could imprison a Russian desire beneath a fortress, that fortress would explode.
Joseph De Maistre
#94. I didn't want to be taken care of. I wanted to run away from all the men who sought dominion over me, who thought they could own me, imprison me, use me, cut me.
Amy Harmon
#95. Virtual reality is a denial of reality. We need to be open to the powers of imagination, which brings something useful to reality. Virtual reality can imprison people.
Hayao Miyazaki
#96. In every block of marble I see a statue as plain as though it stood before me, shaped and perfect in attitude and action. I have only to hew away the rough walls that imprison the lovely apparition to reveal it to the other eyes as mine see it.
Marcus Sakey
#97. Don't imprison yourself through self-doubt. Break out of your self-imposed prison with intentional action.
Tony Curl
#98. We unconsciously imprison ourselves to avoid our most primal fears. We choose Should because choosing Must is terrifying, incomprehensible.
Elle Luna
#99. We are never free when we imprison ourselves in the prison of our fixed, false beliefs.
Debasish Mridha
#100. But he suddenly started up, and closing his eyes, placed his fingers upon the lids, as though he sought to imprison within his brain some curious dream from which he feared he might awake.
Oscar Wilde
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