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  • Cold walls do not a prison make, nor iron bands a bondsman.

    Wall   Angel   Iron  
  • The securest place is a prison cell, but there is no liberty

    Cells   Liberty   Prison  
  • Jesus Christ came into my prison cell last night, and every stone flashed like a ruby.

    Jesus   Night   Cells  
  • The once all-powerful ruler of Iraq was found in a hole, and now sits in a prison cell.

    Powerful   Cells   Iraq  
    Third Presidential State of the Union Address, delivered 20 January 2004
  • If you want to know how many prison cells to build, look at the number of third graders who can't read.

    Kids   Cells   Numbers  
  • The music of all the different media of life-memories, images, feeling-tones, poetic-musical connotations of phrasing-is kaleidoscopic and doesn't repeat itself or recur. -People who think they are trapped in a river of regularized and ever-repeating time are merely the victims of their own ordinarizing minds that have elaborated for them a prison-cell of everydayness. The fountains of time, history, life, inspiration, etc. are fresh every instant, if one knows how to grasp them with some finesse: every instant within natural, historical, and personal time is unique.

  • If I'd written all the truth I knew for the past ten years, about 600 people - including me - would be rotting in prison cells from Rio to Seattle today. Absolute truth is a very rare and dangerous commodity in the context of professional journalism.

    Past   Cells   Years  
    1973 'Fear and Loathing at the Superbowl', in Rolling Stone, 15 Feb.
  • I would rather be free in my mind, and be locked up in a prison cell, than to be a coward and not be able to say what I want.

    Cells   Mind   Coward  
    Radio Interview, www.geocities.jp. May 24, 1999.
  • I care so deeply about this matter that I'm willing to take on the legal penalties, to sit in this prison cell, to sacrifice my freedom, in order to show you how deeply I care. Because when you see the depth of my concern, and how civil I am in going about this, you're bound to change your mind about me, to abandon your rigid, unjust position, and to let me help you see the truth of my cause.

    Sacrifice   Cells   Order  
  • Dogmas are collective conceptual prisons. And the strange thing is that people love their prison cells because they give them a sense of security and a false sense of 'I know.' Nothing has inflicted more suffering on humanity than its dogmas.

    Cells   People   Giving  
    Eckhart Tolle (2010). “Stillness Speaks”, p.17, New World Library
  • Absolute truth is a very rare and dangerous commodity in the context of professional journalism.

    Truth   Cells   Hunters  
    1973 'Fear and Loathing at the Superbowl', in Rolling Stone, 15 Feb.
  • Under what rubric of common sense would you release violent criminals who are illegal back onto the streets in America? Why would you not deport them? I mean, you have them. It's not like you have to go to the shadows and find these people. They are in your jail cell. They're in your prison cell.

    Mean   Cells   America  
  • The BIBLE - banned, burned, beloved. More widely read, more frequently attacked than any other book in history. Generations of intellectuals have attempted to discredit it, dictators of every age have outlawed it and executed those who read it. Yet soldiers carry it into battle believing it more powerful than their weapons. Fragments of it smuggled into solitary prison cells have transformed ruthless killers into gentle saints

    Powerful   Believe   Book  
    Charles Colson (1997). “Loving God”, p.55, Zondervan
  • Two weeks after the arrested I was on the phone with my wife and we said a prayer and I was crying and just so happy, I can't even explain it. It was euphoric. People said I went from freedom my whole life to prison, but in reality, I went from imprisonment and bondage of sin and death my whole life, to finding freedom in a prison cell.

    Prayer   Reality   Cells  
    Source: theindiespiritualist.com
  • The secret to writing is just to write. Write every day. Never stop writing. Write on every surface you see; write on people on the street. When the cops come to arrest you, write on the cops. Write on the police car. Write on the judge. I'm in jail forever now, and the prison cell walls are completely covered with my writing, and I keep writing on the writing I wrote. That's my method.

    Wall   Writing   Cells  
  • You are so proud of your intelligence," said the master. "You are like a like a condemned man, proud of the vastness of his prison cell.

    Men   Cells   Vastness  
  • You shouldn't have a profit motivation to fill prison cells with young Americans.

    "Transcript of the First Debate". www.nytimes.com. September 27, 2016.
  • If life has given us no more than a prison cell, let's at least decorate it as best we can-with the shadows of our dreams, their colourful patterns engraving our oblivion on the static surface of the walls.

  • I'd gotten to the place where I wanted to quit using drugs but couldn't and finally I landed in that prison cell where everything was cut.

    Cutting   Cells   Drug  
    Source: theindiespiritualist.com
  • Who would have ever thought I'd find love, contentment and joy in a prison cell, but I did. I knew that I knew that I knew that day, I'd been released, and I thought to myself, "I need to tell everyone about this" because no one had ever told me.

    Source: theindiespiritualist.com
  • You cannot put a rope around the neck of an idea: you can not put an idea up against a barracks-square wall and riddle it with bullets: you cannot confine it in the strongest prison cell that your slaves could ever build.

    Wall   Cells   Ideas  
  • Stone walls do not a prison make, nor iron bars a cage.

    Wall   Angel   Iron  
    "To Althea, from Prison" l. 25 (1649)
  • 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.

    Christmas   Cells   Doors  
  • We are not taught to fear our politicians, who can debase our currency, throw us in prison and send us to war - but rather we are taught to fear each other. We are taught to imagine that the real predators in this world are not those who control prison cells, national debts and nuclear weapons, but rather our fellow citizens, who in the absence of brutal control would surely tear us apart!

    Real   War   Cells  
  • An intelligent, energetic, educated woman cannot be kept in four walls - even satin-lined, diamond-studded walls - without discovering sooner or later that they are still a prison cell.

    "America's Medieval Women". Harper's Magazine, August 1938.
  • Naked in solitary prison cell he looks down at a hard-on.

    Cells   Naked   Looks  
  • Each day brought just another minute of the things they could not leave behind. Jane Barrington sitting on the train coming back to Leningrad from Moscow, holding on to her son, knowing she had failed him, crying for Alexander, wanting another drink, and Harold, in his prison cell, crying for Alexander, and Yuri Stepanov on his stomach in the mud in Finland, crying for Alexander, and Dasha in the truck, on the Ladoga ice, crying for Alexander, and Tatiana on her knees in the Finland marsh, screaming for Alexander, and Anthony, alone with his nightmares, crying for his father.

    Father   Son   Knowing  
  • I'd once been fascinated by his legend - all the stories I'd heard before I met him. Now I can feel that same sense of fascination returning. I picture his face, so beautiful even after pain and torture and grief, his blue eyes bright and sincere. I'm ashamed to admit that I enjoyed my brief time with him in his prison cell. His voice can make me forget about all the details running through my mind, bringing with it emotions of desire, or fear instead, sometimes even anger, but always triggering something. Something that wasn't there before.

  • Two places in this world make it impossible for a man to escape from himself: a battlefield and a prison cell.

    Men   Cells   Two  
    Anwar Sadat (1978). “In Search of Identity: An Autobiography”, New York : Harper & Row
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