Quotes About Captivity

Only one thing's sadder than remembering you were once free, and that's forgetting you were once free.

You too are an exile, I thought. You morn for the broad open steppes where you have room to spread your icy wings. Here you feel stifled and constricted, like an eagle that cries and beats against the bars of its iron cage.

Sam whistled. This is some fancy prison they got you in, Freddy. Or do I call you Sir Frederick now? You call me Jericho. For a change, Jericho said.

In 1784, he will also order his corsairs to capture a US merchant ship, the Betsey. Once they are taken hostage, the Sultan uses the members of the Betsey's crew as bargaining tools, and in 1786 the US Congress agrees to a treaty establishing full diplomatic relations with Morocco.49 There are clear and significant

We rattled on, away from Les Mille, and we racked our brains as to where they could be taking us. To the Pyrenees? To one of the camps in the East Pyrenees? Or farther away toward the west? Maybe to Gurs, where our wives were?

There I had been for three-quarters of a year caught in that mousetrap of a France, unable to get permission to leave the country. Now, for a second time, I was to taste the pleasures of an internment camp.

Die Freunde, an die ich denke, sind in der Zeit gefangen wie in einem Film. Sie (viele von ihnen sind tot, verschollen) sind in dem Alter, in dem ich sie zuletzt gesehen habe; ich bezweifle, dass sie mich jetzt wiedererkennen würden.

He wanted to imprison his nameless misery in words.

Even in a golden cage, the nightingale yearns for its native land," says an old proverb.

Trust me? I held my breath for her answer. She had every reason not to trust me. I'd been her kidnapper, her captor, yet I'd rather have died than hurt a single hair on her head.

Misfortune is needed to bring light to the treasures of the human intellect. Compression is needed to explode gunpowder. Captivity has brought my mental facilities to a focus; and you are well aware that from the collision of clouds electricity is produced - from electricity, lightning, from lightning, illumination.

Why should cattle have the gift of freedom? Their heritage from generation to generation is the belled yoke and the lash.

You are my son Dantés! You are the child of my captivity. My priestly office condemned me to celibacy: God sent you to me both to console the man who could not be a father and the prisoner who could not be free

This is what happens when an outlaw kidnaps a scholar of myths and legends.

How boring these emotions are that we're caught in and can't get free of, no matter how much we want to...

We'll wait until he crouches down to bind us,

holding cell Brad and Tessa were in,

The worst of prison life, he thought, was not being able to close his door.

Greta Garbo: A deer in the body of a woman, living resentfully in the Hollywood zoo.

In everyone's life there are people who stay and people who go and people who are taken against their will.

Message of the Cross, which in effect is the story of the Bible, then spiritual captivity is the result. Freedom over the world, the flesh, and the Devil can be brought about only by Christ and what Christ did at the Cross, which gives the Holy Spirit latitude to work in one's life. All

You're a girl. Someday you'll want to be a prisoner to someone other than yourself.

When life is a cell, there is nothing more liberating than captivity.

POW camp, he'd imagined a sweet life in a tidy house, Alice