Christians talk as though goodness was their idea but good behavior doesn't have any religious origin. Our prisons are filled with the devout.
He offered her power, money, status... a giant prison, all in exchange for only...her soul.
The whole value of solitude depends upon oneself; it may be a sanctuary or a prison, a haven of repose or a place of punishment, a heaven or a hell, as we ourselves make it.
Entrepreneurs start projects to free their time only to create a prison of time.
Most criminals in prison can trace their crime to their first murderous act—that of killing time.
On the forever days in the forever dark, Eli’s voice had held Adrian together.
I spent much of my prison time reading. I must have read over 200 large books, mostly fictional stories about the American pioneers, the Vikings, Mafia, etc. As long as I was engrossed in a book, I was not in prison. Reading was my escape.
Hicks szemĂĽgyre vette a könyveket, amiket Maura begyűjtött a polcokrĂłl: Peter Straub, Clive Barker, Joe Hill. - Ezek horrortörtĂ©netek! - kiáltott fel. - Hagyjuk, hogy az elĂtĂ©ltek ilyesmit olvassanak? - Csak ezt olvassák, meg a romantikus regĂ©nyeket, uram - jelentette ki Maura (...).
He who opens a school door, closes a prison.
Most doctors are prisoners of their education and shackled by their profession.
The moral abhorrence of private prisons has been brought to our attention by courageous acts of investigative journalism, illuminating scholarship, and the work of activists who have decried the social stratification brought about by our prison systems.
Nothing can be more abhorrent to democracy than to imprison a person or keep him in prison because he is unpopular. This is really the test of civilization.
The martyr cannot be dishonored. Every lash inflicted is a tongue of fame; every prison a more illustrious abode.
Prison is a recruitment center for the army of crime. That is what it achieves.
Taught from infancy that beauty is woman's sceptre, the mind shapes itself to the body, and roaming round its gilt cage, only seeks to adorn its prison.
Instead of inventing imaginary friends, I invented whole imaginary worlds. They were elaborate scenarios about spies and adventurers and top secret missions. I crawled along my swing set, searching for escape routes from my maximum-security prison; I biked through the neighborhood, the wind in my hair and a fleet of evildoers on my heels.
Adversities such as being homeless and going to prison has made many people stronger.
I was held in the Mazra Tora Prison for my role as leader of the pan-Islamist organisation Hizb ut-Tahrir in Alexandria.
The once all-powerful ruler of Iraq was found in a hole, and now sits in a prison cell.
As long as my record stands in federal court, any American citizen can be held in prison or concentration camps without a trial or a hearing.