Captivity Quotes - Page 4

• When love's well-timed 'tis not a fault to love;
  The strong, the brave, the virtuous, and the wise,
  Sink in the soft captivity together.

  Joseph Addison

  Life, Wise, Strong

  Joseph Addison (1860). “The works of Joseph Addison: including the whole contents of Bp. Hurd's edition, with letters and other pieces not found in any previous collection; and Macaulay's essay on his life and works”, p.427

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• Many of the white people [who] have been instruments in the hands of God for our good, even such as have held us in captivity, are now pleading our cause with earnestness and zeal.

  Richard Allen

  Hands, White, People

  Richard Allen (1880). “The Life, Experience, and Gospel Labors of the Rt. Rev. Richard Allen: To which is Annexed, the Rise and Progress of the African Methodist Episcopal Church in the United States of America : Containing a Narrative of the Yellow Fever in the Year of Our Lord 1793 : with an Address to the People of Color in the United States”

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• We are responsible for our captivity to sin. In our foolishness, we forget God. However, God intervenes!

  Louie Giglio

  Sin, Forget, Responsible

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• The star [Tycho's supernova] was at first like Venus and Jupiter, giving pleasing effects; but as it then became like Mars, there will next come a period of wars, seditions, captivity and death of princes, and destruction of cities, together with dryness and fiery meteors in the air, pestilence, and venomous snakes. Lastly, the star became like Saturn, and there will finally come a time of want, death, imprisonment and all sorts of sad things.

  Tycho Brahe

  Stars, War, Science

  "Patrick Moore's Data Book of Astronomy". p. 336, 2011.

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• Federal legislation is urgently needed to stop this insanity of wild animals in captivity.

  Tippi Hedren

  Animal, Insanity, Legislation

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• I've had a love of animals from birth. I love getting to know other species. We should all be aware that there is not one thing we can give a wild animal in captivity that they need.

  Tippi Hedren

  Animal, Giving, Needs

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• After being in captivity for so long, I can't begin to describe how wonderful it feels to be home in Canada.

  Amanda Lindhout

  Home, Long, Canada

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• The journey through another world, beyond bad dreams beyond the memories of a murdered generation, cartographed in captivity by bare survivors makes sacristans of us all.

  Elizabeth Cook-Lynn

  Dream, Memories, Journey

  Elizabeth Cook-Lynn (1983). “Seek the House of Relatives”

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• Five score years ago, a great American, in whose symbolic shadow we stand today signed the Emancipation Proclamation. This momentous decree came as a great beacon light of hope to millions of Negro slaves who had been seared in the flames of withering injustice. It came as a joyous daybreak to end the long night of their captivity. But one hundred years later, we must face the tragic fact that the Negro is still not free.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Change, Night, Light

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• Lust is a captivity of the reason and an enraging of the passions. It hinders business and distracts counsel. It sins against the body and weakens the soul.

  Jeremy Taylor

  Passion, Soul, Lust

  Jeremy Taylor, Charles Page Eden, Reginald Heber, Alexander Taylor (1848). “The Whole Works of the Right Rev. Jeremy Taylor ...: Sermons”, p.138

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• Rather than something like King Kong where I really went after studying gorillas in the wild and captivity. I based Caesar [ from the Rise of the Planet of the Apes] on a real chimpanzee and I worked with Terry [Notary] on a lot of chimpanzee movement.

  Andy Serkis

  Kings, Real, Movement

  Source: www.slashfilm.com

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• The white man supports Reverend Martin Luther King, subsidizes Reverend Martin Luther King, so that Reverend Martin Luther King can continue to teach the Negroes to be defenseless - that's what you mean by nonviolent - be defenseless in the face of one of the most cruel beasts that has ever taken people into captivity - that's this American white man, and they have proved it throughout the country by the police dogs and the police clubs.

  Malcolm X

  Country, Dog, Kings

  Source: teachingamericanhistory.org

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• What would you not have accomplished if you had been free?" "Possibly nothing at all; the overflow of my brain would probably, in a state of freedom, have evaporated in a thousand follies; misfortune is needed to bring to light the treasures of the human intellect. Compression is needed to explode gunpowder. Captivity has brought my mental faculties to a focus; and you are well aware that from the collision of clouds electricity is produced — from electricity, lightning, from lightning, illumination.

