Top 185 Hostage Quotes & Sayings

What the hell am I doing...? Escape holding myself as a hostage...? I won't be able to make it like that.

I had some training on how to cope with hostage-taking.

You are eternity's hostage A captive of mine.

If someone with multiple personalities threatens to kill himself, is it considered a hostage situation?

You can either be a Host to God, or a Hostage to your ego!

Fast food workers are all the governor has power to enact. Your state legislature is held hostage by the same nitwits that hold hostage the federal [government]. People who have confused suffocating collectivism, which is bad, for a necessity to solve collective action problems, which is what all human endeavor is based on.

I was held hostage and almost executed by a man who was robbing us in the middle of the night.

When you have a child, the world has a hostage.

If you think we are going to gain ground by holding the American people hostage, saying that their taxes are at risk, I actually disagree.

The country is indebted, cloaked by an instability that discards the possibility of development and leaves it hostage to foreign financial markets.

Good style in prose is always hostage to the precision, speed, and laconic intensity of poetic diction.

Are you taking my hat hostage?

Many of us are being held hostage by bitterness because we are not willing to give to others what we have been given.

I felt held hostage by her illness and by the backward mental health system that once again was incapable of helping our family in crisis.

This idea of holding the Defense Department hostage to the tax debate makes me sick to my stomach. Knock it off.

I believe it's a real tedious hostage negotiation to have a marriage be what it is.

We have taught Iran's leaders and the world a very bad lesson: that there is a price on the head of Americans to be held hostage.

It was the beauty that caught me and held my soul hostage... Remember those days? Had you smellin' my boxers.

Our bodies hold our minds hostage to their whims and rhythms.

Every happiness is a hostage to fortune.

Primary responsibility for Brexit lies with British conservatives, who took an entire continent hostage.

Although the District of Columbiahas had a ban on handgun sale and possession since 1976, Washingtonresidents are held hostage by the lax gun laws of surroundingjurisdictions.

I wanted to be a hostage negotiator.

In a democracy, hostage tactics are the last resort for those who can’t otherwise win their fights through elections, can’t win their fights in Congress, can’t win their fights for the Presidency, and can’t win their fights in Courts. For this right-wing minority, hostage-taking is all they have left – a last gasp of those who cannot cope with the realities of our democracy.

In the event of war, I'm a hostage.

I think some of our members may have thought the default issue was a hostage you might take a chance at shooting. Most of us didn’t think that. What we did learn is this - it’s a hostage that’s worth ransoming. And it focuses the Congress on something that must be done.

If rejection destroys your self-esteem, you're letting others hold you as an emotional hostage.

Continuity holds the best writer hostage of the worst.

True love usually results in a hostage situation.

Knowing and being secure in yourself keeps you from being held hostage by the approval of others.

God can and will break the labels that have held you hostage.

Humanitarian action cannot be held hostage to political ends.

A nation should not be a hostage to one man's thirst for power, and it won't. Belarusians have woken up. The point of no return has passed.

Children hold us hostage; they represent our commitment to the future.

In a land of freedom we are held hostage by the tyranny of political correctness.

You can either be a host to God, or a hostage to your ego. It's your call.

We call for a bailout for an entire generation that is basically held hostage by unpayable student-loan debt.

Art means nothing if it simply decorates the dinner table of power which holds it hostage.

If you're in public and standing still, don't take a phone call. It's that simple. All you're doing is holding those around you hostage to a one-sided conversation.

Before the TRUTH can set you free,you must first recognize which LIES are holding you hostage.

For as long as our people are held hostage by controllable socio-economic forces, we cannot afford to be indifferent to the ravages of poverty in all its dimensions and ramifications.

We will fight hostage taking like we fight terrorism.

I'm very resourceful. I'd be good in prison. I'd be good in a shipwreck. I'd make a great hostage.

If I were to be taken hostage, I would not plead for release nor would I want my government to be blackmailed. I think certain government officials, industrialists and celebrated persons should make it clear they are prepared to be sacrificed if taken hostage. If that were done, what gain would there be for terrorists in taking hostages?

Has one hostage from Lebanon come back with a photograph of his abductors? Has any hostage ever come back with a photograph of his abductors smiling? I mean, this was so incredible!

Rushdie is a hostage.

Melancholy held me hostage, and the bees built a hive of sadness in my soul.

Uranium is the raw material of a power-elite who has taken Mother Earth's every living creature hostage.

Relations between the United States and Iran can improve but will not get better so long as innocent Americans are held hostage.

We are being held hostage by the people we elect.

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.

I will endanger your species like an ostrich, Hold you hostage, and crazy feed you swine sausage!

In my mind, continuity means the best writer at a company is held hostage by the worst.

If we remain hostage to our past, then we will go nowhere.

A lover is never a completely self-reliant person viewing the world through his own eyes, but a hostage to a certain delusion.

A great nation betrayed the principles which have made it great, and thereby became hostage to hostage-takers.

Do not let the future be held hostage by the past

The people of NSW should not continue to be held hostage to a lowest common denominator approach that privileges the parochial interests of small populations.

Magazines at some point become hostage to their own success.

It's humiliating for Barack Obama and, therefore, the United States to have American sailors held hostage during his final State of the Union.