#prison

Read through the most famous quotes by topic #prison




Lucy seemed to be imprisoned by a legion of people in her life who always wanted what was right for her. And as a result, in the eyes of everyone, she had everything... and yet she always, always felt she had nothing. No one.


C. JoyBell C.


#imprisoned #loneliness #saint-paul-trois-châteaux- #life

Most doctors are prisoners of their education and shackled by their profession.


Richard Diaz


#education #prison #profession #education

It's not like they can take anything from me,' he says later, back with his homeboys in Juvenile Hall. 'Ain't got nothing to give. Nothin' but time, that is. And I been doin' time my whole life, one way or the other.


Edward Humes


#prison #life

Don't become a prisoner of your own reality, set yourself free by creating a life worth living.


Steven Redhead


#free #life-lessons #living #prisoner #reality

These men are in prison: that is the Outsider’s verdict. They are quite contented in prison—caged animals who have never known freedom; but it is prison all the same. And the Outsider? He is in prison too: nearly every Outsider in this book has told us so in a different language; but he knows it. His desire is to escape. But a prison-break is not an easy matter; you must know all about your prison, otherwise you might spend years in tunnelling, like the Abbe in The Count of Monte Cristo, and only find yourself in the next cell.


Colin Wilson


#prison #freedom

Prisons don't rehabilitate, they don't punish, they don't protect, so what the hell do they do?


Jerry Brown


#prisons #protect #punish

The worst of it is that I am perpetually being punished for nothing; this governor loves to punish, and he punishes by taking my books away from me. It's perfectly awful to let the mind grind itself away between the upper and nether millstones of regret and remorse without respite; with books my life would be livable -- any life.


Oscar Wilde


#imprisonment #life

Prisons are built to break men, and when men are broken society has consummated its revenge


Jan Valtin


#prison #men

Hey, times are tough, and thirty gold coins can do a lot of good. But I guess you wouldn't know about needing money, since you grew up like a little princ..." (Rapunzel glares) "Prin... soner. I mean, prisoner! A prisoner in a tower, such a shame, that.


Shannon Hale


#jack #princess #prisoner #rapunzel #revenge

Who cut him?' Sam liked saying things like 'Who cut him?' It reminded him of being a kid and watching prison movies, which is probably why prisoners talked like that, too.


Tod Goldberg


#movies #prison #spy #tv #tv-show