Fitness Quote by Chris Voss

In my years as the FBI's lead international kidnapping negotiator, I learned an important fundamental lesson: Hostage negotiation is often nothing more than a…

— Christopher Voss

There is a thin line between peace of the brave and peace of the hostage... between compromise - even calculated risk - and irresponsibility…

— Ehud Barak

“If a person with multiple personalities threatens suicide, is that considered a hostage situation?”

— Steven Wright

A diplomat had been kidnapped, a cabinet minister had been kidnapped, they were under threats of murder. The police forces were rather tired. After…

— Robert Bourassa

“Kidnappings made for ransom were fast and messy; guns pointed at your head, urgent demands. Not keypads on the door and enough food to…

— Tarryn Fisher

Perhaps one of the more noteworthy trends of our time is the occupation of buildings accompanied by the taking of hostages. The perpetrators of…

— Fran Lebowitz

“A similar situation exists today,” said Stephenson. “The easy way out is to pretend there are no crises.”

— William Stevenson

The kidnapped person is so tantalizingly close, kept alive by a devastating hope. Kidnapping or hostage-taking is perhaps the most disturbing form of terror…

— Uzodinma Iweala

“Good negotiators, going in, know they have to be ready for possible surprises; great negotiators aim to use their skills to reveal the surprises…

— Chris Voss

“The most tragic form of loss isn't the loss of security; it's the loss of the capacity to imagine that things could be different.”

— Ernst Bloch

If someone with multiple personalities threatens to kill himself, is it considered a hostage situation?

— George Carlin

I am extremely interested in how people negotiate catastrophe, not because I'm morbidly interested in it but because I'm interested in the secret of…

— Janette Turner Hospital