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Imprisoned in every fat man a thin man is wildly signaling to be let out. -- Cyril Connolly
Imprisoned professors taught imprisoned students free theology. -- JÃ¼rgen Moltmann
Lovely. Imprisoned in a nursery school dungeon. -- Rick Riordan
Imprisoned quacks are always replaced by new ones. -- Rudolf Virchow
Imprisoned in a cage of sound, even the trivial seems profound -- John Betjeman
No dictator, no invader, can hold an imprisoned population by force of arms forever. -- J. Michael Straczynski
Freedom of speech means setting words free. Imprisoned and freed words are consequential. All words have consequences. -- John R. Dallas Jr.
Imprisoned is he whose heart is imprisoned from AllÃ¢h. Captured is he who is captured by his desires. -- Ibn Taymiyyah
Freedom of speech means setting words free. Imprisoned and freed words are consequential. All words have consequences. Restrain and release words with respect for their consequentialness. -- John R Dallas Jr
I'll do as I please. My mind is not to be imprisoned. -- Pramoedya Ananta Toer
Prostitution, although hounded, imprisoned, and chained, is nevertheless the greatest triumph of Puritanism. -- Emma Goldman
Bradley Manning has been imprisoned without charge, under torture, which is what solitary confinement is. -- Noam Chomsky
People should not be imprisoned without having the ability to challenge the legality of that imprisonment. -- Jeff Bingaman
Books are like imprisoned souls till someone takes them down from a shelf and frees them. -- Samuel Butler
Our houses are such unwieldy property that we are often imprisoned rather than housed by them. -- Henry David Thoreau
Most of us are imprisoned by something. We're living in darkness until something flips on the switch. -- Wynonna Judd
We are imprisoned in the realm of life, like a sailor on his tiny boat, on an infinite ocean. -- Anna Freud
It is impossible to go through life without trust: that is to be imprisoned in the worst cell of all, oneself. -- Graham Greene
Very few men imprisoned for economic crimes or even crimes of passion against the oppressor feel that they are really guilty. -- George Jackson
Whilst I love still hiding... games and puzzles to play, I'm not as imprisoned by that need to fill every corner with detail. -- Graeme Base
A political prisoner is someone who is out fighting for his or her people's rights and freedom and is imprisoned for that alone. -- Leonard Peltier
Man is not imprisoned by habit. Great changes in him can be wrought by crisis - once that crisis can be recognized and understood. -- Norman Cousins
I haven't read enough of the Bible. You know, I'm saving the Bible for if I ever get imprisoned, and the only reading material was the Bible. -- Barbara Ehrenreich
In our natural state, we are glorious beings. In the world of illusion, we are lost and imprisoned, slaves to our appetites and our will to false power. -- Marianne Williamson
A man will be imprisoned in a room with a door that's unlocked and opens inwards; as long as it does not occur to him to pull rather than push. -- Ludwig Wittgenstein
It is well known that Turkey has more imprisoned journalists than any other country, but as a result of the chilling effect of these prosecutions on the press, many stories never make the news. -- Safak Pavey
And also I didn't want my future to be just sitting in a room and be imprisoned in my four walls and just cooking and giving birth to children. I didn't want to see my life in that way. -- Malala Yousafzai
By the fulfillment of my legal and moral duty I think I have earned punishment just as little as the tens of thousands of dutiful German officials who have now been imprisoned only because they carried out their duties. -- Wilhelm Frick
But recently I began to feel that maybe I wouldn't be able to do what I want to do and need to do with American musicians, who are imprisoned behind these bars; music's got these bars and measures you know. -- Sun Ra
The Chinese people have been forced to forget the Tiananmen massacre. There has been no public debate about the event, no official apology. The media aren't allowed to mention it. Still today people are being persecuted and imprisoned for disseminating information about it. -- Ma Jian
