Hostage Quotes

135 quotes by 123 authors

I was shooting a bikini promotion in Mahe in the Seychelles in 1980 when there was a military coup and I, along with a roomful… — Brigitte Nielsen
In Tehran, the 444 days of the Iran Hostage Crisis was the first world event in which you could literally have live events beamed into… — Chris Terrio
Seal Team Six is a different unit than the rest of the SEAL teams inasmuch as they concentrate primarily on one thing, counter-terrorism, hostage rescue. — Howard E. Wasdin
Without general elections, without unrestricted freedom of press and assembly, without a free struggle of opinion, life dies out in every public institution, becomes a… — Rosa Luxemburg
I have a wife, I have sons; all these hostages have I given to fortune. — F L Lucas
Then came the hostage crisis during which Carter did nothing to rattle the ayatollahs who hung tough until Ronald Reagan was inaugurated, when they suddenly… — Alexander Haig
There is a thin line between peace of the brave and peace of the hostage... between compromise - even calculated risk - and irresponsibility and… — Ehud Barak
If you think we are going to gain ground by holding the American people hostage, saying that their taxes are at risk, I actually disagree. — Tom Cole
In short, it is not that evolutionary naturalists have been less brazen than the scientific creationists in holding science hostage, but rather that they have… — Phillip E. Johnson
When death gives us a long lease of life, it takes as hostages all those whom we have loved. — Suzanne Curchod
Character is what someone does, much more than who they are. I can be sarcastic or I can be fearful, but it doesn't really matter… — Mitchell Hurwitz
A lover is never a completely self-reliant person viewing the world through his own eyes, but a hostage to a certain delusion. — Alexander Theroux
I guess my biggest failure was not getting reelected. [The loss taught me] not to ever let American hostages be held for 444 days in… — Jimmy Carter
From the sons of Ith, the first of the Gael to get his death in Ireland, there came in the after time Fathadh Canaan, that… — Lady Gregory
Almost all our suffering is the product of our thoughts. We spend nearly every moment of our lives lost in thought, and hostage to the… — Sam Harris
Every happiness is a hostage to fortune. — Arthur Helps
British diplomats who worked in Iran during the 1980 hostage crisis are deeply upset by Ben Affleck's Oscar-winning film 'Argo,' which suggests they refused shelter… — Simon Hoggart
If people are informed they will do the right thing. It's when they are not informed that they become hostages to prejudice. — Charlayne Hunter-Gault
The father of a daughter is nothing but a high-class hostage. A father turns a stony face to his sons, berates them, shakes his antlers,… — Garrison Keillor
The feeling of not belonging, of not being entirely worthy, of being sometimes hostage to your own sensibilities. Those things speak to me very personally. — Anthony Minghella

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