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But, captivity is still captivity no matter how pretty the jail is. — Colleen Houck

[T]he imagination, like certain wild animals, will not breed in captivity. — George Orwell

He gives Himself as prize and reward: He is the refreshment of holy soul, the ransom of those in captivity. — Bernard Of Clairvaux

Freedom is anathema to dreams nurtured in captivity. — Gary Shteyngart

Presently a vagrant poodle dog came idling along, sad at heart, lazy with the summer softness and the quiet, weary of captivity, sighing for change. — Mark Twain

There is not an animal on this earth that if given the choice between freedom or captivity, would not choose to be free. — Patricia Engel

When love's well-timed 'tis not a fault to love;
The strong, the brave, the virtuous, and the wise,
Sink in the soft captivity together. — Joseph Addison

Beavers bred in captivity, inhabiting a concrete pool, will, if given the timber, fatuously go through all the motions of damming an ancestral stream. — Evelyn Waugh

Captivity is the greatest of all evils that can befall one. — Miguel De Cervantes

The more serious you are about spiritual life, the more you keep your mind in captivity. — Radhanath Swami

When life is a cell, there is nothing more liberating than captivity. — Joe Abercrombie

People who blame are always looking to "get out" of something, but like quicksand, the more they struggle the more they are captive. — Bryant McGill

We are responsible for our captivity to sin. In our foolishness, we forget God. However, God intervenes! — Louie Giglio

It was as if in captivity, her brilliant plumage were losing its brilliance. She felt the metamorphosis. She knew she was moulting. — Anais Nin

Patience is a rare plant to cultivate in captivity. — Sandra Leigh Price

I hate to witness animals in captivity - or see circus elephants paraded down the streets. When animals are caged, it's a loss of what they are. — K.A. Applegate

I can't mate in captivity. — Gloria Steinem

To live with unforgiveness is to become a captive cultured citizen whose taxation is that of demonically ticketed torment. — Tracey Bond

Other men condemned to exile and captivity, if they survive, despair; the man of letters may reckon those days as the sweetest of his life — Benjamin Disraeli

Liberate yourself from any mental captivity. — Lailah Gifty Akita

God would rather have His people living in shameful captivity in a pagan land than living like pagans in the Holy Land and disgracing His name. — Warren W. Wiersbe

The first type of captivity consists in man's dependence on creatures, animate or inanimate, when he loves them without reference to God. — Johannes Tauler

Prisoner of Her Own Captivity — Brandalynn Davis

If I should ever be captured, I want no negotiation - and if I should request a negotiation from captivity they should consider that a sign of duress. — Henry A. Kissinger

Liv sagged against the wall. Their son was kidnapped and trained as a sex slave. Jesus, they were in serious fucking denial about his captivity. — Pepper Winters

The notion that one can liberate another soul from captivity is an illusion of the very young. — Iris Murdoch

Bitterness is captivity. — Lailah Gifty Akita

The rule of captivity is to bend, not break. — Nathaniel Fick

I like this documentary, starring her in captivity, better. — Jay Clark

Places of confinement providing free food and medical care are called prisons. — John Lilly

Stop going to the zoos! Don't take your children to the zoos! No creature ever deserves captivity without any crime! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

That there is also freedom in captivity, only a prisoner can claim. Coming from a prison guard, this statement would be blasphemy. — Friedrich Durrenmatt

So every bondman in his own hand bears
The power to cancel his captivity. — William Shakespeare

The caged eagle become a metaphor for all forms of isolation, the ultimate in imprisonment. A zoo is prison. — Nadine Gordimer

The voice is a wild thing. It can't be bred in captivity. — Willa Cather

On entering a place where animals are bred, my first thoughts are always about enslavement. Force. Captivity. — Alice Walker

How can I fight so hard for freedom only to be enticed by captivity? — Kyra Davis

I've always had a repulsion going in a place where animals are in captivity. — Marion Cotillard

Hope is necessary in every condition. The miseries of poverty, sickness and captivity would, without this comfort, be insupportable. — William Samuel Johnson

I am thankful for the kind treatment during my captivity and I ask God to accept me with mercy. — Hans Frank

They were a proud people, cheerful in the face of hardship, strong in the depths of captivity, and ruthless in their pursuit of freedom. — Dan Wells

