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Quotes About Captive

This is our revolution in Yeshua: to be free from the prisons that hold us captive.
~ Ted Dekker
We are strangers; we write as individual captive Martians.
~ Julie Phillips
Seek freedom and become captive of your desires. Seek discipline and find your liberty.
~ Frank Herbert
For captive gorillas, trees should be available to climb and material such as straw, branches, or bamboo supplied for nest building.
~ Dian Fossey
A human captive had fought the machines! She had destroyed a robot with her own hands! Amazed, they called out her name.
~ Brian Herbert
The BLM also created a program in which prisoners are given the opportunity to work with captive wild horses. They gentle them and get them to the point where they are ridable. This is an excellent idea.
~ Buck Brannaman
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
I understand all the ways of trying to escape, how sometimes you escape one prison only to find you've built yourself a different one.
~ Gayle Forman
That was the thing about being a captive bird...You learned to adapt, and before you knew it your captivity seemed normal. If you were free once again, you would become confused and miss the security of your captivity.
~ Suzanne Fisher Staples
Tisquantum was seized on his journey home, perhaps because of his association with the hated English, and sent to Massasoit as a captive.
~ Charles C. Mann
There is a story of a reply made by a captive taken in the island to one of the Athenian allies who had sneeringly asked 'Where were their brave men all killed?' He answered that 'The spindle' (meaning the arrow) `would be indeed a valuable weapon if it picked out the brave.' He meant to say that the destruction caused by the arrows and stones was indiscriminate.
~ Thucydides
The two aliens had been held captive for at least eight years. Not much of an existence for people who know how to travel light years' distance, and had somehow done so to reach Earth." The Code Orange team were never present when the
~ Timothy Good
Every person I save is another victory against the evil that festers in this world and I will not rest until every captive is free. (Stryder)
~ Kinley MacGregor
The crow commands, the captive must obey.
~ George R.R. Martin
setting all the beetles that were tied to it buzzing sleepily on the end of their strings like a flock of captive emeralds.
~ Gerald Durrell
So free we seem, so fettered fast we are!
~ Robert Browning
A piece of writing is a trap," he said cheerily, "and the best kind. A book, you see, is the only kind of trap that keeps its captive—which is knowledge—alive forever.
~ Tad Williams
And what is Reason to Love? Light up, quick!—And where is thy old study of philosophy?—Away with the long toil of wisdom; this one thing only I know, that Love took captive even the mind of Zeus.
~ Tasha Alexander
My dear child," the priest inserted, "it's not often one of these"--he threw a meaningful glance at Hunter--" gentlemen offers to make an honorable woman of a captive. Wouldn't it be wise to accept?" "I'm in no need of matrimony, Father. I still have my honor.
~ Catherine Anderson
Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor; and if one is a member of a captive population, economically speaking, one's feet have simply been placed on the treadmill forever.
~ James Baldwin
I talk in a daze, I walk in a maze I cannot get out, said the starling
~ Vladimir Nabokov
demolish arguments and every pretension that sets itself up against the knowledge of God, and . . . take captive every thought to make it obedient to Christ" (2 Cor. 10:5, NIV).
~ Charles F. Stanley
Remember, sin enslaves its victims. With despair and confusion as constant companions, the captive doesn't know the way to freedom. But believers do—and we should share the message of hope with them.
~ Charles F. Stanley
Era disparate desejar permanecer nela, mas assaltava-me uma grande covardia, o receio de voltar a assumir responsabilidades, a certeza de que o meu trabalho de indivíduo solitário, na ditadura mal disfarçada por um congresso de sabujos, seria pouco mais ou menos inútil. Preferível o cativeiro manifesto ao outro, simulado, que nos ofereciam lá fora. A
~ Graciliano Ramos