Hostage Quotes

• The father of a daughter is nothing but a high-class hostage. A father turns a stony face to his sons, berates them, shakes his antlers, paws the ground, snorts, runs them off into the underbrush, but when his daughter puts her arm over his shoulder and says, 'Daddy, I need to ask you something,' he is a pat of butter in a hot frying pan.

  Garrison Keillor

  Daughter, Fathers Day, Running

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• You can't let your past hold your future hostage.

  LL Cool J

  Past, Your Future, Your Past

  "Rewind the Rhyme: LL Cool J". Interview with Amanda Diva, allhiphop.com. November 6, 2006.

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• Every happiness is a hostage to fortune.

  Arthur Helps

  Fortune

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• Many of us are being held hostage by bitterness because we are not willing to give to others what we have been given.

  Tony Evans

  Giving, Bitterness, Given

  FaceBook post by Tony Evans from Apr 15, 2013

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• Before the TRUTH can set you free,you must first recognize which LIES are holding you hostage.

  Prince Ea

  Lying, Firsts

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• If your happiness depends on your children being happy, that makes them your hostages. So stay out of their business, stop using them for your happiness, and be your own happiness. And that way you are the teacher for your children: someone who knows how to live a happy life.

  Byron Katie

  Teacher, Children, Happy Life

  Byron Katie (2010). “Question Your Thinking, Change the World”, p.104, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Do not let the future be held hostage by the past

  Neal A. Maxwell

  Future, Past, Government

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• When you have a child, the world has a hostage.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Children, World

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• We're all time's captives, hostages to eternity.

  Boris Pasternak

  Eternity, All Time, Captives

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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 twelve cartoons depicting the Prophet Muhammad that were first published in a Danish newspaper. When was the last atheist riot?

  Sam Harris

  Atheist, People, Cartoon

  Sam Harris (2006). “Letter to a Christian Nation”, Alfred a Knopf Incorporated

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• We cannot repent for someone else. But we can forgive someone else, refusing to hold hostage those whom the Lord seeks to set free!

  Neal A. Maxwell

  Forgiving, Lord, Repent

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• In fact, this is a blackmail of the terrorists at the expense of the suffering of the hostages.

  Alberto Fujimori

  Suffering, Facts, Terrorist

  Interview With Lucia Newman, www.cnn.com. January 8, 1997.

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• It was the beauty that caught me and held my soul hostage...
  Remember those days? Had you smellin' my boxers.

  Ghostface Killah

  Rap, Hip Hop, Soul

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• We can't allow the world's worst leaders to blackmail, threaten, hold freedom-loving nations hostage with the world's worst weapons.

  George W. Bush

  Leader, World, Weapons

  "Army Checks Readiness for War With Iraq". www.foxnews.com. September 5, 2002.

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• Melancholy held me hostage, and the bees built a hive of sadness in my soul.

  Laurie Halse Anderson

  Sadness, Soul, Bees

  Laurie Halse Anderson (2010). “Chains”, p.319, Simon and Schuster

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• Then came the hostage crisis during which Carter did nothing to rattle the ayatollahs who hung tough until Ronald Reagan was inaugurated, when they suddenly backed down.

  Alexander Haig

  Hostage Crisis, Tough, Carter

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• We cannot allow the defense of American lives to be held hostage by the United Nations -- which has already given Saddam Hussein a final warning, and now wants to give him another final warning. And, if he doesn't heed that, they will threaten him with yet another warning.

  Thomas Sowell

  War, Giving, Finals

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• In my family, misery didn't just love company, it wanted hostages.

  Jerry Stahl

  Misery, My Family, Company

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• As long as we're tied to Middle Eastern oil we're tied to Middle Eastern politics. We're hostages to the terrorists and nutcases who want to wipe out Israel and the United States because we support Israel.

  Ben Bova

  Israel, Oil, Long

  Ben Bova (2006). “Powersat”, p.141, Macmillan

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• Our bodies hold our minds hostage to their whims and rhythms.

  Alain de Botton

  Mind, Body, Whim

  "The Consolations of Philosophy". Book by Alain de Botton, 2000.

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• A lover is never a completely self-reliant person viewing the world through his own eyes, but a hostage to a certain delusion.

  Alexander Theroux

  Eye, Self, World

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• He that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune; for they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief.

  Francis Bacon

  Children, Wife, Virtue

  Essays "Of Marriage and the Single Life" (1625) See Lucan 3

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• A great nation betrayed the principles which have made it great, and thereby became hostage to hostage-takers.

  Daniel Inouye

  Principles, Betrayed, Made

  1987 Of the Iran-Contra scandal. In the NewYork Times, 24 Jul.

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• He that hath a wife and children hath given hostages to fortune.

  Francis Bacon

  Family, Marriage, Children

  Essays "Of Marriage and the Single Life" (1625) See Lucan 3

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• Although the District of Columbiahas had a ban on handgun sale and possession since 1976, Washingtonresidents are held hostage by the lax gun laws of surroundingjurisdictions.

  Josh Sugarmann

  Gun, Law, Lax

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