I was first imprisoned in Pretoria, and then, thereafter, I was taken to Robben Island. I stayed there for a couple of weeks. I was taken back to Pretoria when I was charged in the Rivonia trial, when I was then sent to Robben Island for life. -- Nelson Mandela
I think history is continuous. It doesn't begin or end on Pearl Harbor Day or the day Lyndon Johnson withdraws from the presidency or on 9/11. You have to learn from the past but not be imprisoned by it. You need to take counsel of history but never be imprisoned by it. -- Richard Holbrooke
When you look in the mirror, what do you see? Do you see the real you, or what you have been conditioned to believe is you? The two are so, so different. One is an infinite consciousness capable of being and creating whatever it chooses, the other is an illusion imprisoned by its own perceived and programmed limitations. -- David Icke
She seemed imprisoned in her sadness. -- Sena Jeter Naslund
The West Bank is essentially imprisoned. -- Noam Chomsky
Let your imagination release your imprisoned possibilities -- Robert H. Schuller
It is a difficult matter to keep love imprisoned. -- Apuleius
Are the prisons overpopulated, or is the population over-imprisoned ? -- Michel Foucault
I want to commit the murder I was imprisoned for. -- J. K. Rowling
I WILL FOLLOW ANYONEAND BEG EVERYONETO HELP RESCUE ALL IMPRISONED WOMEN. -- Widad Akrawi
Today more Americans are imprisoned for drug offenses than for property crimes -- George Will
We can express ideas without being afraid of being killed or imprisoned. -- Erich Fromm
We become imprisoned by our memories, and that makes our lives wretched. -- Paulo Coelho
There is an angel imprisoned in it and I must set it free. -- Michelangelo
I WILL FOLLOW ANYONE... AND BEG EVERYONE... TO HELP RESCUE ALL IMPRISONED WOMEN. -- Widad Akrawi
We are imprisoned in life in the company of persons powerfully unlike us. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
I was imprisoned as an innocent person, it's common sense not to go back -- Amanda Knox
Brutality was imprisoned in a lumious glare revealing the naked truth to the whole world -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Men might as well be imprisoned, as excluded from the means of earning their bread. -- John Stuart Mill
Saturated Arrogance...imprisoned musescried to be freeshe took away their quillsand saiddo not bother me... -- Muse
My thoughts, imprisoned in my secret woes, with flamy breaths do issue oft in sound. -- Philip Sidney
I don't believe in depriving myself of any food or being imprisoned by a diet. -- Joely Fisher
What power would Hell have if those imprisoned were not able to dream of Heaven? -- Neil Gaiman
Art ... is a force which blows the roof off the cave where we crouch imprisoned. -- Ernest Hello
For those of us imprisoned in Poland, the Prague Spring was a harbinger of hope. -- Adam Michnik
The man who has not the habit of reading is imprisoned in his immediate world. -- Lin Yutang
To the soul's desires The body listens What the flesh requires Keeps the heart imprisoned -- Frank Herbert
[I] read Anne Frank's diary [while imprisoned] on Robben Island and derived much encouragement from it. -- Nelson Mandela
Our modern society is engaged in polishing and decorating the cage in which man is kept imprisoned. -- Nirmalananda
We are not imprisoned by circumstances, setbacks, mistakes or staggering defeats, we are freed by our choices. -- James C. Collins
Tell this imprisoned soul that it will never be owned. Nothing will ever own you. But God. -- Yasmin Mogahed
If you're late to the rescue, the imprisoned princess will just have to escape on her own! -- Kyo Shirodaira
There is an artist imprisoned in each one of us. Let him loose to spread joy everywhere. -- Bertrand Russell
The main thing to understand is that we are imprisoned in some kind of work of art. -- Terence McKenna
The facts are to blame, my friend. We are all imprisoned by facts: I was born, I exist. -- Luigi Pirandello
The work of the eyes is done. Go now and do the heart-work on the images imprisoned within you. -- Rainer Maria Rilke
Ibn Taymiyyah lived poorly. He was imprisoned and threatened. But I have never seen anyone as happy as him. -- Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya
