Hostages Quotes

“When people become prisoners of daily habits and happen to be hostages of choices, which they made in the past, but which they finally do not actually want, they experience the need to abandon their corporeal prison at a certain time in life. ( "Corporeal prison" )”
― Erik Pevernagie

“You made tools of us. Have you never considered: the thing of a tool is that anyone may use it.”
― Erin Bow, The Scorpion Rules

“He that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune.”
― Sorcha MacMurrough, The Matchless Miss

“The idea of hostages is very deep. Becoming pregnant is taking a hostage–as is running a pawnshop, being a bank, receiving a letter, taking a photograph, or listening to a confidence. Every love story, every commercial trade, every secret, every matter in which trust is involved, is a gentle transaction of hostages. Everything is, to a degree, in the custody of every other thing.”
― Renata Adler, Speedboat

“When we deny reason we are prone to holding the rest of the world hostage through the worship of our feelings, thus making feelings no longer sacred and personal and delicate things we can express. Oppositely, this way of life confuses the world and further pushes it to being heartless and unfeeling.”
― Criss Jami

“The ‘China Virus’ has taken hostages at the White House.”
― Steven Magee