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Captive people have a need for song. -- Michelle Cliff
Captive Greece took captive her savage conqueror. -- Horace
Captive Greece took captive her savage conquerer and brought the arts to rustic Latium -- Horace
I've become a captive of my own ambitions. -- Patsy Cline
You're not free until you've been made captive by supreme belief. -- Marianne Moore
Seek freedom and become captive of your desires. Seek discipline and find your liberty. -- Frank Herbert
Advertising in the past has been predicated on a mass market and a captive audience. -- Howard Rheingold
What white woman, however lonely, was ever captive or insulted by me? Yet they say I am a bad Indian. -- Sitting Bull
By the will art thou lost, by the will art thou found, by the will art thou free, captive, and bound. -- Angelus Silesius
We are not in the business of iron ore. Whatever captive iron ore sources we have, we use it to make steel. -- Lakshmi Mittal
In the winter of 1973, the American POWs held captive in Vietnam were released according to the terms of the Paris Peace Accords. -- Annie Jacobsen
The first step toward success is taken when you refuse to be a captive of the environment in which you first find yourself. -- Mark Caine
The rise of digital technology put marketers in a bind. No longer a captive audience, consumers were splitting their time across devices, social networks and websites. -- Shawn Amos
Until the rise of American advertising, it never occurred to anyone anywhere in the world that the teenager was a captive in a hostile world of adults. -- Gore Vidal
Divine love does not weigh down, nor carry his servant captive and enslaved to the lowest depths, but raises him, supports him and magnifies him above all liberty whatsoever. -- Giordano Bruno
But if I had to choose a single destination where I'd be held captive for the rest of my time in New York, I'd choose the Metropolitan Museum of Art. -- Tim Gunn
Anarchism is the great liberator of man from the phantoms that have held him captive; it is the arbiter and pacifier of the two forces for individual and social harmony. -- Emma Goldman
It seems that it is madder never to abandon one's self than often to be infatuated; better to be wounded, a captive and a slave, than always to walk in armor. -- Margaret Fuller
What breadth, what beauty and power of human nature and development there must be in a woman to get over all the palisades, all the fences, within which she is held captive! -- Alexander Herzen
The idea is that if we can put our own people through something almost as bad as what they might have to go through if they were taken captive, they will inoculate themselves. -- Jane Mayer
I never thought I could learn much from a dog or cat. They sleep when we sleep. They eat when we eat. I'm into observing animals being as wild as they can be in a captive environment. -- Dominic Monaghan
The answer was that in Burundi, having a clean bill of health has taken on a very particular meaning: unless and until you have paid for your hospital treatment, you simply can't leave, you are in effect a captive. -- Rowan Williams
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. -- Terry Waite
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
With Barack Obama as president and the super-happening Michelle Obama as First Lady, you would think a new tone, a new tune, a kicky new jazzitude, would have entered Washington discourse, but it remains a landlocked island unto itself, held captive by its tribal fevers. -- James Wolcott
I would have the Constitution torn in shreds and scattered to the four winds of heaven. Let us destroy the Constitution and build on its ruins the temple of liberty. I have brothers in slavery. I have seen chains placed on their limbs and beheld them captive. -- William Wells Brown
Elephant populations in India and also in the whole of Asia are under severe stress. The captive ones are rendered jobless due to changes in the mode of transport and lifestyle of people. The ones in the wild are also no better off, as the forests are shrinking. -- Mark Shand
I wrote 'My Name is Red' just to remember painting, where the hand does it before the intellect. When I'm captive to it, I'm a happier person. Kierkegaard tells us that a happy person is someone who lives in the present; the unhappy person, someone who lives either in the past or the future. -- Orhan Pamuk
There is no excuse for keeping wild animals in amusement parks or circuses. Until our governments take action, we should avoid supporting places where captive wild animals perform for our amusement. If the public will not pay to see them, the businesses that profit from keeping animals captive will not be able to continue. -- Peter Singer
Emotions are captive to reality -- Kao Kalia Yang
Dreams can never be made captive. -- Rabindranath Tagore
What good's a captive without her captor? -- Adam Johnson
The state is captive to vested interests. -- Sanusi Lamido Sanusi
We're just frisking like little captive lambkins. -- Tamora Pierce
Mind is a captive of the body. -- Camille Paglia
You are eternity's hostage A captive of mine. -- Boris Pasternak
