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To forgive is to set a prisoner free and discover that the prisoner was you.
Lewis B. Smedes
You
Free
Prisoner
Discover
Forgive
Set
When we begin to build walls of prejudice, hatred, pride, and self-indulgence around ourselves, we are more surely imprisoned than any prisoner behind concrete walls and iron bars.
Mother Angelica
Pride
Walls
Hatred
Build
Prisoner
Ourselves
More
Around
Surely
Concrete
Begin
Imprisoned
Iron
Than
Any
Behind
Prejudice
Bars
I fell in love with my country when I was a prisoner in someone else's.
John McCain
Love
Country
Prisoner
Else
Someone
Fell
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.
Mick Jagger
Great
Regret
Prisoner
Past
Great Place
Erase
Want
Either
Place
Everyone is a prisoner of his own experiences. No one can eliminate prejudices - just recognize them.
Edward R. Murrow
Prisoner
Own
Everyone
Recognize
No-One
His
Just
Experiences
Them
Prejudices
Eliminate
Money is my military, each dollar a soldier. I never send my money into battle unprepared and undefended. I send it to conquer and take currency prisoner and bring it back to me.
Kevin O'Leary
Me
Battle
Money
Prisoner
Military
Back
Soldier
Unprepared
Take
Never
Dollar
Send
Currency
Each
Conquer
Bring
I am a political prisoner. I am a political prisoner because I am a casualty of a perennial war that is being fought between the oppressed Irish people and an alien, oppressive, unwanted regime that refuses to withdraw from our land.
Bobby Sands
War
People
Political
Alien
Unwanted
Prisoner
Our
Perennial
Casualty
Between
Withdraw
Because
Am
Oppressed
Oppressive
Irish
Irish People
Refuses
Being
Regime
Land
Fought
The spring wakes us, nurtures us and revitalizes us. How often does your spring come? If you are a prisoner of the calendar, it comes once a year. If you are creating authentic power, it comes frequently, or very frequently.
Gary Zukav
You
Power
Year
Prisoner
Spring
Once
Once A Year
Come
Calendar
Frequently
Does
How
Wakes
Very
Authentic
Often
Us
Creating
Your
An artist must never be a prisoner. Prisoner? An artist should never be a prisoner of himself, prisoner of style, prisoner of reputation, prisoner of success, etc.
Henri Matisse
Success
Style
Prisoner
Reputation
Must
Never
Himself
Artist
Etc
Should
Nineteen centuries would have been worth very little if we had not made some advance in welcoming the stranger, in feeding the hungry, in clothing the naked, and in caring for the prisoner.
Edward Everett Hale
Worth
Made
Naked
Prisoner
Caring
Nineteen
Hungry
Would
Some
Had
Advance
Feeding
Welcoming
Been
Very
Clothing
Little
Centuries
Stranger
A prisoner of war is a man who tries to kill you and fails, and then asks you not to kill him.
Winston Churchill
War
You
Man
Prisoner
Tries
Fails
Him
Ask
Then
Who
In the final choice a soldier's pack is not so heavy as a prisoner's chains.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Prisoner
Final
Soldier
Heavy
Pack
Choice
Chains
There is no greater hell than to be a prisoner of fear.
Ben Jonson
Fear
Prisoner
Hell
Greater
Than
There are times when I flick through magazines and think I'm in danger of becoming a prisoner of my own hair.
Brian May
Hair
Prisoner
Own
Think
Danger
Magazines
My Own
Through
Becoming
Times
Flick
A prisoner in the Inquisition is never allowed to see the face of his accuser, or of the witnesses against him, but every method is taken by threats and tortures, to oblige him to accuse himself, and by that means corroborate their evidence.
John Foxe
Face
Prisoner
Every
Evidence
Inquisition
See
Threats
Oblige
Never
Allowed
Taken
Him
Himself
Witnesses
Method
His
Accuse
Accuser
Against
Means
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
Alone
Freedom
Rights
People
Political
Prisoner
Fighting
Out
Someone
His
Imprisoned
Who
Her
I am not a prisoner of my sexuality like men younger than myself although I write about being a prisoner.
Al Goldstein
Myself
Men
Prisoner
Sexuality
About
Write
Like
Although
Am
Than
Being
Younger
I think I was the healthiest prisoner of conscience in the world.
Aung San Suu Kyi
World
Prisoner
Think
Conscience
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.
Barbara Amiel
You
People
Political
Will
Prisoner
Revolution
Enough
Trial
Several
Those
Brought
Since
Said
Been
Historians
Lucky
Bolshevik
Among
Actually
I view my pitching on how confident I was out there, period. And if I lose that confidence, I can become a prisoner of my own mind.
Barry Zito
Confidence
Mind
Become
Prisoner
Lose
Own
Out
My Own
Period
How
Confident
Pitching
View
To be a prisoner means to be defined as a member of a group for whom the rules of what can be done to you, of what is seen as abuse of you, are reduced as part of the definition of your status.
Catharine MacKinnon
You
Seen
Prisoner
Group
Defined
Rules
Definition
Member
Status
Part
Abuse
Reduced
Done
Means
Your
Whom
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.
Dana Rohrabacher
War
Government
Prisoner
Our
Tortured
POWs
Were
Iraq
Iraq War
Iraqis
American
Being
Them
Held
Who
Now
Last
Suing
Television is a prisoner of dialogue and steady-cam. People walk down a hall, and the camera follows them around a corner.
David Chase
People
Walk
Prisoner
Down
Corner
Television
Follows
Hall
Around
Dialogue
Camera
Them
'They Walk Among Us' is the work of husband-and-wife team Benjamin and Rosie. In the past, they've covered the Shannon Matthews case and the career of the prisoner known as Charles Bronson.
David Hepworth
Work
Walk
Prisoner
Past
Charles
Case
Known
Covered
In The Past
Us
Rosie
Team
Among
Career
There's no reason to think a Guantanamo detainee is any more likely to escape from Supermax than any other federal prisoner.
Dianne Feinstein
Prisoner
Think
Other
More
No Reason
Federal
Likely
Escape
Than
Any
Reason
Guantanamo
Due to the fact that I experienced personally the situation of a political prisoner, I have an historical commitment to all those that were or are prisoners just because they expressed their views, their public opinion, their own opinions.
Dilma Rousseff
Commitment
Political
Prisoner
Own
Situation
Those
Fact
Because
Opinion
Opinions
Due
Prisoners
Were
Historical
Just
Experienced
Just Because
Public
Personally
Public Opinion
Views
Expressed
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