Top 40 The Prison Door Quotes
#1. Man is a prisoner who has no right to open the door of his prison and run away ... A man should wait, and not take his own life until God summons him.
Plato
#2. OPIATE, n. An unlocked door in the prison of Identity. It leads into the jail yard.
Ambrose Bierce
#3. Some people think that because they do the opposite of what they are asked to do, they have initiative
Ovid
#4. Mental ghettos are not mirages; they actually exist in palpable reality: being "open" inside one's mental or intellectual ghetto does not open its door but simply allows one to harbour the illusion that there is no ghetto and no door. The most dangerous prisons are those with invisible bars.
Tariq Ramadan
#5. His love became a prison from which he longed to escape, but he had not the strength merely to open the door-that was all it needed-and walk out into the open air. It was torture and at last he became numb and hopeless.
W. Somerset Maugham
#6. It had taken her a long time to realize that a prison sometimes isn't a prison at all. Sometimes, it's simply a door you assume is locked because you've never tried to open it.
Sarah Addison Allen
#7. I have this ideal listener, as John Cage did. This listener doesn't bring expectations that my music will fit into some part of music history, or that it will do any particular thing. This listener is just open to listening.
Missy Mazzoli
#8. Be empty of worrying.
Think of who created thought!
Why do you stay in prison
When the door is so wide open?
Rumi
#9. The iron bolt which so mysteriously fastens the door of hope and holds our spirits in gloomy prison, needs a heavenly hand to push it back.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#10. The Spaniards have a saying that there is no man whom Fortune does not visit at least once in his life.
Donald Grant Mitchell
#11. But dogs, which have no ability to sin nor moral conscience, do not have an ability to reject Jesus.
Rick Warren
#12. Saying yes, opening up, and loving: these are the keys that will unlock the prison door.
Arnaud Desjardins
#14. It is not the absence of sin but the grieving over it which distinguishes the child of God from empty professors
Arthur W. Pink
#15. A prison cell, in which one waits, hopes - and is completely dependent on the fact that the door of freedom has to be opened from the outside, is not a bad picture of Advent
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
#16. Working together we can strengthen Delaware State University and the students who attend it.
Michael N. Castle
#17. Now the LORD God had formed out of the ground all the beasts of the field and all the birds of the air. He brought them to the man to see what he would name them; and whatever the man called each living creature, that was its name. (Genesis 2:19 NIV)
Henry Cloud
#18. The iron bolt ... mysteriously fastens the door of hope and holds our spirits in a gloomy prison.
Charles Spurgeon
#19. As I walked out the door toward the gate that would lead to my freedom, I knew if I didn't leave my bitterness and hatred behind, I'd still be in prison.
Nelson Mandela
#20. Light leaped out through the door, escaped from prison at 186,000 miles per second.
Kurt Vonnegut
#21. In the back corner, a stairwell led down. It was blocked by a row of iron bars like a prison door. Percy wondered what was down there - monsters? Treasure? Amnesiac demigods who had gotten on Reyna's bad side?
Rick Riordan
#22. We are the prisoners of conformity. To get out of this prison, education is the only door and only opportunity.
Debasish Mridha
#23. It is clear our nation is reliant upon big foreign oil. More and more of our imports come from overseas.
George W. Bush
#24. When I wake up in the morning I want to feel hungry for life. Desire is what drives me. When I go to sleep, I feel I have experienced a small death, so that I can wake up in the morning renewed and reborn.
Jean-Louis Barrault
#26. If I could slam the door, I would. If I could walk to another room, I would. The best I can do is turn and head for the far corner of my cell. In prison, even goodbyes are beyond my control.
T.J. Forrester
#27. The fundamental question Juvenile Court was designed to ask - What's the best way to deal with this individual kid? - is often lost in the process, replaced by a point system that opens the door, or locks it, depending on the qualities of the crime, not the child.
Edward Humes
#28. There is more terror in a day of life than there is at the moment of death. It is as if a door has opened to a prison, though you do not believe it is a prison while you exist within it.
Douglas Clegg
#29. Today, just for today, let someone live in your beauty of love.
Debasish Mridha
#30. Is it always in the interest of the public safety to seek the prosecutor's traditional solution
the harshest penalty possible? Or is the public best served by finding ways to change a kid's lot in life for the better, even if that means opening the prison door?
Edward Humes
#32. He who opens a school door, closes a prison.
Victor Hugo
#33. My own life was filled with so much love and joy that when depression struck, it was like a prison door slamming shut and I was being placed in an isolation cell. No one else could possibly be feeling what I was. I hated my depression and all of its symptoms.
Susan Polis Schutz
#34. If middle-class Americans do not feel threatened by the slow encroachment of the police state or the Patriot Act, it is because they live comfortably enough and exercise their liberties very lightly, never testing the boundaries. You never know you are in a prison unless you try the door.
Joe Bageant
#35. Fear is a prison in which we place ourselves. You need only to press against the bars to realize that the door is always unlocked, and you are always free to leave.
Luna DeMasi
#36. A society becomes a breeding ground of violence and terrorism when it closes its door to new ideas and forces the citizens to live in the prison of conforming thoughts.
Debasish Mridha
#37. Most of us are living in a prison of our fixed, false beliefs and never try to find the door to get out to see and feel the beauty of life, even when the door is wide open and welcoming.
Debasish Mridha
#38. Um, h-h-hi, Sophie stammered, closing the door behind her. Meeting her gaze were crystal eyes like blue shards of glass.
Jennifer Lane
#39. There's nothing left here. Not one thing left for you.
Haruki Murakami
#40. They have been in prison so long that, if the prison door stands open, they would no longer notice!
Agatha Christie
