#prisoner

Read through the most famous quotes by topic #prisoner




We have peace with God as soon as we believe, but not always with ourselves. The pardon may be past the prince's hand and seal, and yet not put into the prisoner's hand.


William Gurnall


#believe #god #hand #into #may

New fathers, political prisoners, traumatised presidential aides, resolute schoolboys, MEPs addressing unfriendly chambers - we all find that Shakespeare has magically anticipated our precise circumstances. How he was possible, I still don't understand; but there isn't a day I'm not grateful that he speaks to me in my own language.


Daniel Hannan


#aides #anticipated #chambers #circumstances #day

Rock 'n' roll was two pegs below being a prisoner of war back then.


Ronnie Hawkins


#being #below #prisoner #rock #roll

If people around the world knew how well people at Guantanamo Bay are treating prisoners, they would not fall prey to the accusations that some in our Chamber are making. They are all receiving judicial review.


Robin Hayes


#bay #chamber #fall #guantanamo #guantanamo bay

Nobody wants a political prisoner, but a political emigrant is no problem.


Alexei Navalny


#nobody #political #prisoner #problem #wants

And don't forget, a prisoner's wife must always think good thoughts.


Nazim Hikmet


#forget #good #good thoughts #must #prisoner

I sort of tend to equate tattoos with prisoners, punks or people with a high level of self-confidence. I don't necessarily have a covered-in-tattoos personality.


Lena Dunham


#high #high level #i #level #necessarily

Military police know what to do, they know the Geneva Conventions, and their objective is to provide a safe, secure, fair environment for prisoners under their control.


Janis Karpinski


#conventions #environment #fair #geneva #know

To call something an 'enhanced interrogation technique' doesn't alter the fact that we thought it was torture when the Japanese used it on American prisoners, we thought it was torture when the North Koreans used it, we thought it was torture when the Soviets used it. You know, it's almost the moral equivalent of saying that rape is an enhanced seduction technique.


Ted Koppel


#alter #american #call #enhanced #equivalent

I was mentally prepared to sustain serious injury or death, but before that day I never contemplated the reality of being captured by the enemy. I thought, "This is going to be hard on the folks," only to realize that I actually verbalized my thought out loud. As the English-speaking officer and I walked side by side, he said, "War is terrible, isn't it?


Oliver Omanson


#prisoner-of-war #war #world-war-ii #death