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Every happiness is a hostage to fortune. -- Arthur Helps
You can't let your past hold your future hostage. -- LL Cool J
You can either be a Host to God, or a Hostage to your ego! -- Wayne Dyer
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
Almost all our suffering is the product of our thoughts. We spend nearly every moment of our lives lost in thought, and hostage to the character of those thoughts. You can break this spell, but it takes training just like it takes training to defend yourself against a physical assault. -- Sam Harris
I have led an unusual life. I have buried a father killed at age 50 and two brothers killed in the prime of their lives. I raised my children as a single mother when my husband was arrested and held for eight years without a conviction - a hostage to my political career. -- Benazir Bhutto
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
America Held Hostage won 24 Emmys for ABC News, but someone forgot to include my name on the list of people responsible for the show. -- Pierre Salinger
In Tehran, the 444 days of the Iran Hostage Crisis was the first world event in which you could literally have live events beamed into your living room. Now, every world event plays out on its own, and as a media event. -- Chris Terrio
We will fight hostage taking like we fight terrorism. -- Ali Abdullah Saleh
Everybody is vulnerable through love of their children. Hostages to fortune. -- Claire Tomalin
Do not let the future be held hostage by the past -- Neal A. Maxwell
In a land of freedom we are held hostage by the tyranny of political correctness. -- Robert Griffin III
Art means nothing if it simply decorates the dinner table of power which holds it hostage. -- Adrienne Rich
You can either be a host to God, or a hostage to your ego. It's your call. -- Wayne Dyer
It's hard being a hostage in somebody else's mouth - or a character in somebody else's novel. -- David Antin
Uranium is the raw material of a power-elite who has taken Mother Earth's every living creature hostage. -- Petra Kelly
I'm very resourceful. I'd be good in prison. I'd be good in a shipwreck. I'd make a great hostage. -- David Letterman
If people are informed they will do the right thing. It's when they are not informed that they become hostages to prejudice. -- Charlayne Hunter-Gault
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
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
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
The feeling of not belonging, of not being entirely worthy, of being sometimes hostage to your own sensibilities. Those things speak to me very personally. -- Anthony Minghella
Seal Team Six is a different unit than the rest of the SEAL teams inasmuch as they concentrate primarily on one thing, counter-terrorism, hostage rescue. -- Howard E. Wasdin
There is a thin line between peace of the brave and peace of the hostage... between compromise - even calculated risk - and irresponsibility and capitulation. -- Ehud Barak
If you empower people in their communities and get them jobs, no one like Dudus Coke can win their hearts and minds and hold them hostage. -- Portia Simpson-Miller
For as long as our people are held hostage by controllable socio-economic forces, we cannot afford to be indifferent to the ravages of poverty in all its dimensions and ramifications. -- Ibrahim Babangida
We exercise great caution in airing an audio- or videotape released by a terrorist organization holding a hostage. These are decisions made by CNN's editorial staff and not by any third party. -- Jim Walton
I can't remember ever feeling so glad that a movie was finally over. [Director George] Lucas may have held my imagination hostage for two hours, but reclaiming it afterward wasn't hard at all. -- Stephanie Zacharek
In short, it is not that evolutionary naturalists have been less brazen than the scientific creationists in holding science hostage, but rather that they have been infinitely more effective in getting away with it. -- Phillip E. Johnson
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
When I saw Wonder Woman being constantly put in positions where she'd get tied up with her own rope, or held hostage, even as a kid, my reaction was 'C'mon, she's too smart for that.' -- J. Michael Straczynski
I still remember, as a kid, tying a yellow ribbon around a tree in front of my house during the 444 days that Iran held 52 Americans hostage. Iran is not a place we should be doing business with. -- Scott Walker
Again, we saw in Bosnia - we had U.N. peacekeepers tied to trees, being taken hostage. The fact is they don't have the type of deliberate and authoritative rule that I think is needed to get the job done. -- Peter T. King
Interest groups are not the same as individuals. Through false nostalgia for the New Deal, you are taking the younger generation hostage. They are the ones who are going to have to pay far greater taxes. They are the future's forgotten men. -- Amity Shlaes
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
The issue of terrorism must be dealt with firmly. We must work very hard to avoid loss of life. We must work very hard to avoid civilian casualties. And those terrorists and Baathists are holding the people of Fallujah hostage. We must release the hostages. -- Ahmed Chalabi
Perhaps one of the more noteworthy trends of our time is the occupation of buildings accompanied by the taking of hostages. The perpetrators of these deeds are generally motivated by political grievance, social injustice, and the deeply felt desire to see how they look on TV. -- Fran Lebowitz
The Iranian regime suppresses its own people as well as others in the region. It prevents peace by sponsoring terror globally. With the ultimate weapon that it is deceptively developing, the regime aims to gain hegemony over the entire Middle East and hold the world's economy hostage. -- Shimon Peres
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
Outside events can change a presidential campaign, a president, and the history of the nation: the Iranian hostage crisis, the bombing of the Marine barracks in Beirut, the downing of the helicopter in Mogadishu, Somalia, the suicide attack on the USS Cole, and, of course, the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. -- Mark McKinnon
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
I feel like a hostage to fortune. Not that I am complaining. I wanted to play the role. But in truth I didn't think the show would be such a success. OK, I thought it would fail. Not because it was bad. I was confident it was good, but plenty of good things just sort of wither on the vine. -- Hugh Laurie
