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Do not let the future be held hostage by the past
— Neal A. Maxwell
Primary responsibility for Brexit lies with British conservatives, who took an entire continent hostage.
— Martin Schulz
Your pet is not your friend. It is your hostage.
— Scott Dikkers
We have a hostage to pay ransom for in the morning so we can use him as ransom when we meet other kidnappers in the afternoon.
— Michael Prelee
I dislike Ted Cruz as much as the next everyone. But that's no reason to be rude to Ted's loving wife and possible hostage.
— Samantha Bee
I was held hostage and almost executed by a man who was robbing us in the middle of the night.
— William Hurt
When we love someone, we're held hostage by fate, because if we lose that person, then we, too, are lost.
— Dean Koontz
The goal with hostages is to gradually lower expectations; in nonhostage crises, it's to lower emotions.
— Dave Cullen
You are eternity's hostage A captive of mine.
— Boris Pasternak
We're all time's captives, hostages to eternity.
— Boris Pasternak
Art means nothing if it simply decorates the dinner table of power which holds it hostage.
— Adrienne Rich
I'm the only one who has permission to hole you hostage, remember?
— Stephenie Meyer
We will fight hostage taking like we fight terrorism.
— Ali Abdullah Saleh
If someone with multiple personalities threatens to kill himself, is it considered a hostage situation?
— George Carlin
In the event of war, I'm a hostage.
— Woody Allen
Why on earth would I try to escape the vile tyrant keeping me held hostage? I have no idea.
— Sarah Michelle Lynch
We cannot repent for someone else. But we can forgive someone else, refusing to hold hostage those whom the Lord seeks to set free!
— Neal A. Maxwell
Russia does not control oil prices - OPEC does. So Russia is a hostage in the hands of those who control these prices
— Christopher A. Pissarides
Are you taking my hat hostage?
— Derek Landy
God can and will break the labels that have held you hostage.
— Craig Groeschel
We're going balls to the wall, guys. Our sneak-and-peak just turned into a hostage rescue.
— Melissa Cutler
I had some training on how to cope with hostage-taking.
— Richard Engel
Uranium is the raw material of a power-elite who has taken Mother Earth's every living creature hostage.
— Petra Kelly
Many of us are being held hostage by bitterness because we are not willing to give to others what we have been given.
— Tony Evans
My throat holds my breath hostage. And my heartbeat? Prestissimo, my music instructor called it in high school. Very, very fast.
— Kennedy Ryan
A great nation betrayed the principles which have made it great, and thereby became hostage to hostage-takers.
— Daniel Inouye
Children hold us hostage; they represent our commitment to the future.
— Barbara Grizzuti Harrison
It's all too easy to fall hostage to the urgent over the important.
— Herminia Ibarra
A lover is never a completely self-reliant person viewing the world through his own eyes, but a hostage to a certain delusion.
— Alexander Theroux
America Held Hostage won 24 Emmys for ABC News, but someone forgot to include my name on the list of people responsible for the show.
— Pierre Salinger
If you empower people in their communities and get them jobs, no one like Dudus Coke can win their hearts and minds and hold them hostage.
— Portia Simpson-Miller
Yes, you're very very oldBut try to think of it as not being cursed
After all, in a hostage situation
You'd be released first! — John Walter Bratton
Magazines at some point become hostage to their own success.
— Graydon Carter
You're passable at demo. You're excellent at hostage.
— Leigh Bardugo
In a land of freedom we are held hostage by the tyranny of political correctness.
— Robert Griffin III
It was inelegant, but what was not when taking a hostage?
— Thomm Quackenbush
In my mind, continuity means the best writer at a company is held hostage by the worst.
— Marv Wolfman
When I see a word held hostage to manhood I have to rescue it. Sweet trembling word, locked in a tower, tired of your Prince coming and coming.
— Jeanette Winterson
Canada was regarded as a hostage to restrain Britain,
— Barbara W. Tuchman
However, if we strike quickly - while Iadon is still ignorant of our intentions - we could get my legion into the palace and take the king hostage.
— Brandon Sanderson
In effect, sanctions take another country's civilian population hostage in order to get its leaders to acquiesce.
— Mike Lofgren
I can hear you cryingI can sense your fear
And not much longer now baby doll
I am getting near. — Frank Julius
It's hard being a hostage in somebody else's mouth - or a character in somebody else's novel.
— David Antin
Lady Peace is the first hostage taken when economic discomfort rises.
— Lois McMaster Bujold
What the hell am I doing ... ? Escape holding myself as a hostage ... ? I won't be able to make it like that ...
— Tsugumi Ohba
I'm very resourceful. I'd be good in prison. I'd be good in a shipwreck. I'd make a great hostage.
— David Letterman
If nostalgia holds you hostage,the ransom is the present. — Khang Kijarro Nguyen
Despite the fact that my household had been turned upside down by my stupidity, this fool was holding my daughter hostage.
— Jessica N. Watkins
Just five minutes, God, I chant like some hostage negotiator on the brink of a resolution. Five minutes alone. Please, please. Please.
— Shannon Celebi
I will endanger your species like an ostrich,Hold you hostage, and crazy feed you swine sausage! — Busta Rhymes
Women rise up! Speak up. Look up. Within you is all the light the world needs to scare away the darkness that holds it hostage.
— Toni Sorenson
Love means knowing when to hold someone hostage." Grinning,
— Bijou Hunter
Before the TRUTH can set you free,you must first recognize which LIES are holding you hostage.
— Prince Ea
His protective wall had become a fortress holding him hostage rather than giving sanctuary.
— Tammara Webber
What you say in anger holds you hostage; only after anger has departed do you see the chains.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
When you have a child, the world has a hostage.
— Ernest Hemingway,
If a person with multiple personalities threatens suicide, is that considered a hostage situation?
— Steven Wright
Every happiness is a hostage to fortune.
— Arthur Helps
Everyone's holding my happiness hostage.
— Donny Miller
Continuity holds the best writer hostage of the worst.
— Marv Wolfman
If rejection destroys your self-esteem, you're letting others hold you as an emotional hostage.
— Brian Tracy
If he was going to be held hostage to this unwanted compulsion, then she was damn well coming along for the ride.
— Nalini Singh
We're going balls to the walls, guys. Our sneak and peak just turned inti a hostage rescue.
— Melissa Cutler
Really, most of the time, I feel like a hostage.
— Jandy Nelson
I tended to hold love hostage in my heart because, if expressed, I feared it might abandon me as many people in my life had.
— Patricia Cornwell
It was the beauty that caught me and held my soul hostage ... Remember those days? Had you smellin' my boxers. — Ghostface Killah
This idea of holding the Defense Department hostage to the tax debate makes me sick to my stomach. Knock it off.
— Lindsey Graham
Holding your brain hostage against your own stupidity - that was how to get stuff done.
— Brandon Sanderson
Melancholy held me hostage, and the bees built a hive of sadness in my soul.
— Laurie Halse Anderson
Rushdie is a hostage.
— Don DeLillo
This hostage stuff is fun.
— Stephenie Meyer
Cade separated the man from his rifle, his hostage and his life, in that order.
— Christopher Farnsworth
We hold each other hostage to our eccentricities." I smiled again, an unseen smile. "We're made for each other.
— Dean Koontz
We've clearly seen that Tea Party Republicans are willing to take our economy hostage just to score political points, but I'm not willing to do that.
— Martin Heinrich
