Captive Quotes
145 quotes by 133 authors
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I decided to go along with it. If he tried to give me the runaround, I would bolt. I didn't have time to waste on…
— Amanda Hocking
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This wasn't the first time I'd woken up as a captive. It wasn't even the second. I so needed to reevaluate my life choices.
— Jeaniene Frost
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In me there is darkness, But with You there is light; I am lonely, but You do not leave me; I am feeble in heart,…
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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The old lessons (work, self-discipline, sacrifice, teamwork, fighting to achieve) aren't being taught by many people other than football coaches these days. The football coach…
— Bear Bryant
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Divine love does not weigh down, nor carry his servant captive and enslaved to the lowest depths, but raises him, supports him and magnifies him…
— Giordano Bruno
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Elephant populations in India and also in the whole of Asia are under severe stress. The captive ones are rendered jobless due to changes in…
— Mark Shand
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There is no excuse for keeping wild animals in amusement parks or circuses. Until our governments take action, we should avoid supporting places where captive…
— Peter Singer
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In the winter of 1973, the American POWs held captive in Vietnam were released according to the terms of the Paris Peace Accords.
— Annie Jacobsen
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The rise of digital technology put marketers in a bind. No longer a captive audience, consumers were splitting their time across devices, social networks and…
— Shawn Amos
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The first step toward success is taken when you refuse to be a captive of the environment in which you first find yourself.
— Mark Caine
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By the will art thou lost, by the will art thou found, by the will art thou free, captive, and bound.
— Angelus Silesius
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And the king of Israel said unto Elisha, when he saw them, My father, shall I smite them? shall I smite them? And he answered,…
— Bible
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As unrefined and basic as an animal's emotional equipment may be, it is not insensitive to freedom. Somewhere in the archives of crudest instinct is…
— Tom Robbins
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You're holding my heart captive. But you don't even have a clue that you have it.
— ProudLesbian
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Every defeat, every heartbreak, every loss, contains its own seed, its own lesson on how to improve your performance the next time. I can hear…
— The Forgotten
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Today expect something good to happen to you no matter what occurred yesterday. Realize the past no longer holds you captive. It can only continue…
— David Kreger
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I can hear the emptiness inside my heart... As I turn away.... with my back against u I cry the tears that no one sees.....…
— Im Nothing
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Kissing your lips makes me see a thousand red stars, oh enchantress you hold me captive.
— Ayomide Rilwan
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What you do when eyes are averted, curtains are drawn shut, the expected are delayed, wife and kids vacate for leisurely merriments, when doors are…
— Roy Valenzula
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What you do when eyes are averted, curtains are drawn shut, the expected are delayed, wife and kids vacate for leisurely merriments, when doors are…
— Roy Valenzuela
Who Wrote These Captive Quotes
133 authors contributed a total of 145 Captive Quotes, led by these top contributors: