Hostages Quotes
43 Hostages quotes by 41 unique authors
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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
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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
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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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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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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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Oddly enough, I find the best hostages are the live ones. - Karl
— Kelley Armstrong
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Alcoholics don’t have relationships-they take hostages.
— Michael Robotham
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Some historians trace the start of the War on Terror to November 4, 1979, the day the hostages were taken in Tehran.
— Stephen Rodrick
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I have a wife, I have sons: all of them hostages given to fate.
— Lucan
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At the beginning, because the lives of the hostages were at stake, then during this silent period we have taken several measures like not accepting…
— Alberto Fujimori
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You must avoid giving hostages to fortune, like getting an expensive wife, an expensive house, and a style of living that never lets you aford…
— Irwin Shaw
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Have you ever been in love? Horrible isn't it? It makes you so vulnerable. It opens your chest and it opens up your heart and…
— Neil Gaiman
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Terrorists don't take black hostages. That's the truth. I have yet to see one of us on the news reading a hostage letter. Like, 'Uh...they…
— Dave Chappelle
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Just one more thought about you and I will start taking hostages
— Aruho Marwin Machiaveli
Who Wrote These Hostages Quotes
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