A Quote by Daniel Quinn

We are all captives of a story.

Daniel Quinn

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Daniel Quinn
American - Writer
Born: October 11, 1935

We are captives, even if our wheat grows over the fences/ and swallows rise from our broken chains./ We are captives of what we love, what we desire, and what we are.

Mahmoud Darwish

You're captives of a civilizational system that more or less compels you to go on destroying the world in order to live. … You are captives—and you have made a captive of the world itself. That's what's at stake, isn't it?—your captivity and the captivity of the world.

Daniel Quinn

Allah said, 'A prophet must slaughter before collecting captives. A slaughtered enemy is driven from the land. Muhammad, you craved the desires of this world, its goods and the ransom captives would bring. But Allah desires killing them to manifest the religion.'

Ibn Ishaq

We are captives of what we love, what we desire, and what we are.

Mahmoud Darwish

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

Boris Pasternak

To the captives, 'come out,' -- and to those in darkness, 'be free.'

George W. Bush

I think that intelligent people to a great extent are captives of their time or place.

Jane Jacobs

Oh,Sara. It is like a story." "It is a story...everything is a story. You are a story-I am a story. Miss Minchin is a story.

Frances Hodgson Burnett

People without an internalized symbolic system can all too easily become captives of the media.

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

For the sake of a dying, suffering world count the cost, pay the price and set the captives free

John G. Lake

I entirely approve the measures proposed by you in relation to the Marines who are lately captives in Tripoli. Therefore execute them.

Robert Smith

Jah come to break downpression, rule equality, wipe away transgression, set the captives free.

Bob Marley

It's so easy to call something a Jewish story or a gay story or a woman's story. Aesthetically, if a story is not universal, it has failed. Your obligation is to the story. One rule creatively, and emotionally, is its universality.

Nathan Englander

There's the story, then there's the real story, then there's the story of how the story came to be told. Then there's what you leave out of the story. Which is part of the story too.

Margaret Atwood

It's only a story, you say. So it is, and the rest of life with it - creation story, love story, horror, crime, the strange story of you and I. The alphabet of my DNA shapes certain words, but the story is not told. I have to tell it myself. What is it that I have to tell myself again and again? That there is always a new beginning, a different end. I can change the story. I am the story. Begin.