Quotes About Captivity

Questions swirled in my brain like terrified bait minnows in a bucket.

Merle had the feeling that he almost kissed her, but then his lips only touched her hair briefly, and all she could think of was that she hadn't washed it for days. It was crazy, really. Here they were, all trapped in this accursed sphinx stronghold, and she was thinking about washing her hair! Was that what being in love did to you? And then, was it being in love that was responsible for the lump in her throat and the fluttering in her stomach?

When you've been captured as often I have, you develop an interest in locks and escapology.

What are you doing here?" "Rescuing you, obviously." "Seriously?" "You have to ask? You're my prisoner. A bunch of jumped-up idiots just wander in and steal you? I'm not going to let them get away with that-" "Oh…no, I suppose not." "It makes both of us look bad. Besides, I still need you.

I've come out of a small jail and entered a bigger one.

I really don't like being in jail.

There's nothing good about jail. Having your freedom taken off you... It's nothing to be proud of and it's not any fun no matter how you passed the time.

I thought of 24 Sussex Drive as the crown jewel of the federal penitentiary system.

A healthy body is a guest chamber for the soul: a sick body is a prison.

They don't guards me! They make me be dam' fool clowns for Neptuners to laugh at. 'Get sky hook! Get bucket steam-ice!' That's what them lizards-men holler at me.

At least 30,000, possibly more, German POWs may have died in French captivity, of starvation and malnutrition, of disease and neglect and mistreatment. Around 5,000 are thought to have been killed during work on clearing minefields alone. The International Red Cross certainly considered the French, after the Russians, the most reprehensible of the major powers in their treatment of German prisoners of war.

Verrückt, aber weise.Gefangen, aber frei.Physiker, aber unschuldig!

What if they take you captive?" Goradel asked. "My dear man," Breeze said, leaning forward to look out at Goradel. "That's why kings send ambassadors. This way, if someone gets captured, the king is still safe. We, my friend, are something Elend can never be: expendable." Goradel frowned at that. " I don't feel very expendable.

A prisoner could be convinced that they lived in a paradise, if the prison was pretty enough.

Then there's the part where she dropped you to the ground like a rag doll. You, a complete hardass with hundreds of thousands of dollars of training behind you." Ford held out the wallet in front of Ward's face. "That's just sad, man." Ward wanted to grab it. Would have if he could move his hands. "Did you miss the part where I said 'fuck you'?" "It would be easier to take you seriously if you weren't tied to a chair.

Our houses are such unwieldy property that we are often imprisoned rather than housed in them.

I have you fast in my fortress, And will not let you depart, But put you down into the dungeon, In the round-tower of my heart, And there will I keep you forever, Yes, forever and a day, Till the walls shall crumble to ruin, And moulder in the dust away!

I have you fast in my fortress, And will not let you depart, But put you down into the dungeon In the round-tower of my heart. And there will I keep you forever, Yes, forever and a day, Till the walls shall crumble to ruin, And moulder in dust away.

Herman Melville

Even when I get on airplanes, very often, as I walk down the aisle, I notice a lot of people staring or whispering. I recognize the fact that yes, to a lot of people, I will always be that 14-year-old girl who was kidnapped and who was held captive.

To think that any animal would be trapped makes me so sad. It's like living in your bedroom for your entire life and never being able to go outside.

We are all sensible that the king and Tisaphernes have caused as many of us as they could to be apprehended, and it is plain they design, by the same treacherous means, if they can, to destroy the rest.

You know how some people complain about the way carriage horses are treated? That they are in a small stall? That is mistreatment. In a holding cell, you get very bored. You have no newspapers, you have no anything.

I promise you, every insurgent, freedom fighter, and stray gunman in Iraq who we arrested knew the ropes, knew that the way out was to announce he had been tortured by the Americans, ill treated, or prevented from reading the Koran or eating his breakfast or watching the television.