Quotes About Captivity

There they are, held like flies, in the amber of that moment...

Er zijn ergere gevangenissen dan woorden.

Leaving the Connecticut River March 8, 1704 Temperature 40 degrees They marched until the captives could not take another step. Eben dragged Eliza half the way and Sarah dragged her the rest. Mercy and Joseph took turns hauling Ruth. That night they slept like rocks, and in the morning Mercy understood why bears spent the whole winter sleeping. It sounded good to Mercy.

The point is that we all caught. And we try in one way or another to widen ourself free. For instance, me and Ludie. When I was with Ludie, I didn't feel so caught. But then Ludie died. We go around trying one thing or another, but we caught anyhow.

I have an aquarium full of fish and some Mexican walking fish.

What can you do. You get a name, you're called 'Thomas Bernhard', and it stays that way for the rest of your life. And if at some point you go for a walk in the woods, and someone takes a photo of you, then for the next eighty years you're always walking in the woods. There's nothing you can do about it.

Their gauzy skirts had brushed up from the grass innumerable flies and butterflies which, unable to escape, remained caged in the transparent tissue as in an aviary.

you have torn my life all to pieces.. made me a victim, a caged bird!

It rubs the lotion on its skin. It does this whenever it is told.

He held it at arm's length, through the bars, his forefinger along the spine. She reached across the barrier and took it. For an instant the tip of her forefinger touched Dr. Lecter's. The touch crackled in his eyes. Thank you, Clarice. Thank you, Dr. Lecter. And that is how he remained in Starling's mind. Caught in the instant when he did not mock. Standing in his white cell, arched like a dancer, his hands clasped in front of him and his head slightly to the side.

Pity Catherine Martin won't ever see the sun again. The sun's a mattress fire her God died in, Clarice.

When I couldn't speak I was not drawn into silence, silence captured me.

Did we not, at the very moment of birth, stumble into agonizing captivity? A prison, a prison with bars and chains everywhere!

Zar nije svaki ?ovek po jedna omaška i promašaj? Zar on, ve? kako se rodi, ne dospeva u mu?no zato?enje? Robija! Robija! Okovi i stege na sve strane! Kroz rešetke svoje individualnosti žuri ?ovek beznadno, na kružni zid spoljnih okolnosti, sve dok smrt ne do?e i ne zovne ga nazad u zavi?aj i slobodu...

if you think you see no slaves in pennsylvania, replies capt. zhang, his face as smooth as suet, why, look again. they are not all african, nor do some of them even yet know,--may never know,--that they are slaves. slavery is very old upon these shores,--there is no innocence upon the practice anywhere, neither among the indians nor the spanish nor in the behavior of the rest of christendom, if it come to that.

Most of the slaves shipped across the Atlantic were purchased, rather than captured, by Europeans.

Hi's nose was pressed to his window. "I've changed my mind, Tory. This is the perfect place to hold someone prisoner. I'm keeping this on file.

Of the 3 million prisoners taken by the Soviets during the war, more than a third died in captivity.

Roman Occupation and Diaspora (64 BC-AD 1948) Rome established control of Israel in 64 BC. "33And they that understand among the people shall instruct many: yet they shall fall by the sword, and by flame, by captivity, and by spoil, many days." Daniel 11:33

was customary to take the brightest from a captive nation and teach them the native Babylonian language. Three years also gave enough time to prove they were not carrying any disease. Daniel

Now notice Proverbs 6:2. In the margin of my Bible, that verse reads, "Thou art taken captive with the words of thy mouth." In other words, you said the wrong thing, and as a result, you were taken captive.

But she was still conscious. She had no concept of time or motion, but she could hear the sound of his boots scraping gravel outside the car. And she could feel the sharp prick of a needle through the fabric of her jeans into her inner thigh.

up' is from when a bird has eaten too much of his kill and doesn't want to hunt or do anything for a while," she said. "And 'under my thumb' and 'wrapped around his little finger' are from holding a falcon tight to your fist by its jesses so it can't fly. Those terms were in Shakespeare's plays and until then they weren't common usage.

Of course Will was right again. But I realized clearly for the first time how desperate our plight was. It has been foolish to think we could rescue Kai. Now, wherever he is, it couldn't be worse than being held captive by pirates. Even cannibals were more trustworthy.