Ransom Quotes

• I have always believed that writing advertisements is the second most profitable form of writing. The first, of course, is ransom notes.

  Phil Dusenberry

  Writing, Marketing, Firsts

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• I don't know who you are. I don't know what you want. If you are looking for ransom, I can tell you I don't have money. But what I do have are a very particular set of skills, skills I have acquired over a very long career. Skills that make me a nightmare for people like you.

  Tom Glavine

  Movie, Taken, Skills

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• A man who was completely innocent, offered himself as a sacrifice for the good of others, including his enemies, and became the ransom of the world. It was a perfect act.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Friday, Jesus, Easter

  Mahatma Gandhi (2007). “Gandhi on Non-Violence”, p.47, New Directions Publishing

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• That the Creator himself comes to us and becomes our ransom - this is the reason for our rejoicing.

  Martin Luther

  Reason, Rejoice, Creator

  Martin Luther, Helmut T. Lehmann (1986). “Luther's Works: Table talk”

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• Here's the plan. We get the warhead and we hold the world ransom for... ONE MILLION DOLLARS!

  Mike Myers

  Dollars, World, Plans

  "Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery". www.imdb.com. 1997.

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• It was called a tribute before a battle and a ransom afterwards.

  T. H. White

  Battle, Tribute

  T.H. WHITE (1958). “THE ONCE AND FUTURE KING”

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• I used to dream about escaping my ordinary life, but my life was never ordinary. I had simply failed to notice how extraordinary it was.

  Ransom Riggs

  Dream, Home, Escaping

  "Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children". Book by Ransom Riggs, 2011.

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• Too much is demanded by the critic, attempted by the poet.

  John Crowe Ransom

  Too Much, Poet, Critics

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• Jesus is hungry but feeds others; He grows weary but offers others rest; He is the King Messiah but pays tribute; He is called the devil but casts out demons; He dies the death of a sinner but comes to save His people from their sins; He is sold for thirty pieces of silver but gives His life a ransom for many; He will not turn stones to bread for Himself but gives His own body as bread for people.

  D. A. Carson

  Jesus, Kings, People

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• Alimony - the ransom that the happy pay to the devil.

  H. L. Mencken

  Marriage, Devil, Pay

  A Little Book in C Major ch. 6 (1916)

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• What I believe when it comes to big things in life, there are no accidents. Everything happens for a reason. You are here for a reason - and it's not to fail and die.

  Ransom Riggs

  Believe, Things In Life, Everything Happens For A Reason

  Ransom Riggs (2014). “Hollow City: The Second Novel of Miss Peregrine's Peculiar Children”, p.49, Quirk Books

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• When critics are waiting to pounce upon poetic style on exactly the same grounds as if it were prose, the poets tremble.

  John Crowe Ransom

  Waiting, Style, Poetic

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• You're here for a reason and it's not to hoard a lot of physical stuff.

  Wayne Dyer

  Simplicity, Stuff, Reason

  Dyer, Wayne (2005). “Everyday Wisdom”, p.135, Hay House, Inc

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• I'm no expert on girls, but when one tries to pinch you four times, I'm pretty sure that's flirting

  Ransom Riggs

  Girl, Flirting, Trying

  Ransom Riggs (2011). “Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children”, p.175, Quirk Books

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• And how can poetry stand up against its new conditions? Its position is perfectly precarious.

  John Crowe Ransom

  Position, Precarious, Conditions

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• The arts generally have had to recognize Modernism - how should poetry escape?

  John Crowe Ransom

  Art, Should, Modernism

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• Till now poets were privileged to insert a certain proportion of nonsense - very far in excess of one-half of one per cent - into their otherwise sober documents.

  John Crowe Ransom

  Excess, Half, Sober

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• Republicans in Congress have two choices here: They can act responsibly, and pay America’s bills; or they can act irresponsibly, and put America through another economic crisis. But they will not collect a ransom in exchange for not crashing the American economy.

  Barack Obama

  America, Two, Choices

  Barack Obama's News Conference on the debt ceiling, fiscal battles and gun control, obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. January 14, 2013.

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• I think it would be cool if you were writing a ransom note on your computer, if the paper clip popped up and said, 'Looks like you're writing a ransom note. Need help? You should use more forceful language, you'll get more money.'

  Demetri Martin

  Funny, Writing, Humor

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Allah said, 'A prophet must slaughter before collecting captives. A slaughtered enemy is driven from the land. Muhammad, you craved the desires of this world, its goods and the ransom captives would bring. But Allah desires killing them to manifest the religion.'

  Ibn Ishaq

  Land, Enemy, Desire

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• Jesus Messiah, name above all names, blessed Redeemer, Emmanuel, the rescue for sinners, the ransom from Heaven, Jesus Messiah, Lord of all.

  Chris Tomlin

  Christian, Jesus, Blessed

  Song: Jesus Messiah, Album: Hello Love, 2008

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• Being born he have himself as our Companion, Eating with us he gave himself as Food, Dying He became our Ransom, Reigning he gives himself as our Reward

  Thomas Aquinas

  Giving, Dying, Rewards

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• Identity theft, financial laundering, as well as ransom and ransomware - I mean, think of it - all involving extortion of a hacked institution are becoming increasingly common.

  Donald Trump

  Mean, Thinking, Identity

  Source: time.com

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• The resurrection of Christ is one of the foundation stones of Christianity. It was the seal of the great work that He came on earth to do. It was the crowning proof that the ransom He paid for sinners was accepted, the atonement for sin accomplished, the head of him who had the power of death bruised, and the victory won.

  J. C. Ryle

  Life Changing, Victory, Foundation

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• Well,' said Ransom, 'if it is a delusion, it's a pretty stubborn one.

  C. S. Lewis

  Stubborn, Well Said, Delusion

  C.S. Lewis (1996). “Perelandra”, p.152, Simon and Schuster

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