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Only a free West can help the prisoners of today's left- and right-wing dictatorships.


Barbara Amiel


#free #help #only #prisoners #right-wing

Hermione, if Harry’s seen a Grim, that’s — that’s bad,” he said. “My — my uncle Bilius saw one and — and he died twenty-four hours later!” “Coincidence,” said Hermione airily, pouring herself some pumpkin juice. “You don’t know what you’re talking about!” said Ron, starting to get angry. “Grims scare the living daylights out of most wizards!” “There you are, then,” said Hermione in a superior tone. “They see the Grim and die of fright. The Grim’s not an omen, it’s the cause of death! And Harry’s still with us because he’s not stupid enough to see one and think, right, well, I’d better kick the bucket then!


J.K. Rowling


#harry-potter #hermione #j-k-rowling #prisoner-of-azkaban #ron

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

If this is the way Queen Victoria treats her prisoners, she doesn't deserve to have any.


Oscar Wilde


#humor

And now, dear sister, I must leave this house or the retreating army will make me a prisoner in it by filling up the road I am directed to take.


Dolley Madison


#army #dear #directed #filling #house

To Mr. Seward: It is my desire that, in case Maximillian will surrender, he be sent here a prisoner of war, but that in the event of his continuing the war, or refusing to surrender, then he be shot.


Joshua A. Norton


#continuing #desire #event #here #his

Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.


Franklin D. Roosevelt


#men #minds #only #own #prisoners

I live a very dull life here... indeed I think I am more like a state prisoner than anything else.


Martha Washington


#anything #dull #else #here #i

In light of the Abu Ghraib prison scandal, critics are arguing that abuses of Iraqi prisoners are being produced by a climate of disregard for the laws of war.


John Yoo


#arguing #being #climate #critics #disregard

Seandainya saja takdir mempertemukan kita kembali, izinkan aku memelukmu walau hanya sekali, izinkan aku untuk mengakui bahwa aku mencintaimu.


Irin Sintriana


#prisoner #quote #love