Quotes About Ransom

I don't understand why people expect tips. In hotels you order food in your room, and it's already more expensive from the room service menu, so it's a cheek to expect a tip on top. I do sometimes reward good service, but it should be at my discretion, and I'm not going to be held to ransom.

be stoned and the owner given the death penalty. If a ransom is agreed upon

I think it would be cool if you were writing a ransom note on your computer, if the paper clip popped up and said, 'Looks like you're writing a ransom note. Need help? You should use more forceful language, you'll get more money.'

A more ancient precedent of ransom, that we may not always be tormented by our shame.

Greg had contacted his bank. He was not a risky investor, and so most of his assets were liquid. If ransom money was needed, he'd be ready. The various feds, all male except for Kimberly Green, put traces on all the possible phones, including Myron's. She and her men were doing a lot of sotto voce. Myron hadn't pressed them yet. But that wasn't going to last. Kimberly

I've been told not to tour down in Mexico. I am too well-known now. The kidnappers may think that my publisher will pay a ransom.

We'll abduct Garian. Or Jason." "And—?" "And dump them into the ocean. Nobody would ever pay a ransom for them.

The subtle danger here should be obvious: if we speak of the cross of Christ as the cause of the love of the Father, we imply that behind the cross and apart from it he may not actually love us at all. He needs to be "paid" a ransom price in order to love us.

As you have likely guessed, I have been kidnapped again—but at least my abductors do not want gold this time. It's somewhat flattering that my worth is equal to the worth of a giant war machine that could change the course of history. Whether that ransom will be paid is another question entirely.

She didn't want them reaching any disappointing conclusions-such as "Ransoms are usually bigger than rewards.

I receive Thee ransom of my soul. For love of Thee have I studied and kept vigil toiled preached and taught.

Life's just a sacrifice, a ransomWe pay to Death for Love to save, Which turns to be as great as handsomeTo get a blessing from the grave.

You only need a few people to effect a kidnapping.

Tired of Americans being captured and held for ransom, our third president decided to take on the Barbary powers in a war that is barely remembered today but is one that, in many ways, we are still fighting.

We know that in some way, incomprehensible to us, his suffering satisfied the demands of justice, ransomed penitent souls from the pains and penalties of sin, and made mercy available to those who believe in his holy name.

release to me my beloved daughter, take instead the ransom,?20 revering Zeus' son who strikes from afar—Apollo.

The media are always on the lookout for possible sightings of D.B. Cooper, the man who parachuted from a plane with $200,000 in ransom money in November 1971. But the truth is, the mystery man wearing dark sunglasses almost certainly died during the jump, according to the FBI agents on the case at the time.

Kahnawake November 1704 Temperature 44 degrees "They won't let you see her," said Ruth flatly. "Now tell us, Mr. Williams, why has ransom not come? Do people have short memories or no memory? Why do they not rescue us? I get so angry sometimes." Sometimes! thought Mercy.

We know the inner call to lay down our lives for one another because He laid down His life for us. What a powerful death! The cross ransoms, the cross liberates, the cross transforms!

In 1975, when my students were kidnapped by rebels, I was accused of hiding instead of trying to save them, and of not giving enough money for their ransom. I wasn't believed.

As an editor, I must often tell writers that their stories "do not fit our present needs." But there are times when I want to reply: "Sir, I would not trust you to write a ransom note."

Good armor and a good horse means a good ransom if I unseat him.

Amongst those thus enslaved was Lady Johanna Swann, a fifteen-year-old niece of the Lord of Stonehelm. When her infamously niggardly uncle refused to pay the ransom, she was sold to a pillow house, where she rose to become the celebrated courtesan known as the Black Swan, and ruler of Lys in all but name. Alas, her tale, however fascinating, has no bearing upon our present history.)

I'll pay her bloody ransom. Gold, sapphires, whatever you want. Pull her out of there." "You want her? Go get her." So he did.