Hostage Quotes

135 quotes by 123 authors

I'm sorry, I don't know what any of you want, or why guns and knives are being waved around, or why the girl has just… — Derek Landy
He said she went around with her feelings out in front of her with an arm around the feelings' windpipe and a Glock 9mm. to… — David Foster Wallace
Are you taking my hat hostage? — Derek Landy
Out of the millions of people we live among, most of whom we habitually ignore and are ignored by in turn, there are always a… — Alain de Botton
Oddly enough, I find the best hostages are the live ones. - Karl — Kelley Armstrong
It does seem simple, doesn't it?' she said, with a final bitter attempt at flippancy, 'when you want to kill a chicken...you take hold of… — Baroness Orczy
And what are your interests and hobbies, Nicholas?" Annabel asked faintly, sounding like a cross between a television interviewer and a hostage. Nick considered this… — Sarah Rees Brennan
Alcoholics donâ€™t have relationships-they take hostages. — Michael Robotham
Melancholy held me hostage, and the bees built a hive of sadness in my soul. — Laurie Halse Anderson
[A]s they are currently practiced, there is no common ground between science and religion....Although just as in hostage negotiations, it's probably best to keep both… — Neil deGrasse Tyson
Magazines at some point become hostage to their own success. — Graydon Carter
If you empower people in their communities and get them jobs, no one like Dudus Coke can win their hearts and minds and hold them… — Portia Simpson-Miller
Fiction that responds to recent world events is a hostage to fortune, because all momentous events look very different a year, two years, three years… — Mark Haddon
Many, including the Canadian and U.S. governments, try to provide family support while also maintaining a hard line about further fuelling terrorism and hostage-taking through… — Amanda Lindhout
After spending 460 days as a hostage, I did emerge a fundamentally changed person. But I think, like everyone does as they grow older and… — Amanda Lindhout
I have spent seven of the 12 years I have been married a victim of political persecution. I must be the first male spouse being… — Asif Ali Zardari
I had some training on how to cope with hostage-taking. — Richard Engel
I was held hostage and almost executed by a man who was robbing us in the middle of the night. — William Hurt
We will fight hostage taking like we fight terrorism. — Ali Abdullah Saleh
For as long as our people are held hostage by controllable socio-economic forces, we cannot afford to be indifferent to the ravages of poverty in… — Ibrahim Babangida

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