Top 30 Quotes About Prison Release
#1. One day they'll realize they lost a diamond while playing with worthless stones.
Turcois Ominek
#2. Waiting. For that missing seed crystal of thought that would suddenly solidify everything.
Robert M. Pirsig
#3. The average prison term for a convicted murderer in America is 6.5 years. The average tenure for a member of Congress is 13 years. We've got it backwards. We are giving early release to the wrong criminal class.
Pat Robertson
#4. I'll tell you what I think is not okay. Have you ever seen that show on MSNBC, 'Lockup?' It's a reality show that takes place inside a prison. Do the prisoners have to sign release forms? Or do they have to be on it whether they like it or not?
Seth MacFarlane
#5. Probably the only place where a man can feel really secure is in a maximum security prison, except for the imminent threat of release.
Germaine Greer
#6. If a patient is cold, if a patient is feverish, if a patient is faint, if he is sick after taking food, if he has a bed-sore, it is generally the fault not of the disease, but of the nursing.
Florence Nightingale
#7. So that is how I ended up with those two titles, I like Accidentally on Purpose better - it is how we work in our trade - is it really an accident, or is there a thread of destiny in there? That was the intention, I am not sure I found out.
Michael York
#8. The hardest thing about doing a series and having it stick is that you've never performed with each other, and the pilot is kind of a dress rehearsal, and you don't know the tone until two or three episodes in.
David Giuntoli
#10. Echo turned and her smoldering emerald eyes drifted to my bare chest. She licked her lips. "You 're still wet."
She wanted me-just not as badly as every throbbing muscle in my body wanted her.
Katie McGarry
#11. While writing is like a joyful release, editing is a prison where the bars are my former intentions and the abusive warden my own neuroticism.
Tiffany Madison
#12. If you like something, you don't care if it's ugly.
Shen Fu
#13. I want to release my soul from its prison cell, to silence the guards who tell me that I am not capable of living. Every voice that ever told me that I cannot achieve has, at this moment, become silenced. This cell is no longer my home.
Leigh Hershkovich
#14. I had begun to suspect, however, that there is a poet - or a kind of poet - buried in every human being like Ariel in his tree, and that the people whom we are pleased to call poets are only those who have felt the need and contrived the means to release this spirit from its prison
James Dickey
#15. If only she could have e-mailed or texted him, that would have solved everything, but mobile phones and the Internet were still in the future.
Liane Moriarty
#16. Economic policies command bipartisan support only when they're incoherent.
Steven Landsburg
#17. A lot of people don't know what it's like to actually be hungry. I do. I've also slept on the streets.
Cass McCombs
#19. One of the things that made me long to be back in prison was that I had so little opportunity for reading, thinking and quiet reflection after my release. I intend, amongst other things, to give myself much more opportunity for such reading and reflection.
Nelson Mandela
#20. There is a serious tendency toward capitalism among the well-to-do peasants.
Mao Zedong
#21. For all the practical purposes of life, truth might as well be in a prison as in the folio of a schoolman; and those who release her from her cobwebbed shelf and teach her to live with men have the merit of liberating, if not of discovering, her.
Charles Caleb Colton
#22. To know how to read is to light a lamp in the mind, to release the soul from prison, to open a gate to the universe. from Pavilion of Women page 292
Pearl S. Buck
#23. The thing about secrets is they keep you in a prison. Once you share, WHOOSH, there is a release.
Joyce Meyer
#24. Perhaps most heroic are those who, upon release, launch social justice organizations that challenge the discrimination ex-offenders face and provide desperately needed support for those newly released from prison.
Michelle Alexander
#25. To finish is both a relief and a release from an extraordinarily pleasant prison.
Robert Burchfield
#26. On average, drug prisoners spend more time in federal prison than rapists, who often get out on early release because of the overcrowding in prison caused by the Drug War.
Michael Badnarik
#27. To reporters the day after his accession to the presidency, April 13, 1945: When they told me yesterday what had happened, I felt like the moon, the stars and all the planets had fallen on me.
Harry S. Truman
#28. Fact: Psychopaths are six times more likely than other criminals to commit new crimes following release from prison.
Kent A. Kiehl
#29. When a language dies, a way of understanding the world dies with it, a way of looking at the world.
George Steiner
#30. When you take the sires of the cage apart, you do not hurt the bird, but you help it. You let it out of its prison. How do you you know that death does not help me when it takes the wires of my cage down?-that it does not release me, and put me into some better place and better condition of life?
Randolph Sinks Foster
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