a jail QUOTES

1 " I wanted to pursue things, to know things, but I could not match the means of knowing that came naturally to me with the expectations of professors. The pursuit of knowing was freedom to me, the right to declare your own curiosities and follow them through all manner of books. I was made fore the library, not the classroom. The classroom was a jail of other people's interests. The library was open, unending, free. Slowly, I was discovering myself. "

― Ta-Nehisi Coates

2 " A promise is a direction taken, a self-limitation of choice. As Odo pointed out, if no direction is taken, if one goes nowhere, no change will occur. One's freedom to choose and to change will be unused, exactly as if one were in jail, a jail of one's own building, a maze in which no one way is better than any other. "

― Ursula K. Le Guin , The Dispossessed (Hainish Cycle, #6)

3 " False humility is a form of psychosis which was imprinted on most of us since birth. It is a mental illness because it locks us in a victim state of keeping our light turned down, denying who we really are and silently begging for permission to simply show up as ourselves in the world. But there is good news. This is a jail whose lock is broken. We can walk free whenever we know the truth, and by so doing we show others an example of an end to madness. An example of freedom. "

― Jacob Nordby

4 " The uncertainty wore on him. The conditions in jail--the handcuffs, the noise, the filth, the crowding--mangled his senses. It's likely that, if one must be incarcerated in the United States, a jail in central Maine would be among the more tolerable spots, but to Knight it was torture. " Bedlam" is how he referred to the place. It never got dark in jail; at eleven p.m., the lights merely became a little duller. " I suspect," he noted, " more damage has been done to my sanity in jail, in months; than years, decades, in the woods. "

5 " So here is another law, one of my favourite If I become famous the stupidy will end one for all. It's basically a jail for mankind stupidy! "

― Deyth Banger

6 " The pursuit of knowing was freedom to me, the right to declare your own curiosities and follow them through all manner of books. I was made for the library, not the classroom. The classroom was a jail of other people’s interests. The library was open, unending, free. Slowly, I was discovering myself. "

― Ta-Nehisi Coates

7 " I was made for the library, not the classroom. The classroom was a jail of other people's interests. The library is open, unending, free. "

― Ta-Nehisi Coates

8 " I have known him (Micawber) come home to supper with a flood of tears and a declaration that nothing was now left but a jail and go to bed making a calculation of the expense of putting bow-windows to the house " in case anything turned up " which was his favorite expression. "

9 " Being in a ship is being in a jail with the chance of being drowned. "

10 " No man will be a sailor who has contrivance enough to get himself into a jail; for being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned... a man in a jail has more room, better food, and commonly better company. "