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I envy not in any moods The captive void of noble rage, The linnet born within the cage, That never knew the summer woods.
— Alfred Lord Tennyson
If I'm going to be held captive by social media, I'm going to use it against itself.
— Michelle Shocked
I've become a captive of my own ambitions.
— Patsy Cline
In these few minutes, I was Beethoven's captive and I couldn't have been a more willing participant.
— Stormy Smith
I was holding someone captive and all that was going through my mind was a Billboard Top 40 love song. I was going to hell.
— Goldy Moldavsky
The best mistakes are made when the worst of heart breaks occur. When Love is blind and the captive, faithful.
— Solange Nicole
He stills, and our eyes lock, his narrowing, holding mine captive. "Run to me, not from me.
— Lisa Renee Jones
When she was rested. she'd find a way to escape. It was the duty of the captive, wasn't it?
— Julie Garwood
Today's public education system is a failed monopoly: bureaucratic, rigid and in unsteady control of dissatisfied captive markets.
— David T. Kearns
She smiled at the idea of being a captive princess in the rookeries, or a restrained mouse in the glitter of the ton.
— Michelle Diener
Wealth: A cunning device of Fate whereby men are made captive, and burdened with responsibilites from which only Death can file their fetters.
— Elbert Hubbard
I wanted to cry for wanting to cry.
— C.J. Roberts
The pioneering spirit is less about thinking up new ideas, as ridding ourselves of dogmas and habits that hold us captive in thinking.
— Bertrand Piccard
You are eternity's hostage A captive of mine.
— Boris Pasternak
Captive people have a need for song.
— Michelle Cliff
No matter how invisibleI feel, I will always be wrapped
in the memory
of life as a captive.
- Quebrado — Margarita Engle
To live with unforgiveness is to become a captive cultured citizen whose taxation is that of demonically ticketed torment.
— Tracey Bond
If it weren't for her setting me free, I may still be a caged bird today, holding my own daughter captive on a shit-laden perch.
— Raquel Cepeda
Whoever takes me captive won't live long enough to enjoy it
— Bernard Evslin
A creative person has little power over his own life. He is not free. He is captive and driven by his daimon.
— C. G. Jung
Sometimes, we are unable to break free because we are held captive by divine assignment because in our problem God has given us a unique purpose.
— Shannon L. Alder
He gave me a look of mingled anticipation, curiosity, and compassion, like a cat with a captive bird in its claws.
— Walter Moers
Glory drags all men along, low as well as high, bound captive at the wheels of her glittering car.
— Horace
Forgive me also that I didn't fight like Lord Byron for the happiness of captive peoples that I watched only risings of the moon and museums
— Zbigniew Herbert
My favorite job is being a father. I have four girls now. They're a captive audience.
— Bruce Willis
Go free those held captive, and free the souls who are bound in the darkness." -Driscoll
— Brittany L. Engels
Learn to forgive others so that you can release yourself from being held captive by the very negative thoughts around you.
— Stephen Richards
The nights and days had merged, trapped in that little house held captive by a stubborn old woman.
— Srividya Srinivasan
Anything you strive to hold captive will hold you captive, and if you desire freedom you must give freedom.
— Peace Pilgrim
In the winter of 1973, the American POWs held captive in Vietnam were released according to the terms of the Paris Peace Accords.
— Annie Jacobsen
If one has never known freedom, it is easy to be blind to the gridirons composing one's cell.
— Nenia Campbell
Obsession; when thoughts are held captive and no longer your own.
— Donna Lynn Hope
Museums are like sports stadiums, hotels and hospitals: they are in the category of captive-audience dining.
— Danny Meyer
the mere fact of a black figure racing across the landscape carrying a white captive was bizarre enough,
— Robert E. Howard
What white woman, however lonely, was ever captive or insulted by me? Yet they say I am a bad Indian.
— Sitting Bull
These captive men are the hidden price for a hiden lie: the righteous must be able to locate the damned.
— James Baldwin
The more we construct lives that prioritize safety, the bigger the prison we construct around ourselves.
