Captives Quotes

• You've been captive for so long that you don't even realize you want freedom anymore.

  Lauren DeStefano

  Long, Want, Realizing

  Lauren DeStefano (2011). “Wither”, p.346, Simon and Schuster

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• The privilege of opening the first trial in history for crimes against the peace of the world imposes a grave responsibility. The wrongs, which we seek to condemn and punish, have been so calculated, so malignant, and so devastating, that civilization cannot tolerate their being ignored, because it cannot survive their being repeated. That four great nations, flushed with victory and stung with injury, stay the hand of vengeance and voluntarily submit their captive enemies to the judgment of the law is one of the most significant tributes that power has ever paid to reason.

  Robert H. Jackson

  Responsibility, Civilization, Hands

  Opening statement for the prosecution before International Military Tribunal, Nuremberg, Germany, 21 Nov. 1945

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• Bran held his voice leve. "In time,you will regret these words. You may hold me captive now, and believe me helpless. But each foulword you speak of her brings your death a little closer." --Bran to Eamonn

  Juliet Marillier

  Regret, Believe, Voice

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• Onyx is angry," Damian says. "Onyx has a right to be angry. You've got to remember, for many elephants, their life is that of a human in a war-torn country. Ravaged homes, killed relatives, separation," Damian says. Here's another thing I've learned over two months--every elephants here has a sad story. Every captive elephant's story is one of loss and separation. Something to remember every time you see happy people getting elephant rides.

  Deb Caletti

  Country, War, Home

  Deb Caletti (2010). “Nature of Jade”, p.88, Simon and Schuster

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• We are captives, even if our wheat grows over the fences/ and swallows rise from our broken chains./ We are captives of what we love, what we desire, and what we are.

  Mahmoud Darwish

  Broken, Desire, Wheat

  Mahmoud Darwish (2013). “Unfortunately, It Was Paradise: Selected Poems”, p.31, Univ of California Press

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• Some minds corrode and grow inactive under the loss of personal liberty; others grow morbid and irritable; but it is the nature of the poet to become tender and imaginitive in the loneliness of confinement. He banquets upon the honey of his own thoughts, and, like the captive bird, pours forth his soul in melody.

  Washington Irving

  Loneliness, Loss, Bird

  Washington Irving (1835). “The complete works”, p.251

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• Knowing you’re worthless doesn’t give you value any more than knowing you are a captive sets you free.

  Ted Dekker

  Knowing, Giving, Worthless

  Ted Dekker (2009). “Bone Man's Daughters”, p.189, Hachette UK

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• A creative person has little power over his own life. He is not free. He is captive and driven by his daimon.

  Carl Jung

  Inspirational, Creative, Littles

  Carl Gustav Jung (1973). “Memories, dreams, reflections”, Random House Inc

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• Ah, thou hast made my heart captive in the endless meshes of thy music, my master!

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Heart, Mesh, Made

  Rabindranath Tagore, Mohit Kumar Ray (2007). “Poems”, p.11, Atlantic Publishers & Dist

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• What's to be believed? Or does it matter at all? When mass murder's been answered with mass murder, rape with rape, hate with hate, there's no longer much meaning in asking whose ax is bloodier. Evil, on evil, piled on evil. Was there any justification in our 'police action' in space? How can we know? Certainly there was no justification for what they did - or was there? We only know what that thing says, and that thing is a captive. The Asian radio has to say what will least displease it's government; ours has to say what will least displease our fine patriotic opinionated rabble, which is what, coincidentally, the government wants it to say anyhow, so where's the difference?

  Walter M. Miller, Jr.

  Hate, Patriotic, Government

  "A Canticle for Leibowitz". Book by Walter M. Miller, Jr., 1960.

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• Hunky Heroes, rescuing distressed women, captive princesses, and girls without wheels since 1684. p. 450

  Lauren Oliver

  Girl, Princess, Hero

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• You take my heart with you, my loving captor." "Nay, Madelyne. I am your captive in body and soul.