It is hard to think of something as a gift when you have been tormented and imprisoned for it. -- Cassandra Clare
We still have so many cultures in which people are imprisoned and whipped and killed for writing what they think. -- Alice Mattison
Avoid trouble with those who are fanatics; they remain imprisoned in exclusivism and deserve compassion just as any other prisoner. -- Chico Xavier
Who imprisoned me here? Who keeps me here? Who can release me? Who's controlling and constraining my life except...me? -- Alan Moore
We are powerfully imprisoned in these Dark Ages simply by the terms in which we have been conditioned to think. -- R. Buckminster Fuller
No longer will you be a weird Robinson Crusoe, imprisoned on an island of night surrounded by oceans of death. -- Richard Matheson
I was imprisoned in the aftermath of the 11 September 2001 attacks, when Egypt's state security was rounding people up in unprecedented numbers. -- Maajid Nawaz
With my somewhat vague aspiring mind, to be imprisoned in the rude details of a most material life was often irksome. -- Edward Carpenter
In a library we are surrounded by many hundreds of dear friends imprisoned by an enchanter in paper and leathern boxes. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
I hadn't learned yet that everybody's locked up some way or other. That's how life is we're all imprisoned by something. -- James Frey
While the Governor, and the Mayor, and countless officers of the Commonwealth are at large, the champions of liberty are imprisoned. -- Henry David Thoreau
Can't you see the angel imprisoned in the block of stone trying to get out? I am trying to free him -- Michelangelo
Her physical beauty had initially caught my attention, but it was her spirit that imprisoned my heart and soul forever. - Jonathan -- Helen Boswell
Through my work with PETA, I have learned a great deal about chimpanzee behavior and the plight of chimpanzees imprisoned in laboratories. -- Woody Harrelson
Similarly, the Marquis is presented in this film as someone who would disturb the status quo and therefore must be kept imprisoned. -- Philip Kaufman
We should not live one more day ignoring the sh** that suffocates and strangles US keeping US imprisoned in our own communities. -- T.I.
But it is impossible to go through life without trust; that is to be imprisoned in the worst cell of all, oneself. -- Graham Greene
You can never really know what a guru is as long as you are imprisoned by your own thoughts and circular ego. -- Krishna Das
No one ever laid out the sequence of events that led to my mother being prosecuted and imprisoned for alleged welfare fraud. -- Chris Gardner
American high schools have physically imprisoned young people, stripped them of civil liberties and fed them a diet of p.c. pap. -- Camille Paglia
Silence has built walls, walls that I attempt to break by pedaling faster, only to be imprisoned a hundred feet down the road. -- Doug Cooper
Everybody seems to be imprisoned in their own sectarian or political affiliations. They don't seem to be able to rise above these things. -- Adnan Pachachi
Not to forgive is to be imprisoned by the past, by old grievances that do not permit life to proceed with new business. -- Lance Morrow
Whatever the country, capitalist or socialist, man was everywhere crushed by technology, made a stranger to his own work, imprisoned, forced into stupidity. -- Simone de Beauvoir
Fantasy is escapist, and that is its glory. If a soldier is imprisoned by the enemy, don't we consider it his duty to escape? -- J. R. R. Tolkien
At fifty the madwoman in the attic breaks loose, stomps down the stairs, and sets fire to the house. She won't be imprisoned anymore. -- Erica Jong
People are often unable to do anything, imprisoned as they are in I don't know what kind of terrible, terrible, oh such terrible cage. -- Vincent Van Gogh
If you don't want to be beaten, imprisoned, mutilated, killed ot tortured, then you shouldn't condone such behaviour towards anyone, be they human or not. -- Moby
Occasionally I sense an insane wail deep down in the pit, the echo alone reaching me, striking without warning, a child weeping uninhibitedly, imprisoned forever. -- Ingmar Bergman
The Government of India had imprisoned Mr. Gandhi and they had been sitting outside his cell door begging him to help them out of their difficulties. -- Winston Churchill
