Familiarize yourself with the chains of bondage and you prepare your own limbs to wear them. — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
We get into captivity because of our foolishness and we are more foolish that we want to admit. — Louie Giglio Copy Share Image
“Cage an eagle and it will bite at the wires, be they of iron or of gold.” — Henrik Ibsen Copy Share Image
“...a butterfly is like the soul of a person, it dries out in captivity.” — Marlene Van Niekerk Copy Share Image
No good ever comes from putting up walls. What people mistake for safety is in fact captivity. And few things thrive in… — Louise Penny Copy Share Image
“See this abdicated beast, once king Of them all, nibble his claws: Not anger enough left—no, nor despair— To break his teeth… — Cecil Day-Lewis Copy Share Image
“To live with unforgiveness is to become a captive cultured citizen whose taxation is that of demonically ticketed torment.” — Tracey Bond Copy Share Image
“Any living thing that is kept behind bars for long enough eventually becomes more scared of the unknown than its own captivity.” — Fredrik Backman Copy Share Image
It is time for the government of China to stop holding innocent religious figures in captivity merely for peacefully protesting China's occupation… — Sam Brownback Copy Share Image
All the intelligence and talent in the world can't make a singer. The voice is a wild thing. It can't be bred… — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
I became very critical of zoos and circuses and keeping animals in captivity. I wish it was against the law. — Christopher Walken Copy Share Image
Hope is necessary in every condition. The miseries of poverty, sickness and captivity would, without this comfort, be insupportable. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Bring into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ. Take what I cannot give: my heart, body, thoughts, time, abilities, money,… — Elizabeth Prentiss Copy Share Image
Israeli society's inability to tolerate even a single soldier held in captivity results in popular movements that have tremendous impact on strategic… — Ronen Bergman Copy Share Image
You're captives of a civilizational system that more or less compels you to go on destroying the world in order to live.… — Daniel Quinn Copy Share Image
And I will bring again the captivity of my people of Israel, and they shall build the waste cities, and inhabit them;… — Bible Copy Share Image
“So I'd been captured? So I was starving? Did that mean I had to shrivel up and die? I could still slither.… — Patrick Jennings Copy Share Image
“They made an ingenuous and disorganized effort to escape from captivity but ultimately failed, because they were unable to find the bars… — Daniel Quinn Copy Share Image
For men to be tied and led by authority, as it were with a kind of captivity of judgment, and though there… — Richard Hooker Copy Share Image
A man is saved no faster than he gets knowledge. For if he does not get knowledge, he will be brought into… — Joseph Smith, Jr Copy Share Image
The less control people had over their work, the higher their blood pressure during work hours. Moreover, blood pressure at home was… — Sheena Iyengar Copy Share Image
How pitiable is it to reflect, that although you were so fully convinced of the benevolence of the Father of Mankind, and… — Benjamin Banneker Copy Share Image
What would you not have accomplished if you had been free?" "Possibly nothing at all; the overflow of my brain would probably,… — Alexandre Dumas Copy Share Image
Tomorrow we go back to normal?" "Sure," Mab said. "It'll be like none of this happened. Except I'll still be pregnant, and… — Jennifer Crusie Copy Share Image
Works of imagination excel by their allurement and delight; by their power of attracting and detaining the attention. That book is good… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
For a bag of pepper, they could cut each other's throats without hesitation, and would forswear their souls... The bizarre obstinacy of… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
“And yet even after letting me see where my own path would lead me, God bailed me out of the consequences that… — Michael J Heil Copy Share Image
Is there a more pitiable spectacle than that of a wife contending with others for that charm in her husband's sight which… — Ouida Copy Share Image
Federal legislation is urgently needed to stop this insanity of wild animals in captivity. — Tippi Hedren Copy Share Image
