Quotes About Captive

Love stories begin not when we fear someone may be unwilling to see us again, but when they decide they would have no objection to seeing us all the time; not when they have every opportunity to run away, but when they have exchanged solemn vows promising to hold us, and be held captive by us, for life. Our

Love stories begin not when we fear someone may be unwilling to see us again but when they decide they would have no objection to seeing us all the time; not when they have every opportunity to run away but when they have exchanged solemn vows promising to hold us, and be held captive by us, for life.

Besides, kindness, of the same undiscriminating sort, is not what one is looking for in a man, though perhaps it should be. One rather looks for its opposite, a certain combative excitement. Now I had captive in my own home a man who had probably never understood this.

the mere fact of a black figure racing across the landscape carrying a white captive was bizarre enough

I shall have to drink poi­son if we are taken cap­tive and forced to live in a harem.

Given the girls' aptitudes in computer programming and design, this little enterprise could've gone on and on, growing in scope and size. From a fake university for student visas to a fake corporation for work visas, such as Charlie described. That revenue potential would be through the roof. Definitely worth the risk of holding two girls captive.

This concern with the basic condition of freedom — the absence of physical constraint — is unquestionably necessary, but is not all that is necessary. It is perfectly possible for a man to be out of prison and yet not free — to be under no physical constraint and yet to be a psychological captive, compelled to think, feel and act as the representatives of the national State, or of some private interest within the nation, want him to think, feel and act.

She treated Vanessa and me as if we were visiting budgerigars that needed to be fed and then put somewhere dark for the night.

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.

But love is what we want, not freedom. Who then is the unluckier man? The beloved who is given his heart's desire and must for ever after fear its loss, or the free man, with his unlooked-for liberty, naked and alone between the captive armies of the earth?

But love is what we want, not freedom. Who then is the unluckier man? The beloved, who is given his heart's desire and must for ever after fear its loss, or the free man, with his unlooked-for liberty, naked and alone between the captive armies of the earth?

knew that from now on she would be held hostage by her responsibilities.

He was withdrawing. I think it was getting harder for him to accept his fate. Like a bird in a cage, he grew silent.

Awake, awake, Deborah: awake, awake, utter a song: arise, Barak, and lead thy captivity captive.

year later the former king would be paraded through the streets of Rome among captives

A captive may sing but still perish

I like Comixology and I think they have a very captive audience which is good and bad. I hope that getting my books on there expose folks who just read Marvel/DC/Image to try something different.

Ever since I gave up therapy, it's my only time with a captive audience.

By the will art thou lost, by the will art thou found, by the will art thou free, captive, and bound.

Reason is captive in the hands of the passions, as a weak man in the hands of an artful woman.

Looking out the rain-fogged window at the gray November day, Mary felt almost grateful for the snug warmth of her well-heated chamber. Escape, the captive queen decided with a yawn, would have to wait until spring.

There was no such thing as perfect privacy, life was a perpetual concert-hall recital with a captive audience.

A man without decision of character can never be said to belong to himself . . . . He belongs to whatever can make captive of him.

Pakanka užeiti ? klajojant? žv?ryn?, kad suprastume, kokie mes barbarai. Nuožmus laukinis žv?ris ne tas, kuris uždarytas narve, o tas, kuris stovi prie jo.