Zitat des Tages über Häftling / Prisoner:
A defence in the Inquisition is of little use to the prisoner, for a suspicion only is deemed sufficient cause of condemnation, and the greater his wealth the greater his danger.
The past is a great place and I don't want to erase it or to regret it, but I don't want to be its prisoner either.
You are a free woman, and then you become a prisoner, and you receive all kinds of orders. Sit here, stand there. That's it. You just, you don't have the possibility of even moving to take your bag without asking for permission.
Television is a prisoner of dialogue and steady-cam. People walk down a hall, and the camera follows them around a corner.
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.
I am not a prisoner of my sexuality like men younger than myself although I write about being a prisoner.
Three hundred years ago a prisoner condemned to the Tower of London carved on the wall of his cell this sentiment to keep up his spirits during his long imprisonment: 'It is not adversity that kills, but the impatience with which we bear adversity.
Otherwise, to be a movie star, it's a lot of compromise and also a lot of headaches. You can't do what you want. You become a prisoner of your fame. This happened to me in France and I don't want it.
I am a President held prisoner, that I haven't resigned and I will not resign.
I have become a prisoner of the peace movement. But you can't say that the termination is coming and then say that you are going back to your own garden to dig.
'Shantaram' is fantastic. An Australian prisoner escapes & joins the mafia in India? Sign me up. I love stuff that is based on true stories.
A political prisoner is someone who is out fighting for his or her people's rights and freedom and is imprisoned for that alone.
We can't just rail against crime. We must speak of the root problems - devastating family breakup, an insidious culture of violence that cheapens human life, skyrocketing prisoner recidivism rates that rob our communities of husbands and fathers - and recognize that there is a societal role in rehabilitation and restoration.
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.
Pictures bring you inside, whether you see yourself driving a new car or as a hapless prisoner who is being abused.
The reporter is the daily prisoner of clocked facts. On all working days, he is expected to do his best in one swift swipe at each story.
I would only read the novels that people classify as 'beach books' if I were being held prisoner and the only alternative was the 'Book of Mormon.'
The prisoner is not the one who has commited a crime, but the one who clings to his crime and lives it over and over.
Among those people lucky enough, if you will, to have actually been brought to trial as a political prisoner, several historians have said there has not been one acquittal since the Bolshevik Revolution.
Only free men can negotiate. A prisoner cannot enter into contracts.
Rock 'n' roll was two pegs below being a prisoner of war back then.
We are no more free agents than the queen of clubs when she victoriously takes prisoner the knave of hearts.
It so happened that I was on a German sailing vessel on the way to Australia when the ship was captured, and on the high seas I was made prisoner by the French.
I'm not obsessed by looks. I think you can become a prisoner of your own image.
I created something that became a phenomenon without becoming a prisoner to it.
American POWs from the last Iraq war, who were held prisoner and tortured by Iraq, are now being prevented by our government from suing the Iraqis who tortured them.
I've wanted somehow to convey to you the sensations - the atmospheric pressure, you might say - of what it is to be seriously a long-term prisoner in an American prison.
The middle class, that prisoner of the barbarian 20th century.
A person may dwell so long upon a thought that it may take him a prisoner.
That means presenting the issues in certain ways that will appeal to those people and then becoming a prisoner of your own language and thought process. That has always happened - it's just been intensified.
I do not accept being a prisoner of fear. Of Communism, of fascism. That, one can bear. But of one's fear. No. Never.
Playing a prisoner of war trapped in Pakistan for three years was a novelty for me. We made sure that we didn't talk about India versus Pakistan but about the emotions of people on both sides and how terrorism affects us all.
In the final choice a soldier's pack is not so heavy as a prisoner's chains.
Every invalid is a prisoner.
There is no greater hell than to be a prisoner of fear.
To forgive is to set a prisoner free and discover that the prisoner was you.