And in the general hardening of outlook that set in ... practices which had been long abandoned ... -- imprisonment without trial, the use of war prisoners as slaves, public executions, torture to extract confessions, the use of hostages and the deportation of whole populations -- not only became common again, but were tolerated and even defended by people who considered themselves enlightened and progressive. -- George Orwell
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
Rushdie is a hostage. -- Don DeLillo
Are you taking my hat hostage? -- Derek Landy
True love usually results in a hostage situation. -- Kinky Friedman
In the event of war, I'm a hostage. -- Woody Allen
You are eternity's hostage A captive of mine. -- Boris Pasternak
Continuity holds the best writer hostage of the worst. -- Marv Wolfman
When you have a child, the world has a hostage. -- Ernest Hemingway
Your pet is not your friend. It is your hostage. -- Scott Dikkers
If nostalgia holds you hostage,the ransom is the present. -- Khang Kijarro Nguyen
Magazines at some point become hostage to their own success. -- Graydon Carter
Our bodies hold our minds hostage to their whims and rhythms. -- Alain de Botton
Holding yourself hostage to past mistakes is an act of self-hate. -- LaShaun Middlebrooks Collier
Children hold us hostage; they represent our commitment to the future. -- Barbara Grizzuti Harrison
God can and will break the labels that have held you hostage. -- Craig Groeschel
Primary responsibility for Brexit lies with British conservatives, who took an entire continent hostage. -- Martin Schulz
If rejection destroys your self-esteem, you're letting others hold you as an emotional hostage. -- Brian Tracy
If someone with multiple personalities threatens to kill himself, is it considered a hostage situation? -- George Carlin
Melancholy held me hostage, and the bees built a hive of sadness in my soul. -- Laurie Halse Anderson
We're going balls to the wall, guys. Our sneak-and-peak just turned into a hostage rescue -- Melissa Cutler
I believe it's a real tedious hostage negotiation to have a marriage be what it is. -- Brad Garrett
Before the TRUTH can set you free,you must first recognize which LIES are holding you hostage. -- Prince Ea
In my mind, continuity means the best writer at a company is held hostage by the worst. -- Marv Wolfman
I will endanger your species like an ostrich, Hold you hostage, and crazy feed you swine sausage! -- Busta Rhymes
A great nation betrayed the principles which have made it great, and thereby became hostage to hostage-takers. -- Daniel Inouye
We call for a bailout for an entire generation that is basically held hostage by unpayable student-loan debt. -- Jill Stein
It was the beauty that caught me and held my soul hostage... Remember those days? Had you smellin' my boxers. -- Ghostface Killah
I was held hostage and almost executed by a man who was robbing us in the middle of the night. -- William Hurt
What the hell am I doing...? Escape holding myself as a hostage...? I won't be able to make it like that.. -- Tsugumi Ohba
This idea of holding the Defense Department hostage to the tax debate makes me sick to my stomach. Knock it off. -- Lindsey Graham
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
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
I dislike Ted Cruz as much as the next everyone. But that's no reason to be rude to Ted's loving wife and possible hostage. -- Samantha Bee
Yes, you're very very old But try to think of it as not being cursed After all, in a hostage situation You'd be released first! -- John Walter Bratton
If you think we are going to gain ground by holding the American people hostage, saying that their taxes are at risk, I actually disagree. -- Tom Cole
I felt held hostage by her illness and by the backward mental health system that once again was incapable of helping our family in crisis. -- Mira Bartok
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
We've clearly seen that Tea Party Republicans are willing to take our economy hostage just to score political points, but I'm not willing to do that. -- Martin Heinrich
Fiction that responds to recent world events is a hostage to fortune, because all momentous events look very different a year, two years, three years later. -- Mark Haddon
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
Collaborator' is a hostage tragicomedy, but it's also, kind of, everything I know about post-war America. Well, not everything, but it does reference a lot of the post-war period. -- Martin Donovan
You ever want to negotiate a hostage situation in Quebec, I'm your man. Send me in for a little parley and the francophone miscreants will flee, hands over bleeding ears. -- Will Ferguson
In the end, it was the secrets that held me hostage and fuelled my depression, but, once released, emancipation - from fear, shame, guilt and judgement - was finally possible. -- B.G. Bowers
Personal affection is a luxury you can have only after all your enemies are eliminated. Until then, everyone you love is a hostage, sapping your courage and corrupting your judgment. -- Orson Scott Card
You and I both know that as long as our representatives are held hostage to their funders - and their funders are not all of us - our system will not work -- Lawrence Lessig
Has one hostage from Lebanon come back with a photograph of his abductors? Has any hostage ever come back with a photograph of his abductors smiling? I mean, this was so incredible! -- Dwight Schultz
We exercise great caution in airing an audio- or videotape released by a terrorist organization holding a hostage. These are decisions made by CNN's editorial staff and not by any third party. -- Jim Walton
[A]s they are currently practiced, there is no common ground between science and religion....Although just as in hostage negotiations, it's probably best to keep both sides talking to each other. -- Neil deGrasse Tyson
The big-time journalists generally had kidnapping insurance through their news organizations. Usually, it would pay for a crisis response company to help negotiate for a hostage's release. Freelancers most often had none. -- Amanda Lindhout
Barack Obama's discovering what a nightmare dealing with hostage problems is - a discovery previously made by Jimmy Carter and Ronald Reagan, i don't see a lot of room for change in American policy. -- Bruce Riedel
The main reason we are held hostage by the most destructive technology on earth is simple: the complete lack of international resolve to ban nuclear weapons and banish them from the arsenals of the world. -- C. G. Weeramantry

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