  Julie Garwood

  Heart, Soul, Body

  Julie Garwood (2012). “Julie Garwood Box Set: Gentle Warrior, Honor's Splendour, Lion's Lady, and a New Excerpt!”, p.417, Simon and Schuster

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• I was sorry to lose it, and if you make me another one, I promise not to get taken captive by bandits and have to use it to save my life.

  Shannon Hale

  Sorry, Taken, Promise

  Shannon Hale (2010). “Princess Academy”, p.306, A&C Black

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• My name is Truth and I am the most elusive captive in the universe.

  Carl Sandburg

  Names, Elusive, Universe

  Carl Sandburg (2012). “Chicago Poems: Unabridged”, p.50, Courier Corporation

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• When I was nine, we'd take a bus to the seaside. Coming back, we'd take turns entertaining, singing songs and the like. I tried some stand-up comedy. I had a captive audience in that bus. Then I realized I wanted to do more than that.

  Jim Dale

  Song, Singing, Nine

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• That four great nations, flushed with victory and stung with injury, stay the hand of vengeance and voluntarily submit their captive enemies to the judgment of the law is one of the most significant tributes that Power has ever paid to Reason.

  Robert H. Jackson

  Hands, Law, Being Ignored

  Opening statement for the prosecution before International Military Tribunal, Nuremberg, Germany, 21 Nov. 1945

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• Being captive to quarterly earnings isn't consistent with long-term value creation. This pressure and the short term focus of equity markets make it difficult for a public company to invest for long-term success, and tend to force company leaders to sacrifice long-term results to protect current earnings.

  Charles Koch

  Success, Leadership, Sacrifice

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• Without passion, men are not willing to pay any price or bear any burden to set the captives free.

  Joseph Campbell

  Passion, Men, Risk

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• We are all captives of the picture in our head - our belief that the world we have experienced is the world that really exists.

  Walter Lippmann

  World, Belief

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• My conscience is captive to the Word of God

  Martin Luther

  Bible, Christian, Worms

  Martin Luther, Jaroslav Pelikan (1955). “Works”

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• Of all the jaw-droppingly beautiful women who've become genuine movie stars, none has had a longer film career (62 years), has been filmed in Technicolor more often (34 times), has had a more versatile group of leading men (from John Wayne to John Candy) or has spent more time held captive on a pirate ship than our TCM Star of the Month for July, the magnificent red-headed Maureen O'Hara.

  Robert Osborne

  Beautiful, Stars, Men

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• I am, as ever, a poor sinner, a captive of eternal love, running by the side of His triumphal chariot, and I have no desire to be anything else as long as I live.

  Nicolaus Zinzendorf

  Running, Long, Temptation

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• The problem with deterrence - apparently sometimes forgotten by our former presidents - is that it is not static, but a creature of the moment, captive to impression, and nursed on action, not talk. It must be maintained hourly and can erode or be lost with a single act of failed nerve, despite all the braggadocio of threatened measures. And, once gone, the remedies needed for its restoration are always more expensive, deadly - and controversial - than would have been its simple maintenance.

  Victor Davis Hanson

  Simple, President, Nerves

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• The creative writer is usually captive to his next book.

  Fannie Hurst

  Book, Creative, Next

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• I envy not in any moods The captive void of noble rage, The linnet born within the cage, That never knew the summer woods: I envy not the beast that takes His license in the field of time, Unfetter’d by the sense of crime, To whom a conscience never wakes; Nor, what may count itself as blest, The heart that never plighted troth But stagnates in the weeds of sloth; Nor any want-begotten rest. I hold it true, whate’er befall; I feel it, when I sorrow most; ‘Tis better to have loved and lost Than never to have loved at all.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Summer, Weed, Heart

  In Memoriam canto 27 (1850) See Congreve 7

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