Hostage Quotes

• It does seem simple, doesn't it?' she said, with a final bitter attempt at flippancy, 'when you want to kill a chicken...you take hold of it...then you wring its neck...it's only the chicken who does not find it quite so simple. Now you hold a knife at my throat, and a hostage for my obedience...You find it simple...I don't

  

  Emma Orczy
  • Simple
  • Bitter
  • Obedience

• I have spent seven of the 12 years I have been married a victim of political persecution. I must be the first male spouse being held hostage by a regime. I accept this, as Pakistan has traditional elements who find it hard to reconcile with a man whose wife works and who other men salute perforce of her office.

  

  Asif Ali Zardari
  • Men
  • Political
  • Wife

• Eventually, life of the party is just like any other job. I've thought of myself that way at times, but it's sort of like holding everybody hostage. It diminishes everyone else. And ultimately, your friends don't require it of you.

  

  Carrie Fisher
  • Party
  • Hostage

• There were moments when I wondered at the gossamer veil that stops licence from being libel. I suspect that taking on the job of England manager puts you outside the protection of the courts. It must be part of the job description that you will be held hostage by media speculation and can have your character tortured, molested and finally executed at the public whim, in exchange for a lifetime's supply of money.

  

  Adrian Anthony Gill
  • Character
  • Moments
  • Football

• If rejection destroys your self-esteem, you're letting others hold you as an emotional hostage.

  

  Brian Tracy
  • Emotional
  • Rejection
  • Hostage

• No family of an American hostage has ever been prosecuted for paying a ransom for the return of their loved ones. The last thing we should ever do is to add to a family's pain.

  

  Mark Steyn
  • Family
  • American
  • Pain

• I had a great dislike to the annoyances entailed by baggage; and it was always with some feeling of elation that I cut myself free from everything but what I could carry about me. Like children, portmanteaus and trunks are hostages to fortune.

  

  Herbert Spencer
  • Children
  • Feelings
  • Cutting

• And what are your interests and hobbies, Nicholas?" Annabel asked faintly, sounding like a cross between a television interviewer and a hostage. Nick considered this for a minute, and then said "I like swords." Annabel leaned over her plate and asked, her voice changing "You fence?" "Not exactly," Nick drawled. "I'm more freestyle.

  

  Sarah Rees Brennan
  • Interest
  • Minutes
  • Fence

• 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
  • Hostage
  • Held

• One difference between French appeasement and American appeasement is that France pays ransom in cash and gets its hostages back while the United States pays ransom in arms and gets additional hostages taken.

  

  William Lewis Safir
  • Taken
  • Arms
  • Cash

• It stopped the dissociation. I can use my feelings; I’m not running away from them. I’m not held hostage by them. I can’t turn them off and on, but I can put them away.

  

  Bessel van der Kolk
  • Runaway
  • Hostage
  • DIssociates

• 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
  • Crisis
  • Ronald Reagan
  • Ayatollahs

• Alcoholics don’t have relationships-they take hostages.

  

  Michael Robotham
  • Recovery
  • Alcoholics
  • Hostage

• Uranium is the raw material of a power-elite who has taken Mother Earth's every living creature hostage.

  

  Petra Kelly
  • Hostage
  • Uranium
  • Mother Earth

• Freeing hostages is like putting up a stage set, which you do with the captors, agreeing on each piece as you slowly put it together; then you leave an exit through which both the captor and the captive can walk with sincerity and dignity.

  

  Terence Hardy
  • Together
  • Dignity
  • Sincerity

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

  

  Ernest Hemingway
  • World
  • Children
  • Hostage

• Every happiness is a hostage to fortune.

  

  Arthur Helps
  • Happiness
  • Fortune
  • Hostage

• Naturally, it is a terrible, despicable crime when, as in Munich, people are taken hostage, people are killed. But probing the motives of those responsible and showing that they are also individuals with families and have their own story does not excuse what they did.

  

  Steven Spielberg
  • Crime
  • Hostage
  • Munich

• Russia does not control oil prices - OPEC does. So Russia is a hostage in the hands of those who control these prices

  

  Christopher A. Pissarides
  • Price
  • Oil
  • Hostage

• I spent a lot of my twenties wanting a maid, really. I thought I wanted a relationship, but I just wanted somebody to fix and nurse me, and I'd take her hostage for six months. When you're 23, 24, you want to be in a relationship because they look brilliant - you've heard all the songs about it and seen all the movies and it looks great.

  

  Robbie Williams Take That
  • Relationship
  • Months
  • Hostage

• The reason why no one had spoken to Iranians for the last years is because they sponsored Hezbollah, Hamas, the Palestinians, Al Qaeda, 9/11. The last time anyone spoke to the Iranians was when Ronald Reagan said, 'I've just been elected and you better let our hostages go or you guys are absolutely screwed'.

  

  Eric Bolling
  • Reason
  • Elected
  • Iranians

• We are all hostages of time.

  

  Elisabeth Tova Bailey
  • Time
  • Hostage

• We are all hostages of time. We each have the same number of minutes and hours to live within a day, yet to me it didn't feel equally doled out. My illness brought me such an abundance of time that time was nearly all I had. My friends had so little time that I often wished I could give them what time I could not use. It was perplexing how in losing health I had gained something so coveted but to so little purpose.

  

  Elisabeth Tova Bailey
  • Friends
  • Purpose
  • Wished