It is sometimes difficult to be inspired when trying to write a persuasive essay, book report or thoughtful research paper. Often of times, it is hard to find words that best describe your ideas.
VIPessays now provides a database of over 150,000 quotations and proverbs from the famous inventors, philosophers, sportsmen, artists, celebrities, business people, and authors that are aimed to enrich and strengthen your essay, term paper, book report, thesis or research paper.
Try our free search of constantly updated quotations and proverbs database.
Letter "I" » imprisonment
«Three hundred years ago a prisoner condemned to the Tower of London carved on the wall of his cell this sentiment to keep up his spirits during his long imprisonment: 'It is not adversity that kills, but the impatience with which we bear adversity»
Author: Father James Keller
|
Keywords:
carved,
cell,
condemned,
impatience,
imprisonment,
keep up,
prisoner,
sentiment,
spirits,
The Tower,
The Tower of London,
The Wall,
three hundred,
tower,
Tower of,
Tower of London,
with impatience
«When the frustration of my helplessness seemed greatest, I discovered God's grace was more than sufficient. And after my imprisonment, I could look back and see how God used my powerlessness for His purpose. What He has chosen for my most significant witness was not my triumphs or victories, but my defeat.»
Author: Charles Caleb Colton
|
Keywords:
chosen,
frustration,
frustrations,
helplessness,
imprisonment,
look back,
powerlessness,
seemed,
significant,
sufficient,
triumphs,
victories,
witness
«Capital punishment turns the state into a murderer. But imprisonment turns the state into a gay dungeon-master.»
«An individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for the law.»
Author: Martin Luther King, Jr.
(
Baptist Minister,
Civil-Rights Leader)
|
Keywords:
accepts,
arouse,
arousing,
breaks,
community,
conscience,
expressing,
higher law,
highest,
imprisonment,
individual,
injustice,
injustices,
in reality,
law,
penalties,
penalty,
respect,
tells,
The Law,
unjust,
willingly
«Plants are the young of the world, vessels of health and vigor; but they grope ever upward towards consciousness; the trees are imperfect men, and seem to bemoan their imprisonment, rooted in the ground.»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
(
Essayist,
Lecturer,
Poet)
|
About:
Plants
|
Keywords:
bemoan,
bemoaned,
bemoaning,
grope,
groped,
grope for,
groping,
imperfect,
imprisonment,
rooted,
upward,
Vessels,
vigor
«Every pulpit is a pillory, in which stands a hired culprit, defending the justice of his own imprisonment»
«What a stupendous, what an incomprehensible machine is man! Who can endure toil, famine, stripes, imprisonment and death itself in vindication of his own liberty, and the next moment . . . inflict on his fellow men a bondage, one hour of which is fra»
Author: Thomas Jefferson
(
Author,
President)
|
Keywords:
bondage,
Death itself,
famine,
imprisonment,
incomprehensible,
inflict,
one hour,
striped,
stripes,
toil,
vindication
«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.»