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Letter "P" » prisoner
«He had drawn many a thousand of these rations in prisons and camps, and though he'd never had an opportunity to weight them on scales, and although, being a man of timid nature, he knew no way of standing up for his rights, he, like every other prisoner, had discovered long ago that honest weight was never to be found in the bread-cutting. There was short weight in every ration. The only point was how short. So every day you took a look to soothe your soul - today, maybe, they haven't snitched any.»
«Be an explorer...read, surf the internet, visit customers, enjoy arts, watch children play...do anything to prevent yourself from becoming a prisoner of your knowledge, experience, and current view of the world.»
Author: Charles Thompson
| About:
Internet
| Keywords:
customers, Enjoy Yourself, explorer, explorers, prisoner, surf, surfing
«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.»
Author: Henri Matisse
(Artist, Painter)
| About:
Art
| Keywords:
artist, etc., etc, in style, My Style, prisoner, reputation, style, styled, The Prisoner of
«Come Sleep! Oh Sleep, the certain knot of peace, the baiting-place of wit, the balm of woe, the poor man's wealth, the prisoner's release, the indifferent judge between the high and low.»
Author: Sir Philip Sidney
(Statesman)
| Keywords:
baiting, balm, high and low, knot, poor man, prisoner, release, The Prisoner, woe
«Education has become a prisoner of contemporaneity. It is the past, not the dizzy present, that is the best door to the future.»
«Americans, indeed all free men, remember that in the final choice a soldier's pack is not so heavy a burden as a prisoner's chains»
«A man man may dwell so long upon a thought that it may take him prisoner»
«An ill-humored man is a prisoner at the mercy of an enemy from whom he can never escape»
«Be not thou therefore ashamed of the testimony of our Lord, nor of me his prisoner: but be thou partaker of the afflictions of the gospel according to the power of God; / Who hath saved us, and called us with an holy calling, not according to our works, but according to his own purpose and grace, which was given us in Christ Jesus before the world began, / But is now made manifest by the appearing of our Saviour Jesus Christ, who hath abolished death, and hath brought life and immortality to light through the gospel: / Whereunto I am appointed a preacher, and an apostle, and a teacher of the Gentiles.»
Author: Bible
| Keywords:
abolished, afflictions, Apostle of the Gentiles, appearing, Gentiles, partaker, preacher, prisoner, saving grace, saviour, testimony, to the power, whereunto
«A prisoner of war is a man who tries to kill you and fails, and then asks you not to kill him.»
Author: Winston Churchill
(Author, Orator, Prime Minister)
| About:
War
| Keywords:
asks, fails, kill, prisoner, prisoner of war, The Prisoner of, tries, war
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