— Craig D. Lounsbrough
The fall of the Berlin Wall on 11/9/89 unleashed forces that ultimately liberated all the captive peoples of the Soviet Empire
— Thomas L. Friedman
You take my heart with you, my loving captor." "Nay, Madelyne. I am your captive in body and soul. — Julie Garwood
We are not in the business of iron ore. Whatever captive iron ore sources we have, we use it to make steel.
— Lakshmi Mittal
Democracy is held captive, not just by money, but by ideas - the ideas that money buys.
— William Greider
Not by prayers alone will a captive be freed, but by another man's prayers matched by his deeds.
— John Kramer
Because the brain is the body's captive audience, feelings are winners among equals. And
— Antonio R. Damasio
It was ironic; he held her captive, yet she'd captivated him.
— Jeaniene Frost
Anyway, it's easy to be what people want: give them something to stare at, nod and smile, tell them they're gorgeous.
— Lucy Christopher
Words have to murder reality before they can hold it captive ...
— Simone De Beauvoir
Our real self is not the captive of Space and Time
— William Ralph Inge
This wasn't the first time I'd woken up as a captive. It wasn't even the second. I so needed to reevaluate my life choices.
— Jeaniene Frost
If he was to be treated no better than an animal, he would at least learn the limits of his cage.
— Shira Anthony
But you seem to forget, my dear, only Daederich's price requires a body attached to the head.-Elah Deadly Captive
— Bianca Sommerland
They say, 'TV is not a captive audience,' but it definitely is. You can easily switch off the bloody television.
— Ridley Scott
I realized that poverty was a kind of captivity.
— Nancy E. Turner
Damen's understanding of Laurent rearranged itself, in order that he might despise him more accurately.
— C.S. Pacat
Ah, thou hast made my heart captive in the endless meshes of thy music, my master!
— Rabindranath Tagore
If you pull some lame-ass 'I'm your father' bullshit, right now, I'm going to lose it.
— Martin Leicht
Faith is unlearning the senseless worries and misguided beliefs that keep us captive.
— Mark Batterson
You can't leave me. I'm your captive," she said. "What good's a captive without her captor?
— Adam Johnson
In her mind she was free; only her body was captive.
— Nina Gagen-Torn
She had simply shed the mantle of slavery as easily as she had worn it, making him realize that she had never really worn it at all.
— Johanna Lindsey
So long as we need to control other people, however benign our motives, we are captive to that need. In giving them freedom, we free ourselves.
— Marilyn Ferguson
A good storyteller can hold everybody captive without the special effects of Hollywood.
— Phil Keoghan
If the universe has an end, it means we are captive fishes in an aquarium! If it has no end, we are lost sheep in the eternal darkness!
— Mehmet Murat Ildan
Dreams can never be made captive.
— Rabindranath Tagore
Knowing you're worthless doesn't give you value any more than knowing you are a captive sets you free.
— Ted Dekker
It truly amazes me how easily you delude yourself into believing I actually give a shit.-Cyrus DCCD
— Bianca Sommerland
Your perspective on life comes from the cage you were held captive in.
— Shannon L. Alder
Paul's secret joy was that God took him as a blatant rebel against Jesus Christ, and made him a captive - and that became his purpose.
— Oswald Chambers
The crow commands, the captive must obey.
— George R R Martin
By the will art thou lost, by the will art thou found, by the will art thou free, captive, and bound.
— Angelus Silesius
Heav'n first taught letters for some wretch's aid, Some banish'd lover, or some captive maid.
— Alexander Pope
Do I echo because I am hollow, or because I am a captive animal under stress and reassured by repetitions?
— A. L. Kennedy
Mind is a captive of the body.
— Camille Paglia
awesome "Impaler Prince," even as a captive, had the power of sending shivers down the spines of the Turkish delegates.
— Radu Florescu
There was no such thing as perfect privacy, life was a perpetual concert-hall recital with a captive audience.
— Rohinton Mistry
A picture held us captive. And we could not get outside it, for it lay in our language and language seemed to repeat it to us inexorably.
— Ludwig Wittgenstein
The liberal intelligentsia has allowed its party to become a captive of corporate interests.
— Ralph Nader
