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Quotes About Cage

A prisoner of he who has already slain you once, he thought. No doubt near to his place of power, in a cage built just for me. Bad. Bad. There
~ Roger Zelazny
In their armory," Summer said. "Cleaned, oiled, and loaded. They check their personal weapons in and out. They've got a cage inside their hangar. You should see that place. It's like Santa's grotto. Special armored Humvees wall to wall, trucks, explosives, grenade launchers, claymores, night vision stuff. They could equip a Central African dictatorship all by themselves.
~ Lee Child
How terrible it is to have no cares, no longings. I do not fit. I feel too deeply and want too much. As cages go, it is a gilded one, but I shall not live well in it or any cage, for that matter.
~ Libba Bray
Our modern society is engaged in polishing and decorating the cage in which man is kept imprisoned.
~ Nirmalananda
There's another picture of the two of them, she with her arms around him, looking at the camera. She is an apparition, a naughty angel caught flying over the Wall, put in a cage, and then let out, here with her beloved.
~ Anna Funder
Benson Henderson is a professional; he's a champion. He knows how to handle himself in the cage and he knows how to win fights.
~ Michael Chandler
Even if you cage his flesh and forbid him to utter his thoughts, even to cutting out his tongue, you cannot still a man's soul.
~ Robin Hobb
Tis Vanth's cage. You can just move it out of the way." "I already have," he grumbles. "With my shin.
~ Robin LaFevers
To us, she was like a rare bird that had escaped its cage and was roaming through a courtyard of common chickens.
~ Lisa See
We became lazy, she said. For eight years we persuaded ourselves that the progressive, tolerant, adult America embodied by the president was what America had become, that it would just go on being like that. And that America is still there but the dark side was still there too, and it roared out of its cage and swallowed us. America's secret identity wasn't a superhero. Turns out it was a supervillain.
~ Salman Rushdie
The hens are clucking. Harper thought it would be a toss-up, which term for women she hated more: bitch or hen. A hen was something you kept in a cage, and her sole worth was in her eggs. A bitch, at least, had teeth.
~ Joe Hill
My dear," Marcus said, "you are supposed to soothe the beast until you get the cage on him, not tease him into a rage while he's still unfettered.
~ Joey W. Hill
It isn't the drug that causes the harmful behavior—it's the environment. An isolated rat will almost always become a junkie. A rat with a good life almost never will, no matter how many drugs you make available to him. As Bruce put it: he was realizing that addiction isn't a disease. Addiction is an adaptation. It's not you—it's the cage you live in.
~ Johann Hari
Addiction is an adaptation. It's not you—it's the cage you live in.
~ Johann Hari
Home life is no more natural to us than a cage is natural to a cockatoo.
~ George Bernard Shaw
As long as you use the same adolescent cynicism and use the same fighting techniques, the readers and the audience don't give a damn whether your words have substance or not. They simply want you to win because you're their fighter in the cage, and that's it.
~ Ece Temelkuran
When he wanted, he could radiate charm and sincerity, but I often wonder in these later days if anything about him was as it seemed. I think now he was a man fighting constantly to escape the bars of an invisible cage.
~ Frank Herbert
I think now he was a man fighting constantly to escape the bars of an invisible cage. You must remember that he was an emperor, father-head of a dynasty that reached back into the dimmest history. But we denied him a legal son. Was this not the most terrible defeat a ruler ever suffered? My mother obeyed her Sister Superiors where the Lady Jessica disobeyed. Which of them was the stronger? History already has answered.
~ Frank Herbert
Any delusions of Free Will he harbored now must be merely the prisoner rattling his cage. His curse lay in the fact that he saw the cage. He saw it!
~ Frank Herbert
16. Kafesin biri, bir kuÅŸ aramaya ç?kt?.
~ Franz Kafka
This noble body, equipped with everything necessary, almost to the point of bursting, also appeared to carry freedom around with it. That seem to be located somewhere or other in its teeth, and its joy in living came with such strong passion from its throat that it was not easy for spectators to keep watching. But they controlled themselves, kept pressing around the cage, and had no desire to move on.
~ Franz Kafka
I've always been very competitive, and I've always had this desire to win my entire life. I guess when it comes to being in the cage, especially, I just hate losing more than I like to win. The idea of someone beating me just doesn't sit well.
~ Paige VanZant
We teach the karate methodology, bringing back the history of the martial art, the attacks that stopped being used when the martial art became a sport and that my brother and I use in the cage.
~ Lyoto Machida
Put a philosopher in a cage of small bars of thin iron suspended at the top of the towers of Notre Dame de Paris, he will see for obvious reasons that it is impossible for him to fall, and yet (unless he is used to the roofer's trade) he will not be able to keep the vision of that height from frightening and astonishing him.
~ Roger Ariew