Tennis, imprisoned within fixed boundaries, a patch of an acre, a green rectangle, tries the human soul. A tennis court is like a coffin, only larger. -- Rita Mae Brown
The soul is content to stay imprisoned in the human body... for through the eyes all the various things of nature are represented to the soul. -- Leonardo da Vinci
In Presence, there is no outcome. It is our involvement in the outcome that keeps us imprisoned in an imagined future. In Presence, there is only now. -- Leonard Jacobson
The one who is [truly] imprisoned is the one whose heart is imprisoned from Allah and the captivated one is the one whose desires have enslaved him. -- Ibn Taymiyyah
Even today, when the Obama administration has liberalized travel to Cuba - and failed to reverse that liberalization when Alan Gross was imprisoned - there are limits. -- Elliott Abrams
I am gagged and imprisoned. I can't even speak. I want to kick a football in a park with my son. Ordinary, banal life: my impossible dream. -- Salman Rushdie
When poor and ordinary Americans who commit crimes are prosecuted and imprisoned, that is Justice. When the same thing is done to Washington elites, that is Ugly Retribution. -- Glenn Greenwald
The misconception of totalitarianism is that freedom can be imprisoned. This is not the case. When you constrain freedom, freedom will take flight and land on a windowsill. -- Ai Weiwei
When al-Qaeda was on the run from Afghanistan crossing through Iran, some were arrested and they are imprisoned. Some of them are charged with some actions in Iran. -- Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani
If I have the courage to acknowledge my limits and embrace them, I can experience enormous freedom. If I lack this courage, I will be imprisoned by them. -- John Ortberg
It is the object which aroused the artist, stimulated his ideas and set of his emotions. These ideas and emotions will be imprisoned in his work for good. -- Pablo Picasso
Ye Heavens, how sang they in your courts, How sang the angelic choir that day, When from his tomb the imprisoned God, Like the strong sunrise, broke away? -- Frederick William Faber
To men and women who want to do things, there is nothing quite so driving as the force of an imprisoned ego. . . . All genius comes from this class. -- Mary Roberts Rinehart
Dreams are things from the past. They aren't from the future. That wasn't you imprisoned there. You imprison your dreams. You understand?Yeah, I'd say. But I wasn't convinced. -- Haruki Murakami
The child is the spiritual builder of mankind, and obstacles to his free development are the stones in the wall by which the soul of man has become imprisoned. -- Maria Montessori
I am a Muslim. I am born to Muslim parents. I have a Muslim son. I have been imprisoned and witnessed torture for my previous understanding of my religion. -- Maajid Nawaz
Saddam Hussein is being treated the exact opposite of the way his regime treated those he imprisoned and tortured simply for expressing their opinions. And so I reject that. -- Scott McClellan
Western powers remain imprisoned by the idea that the world is a dangerous place, that it needs to be managed, and that they are called upon to do the managing. -- Stephen Kinzer
From warm meals, to daily exercise, to healthcare; one can't help but wonder how our society would be different if tended to the elderly as we do to our imprisoned. -- Steve Maraboli
If you are going to do something for the poor, the abused, or the imprisoned, above all be faithful. People with broken lives often come from lives with broken promises. -- Helen Prejean
Which meant his only assets were one whiny imprisoned goddess, one sort-of-girlfriend with a dagger, and Leo, who apparently thought he could defeat the armies of darkness with breath mints. -- Rick Riordan
When speech is given to a soul holy and true, time, and its dome of ages, becomes as a mighty whispering-gallery, round which the imprisoned utterance runs, and reverberates forever. -- James Martineau
Hospitality is the key to new ideas, new friends, new possibilities. What we take into our lives changes us. Without new people and new ideas, we are imprisoned inside ourselves. -- Joan D. Chittister

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