Quotes of Imprisonment - somelinesforyou

“ Dare to do things worthy of imprisonment if you mean to be of consequence. ”

- Juvenal

“ Judah is gone into captivity because of affliction, and because of great servitude: she dwelleth among the heathen, she findeth no rest: all her persecutors overtook her between the straits. ”

- Bible

“ When love's well-timed 'tis not a fault of love; The strong, the brave, the virtuous, and the wise, Sink in the soft captivity together. ”

- Joseph Addison

“ In durance vile here must I wake and weep, And all my frowsy couch in sorrow steep. ”

- Robert Burns

“ Soon after this, my companion in captivity, John Stewart, was killed by the savages, and the man that came with my brother returned home by himself. ”

- Daniel Boone

“ For, lo, our fathers have fallen by the sword, and our sons and our daughters and our wives are in captivity for this. ”

- Bible

“ All the intelligence and talent in the world can't make a singer. The voice is a wild thing. It can't be bred in captivity. It is a sport, like the silver. ”

- Willa Cather

“ We're all of us sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life! ”

- Tennessee Williams

“ Hope is necessary in every condition. The miseries of poverty, sickness and captivity would, without this comfort, be insupportable. ”

- Samuel Johnson

“ Every pulpit is a pillory, in which stands a hired culprit, defending the justice of his own imprisonment. ”

- Robert Green Ingersoll

“ Her adversaries are the chief, her enemies prosper; for the LORD hath afflicted her for the multitude of her transgressions: her children are gone into captivity before the enemy. ”

- Bible

“ If you're living completely on your own, break out of solitary confinement. Seek to understand others, and help them understand you. ”

- Martha Beck

“ Oh that the salvation of Israel were come out of Zion! when the LORD bringeth back the captivity of his people, Jacob shall rejoice, and Israel shall be glad. ”

- Bible

“ It is time for the government of China to stop holding innocent religious figures in captivity merely for peacefully protesting China's occupation of Tibet. ”

- Sam Brownback

“ It quickly became obvious to us that not only the animals in the wild had a problem, but so did the animals in captivity. ”

- Tippi Hedren

“ If I should ever be captured, I want no negotiation - and if I should request a negotiation from captivity they should consider that a sign of duress. ”

- Henry Kissinger

“ They shall come all for violence: their faces shall sup up as the east wind, and they shall gather the captivity as the sand. ”

- Bible

“ Did you know that dolphins are so smart that within a few weeks of captivity, they can train people to stand on the very edge of the pool and throw them fish? ”

- Unknown

“ And the LORD turned the captivity of Job, when he prayed for his friends: also the LORD gave Job twice as much as he had before. ”

- Bible

“ When it comes to determining child custody, however, sexism is the rule. ”

- Phyllis Schlafly

“ His behavior in custody and since his release have been exemplary. ”

- Ron Wood

“ That hunger of the flesh, that longing for ease, that terror of incarceration, that insistence on tribal honour being obeyed: all of that exists, and it exists everywhere. ”

- Ben Kingsley

“ The weariest and most loathed worldly life, that age, ache, penury and imprisonment can lay on nature is a paradise, to what we fear of death. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ Fines are preferable to imprisonment and other types of punishment because they are more efficient. With a fine, the punishment to offenders is also revenue to the State. ”

- Gary Becker

“ Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses. ”

- William Butler Yeats

“ Capital punishment turns the state into a murderer. But imprisonment turns the state into a gay dungeon-master. ”

- Jesse Jackson

“ Captivity is the greatest of all evils that can befall one. ”

- Miguel de Cervantes

“ Optimism and humor are the grease and glue of life. Without both of them we would never have survived our captivity. ”

- Philip Butler

“ We are all sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life. ”

- Tennessee Williams

“ When I was a kid I got no respect. When my parents got divorced there was a custody fight over me... and no one showed up. ”

- Rodney Dangerfield
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