Quotes About Captive

It's weird, I actually like doing interviews now. Ever since I gave up therapy, it's my only time with a captive audience.

Faith is unlearning this senseless worries and misguided beliefs that keep us captive. It is far more complex than simply modifying behavior. Faith is rewiring the human brain. We are literally upgrading our minds by downloading the mind of Christ.

Around the house, my head deep in a pillowcase or the oven, my eyes focused on that supernatural neatness which the housewife sees somehow shadowing her familiar furniture, it was largely possible to disregard, or not-quite-hear, Sally, but in the car I was entirely what I believe is called a captive audience.

In the embellished woman, Nature was present but captive.

And remember that the captor is now the captive; the hunter is in the snare. What was won by stealth will not be kept.

Beauty standsIn the admiration only of weak mindsLed captive.

Thus the hero's rescue of the captive corresponds to the discovery of a psychic world. This world is already of vast extent as the world of Eros, embracing everything that man has ever done for woman, everything that he has experienced and created for her sake. The world of art, of epic deeds, poesy, and song which revolves round the liberated captive spreads out like a virgin continent that has broken away from the world of the First Parents.

For, with the liberation of the captive, a portion of the alien, hostile, feminine world of the unconscious enters into friendly alliance with the man's personality, if not actually with his consciousness.

I'd called [Stanley Garn] because he wrote an American Anthropolgist 's paper on the topic of human flesh and its nutritional value. Your cows, he said, are much more efficient. But I am not so much interested in cultures eating the flesh of their captive enemies as I am in cultures eating their own dead, the practical Why not? model of cannibalism, eating the meat of fresh corpses because it's there and it's a nice change from taro root.

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.

As a general rule, interrogations without clearly defined legal limits are brutal. Particularly when they have an imperative to get information out of a captive immediately.

Advertising in the past has been predicated on a mass market and a captive audience.

Whoever takes me captive won't live long enough to enjoy it

The one thing she'd learned in life was that family was a fickle concept. There was no loyalty. If she couldn't expect such a thing from her own clan, how could she expect it from complete strangers? She nodded grimly to herself. Aye, she needed to pull her head from the clouds and view her mission with more objectivity. She was a captive. Nothing more. To forget such was to open herself up for more disappointment.

Prisoners! Finan shouted, and I suspected he was shouting at me because I had so blatantly ignored my own insistence that we take men captive.

Send out the whisper," Ramil told Melletin, "starting with all Brigardians in the pens. Tell them the Dark Prince who escaped Fergox has come to lead them--" "But you're in the cage with them," Melletin pointed out. Ramil shrugged. "They don't need to know that. Keep it vague and majestic.

My memory is chained; captive the bird that sketches the evening in song." From Weathervane ("Veleta")

The little boy was looking for his voice. (The king of the crickets had it.) In a drop of water the little boy was looking for his voice. I do not want it for speaking with; I will make a ring of it so that he may wear my silence on his little finger In a drop of water the little boy was looking for his voice. (The captive voice, far away, put on a cricket's clothes.) - The Little Mute Boy Translated by William S. Merwin

She's got us, she's got us all. Caverna. She doesn't want to let us go. Do you know what she's like? A huge trap-lantern with us inside her, digesting us really, really slowly, and not wanting to let any of us go. Maybe that's the worst kind of prison – not knowing you're in a prison. Because then you don't fight to get out.

You are eternity's hostageA captive of time.

A book, you see, is the only kind of trap that keeps its captive—which is knowledge—alive forever.

A piece of writing is a trap and the best kind. A book, you see, is the only kind of trap that keeps its captive—which is knowledge—alive forever.

We're just frisking like little captive lambkins.

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