Quotes About Hostage

Remember—the battle right now is for the narrative; who gets to frame the story for you? Either it will be God, or someone else. If you are "alarmed," something has drawn your attention away from the story of God. Let your fears, anxieties, anger, or rage alert you that you've been taken hostage; stop and get your bearings.

If rejection destroys your self-esteem, you're letting others hold you as an emotional hostage.

We can't allow the world's worst leaders to blackmail, threaten, hold freedom-loving nations hostage with the world's worst weapons.

If someone with multiple personalities threatens to kill himself, is it considered a hostage situation?

What the hell am I doing...? Escape holding myself as a hostage...? I won't be able to make it like that...

When I was kidnapped as a child my parents sent a letter to the hijackers me Pay 5, 000 dollars or your back

I remember the time I was kidnapped and they sent a piece of my finger to my father. He said he wanted more proof.

It's about being treated as a thing, isn't it. Whether that thing is a hostage of conditional value, or a very expensively designed and equipped enslaved machine/organic intelligence. You're a thing, and there is no safety.

I guess you could pay off the management to let you bring in a SecUnit and weapons and do a hostage exchange, but they drew the line at giving you free feed access.

talking to Frost had become less like negotiating with a small angry hostage

Destructive complexes are often permitted to grow to a size where they can attack the soul and hold it hostage.

If I can't forgive birth mother, how can I be out in the world arguing for love, justice, and community? How can I hold her hostage away from my heart for something she did when she was so young? My instincts are to stay angry, but my heart says that anger is the road to ruin.

I felt held hostage by her illness and by the backward mental health system that once again was incapable of helping our family in crisis.

If he was going to be held hostage to this unwanted compulsion, then she was damn well coming along for the ride.

Fursey, hostage to the king and tutor to the light of the world, was fond of good wine and long conversations at meat about the wrongs of the world and how to right them, and in the course of things the long conversations naturally made him more thirsty.

Stockholm Syndrome is what it is called when you begin to identify with your captors…. They get nicer every day that they don't kill you.