Outside events can change a presidential campaign, a president, and the history of the nation: the Iranian hostage crisis, the bombing of… — Mark McKinnon Copy Share Image
My last point about getting started as a writer: do something first, good or bad, successful or not, and write it up… — Jeffery Taylor Copy Share Image
Consciousness is a pitiful hostage of its flesh-envelope, whose surges, circuits, and secret murmurings it cannot stay or speed. This is the… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
“The goal with hostages is to gradually lower expectations; in nonhostage crises, it's to lower emotions.” — Dave Cullen Copy Share Image
Forgive yourself first. Release the need to replay a negative situation over and over again in your mind. Don’t become a hostage… — Les Brown Copy Share Image
As long as we're tied to Middle Eastern oil we're tied to Middle Eastern politics. We're hostages to the terrorists and nutcases… — Ben Bova Copy Share Image
My advice for Obama concerning Iran is just to do what you already promised you would do, open up communications with Iran.… — Reza Aslan Copy Share Image
"Bolshoi Babylon" is the work of filmmakers Mark Franchetti and Nicholas Read. Franchetti has been a Moscow-based journalist for 18 years. He… — Elizabeth Blair Lee Copy Share Image
the lady is almost the only picturesque survival in a social order which tends less and less to tolerate the exceptional. ...… — Emily James Smith Putnam Copy Share Image
From the sons of Ith, the first of the Gael to get his death in Ireland, there came in the after time… — Lady Gregory Copy Share Image
No commandment surpasses the one concerning the liberation of hostages, for they are among the starving, the thirsting, the stripped, always in… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
The debate we won't be having is whether or not the debt ceiling should be raised. We will not have a situation… — Jay Carney Copy Share Image
As they are currently practiced, there is no common ground between science and religion... Although just as in hostage negotiations, it's probably… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
I would have promised those terrorists a trip to Disneyland if it would have gotten the hostages released. I thank God they… — Oliver North Copy Share Image
If you're going to spend a long time locked in somebody's basement, take a professor with you. — Terry H. Anderson Copy Share Image
Everybody is vulnerable through love of their children. Hostages to fortune. — Claire Tomalin Copy Share Image
If you're robbing a bank and your pants fall down, I think it's okay to laugh, and let your hostages laugh too,… — Jack Handey Copy Share Image
Barack Obama's discovering what a nightmare dealing with hostage problems is - a discovery previously made by Jimmy Carter and Ronald Reagan,… — Bruce Riedel Copy Share Image
In Tehran, the 444 days of the Iran Hostage Crisis was the first world event in which you could literally have live… — Chris Terrio Copy Share Image
“Man is a hostage to the cage of cultural programming and the mass hallucination of the propagandist’s narrative illusion.” — James Scott, Senior Fellow, The Center for Cyber Influence Operations Studies Copy Share Image
When you're writing - when I'm writing anyway - I'm writing out of different kinds of preoccupations and obsessions, different forms of… — W. S. Di Piero Copy Share Image
The main reason we are held hostage by the most destructive technology on earth is simple: the complete lack of international resolve… — C. G. Weeramantry Copy Share Image
