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I'm 100% Celt. In fact, I'm directly related to the progenitor of the high kings of Ireland, Niall of the Nine Hostages. -- Brian Cox
Everybody is vulnerable through love of their children. Hostages to fortune. -- Claire Tomalin
Hostages want to survive - they are very focused on their own little view of things. -- Ingrid Betancourt
I have a wife, I have sons: all of them hostages given to fate. -- Lucan
In fact, this is a blackmail of the terrorists at the expense of the suffering of the hostages. -- Alberto Fujimori
Some historians trace the start of the War on Terror to November 4, 1979, the day the hostages were taken in Tehran. -- Stephen Rodrick
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
Unprovoked attacks on Israel's borders, murdering Israeli soldiers, taking Israeli hostages and showering rockets targeting and killing Israeli civilians are not furthering any legitimate goal. -- Alcee Hastings
I remember the last three days that I was president, I never went to bed at all. I never went to bed until we had negotiated the final release of the hostages. -- Jimmy Carter
You must avoid giving hostages to fortune, like getting an expensive wife, an expensive house, and a style of living that never lets you aford the time to take the chance to write what you wish. -- Irwin Shaw
Betrayed' starts off with Shane Gallagher rescuing Elena Reyes and a group of hostages from a madman with a gun. And as the story progresses and Shane's feelings for Elena blossom, his urge to protect her grows. -- Ruth Glick
At the beginning, because the lives of the hostages were at stake, then during this silent period we have taken several measures like not accepting the ultimatum of the terrorists threatening to kill our foreign affairs minister. -- Alberto Fujimori
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
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
From the sons of Ith, the first of the Gael to get his death in Ireland, there came in the after time Fathadh Canaan, that got the sway over the whole world from the rising to the setting sun, and that took hostages of the streams and the birds and the languages. -- Lady Gregory
Here in Israel, we want the boys back home, we demand it from our government, who often pay a steep price to get hostages back. But we need a happy ending. We don't want to deal with those days after release, their post-trauma or reintroduction to society. Yet coming home is only the start of their journey. -- Gideon Raff
Alcoholics don't have relationships-they take hostages. -- Michael Robotham
We're all time's captives, hostages to eternity. -- Boris Pasternak
All schoolchildren are hostages to red tape and fiscal insufficiency. -- Rosellen Brown
In my family, misery didn't just love company, it wanted hostages. -- Jerry Stahl
He that hath a wife and children hath given hostages to fortune. -- Francis Bacon
Death is a scandal. The machine is functioning, we are all hostages -- Elias Canetti
Oddly enough, I find the best hostages are the live ones. - Karl -- Kelley Armstrong
Fishing makes us less the hostages to the horrors of making a living. -- Jim Harrison
I have a wife, I have sons; all these hostages have I given to fortune. -- F. L. Lucas
It is worth emphasizing that Iran released our hostages in 1981 the day Ronald Reagan was sworn into office. -- Ted Cruz
When death gives us a long lease of life, it takes as hostages all those whom we have loved. -- Suzanne Curchod
Heroes? Vietnam Vets are heroes. The guys who tried to rescuse our hostages in Iran are heroes. I'm just a hockey player. -- Mike Eruzione
My past takes no hostages, no prisoners. I've let go of yesterday and am free to receive the beautiful gift of the present. -- Jaeda DeWalt
We who are engaged in the sacred cause of education are entitled to look upon all parents as having given hostages to our cause. -- Horace Mann
No commandment surpasses the one concerning the liberation of hostages, for they are among the starving, the thirsting, the stripped, always in danger of death. -- Elie Wiesel
May Christ the Savior give peace to Nigeria, where more blood is being shed and too many people are unjustly deprived of their possessions, held as hostages or killed. -- Pope Francis
What you forget when you're planning a hijack by yourself is somewhere along the line, you might need to neglect your hostages just long enough so you can use the bathroom. -- Chuck Palahniuk
Children are often like hostages under the care of authority, with spankings and groundings nudging them like guns pointed at their skulls, threatening to shoot if the wrong words are uttered. -- Maggie Young
I used to take hostages in my relationships and not let people be independent. It always ended in disaster, because you take away people's identity and they end up full of resentment. -- Elton John
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 Safire
I want to express our grieve and condolences to the families of two hostages: one American, Dr. Warren Weinstein and an Italian Giovanni LaPorto who were tragically killed in a U.S. counterterrorism operation. -- Barack Obama

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