#prisoner

I began to feel that, in a sense, we were all prisoners of our own history. ↗

— Roland Joffe

#feel #history #i #our #own

So what really works? Treatments in jail do some good, but it's mostly too late: finding a family and a job or just growing older make most prisoners eventually give up crime. ↗

— Polly Toynbee

#eventually #family #finding #give #good

[...] during one train stop, I watched as another guard with a spirit of empathy, ran out into an apple orchard and picked apples. He carried his jacket like a bag and filled it with apples. The kind German came to our open train window and handed us each an apple. The juicy apple tasted so delicious. I so appreciated that apple and his unusual compassion. ↗

— Oliver Omanson

#food-shortage #nazis #prisoner-of-war #world-war-ii #food

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

Turn to page three hundred and ninety-four. ↗

— J.K. Rowling

#j-k-rowling #prisoner-of-azkaban #prison

We are all prisoners but some of us are in cells with windows and some without. ↗

— Kahlil Gibran

#prison

After a week he was moved to a different wing and into a shared six-by-eight with a grizzled old con called Alf. He had faded tattoos that stained most of the visible skin on his hands, arms and neck a dull blue, sharp eyes and a thick beard that made his mouth look like an axe wound on a bear. ↗

— R.D. Ronald

#prison #prisoner #description

I am not a prisoner of my sexuality like men younger than myself although I write about being a prisoner. ↗

— Al Goldstein

#although #am #being #i #i am

I've always been opposed myself to prisoners having the vote. ↗

— William Hague

#been #having #i #myself #opposed

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

— Alexei Navalny

#nobody #political #prisoner #problem #wants