My conscience is captive to the Word of God -- Martin Luther
The creative writer is usually captive to his next book. -- Fannie Hurst
... words have to murder reality before they can hold it captive ... -- Simone de Beauvoir
Make me a captive Lord, then I shall be truly free. -- Saint Augustine
She was owner and captive, both, of a bitterly divided heart. -- Guy Gavriel Kay
It was ironic; he held her captive, yet she'd captivated him. -- Jeaniene Frost
Beauty stands In the admiration only of weak minds Led captive. -- John Milton
Face your fears and stop allowing the mind to hold you captive. -- Mooji
Your perspective on life comes from the cage you were held captive in. -- Shannon L. Alder
Hunky Heroes, rescuing distressed women, captive princesses, and girls without wheels since 1684. p. 450 -- Lauren Oliver
The world is not going to survive very much longer as humanity's captive. -- Daniel Quinn
A good storyteller can hold everybody captive without the special effects of Hollywood. -- Phil Keoghan
My name is Truth and I am the most elusive captive in the universe. -- Carl Sandburg
Ever since I gave up therapy, it's my only time with a captive audience. -- Noah Wyle
When we become captive to the Word of God, then we discover true freedom. -- Alistair Begg
The liberal intelligentsia has allowed its party to become a captive of corporate interests. -- Ralph Nader
The voluntary captive The speechless the prisoner Which I hide in my very depths... -- Anne Desclos
Heav'n first taught letters for some wretch's aid, Some banish'd lover, or some captive maid. -- Alexander Pope
There is so much to life; my heart breaks watching someone held captive by addiction. -- Mike Love
You've been captive for so long that you don't even realize you want freedom anymore. -- Lauren DeStefano
We're captive on the carousel of time, we can't return we can only look behind. -- Joni Mitchell
He held you captive and managed to fall in love with you in the process. -- Tahereh Mafi
My favorite job is being a father. I have four girls now. They're a captive audience. -- Bruce Willis
Ah, thou hast made my heart captive in the endless meshes of thy music, my master! -- Rabindranath Tagore
If I'm going to be held captive by social media, I'm going to use it against itself. -- Michelle Shocked
Democracy is held captive, not just by money, but by ideas - the ideas that money buys. -- William Greider
The creative person is overpowered, captive of and driven by a demon... They become our legendary heroes. -- Carl Jung
Few things hold the perception more thoroughly captive than anxiety about what we have got to say -- George Eliot
Knowing you're worthless doesn't give you value any more than knowing you are a captive sets you free. -- Ted Dekker
That's how it goes, my friend. The problem is not falling a captive, it's how to avoid surrender. -- Naz?m Hikmet
You can't be held captive by the fear of failure or the fear of what people may say. -- Kobe Bryant
Today's public education system is a failed monopoly: bureaucratic, rigid and in unsteady control of dissatisfied captive markets. -- David T. Kearns
There was no such thing as perfect privacy, life was a perpetual concert-hall recital with a captive audience. -- Rohinton Mistry
You take my heart with you, my loving captor." "Nay, Madelyne. I am your captive in body and soul. -- Julie Garwood
Glory drags all men along, low as well as high, bound captive at the wheels of her glittering car. -- Horace
When she was rested. she'd find a way to escape. It was the duty of the captive, wasn't it? -- Julie Garwood
Anything you strive to hold captive will hold you captive, and if you desire freedom you must give freedom. -- Peace Pilgrim
Love is the victor in every case. Love breaks down the iron bars of thought, and sets the captive free. -- Ernest Holmes
Learn to forgive others so that you can release yourself from being held captive by the very negative thoughts around you. -- Stephen Richards
Simon's brain tried to comprehend the situation. 'Was an international supermodel really holding Doc Gutson, leader of the infamous Bloodworth Gang, captive? -- Clare Havens
A creative person has little power over his own life. He is not free. He is captive and driven by his daimon. -- Carl Jung
The pioneering spirit is less about thinking up new ideas, as ridding ourselves of dogmas and habits that hold us captive in thinking. -- Bertrand Piccard
Wealth: A cunning device of Fate whereby men are made captive, and burdened with responsibilites from which only Death can file their fetters. -- Elbert Hubbard
She smiled at the idea of being a captive princess in the rookeries, or a restrained mouse in the glitter of the ton." -- Michelle Diener
I was trapped in admiration for what I had once admired, as a fly in amber remains the captive of some long-vanished pine. -- Gene Wolfe
Somewhere in the archives of crudest instinct is recorded the truth that it is better to be endangered and free than captive and comfortable. -- Tom Robbins
This wasn't the first time I'd woken up as a captive. It wasn't even the second. I so needed to reevaluate my life choices. -- Jeaniene Frost
