That there is also freedom in captivity, only a prisoner can claim. Coming from a prison guard, this statement would be blasphemy. — Friedrich Durrenmatt Copy Share Image
Their chief residence was Bagdad, where they remained until the eleventh century, an age fatal in Oriental history, from the disasters of… — Isaac D'Israeli Copy Share Image
We tend to seek captivity because we are used to seeing freedom as something that has neither frontiers nor responsibilities. — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
“Public awareness is the equinox of tyranny’s rise; once one man learns of another’s captivity, he will act to free him. It… — John Kramer Copy Share Image
“People who blame are always looking to "get out" of something, but like quicksand, the more they struggle the more they are… — Bryant McGill Copy Share Image
Release your majestic mind, embrace your untamed inner spirit. Break free from captivity, avoid society.. You were born to be free. — Melanie Muller Copy Share Image
I think of death as a glad awakening from this troubled sleep which we call life; as an emancipation from a world,… — Lyman Abbott Copy Share Image
Ambition begat simony; simony begat the pope and his brethren, about the time of the Babylonish captivity — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
Who then is free? The one who wisely is lord of themselves, who neither poverty, death or captivity terrify, who is strong… — Horace Copy Share Image
“But on Kwajalein, the guards sought to deprive them of something that had sustained them even as all else had been lost:… — Laura Hillenbrand Copy Share Image
“You think that is true, but I assure you it is not. Death is better than the sort of captivity they plan… — Robin Hobb Copy Share Image
I’m not a mean person, but I have a capacity for it. I have the biting comment formed somewhere in the back… — Tina Fey Copy Share Image
“From the pavement, I could see the window of Albertine’s room, that window, formerly quite black, at night, when she was not… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“My blood was boiling, which is not a good thing for a coldblood. Dracula was dead. Rex was dying or dead. Breakfast… — Patrick Jennings Copy Share Image
Rather than something like King Kong where I really went after studying gorillas in the wild and captivity. I based Caesar [… — Andy Serkis Copy Share Image
It was wrong to capture wild animals and confine them in captivity for people to go and gawk at them. And that's… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
'Extinction' issue. Save the species for whom??? Humans' convenience, of course! Individuals of the species are snatched from their homes/family/habitat/held in captivity/forced… — Adela Popescu Copy Share Image
“His grandeurs were stricken valueless: they seemed to fall away from him like rotten rags. The procession moved on, and still on,… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“Without his shirt she could see just how bony he was, probably twenty or thirty pounds under his fighting weight from his… — Anne Stuart Copy Share Image
“They put me and more 300 companions of misfortune and captivity in the strait and infected basement of a ship. Thirty days… — Maria Firmina dos Reis Copy Share Image
“The rulers of your minds indulge in proverbs, but they've forgotten the main one, that love cannot be forced, and they have… — Boris Pasternak Copy Share Image
Use gentle methods to get whatever good you can from priests and monks who are slaves, as well as from merchants and… — Vincent de Paul Copy Share Image
The star [Tycho's supernova] was at first like Venus and Jupiter, giving pleasing effects; but as it then became like Mars, there… — Tycho Brahe Copy Share Image
“Mary was like a caged tiger in the first days of her captivity. Keen, alert, and watchful, she listened tensely each dawn… — Margaret George Copy Share Image
“wild animals in captivity and humans in civilization share an important quality: we are both examples of species living outside their natural… — John Durant Copy Share Image
I will go back to my life when women in captivity go back to their lives, when my community has a place,… — Nadia Murad Copy Share Image
“If you're a soldier-- even if you're French-- you're supposed to try very hard to escape captivity!" -Germany” — Hidekaz Himaruya Copy Share Image
It is unacceptable for a woman to be rescued from captivity from ISIS to come and not have a place to live,… — Nadia Murad Copy Share Image
If I should ever be captured, I want no negotiation - and if I should request a negotiation from captivity they should… — Henry A. Kissinger Copy Share Image
“In situations of captivity the perpetrator becomes the most powerful person in the life of the victim, and the psychology of the… — Judith Lewis Herman Copy Share Image
“He didn’t like to see animals in captivity. When he looked into their eyes, something in their eyes looked back at him.” — Rick Yancey Copy Share Image
The same men who are placing all these outrageous restrictions on women’s freedoms in southern Somalia – that type of mentality –… — Amanda Lindhout Copy Share Image
“Our shimmering blue plaything is now a swollen black brute straining at its confinement. A beast in captivity, raging to bust free… — Mary Hogan Copy Share Image
If fame came near to you to get you, you must run away from it very fast! Because this is a matter… — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
Your life may be messed and your foolishness may have put you into captivity but Jesus can do the whatever it is… — Louie Giglio Copy Share Image
The guns on the walls that surround the prison accurately, though unwittingly, index the true character of the penitentiary in our day. — Eugene V. Debs Copy Share Image
“Once again Toll-by-Night had burst out of its captivity, like a monstrous jack from an innocent-looking box. And this time Mosca was… — Frances Hardinge Copy Share Image
Mr. Wodehouse's idyllic world can never stale. He will continue to release future generations from captivity that may be more irksome than… — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
There is about as much educational benefit to be gained in studying dolphins in captivity as there would be studying mankind by… — Jacques Yves Cousteau Copy Share Image
I don't want to be the oldest performer in captivity... I don't want to look like a little old man dancing out… — Fred Astaire Copy Share Image