  Alexandre Dumas

  Illumination, Clouds, Light

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• When you tell yourself that there is nothing you can do to arrest the global slave trade, you underestimate your own potential and abandon hope for those trapped in captivity.

  David Batstone

  Underestimate, Slave, Abandon

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• Tomorrow we go back to normal?" "Sure," Mab said. "It'll be like none of this happened. Except I'll still be pregnant, and you'll still be making dragons, and Glenda will still be pretending that Dreamland is Cancun, and Weaver will still own the only green velvet demon in captivity. Other than that, perfectly normal." "I just meant no demons trying to kill us," Cindy said. "My baseline for normal is a lot lower than yours.

  Jennifer Crusie

  Dragons, Perfectly Normal, Trying

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• It was like a page torn from a history book, from some historical novel about the captivity of babylon or Spanish Inquisition.

  Elie Wiesel

  Book, Historical Novels, Pages

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• Mr. Wodehouse's idyllic world can never stale. He will continue to release future generations from captivity that may be more irksome than our own. He has made a world for us to live in and delight in.

  Evelyn Waugh

  Idyllic, Generations, Delight

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• The whole idea of being in captivity in such limited space, especially in a zoo, causes elephants to suffer. They develop all kinds of foot diseases. They die. They get cysts. Not only is it painful, it eventually kills them.

  Lily Tomlin

  Zoos, Elephants, Ideas

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• Works of imagination excel by their allurement and delight; by their power of attracting and detaining the attention. That book is good in vain which the reader throws away. He only is the master who keeps the mind in pleasing captivity; whose pages are perused with eagerness, and in hope of new pleasure are perused again; and whose conclusion is perceived with an eye of sorrow, such as the traveller casts upon departing day.

  Samuel Johnson

  Book, Writing, Eye

  Samuel Johnson (1854). “Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets: With Critical Observations on Their Works”, p.375

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• If fame came near to you to get you, you must run away from it very fast! Because this is a matter of freedom and captivity!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Running, Freedom, Matter

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• No matter how long it takes, the United States will find and bring to justice the terrorists who are responsible for Kayla's captivity and death, ISIL is a hateful and abhorrent terrorist group whose actions stand in stark contrast to the spirit of people like Kayla.

  Barack Obama

  Long, People, Justice

  Statement by the President on the Death of Kayla Jean Mueller, obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. February 10, 2015.

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• An entirely new factor has appeared in the social development of the country, and this factor is the Irish-American, and his influence. To mature its powers, to concentrate its action, to learn the secret of its own strength and of England's weakness, the Celtic intellect has had to cross the Atlantic. At home it had but learned the pathetic weakness of nationality; in a strange land it realised what indomitable forces nationality possesses. What captivity was to the Jews, exile has been to the Irish: America and American influence have educated them.

  Oscar Wilde

  Country, Home, America

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• The Kassideans or Assideans...arose either during the Captivity or soon after the restoration...The Essenians were, however, undoubtedly connected with the Temple (of Solomon), as their origin is derived by the learned Scalier, with every appearance of truth, from the Kassideans, a fraternity of Jewish devotees, who, in the language of Laurie, had associated together as 'Knights of the Temple of Jerusalem.'...From the Essenians Pythagoras derived much, if not all, of the knowledge and the ceremonies with which he clothed the esoteric school of his philosophy.

  Albert Mackey

  Philosophy, School, Knights

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• Is there art that is more beautiful, more divine, and more eternal that the art of martyrdom? A nation with martyrdom knows no captivity. Those who wish to undermine this principle undermines the foundations of our independence and national security . . . The message of the (Islamic) Revolution is global, and is not restricted to a specific place or time . . . Allah willing, Islam will conquer what? It will conquer all the mountain tops of the world.

  Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

  Beautiful, Art, Islamic

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• A man is saved no faster than he gets knowledge. For if he does not get knowledge, he will be brought into captivity by some evil power in the other world, as evil spirits will have more knowledge, and consequently more power.

  Joseph Smith, Jr.

  Education, Men, Other Worlds

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