Stephen King
Author
"Fear can hold you prisoner. Hope can set you free."
Prisoner quotes
Prisoner
101 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Tad Williams
Author
"You are only a prisoner when you surrender."
Shirley Chisholm
Politician, Educator
"... all Americans are the prisoners of racial prejudice."
Andrew Cohen
Psychologist
"When you meditate you discover over and over again that you are not a prisoner of your mind."
Johnny Cash
Musician, Singer-songwriter
"Prisoners are the greatest audience that an entertainer can perform to."
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"Love cannot be held prisoner because it is a river and will overflow its banks."
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"I cannot be an optimist but I am a prisoner of hope."
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"Those who build walls are their own prisoners."
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"The curiosity to see the prisoners appears to be unabated"
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"I am a President held prisoner, that I haven't resigned and I will not resign."
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"Whatever we think of the past, we must not be prisoners to it."
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"My arrest was on every bloody TV set. The other prisoners all knew who I was and asked me to sing."
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"The prisoner grows to love his chains."
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"Hemingway was a prisoner of his style. No one can talk like the characters in Hemingway except the characters in Hemingway. His style in the wildest sense finally killed him."
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"When I say the people around me, I mean the prisoners, the guards."
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"The African prisoners are orderly and peaceable among themselves."
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"Help! I'm being held prisoner by my heredity and environment."
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"In war everybody is a prisoner."
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"Right now you are a prisoner of each application you use. You have only the options that were given you by the developer of that application."
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"I'm not an optimist. I'm a prisoner of hope."
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"You are not a prisoner of your thoughts. You have the ability to control what you are thinking."
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"I think I was the healthiest prisoner of conscience in the world."
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"As you look at me and listen to me, please remember the often repeated truth that one prisoner of conscience is one too many."
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"One prisoner of conscience is one too many."
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"I was a prisoner, but I always felt free because I was not frightened So for me real freedom is freedom from fear."
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