Top 224 Captive Quotes & Sayings

There is so much to life; my heart breaks watching someone held captive by addiction.

My name is Truth and I am the most elusive captive in the universe.

The relationship with time changes when you're captive.

When we become captive to the Word of God, then we discover true freedom.

We're captive on the carousel of time, we can't return we can only look behind.

Anything you strive to hold captive will hold you captive, and if you desire freedom you must give freedom.

Face your fears and stop allowing the mind to hold you captive.

You are eternity's hostage A captive of mine.

What white woman, however lonely, was ever captive or insulted by me? Yet they say I am a bad Indian.

You take my heart with you, my loving captor." "Nay, Madelyne. I am your captive in body and soul.

A good storyteller can hold everybody captive without the special effects of Hollywood.

My conscience is captive to the Word of God

The creative person is overpowered, captive of and driven by a demon... They become our legendary heroes.

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Somewhere in the archives of crudest instinct is recorded the truth that it is better to be endangered and free than captive and comfortable.

It was ironic; he held her captive, yet she’d captivated him.

There was no such thing as perfect privacy, life was a perpetual concert-hall recital with a captive audience.

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.

In TV the main purpose is to have them keep their hands off the dial. In movies, where you have a captive audience, the opening is intrinsic to the film.

Captive people have a need for song.

The voluntary captive The speechless the prisoner Which I hide in my very depths.

It's weird, I actually like doing interviews now. Ever since I gave up therapy, it's my only time with a captive audience.

The state is captive to vested interests.

Emotions are captive to reality

I've become a captive of my own ambitions.

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!

Make me a captive Lord, then I shall be truly free.

Words have to murder reality before they can hold it captive.

The creative writer is usually captive to his next book.

In the winter of 1973, the American POWs held captive in Vietnam were released according to the terms of the Paris Peace Accords.

You're not free until you've been made captive by supreme belief.

Beauty stands In the admiration only of weak minds Led captive.

Museums are like sports stadiums, hotels and hospitals: they are in the category of captive-audience dining.

The liberal intelligentsia has allowed its party to become a captive of corporate interests.

This is the 21st century, and you cannot hold a nation captive against their will.

Wealth: A cunning device of Fate whereby men are made captive, and burdened with responsibilites from which only Death can file their fetters.

My favorite job is being a father. I have four girls now. They're a captive audience.

Ever since I gave up therapy, it's my only time with a captive audience.

In 'Falling Skies,' I was playing a soldier and a fighter, and then, when I was taken captive, you're still in this post-apocalyptic world.

I thought of school as a captive audience. It gave me a chance to work on my material.

For captive gorillas, trees should be available to climb and material such as straw, branches, or bamboo supplied for nest building.

A mightier love for the Son of God, to overpower and subdue and lead captive these wayward and truant affections of the natural heart - this is what is needed.

I was sorry to lose it, and if you make me another one, I promise not to get taken captive by bandits and have to use it to save my life.

The image cannot be dispossessed of a primordial freshness, which idea can never claim. An idea is derivative and tamed. The imageis in the natural or wild state, and it has to be discovered there, not put there, obeying its own law and none of ours. We think we can lay hold of image and take it captive, but the docile captive is not the real image but only the idea, which is the image with its character beaten out of it.

There is no excuse for keeping wild animals in amusement parks or circuses. Until our governments take action, we should avoid supporting places where captive wild animals perform for our amusement. If the public will not pay to see them, the businesses that profit from keeping animals captive will not be able to continue.

Mind is a captive of the body.

You've been captive for so long that you don't even realize you want freedom anymore.

Ah, thou hast made my heart captive in the endless meshes of thy music, my master!

I was trapped in admiration for what I had once admired, as a fly in amber remains the captive of some long-vanished pine.

What good's a captive without her captor?

Today's public education system is a failed monopoly: bureaucratic, rigid and in unsteady control of dissatisfied captive markets.

They say, 'TV is not a captive audience,' but it definitely is. You can easily switch off the bloody television.

Advertising in the past has been predicated on a mass market and a captive audience.

The world is not going to survive very much longer as humanity's captive.

Glory drags all men along, low as well as high, bound captive at the wheels of her glittering car.

Captive Greece took captive her savage conqueror.

Dreams can never be made captive.

For a lot of people, film is still the dream - the captive audience in the darkened theater - but I love TV. I think it's fantastic.

She was owner and captive, both, of a bitterly divided heart.

Few things hold the perception more thoroughly captive than anxiety about what we have got to say