Quotes About Prisoners Of Life

#1. we're all prisoners. Prisoners of expectations, prisoners of responsibility, prisoners of life.

Courtney Cole

#2. You could eat sushi off my bookshelf. My cleaning regime is like a battleground. I'm Genghis Khan and my cleaning products are my Mongolian army and I take no prisoners. The rest of my life is an experiment in chaos so I like to keep my flat neat.

Ryan Adams

#3. There is a certain combination of anarchy and discipline in the way I work.

Robert De Niro

#4. Prison life, fortunately, I spent a lot of years, about 18 years with other prisoners, and, as I say, they enriched your soul.

Nelson Mandela

#5. I have learned some things. Modern life is warfare without end: take no prisoners, leave no wounded, eat the dead
that's environmentally sound.

James Crumley

#6. Once I read a study about prisoners with a life sentence. The ones without the possibility of parole were happier than those who might get out. Defies logic, but then, not really. Sometimes it's the hope that kills you.

Julie Buxbaum

#7. My past takes no hostages, no prisoners. I've let go of yesterday and am free to receive the beautiful gift of the present.

Jaeda DeWalt

#8. I would give anything for a female's hand on me tonight. they soften a man and then leave him listening to the rain.

Charles Bukowski

#9. We are the prisoners of our thoughts; we are conformists. We fear new thoughts, new ideas, and new adventures.

Debasish Mridha

#10. A creative writer must study carefully the works of his rivals, including the Almighty. He must possess the inborn capacity not only of recombining but of re-creating the given world. In order to do this adequately, avoiding duplication of labor, the artist should know the given world.

Vladimir Nabokov

#11. The central argument of the backlash - that women's equality is responsible for women's unhappiness.

Susan Faludi

#12. One could make a victory of those experiences, turning life into an inner triumph, or one could ignore the challenge and simply vegetate, as did a majority of the prisoners.

Viktor E. Frankl

#13. There are songs that come free from the blue-eyed grass, from the dust of a thousand country roads. This is one of them.

Robert James Waller

#14. Historically, the 'deadline' was the line around a prison beyond which prisoners were eligible for shooting. In keeping with shifts in the exercise of control, what one was delineated spatially over life is now enforced temporarily over labor.

CrimethInc.

#15. Most peoples are prisoners of other people's thoughts.

Debasish Mridha

#16. Without turning prison life into something more meaningful, prisoners are more likely to reoffend.

Susan Hill

#17. I developed a group of friends around me that were all as crazy as I was about wanting to make films.

Evan Glodell

#18. Oh, the inmates and the prisoners I found they were my kind And it was there inside the bars I found my peace of mind But the jails they were too crowded Institutions overflowed So they turned me loose to walk upon Life's hurried tangled road

Bob Dylan

#19. It was clearly a prisoner's craftwork; that is, the most painstaking work in the world, for prisoners have nowhere to hurry to.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

#20. President Obama has reduced the sentences of 22 federal prisoners who were arrested for drug-related crimes - eight of whom were serving life sentences. It marks the first time someone has said 'Thanks Obama' but actually meant it.

Jimmy Fallon

#21. Protecting vital sources of renewal - unscathed marshes, healthy reefs, and deep-sea gardens - will provide hope for the future of the Gulf, and for all of us.

Sylvia Earle

#22. A couple of ounces ruled your life.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

#23. I loved Jerry, and I wanted to have his baby." She laughed. "This was before women started looking at their vaginas in hand mirrors and Gloria Steinem told us we could be more than just mothers.

Michael Thomas Ford

#24. He describes poignantly the prisoners who gave up on life, who had lost all hope for a future and were inevitably the first to die.

Viktor E. Frankl

#25. We must not allow ourselves to be the prisoners of our societal conformity.

Debasish Mridha

#26. 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

#27. I don't always think it's necessary for somebody to be nice all the time.

Jake Gyllenhaal

#28. Life is an infernal loop where the day before yesterday has merged with today, and yesterday has been jettisoned. We think we are moving forward in time, but we are always prisoners of the past.

Shan Sa

#29. We are prisoners of the world's demented sink.
The soft enchantments of our years of innocence
Are harvested by accredited experience
Our fondest memories soon turn to poison
And only oblivion remains in season.

John Ashbery

#30. The consciousness of one's inner value is anchored in higher, more spiritual things, and cannot be shaken by camp life. But how many free men, let alone prisoners, possess it?

Viktor E. Frankl

#31. There is nothing like scrubbing toilets for a living to make you question the choices you have made in life.

Raegan Butcher

#32. Prison is designed to break one's spirit and destroy one's resolve. To do this, the authorities attempt to exploit every weakness, demolish every initiative, negate all signs of individuality
all with the idea of stamping out that spark that makes each of us human and each of us who we are.

Nelson Mandela

#33. There's nothing special about you,' said the man. 'There's nothing special about any of us.' His gesture embraced them all: prisoners, guards, foremen.

J.M. Coetzee

#34. there are times when children
might seem like innocent prisoners, condemned, not
to death, but to life,

Arthur Schopenhauer

#35. We are the prisoners of conformity. To get out of this prison, education is the only door and only opportunity.

Debasish Mridha

#36. We are all prisoners of circumstance at one point or another.

Andrea Cremer

#37. I hope somebody hits .400 soon. Then people can start pestering that guy with questions about the last guy to hit .400.

Ted Williams

#38. People are not prisoners of fate, but prisoners of their own minds.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

#39. What a tragic realm this is, he reflected. Those down here are prisoners, and the ultimate tragedy is that they don't know it; they think they are free because they have never been free, and do not understand what it means.

Philip K. Dick

#40. The moment we want to believe something, we suddenly see all the arguments for it, and become blind to the arguments against it.

George Bernard Shaw

#41. Ensuring all kids have access to an effective, talented teacher needs to be a national priority.

Michael Bennet

#42. We don't know what causes climate change.

Mitt Romney