The resurrection power of Jesus broke Satan's captive power. When He led the Old Testament saints from paradise to heaven, He led captivity captive! -- Leon Morris
I envy not in any moods The captive void of noble rage, The linnet born within the cage, That never knew the summer woods. -- Alfred Lord Tennyson
On from room to room I stray,Yet mine Host can ne'er espy,And I know not to this day,Whether guest or captive I. -- William Watson
In 'Falling Skies,' I was playing a soldier and a fighter, and then, when I was taken captive, you're still in this post-apocalyptic world. -- Jessy Schram
It would drive the photographers crazy because I would giggle and tell jokes. I was gregarious, and looking back, I realize I had a captive audience. -- Tracee Ellis Ross
So long as we need to control other people, however benign our motives, we are captive to that need. In giving them freedom, we free ourselves. -- Marilyn Ferguson
Live in the world as if only God and your soul were in it; then your heart will never be made captive by any earthly thing. -- John of the Cross
forgive me also that I didn't fight like Lord Byron for the happiness of captive peoples that I watched only risings of the moon and museums -- Zbigniew Herbert
I never find myself even catching lyrics until something in the sound has taken me captive. Thinking about anything else is just the pleasurable byproduct of wow. -- Greil Marcus
Now, practically all reviewers have academic aspirations. The people from the universities are used to a captive audience, but the literary journalist has to please his audience. -- V. S. Pritchett
Bad art is never really enjoyed in the same sense in which good art is enjoyed. It is only "liked": it never startles, prostrates, and takes captive. -- C. S. Lewis
For a lot of people, film is still the dream - the captive audience in the darkened theater - but I love TV. I think it's fantastic. -- Jenji Kohan
Believe in yourself, your abilities and your own potential. Never let self-doubt hold you captive. You are worthy of all that you dream of and hope for. -- Roy Bennett
A picture held us captive. And we could not get outside it, for it lay in our language and language seemed to repeat it to us inexorably. -- Ludwig Wittgenstein
External sources of positive energy and motivation will exhaust, unless we have our captive generation of positive energy.The only sustainable source of positive energy is our thoughts. -- Sukant Ratnakar
If the universe has an end, it means we are captive fishes in an aquarium! If it has no end, we are lost sheep in the eternal darkness! -- Mehmet Murat ildan
If I had to choose a single destination where I'd be held captive for the rest of my time in New York, I'd choose the Metropolitan Museum of Art. -- Tim Gunn
A mightier love for the Son of God, to overpower and subdue and lead captive these wayward and truant affections of the natural heart - this is what is needed. -- Adoniram Judson Gordon
Death opens the gate of fame, and shuts the gate of envy after it; it unlooses the chain of the captive, and puts the bondsman's task into another man's hand. -- Laurence Sterne
Neither this nation nor this party can afford a candidate so captive to the demands of the intolerant right that we end up re-electing a president of the incompetent left. -- Arlen Specter
Trauma is personal. It does not disappear if it is not validated. When it is ignored or invalidated the silent screams continue internally heard only by the one held captive. -- Danielle Bernock
Jesus emerges not as the cultural captive of any one group of people, but as the promise of salvation to all believers and as the foundation of liberation in this life. -- Marsha Hansen
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
True sincerity reveals a powerful form of clarity and discernment that is necessary in order to perceive yourself honestly without flinching or being held captive by your conditioned mind's judgments and defensiveness. -- Adyashanti
. . . for beauty stands In the admiration only of weak minds Led captive. Cease to admire, and all her plumes Fall flat and shrink into a trivial toy, At every sudden slighting quite abash'd. -- John Milton
We're the most captive nation of slaves that ever came along. The moral timidity of the average American is quite noticeable. Everybody's afraid to be thought in any way different from everyone else. -- Gore Vidal
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
I see at intervals the glance of a curious sort of bird through the close set bars of a cage: a vivid, restless, resolute captive is there; were it but free, it would soar cloud-high. -- Charlotte Bronte
You owe it to yourself, to refuse to surrender to obstacles that are meant to stop you from reaching far in your endeavours. Be determined that you will never be a captive of your environment. -- Israelmore Ayivor
Yet, in holding scientific research and discovery in respect, as we should, we must also be alert to the equal and opposite danger that public policy could itself become the captive of a scientific-technological elite. -- Dwight D. Eisenhower

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