Even Silence Has an End: My Six Years of Captivity in the Colombian Jungle in — Anne Barone

Captivity is always captivity, no matter how gentle the jailer. — John Hargrove

We tend to seek captivity because we are used to seeing freedom as something that has neither frontiers nor responsibilities. — Paulo Coelho

Once again Toll-by-Night had burst out of its captivity, like a monstrous jack from an innocent-looking box. And this time Mosca was a part of it. — Frances Hardinge

We get into captivity because of our foolishness and we are more foolish that we want to admit. — Louie Giglio

I realized that poverty was a kind of captivity. — Nancy E. Turner

Love, sought as an escape from the burden of the self, turns rapidly into a captivity. — Hugh MacLennan

Please wake me when I'm free
I cannot bear captivity
4 I would rather be stricken blind
Than 2 live without expression of mind — Tupac Shakur

Apes in their own habitat are less sexually driven than those in captivity. It must be that captivity, boredom, breeds lustfulness. — Saul Bellow

Silence, is the mother of prayer, a return from the captivity of sin, unconscious success in virtue, a continuous ascension to heaven. — St. John Climacus

Cage an eagle and it will bite at the wires, be they of
iron or of gold. — Henrik Ibsen

The resurrection power of Jesus broke Satan's captive power. When He led the Old Testament saints from paradise to heaven, He led captivity captive! — Leon Morris

If fame came near to you to get you, you must run away from it very fast! Because this is a matter of freedom and captivity! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

I don't want to be the oldest performer in captivity ... I don't want to look like a little old man dancing out there. — Fred Astaire

Stability and order have always been paid for with captivity and blood. (76) — Mary Doria Russell

That was what made fighting so easy - you could always choose death rather than captivity. — Cornelia Funke

There is no sorrow except in captivity. — Osho

Captive Greece took captive her savage conquerer and brought the arts to rustic Latium — Horace

Release your majestic mind, embrace your untamed inner spirit. Break free from captivity, avoid society.. You were born to be free. — Melanie Muller

In peace, continue your art; in war, continue your art; in freedom, continue your art; in captivity, continue your art! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

[Marriage] happens as with cages: the birds without despair to get in, and those within despair of getting out. — Michel De Montaigne

Ambition begat simony; simony begat the pope and his brethren, about the time of the Babylonish captivity — Martin Luther

No family should have to depend on the labor of its children to put food on the table and no person should be forced to work in captivity. — Hilda Solis

Federal legislation is urgently needed to stop this insanity of wild animals in captivity. — Tippi Hedren

The longer a nation's history, the more wars, invasions, wanderings, and periods of captivity it has seen-the greater the diversity of its faces. — Vasily Grossman

The captivity of Carswell Thorne had gotten off to a rocky start, what with the catastrophic soap rebellion and all. — Marissa Meyer

After being in captivity for so long, I can't begin to describe how wonderful it feels to be home in Canada. — Amanda Lindhout

He didn't like to see animals in captivity. When he looked into their eyes, something in their eyes looked back at him. — Rick Yancey

Everyone has a captivity narrative; today we call it memoir. — Stacy Schiff

We have to bring in captivity every high thing in people's mind. — Sunday Adelaja

A life lived without borders is a life lived in captivity — Todd Stocker

What people mistook for safety was in fact captivity. — Louise Penny

I became very critical of zoos and circuses and keeping animals in captivity. I wish it was against the law. — Christopher Walken

It was like a page torn from a history book, from some historical novel about the captivity of babylon or Spanish Inquisition. — Elie Wiesel

The years in captivity fuels character development — Lailah Gifty Akita

Familiarize yourself with the chains of bondage and you prepare your own limbs to wear them. — Abraham Lincoln

We can easily be led into captivity by seeking other answers to needs and desires that only God can meet. — Beth Moore

A butterfly is like the soul of a person, it dries out in captivity. — Marlene Van Niekerk

I think we have a real obligation when we do have animals in captivity to understand their needs and to care for them as well as we can. — K.A. Applegate

No good ever comes from putting up walls. What people mistake for safety is in fact captivity. And few things thrive in captivity. — Louise Penny

All you need is a little space and a little time - a place to work, and some time to do it; a little self-imposed solitude and temporary captivity. — Austin Kleon