The hostage hours had blurred into one another, anonymous…

I had a great dislike to the annoyances entailed by baggage; and it was always with some feeling of elation that I cut myself…

— Herbert Spencer

Every happiness is a hostage to fortune.

— Arthur Helps

You can either be a host to God, or a hostage to your ego. It's your call.

— Wayne Dyer

The students often like to talk about movies that they feel are Orientalist like 300 or Babel. They talk a lot about the possibility…

— Mohammad Marandi

“Linc and his date, who he thought had left an hour before, were either held hostage or enthralled on the sofa”

— Nora Roberts

In theory, when you're working with a record label, you're just borrowing their money. And that's basically how the record industry works, right? It's…

— Patrick Carney

“Eve commanded her hostage to open the door and look calm. She didn’t turn around again, but Beckett knew what she’d done. She’d crossed…

— Debra Anastasia

It is worth emphasizing that Iran released our hostages in 1981 the day Ronald Reagan was sworn into office.

— Ted Cruz

A nation should not be a hostage to one man's thirst for power, and it won't. Belarusians have woken up. The point of no…

— Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya

I think in times of fear and hysteria in a culture, gender experimentation as it pertains to men has to go underground because it…

— RuPaul

After spending 460 days as a hostage, I did emerge a fundamentally changed person. But I think, like everyone does as they grow older…

— Amanda Lindhout

When death gives us a long lease of life, it takes as hostages all those whom we have loved.

— Suzanne Curchod

There is a thin line between peace of the brave and peace of the hostage... between compromise - even calculated risk - and irresponsibility…

— Ehud Barak

Has one hostage from Lebanon come back with a photograph of his abductors? Has any hostage ever come back with a photograph of his…

— Dwight Schultz

Magazines at some point become hostage to their own success.

— Graydon Carter