I am, as ever, a poor sinner, a captive of eternal love…

The creative writer is usually captive to his next book.

— Fannie Hurst

People without an internalized symbolic system can all too easily become captives of the media.

— Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

My favorite job is being a father. I have four girls now. They're a captive audience.

— Bruce Willis

We live in all we seek. The hidden shows up in too-plain sight. It lives captive on the face of the obvious - the…

— Annie Dillard

Of all the jaw-droppingly beautiful women who've become genuine movie stars, none has had a longer film career (62 years), has been filmed in…

— Robert Osborne

Make me a captive Lord, then I shall be truly free.

— Saint Augustine

As long as we're dependent on those fossil fuels, we're dependent on the Middle East. If we are not victims, we're certainly captives.

— John M. McHugh

Jah come to break downpression, rule equality, wipe away transgression, set the captives free.

— Bob Marley

“Though the captives' resistance was dangerous, through such acts, dignity was preserved, and through dignity, life itself.”

— Laura Hillenbrand

The state is captive to vested interests.

— Sanusi Lamido Sanusi

“...you go back to liberate the captives and sadly realize, some want to remain tied down in the cave...”

— John Geddes

“So, very soon our captives will meet their small countrywoman again. How grateful they must be to have a pleasant ride, with us to…

— Emily Rodda

The cry for freedom is a sign of suppression. It will not cease to ring as long as man feels himself captive. As diverse…

— Wilhelm Reich

Words have to murder reality before they can hold it captive.

— Simone de Beauvoir

It would drive the photographers crazy because I would giggle and tell jokes. I was gregarious, and looking back, I realize I had a…

— Tracee Ellis Ross