Hostage Quotes
135 quotes by 123 authors
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The Iranian regime suppresses its own people as well as others in the region. It prevents peace by sponsoring terror globally. With the ultimate weapon…
— Shimon Peres
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The idea that the rest of the world was somehow being held hostage by the Arab-Israeli conflict once had a minimal basis in reality. In…
— John Podhoretz
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I don't want to get into the 'who's a hostage-taker' discussion here, but what is the estate tax? It's a double tax on death. Economists…
— Paul Ryan
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Naturally, it is a terrible, despicable crime when, as in Munich, people are taken hostage, people are killed. But probing the motives of those responsible…
— Steven Spielberg
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When I saw Wonder Woman being constantly put in positions where she'd get tied up with her own rope, or held hostage, even as a…
— J. Michael Straczynski
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I spent a lot of my twenties wanting a maid, really. I thought I wanted a relationship, but I just wanted somebody to fix and…
— Robbie Williams
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Yet who can say how our souls have been stamped by witnessing such a cruel drama? All souls are hostages to their human envelopes, but…
— Gregory Maguire
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Perhaps it is not-being that is the true state, and all our dream of life is inexistent; but, if so, we feel that these phrases…
— Marcel Proust
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At the time we’re stuck in it, like hostages locked in a Turkish bath, high school seems the most serious business in the world to…
— Stephen King
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If someone with multiple personalities threatens to kill himself, is it considered a hostage situation?
— George Carlin
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Personal affection is a luxury you can have only after all your enemies are eliminated. Until then, everyone you love is a hostage, sapping your…
— Orson Scott Card
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Your pet is not your friend. It is your hostage.
— Scott Dikkers
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We who are engaged in the sacred cause of education are entitled to look upon all parents as having given hostages to our cause.
— Horace Mann
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Death is a scandal. The machine is functioning, we are all hostages
— Elias Canetti
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I could probably have made the head shot from the railing, but with an unfamiliar gun, it was too risky. I didn't want to accidentally…
— Laurell K. Hamilton
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Recently , crowds of thousands gathered throughout the Muslim world - burning European embassies, issuing threats, taking hostages, even killing people - in protest over…
— Sam Harris
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What you forget when you're planning a hijack by yourself is somewhere along the line, you might need to neglect your hostages just long enough…
— Chuck Palahniuk
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Sure, on a larger scale, it was healthy to have people out there you cared about more than yourself. She knew that. But then there…
— Harlan Coben
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Conner Lassiter. Scheduled to be unwound the 21st of November-until you went AWOL. You caused an accident that killed a bus driver, left dozens of…
— Neal Shusterman
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I think we both need to work on our communication skills. (Kiara) I tried that once. (Nykyrian) And? (Kiara) Darling told me that I could…
— Sherrilyn Kenyon
Who Wrote These Hostage Quotes
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