Hostage Quotes

Melancholy held me hostage, and the bees built a hive of sadness in my soul. (Laurie Halse Anderson)
It's hard being a hostage in somebody else's mouth - or a character in somebody else's novel. View quote
David Antin
Again, we saw in Bosnia - we had U.N. peacekeepers tied to trees, being taken hostage. The fact is they don't have the type of deliberate and authoritative rule that I think is needed to get the job done. View quote
Peter T. King
Our bodies hold our minds hostage to their whims and rhythms. View quote
Alain de Botton
Russia does not control oil prices - OPEC does. So Russia is a hostage in the hands of those who control these prices. View quote
Christopher A. Pissarides
The feeling of not belonging, of not being entirely worthy, of being sometimes hostage to your own sensibilities. Those things speak to me very personally. View quote
Anthony Minghella
In Tehran, the 444 days of the Iran Hostage Crisis was the first world event in which you could literally have live events beamed into your living room. Now, every world event plays out on its own, and as a media event. View quote
Chris Terrio
Has one hostage from Lebanon come back with a photograph of his abductors? Has any hostage ever come back with a photograph of his abductors smiling? I mean, this was so incredible! View quote
Dwight Schultz
We exercise great caution in airing an audio- or videotape released by a terrorist organization holding a hostage. These are decisions made by CNN's editorial staff and not by any third party. View quote
Jim C. Walton
America Held Hostage won 24 Emmys for ABC News, but someone forgot to include my name on the list of people responsible for the show. View quote
Pierre Salinger
Lemony Snicket: (narrating) Reading poetry, even if you are only reading to find a secret message within its words, can often give one a feeling of power, the way you can feel powerful if you are the only one who brought an umbrella on a rainy day, or the only one who knows how to untie knots when you're taken hostage. (Daniel Handler)
There is a thin line between peace of the brave and peace of the hostage... between compromise - even calculated risk - and irresponsibility and capitulation. View quote
Ehud Barak
I can't remember ever feeling so glad that a movie was finally over. [Director George] Lucas may have held my imagination hostage for two hours, but reclaiming it afterward wasn't hard at all. View quote
Stephanie Zacharek
If someone with multiple personalities threatens to kill himself, is it considered a hostage situation? View quote
George Carlin
Legal issues aside, the American people and government should never abide the use of torture by our military or intelligence agencies. A decent society never accepts or justifies torture. It dehumanizes both torturer and victim, yet seldom produces reliable intelligence. Torture by rogue American troops or agents puts all Americans at risk, especially our rank-and-file soldiers stationed in dozens of dangerous places around the globe. God forbid terrorists take American soldiers or travelers hostage and torture them as some kind of sick retaliation for Abu Gharib. View quote
Ron Paul
Things hold your attention hostage until you give them the appropriate attention. View quote
David Allen (author)
If your backlog of stuff isn't zero'd regularly, you're hostage to your own incessant angst that you should. View quote
David Allen (author)
Freedom to give full attention to what you want (vs. It being held hostage by unmanaged stuff) is the GTD promise. View quote
David Allen (author)
The father of a daughter is nothing but a high-class hostage. A father turns a stony face to his sons, berates them, shakes his antlers, paws the ground, snorts, runs them off into the underbrush, but when his daughter puts her arm over his shoulder and says, 'Daddy, I need to ask you something,' he is a pat of butter in a hot frying pan. View quote
Garrison Keillor
Personal affection is a luxury you can have only after all your enemies are eliminated. Until then, everyone you love is a hostage, sapping your courage and corrupting your judgment. View quote
Orson Scott Card
I chose to bomb a federal building because such an action served more purposes than other options. Foremost, the bombing was a retaliatory strike; a counter attack, for the cumulative raids and subsequent violence and damage that federal agents had participated in over the preceding years (including, but not limited to, Waco.) From the formation of such units as the FBI's 'Hostage Rescue' and other assault teams amongst federal agencies during the '80s; culminating in the Waco incident, federal actions grew increasingly militaristic and violent, to the point where at Waco, our government - like the Chinese - was deploying tanks against its own citizens. (Timothy McVeigh)
America will not be held hostage to nuclear blackmail. We will not allow American cities to be threatened with destruction. And we will not allow a regime that chants "Death to America" to gain access to the most deadly weapons on Earth. View quote
Donald Trump
One scarcely knows if he would be of more use to us as a hostage, or set loose to be a very bad enemy leader. View quote
Lois McMaster Bujold
We have allowed alarmist and racist attitudes to take us hostage, and if these impulses are not kept in check they will behead us all. View quote
Margaret Cho
I could probably have made the head shot from the railing, but with an unfamiliar gun, it was too risky. I didn't want to accidentally shoot the woman in the head. Killing the hostage is always frowned upon. View quote
Laurell K. Hamilton