Quotes About Hostages

When death gives us a long lease of life, it takes as hostages all those whom we have loved.

It is not difficult to stand above the conventions when we leave no hostages among them; men can always be more unconventional than women, and a bachelor of independent means need encounter no difficulties at all.

Death is a scandal. The machine is functioning, we are all hostages

If people are informed they will do the right thing. It's when they are not informed that they become hostages to prejudice.

At the beginning, because the lives of the hostages were at stake, then during this silent period we have taken several measures like not accepting the ultimatum of the terrorists threatening to kill our foreign affairs minister.

We're all time's captives, hostages to eternity.

Since taking office, President Trump has repeatedly demonstrated that bringing Americans home is a top priority for his administration. The president and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo understand the terrible toll terrorist networks and pariah states like Iran take on our American hostages and their families.

As long as we're tied to Middle Eastern oil we're tied to Middle Eastern politics. We're hostages to the terrorists and nutcases who want to wipe out Israel and the United States because we support Israel.

Relations between the United States and Iran can improve but will not get better so long as innocent Americans are held hostage.

I remember the last three days that I was president, I never went to bed at all. I never went to bed until we had negotiated the final release of the hostages.

I have a wife, I have sons: all of them hostages given to fate.

Yet who can say how our souls have been stamped by witnessing such a cruel drama? All souls are hostages to their human envelopes, but souls must decay and suffer at such indignity, don't you agree?

mothers are really just emotional hostages.

Some historians trace the start of the War on Terror to November 4, 1979, the day the hostages were taken in Tehran.

If we give in to the hijackers' demands and release terrorists," I said during one of the heated government meetings over the coming week, "everyone will understand us, but no one will respect us." Yet the opposite—however grim the results—held: "If, on the other hand, we conduct a military operation to free hostages, it is possible that no one will understand us—but everyone will respect us.

In my family, misery didn't just love company, it wanted hostages.

Were all times captives, hostages of Eternity

In the past, Joint Special Operations Command, or JSOC, of which SEAL Team 6 is a key component, has only launched ground raids in Yemen when the lives of hostages held by al Qaeda seemed at risk.

Everybody is vulnerable through love of their children. Hostages to fortune.

Twenty-five million people who live in North Korea are denied freedom in every respect of their lives. In short, they are hostages. Imagine 25 million hostages.

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.

Serbian shelling of Sarajevo resumed. When NATO planes bombed Bosnian Serb installations in response, the Serbs seized 350 UN peacekeepers as hostages. Terrified for the fate of their soldiers, Western governments importuned the UN and NATO to desist. The international presence, far from constraining the Serbs, now offered them additional cover.

When nine-and-ninety hostages had shuffled by them to pass beneath the Wall, Tormund Giantsbane produced the last one. "My son Dryn. You'll see he's well taken care of, crow, or I'll cook your black liver up and eat it.

Starbuck is tormented by his complicity in what he foresees as Ahab's "impious end, but feel that I must help him to it." "But he drilled deep down," Starbuck exclaims, "and blasted all my reason out of me!"53 Moral cowardice like Starbuck's turns us into hostages