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Quotes About Captivity

Faith means being held captive by the sight of Jesus Christ." —ETHICS
~ Charles R. Ringma
It's just hard to go from seeing elephants living their lives in the wild and not being bothered by humans, to seeing them put in a bunker every night and then being forced to take assholes like us on rides.
~ Chelsea Handler
Moral cowardice like Starbuck's turns us into hostages. Mutiny is the only salvation for the Pequod's crew. And mutiny is our only salvation.
~ Chris Hedges
They have barricades at our gigs - to keep people in. We do most of the songs from 'Scrubs' over 55 minutes.
~ Sam Lloyd
We had a lion that was living in somebody's basement outside of Branson, Missouri.
~ Tippi Hedren
Maybe somewhere on the Nostromo there had been a similar scene, with Dallas hanging there, stuck in place like the victim in a massive spider's dense webbing.
~ Tim Lebbon
few slaves had been captured;
~ Tim Vicary
chained in the
~ Tim Vicary
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
I know loneliness…the loneliness of captivity…and the joy of being rescued by a friend. I know the horror of seeing a comrade fall. Don't worry, Orihime. I'm coming!
~ Tite Kubo
It's too bad…I wouldn't have minded being your prisoner a while longer. Goodbye…Rangiku. I'm sorry.
~ Tite Kubo
Somewhere in the archives of crudest instinct is recorded the truth that it is better to be endangered and free than captive and comfortable.
~ Tom Robbins
Once a mind has been set free, it would rather be destroyed than return to captivity.
~ Carlene Cross
Quel povero diavolo è stato derubato di quattro monete d'oro: pigliatelo dunque e mettetelo subito in prigione.
~ Carlo Collodi
At a rear window I hear the heart-rendering cries of my captive kind, plus a lot of yammering from the idiotic dogs, who will raise about the same ruckus for a simple rabies shot as they would for the end of the world. --Midnight Louie
~ Carole Nelson Douglas
The most insidious thing about bondage was how easy it was to grow accustomed to it.
~ George R.R. Martin
People learn to love their chains
~ George R.R. Martin
You Westerosi are all the same. You sew some beast upon a scrap of silk, and suddenly you are all lions or dragons or eagles. I can take you to a real lion, my little friend. The prince keeps a pride in his menagerie. Would you like to share a cage with them?
~ George R.R. Martin
Why has no one come to pry me out of here? - Cersei
~ George R.R. Martin
his army to plunder, and sold the entire population for slaves.
~ George Rawlinson
Os brasileiros levaram toda a tripulação do Pirabebé em seus próprios vasos como prisioneiros. Um oficial brasileiro baixou a bandeira paraguaia, pisou e cuspiu nela, e tudo foi tirado do iate, até mesmo as roupas dos engenheiros.
~ George Thompson
the glitter and wink of the trapped fish inside it.
~ Gerald Durrell
Stone walls do not a prison make, Nor iron bars a cage, Minds innocent and quiet take That for an hermitage.
~ Richard Lovelace
In durance vile here must I wake and weep, And all my frowsy couch in sorrow steep.
~ James Drummond Burns