Hostage Quotes

135 quotes by 123 authors

No commandment surpasses the one concerning the liberation of hostages, for they are among the starving, the thirsting, the stripped, always in danger of death. — Elie Wiesel
You can't let your past hold your future hostage. — LL Cool J
We exercise great caution in airing an audio- or videotape released by a terrorist organization holding a hostage. These are decisions made by CNN's editorial… — Jim C. Walton
You ever want to negotiate a hostage situation in Quebec, I'm your man. Send me in for a little parley and the francophone miscreants will… — Will Ferguson
Many of us are being held hostage by bitterness because we are not willing to give to others what we have been given. — Tony Evans
You can either be a Host to God, or a Hostage to your ego! — Wayne Dyer
In my mind, continuity means the best writer at a company is held hostage by the worst. — Marv Wolfman
I would have promised those terrorists a trip to Disneyland if it would have gotten the hostages released. I thank God they were satisfied with… — Oliver North
Come in, Bean. Come in Julian Delphiki, longed-for child of good and loving parents. Come in, kidnapped child, hostage of fate. Come and talk to… — Orson Scott Card
The debate we won't be having is whether or not the debt ceiling should be raised. We will not have a situation where people will… — Jay Carney
I felt held hostage by her illness and by the backward mental health system that once again was incapable of helping our family in crisis. — Mira Bartok
I think some of our members may have thought the default issue was a hostage you might take a chance at shooting. Most of us… — Mitch McConnell
In my family, misery didn't just love company, it wanted hostages. — Jerry Stahl
We're all time's captives, hostages to eternity. — Boris Pasternak
In a democracy, hostage tactics are the last resort for those who canâ€™t otherwise win their fights through elections, canâ€™t win their fights in Congress,… — Elizabeth Warren
If I were to be taken hostage, I would not plead for release nor would I want my government to be blackmailed. I think certain… — Margaret Mead
Neither dead nor alive, the hostage is suspended by an incalculable outcome. It is not his destiny that awaits for him, nor his own death,… — Jean Baudrillard
We are all hostages, and we are all terrorists. This circuit has replaced that other one of masters and slaves, the dominating and the dominated,… — Jean Baudrillard
Rushdie is a hostage. — Don DeLillo
Outside events can change a presidential campaign, a president, and the history of the nation: the Iranian hostage crisis, the bombing of the Marine barracks… — Mark McKinnon

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