Hostage Quotations

If people are informed they will do the right thing. It's when they are not informed that they become hostages to prejudice.

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.

Simon Monjack had nothing to do with 'Factory Girl.' He filed a frivolous lawsuit against us... making bogus claims that we had stolen his script. He held us literally to hostage and we were forced to settle with him as he held our production over a barrel.

My sister married an American and took his name, and my brother has shortened Sayrafiezadeh to Sayraf. So now he's Jacob Sayraf, or sometimes Jake Sayraf. He made the change when he was a teenager, prior to the Iranian revolution and the hostage crisis. So I don't think it was motivated by any anti-Iranian sentiment in the United States.

I would hate to see operations in the Congo held hostage to Sierra Leone but I really think that's the way it's got to be. At one point we've got to decide to get it right and we've got to be professional.

In short, it is not that evolutionary naturalists have been less brazen than the scientific creationists in holding science hostage, but rather that they have been infinitely more effective in getting away with it.

I made a vow to myself while I was a hostage that if I were lucky enough to live and to get out of Somalia, I would do something meaningful with my life - and specifically something that would be meaningful in the country where I'd lost my freedom.

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

In many ways I'm similar to Barack Obama, who also has a strange name but was raised by a white American mother. His background is far more complicated than his name would suggest. Furthermore, the fact that I was a child during the hostage crisis has caused me to equate being Iranian with being alienated.

You can't let your past hold your future hostage.

I was opposed to the government mandating that restaurants not allow people to smoke, believing it becomes the customer's choice whether they go in or not. But then, I thought, 'What about the employees? Aren't they hostage to a smoking environment, even if they don't smoke?'

I feel like a hostage to fortune. Not that I am complaining. I wanted to play the role. But in truth I didn't think the show would be such a success. OK, I thought it would fail. Not because it was bad. I was confident it was good, but plenty of good things just sort of wither on the vine.

Magazines at some point become hostage to their own success.

Few Westerners know Iran as well as Robin Wright: her first trip there as a journalist was in 1973, and she has covered every important milestone since, from the Islamic revolution and the hostage crisis to the more recent staring contest with the West over Tehran's nuclear program.

We're looking for bodies, and we're looking for a hostage taker.

Death is a scandal. The machine is functioning, we are all hostages

Every happiness is a hostage to fortune.

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

The fact of the matter is (Brazil's) currency had to fall. The whole (Brazilian) economy and interest rates were being held hostage to the currency. You had to keep interest rates high, and therefore hammer the economy in an attempt to hold the currency up.

You are eternity's hostage A captive of mine.

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

Libya ... claims to defy international norm, yet at the same time it is hostage to international markets. Libya has nothing more than gas and oil and these are export products,

Losses build character. After the loss to Sim, we held him hostage to work harder and do more on the mat. He came back and beat him. And that fueled his fire.

Serbia has a concrete and tangible EU perspective, but Serbia has to make sure that its future is not taken hostage to certain obstacles.

shouldn't be held hostage to threats of litigation.

News that four foreign oil workers held hostage by Nigerian militants have been released (was) helping prices to ease back a bit.

If they're being taken solely for the purpose of drawing their men out of hiding, it can even appear to look like hostage taking.

I have spent seven of the 12 years I have been married a victim of political persecution. I must be the first male spouse being held hostage by a regime. I accept this, as Pakistan has traditional elements who find it hard to reconcile with a man whose wife works and who other men salute perforce of her office.

Giving some poor fellow three days to live -- that made me a participant. I made it very clear after that: I want nothing more to do with any hostage tapes. Any that you give me will not see the light of day.

What I see is a quagmire developing because the rules adopted by the Nevada Tax Commission are not clear. The system is going to be held hostage by not having a rulebook.

Law enforcement is in total control of the situation. It is a hostage situation. It's contained to one room of the hotel. Our guests and employees have been evacuated from the immediate area.

is being held hostage by mugs, thugs, murderers and intimidators.

I remember the moment in which we were taken hostage in Libya, and we were asked to lie face down on the ground, and they started putting our arms behind our backs and started tying us up. And we were each begging for our lives because they were deciding whether to execute us, and they had guns to our heads.

Our market will be largely hostage to what's going on globally this week.

Our military is being held hostage by this issue, Arctic drilling.

We are aware that some NGO (non-governmental organization) workers have been taken hostage within Kalma camp.

We do not believe that bilateral relations between India and Pakistan ought to or can be held hostage by any single issue,

We have uncovered a plot by coup leaders, their civilian supporters and communist insurgents to take military and government officials hostage and force the President to step down and then install a transition government.

Time and time again BA is being held hostage by unions. BA needs desperately to work on its human resources and management between unions.

Transportation Workers Union (TWU) officials are not only holding New York City and its economy hostage to their self-serving demands, but they are potentially jeopardizing the jobs of New York City's 30,000 mass transit workers.

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We are in touch not only with the hostage takers but with the hostages themselves.

Whether it's bomb squads, hostage negotiation teams, civil disturbance units, emergency medical service units, fire departments -- you name it and it's going to be on standby or staged for an event like this.

We still don't know who or which group in Somalia took them hostage and why. As we all know, the political situation in Somalia is still uncertain and there are many armed groups there.

Rushdie is a hostage.

We shouldn't hold the budget hostage for issues over tax increases or transportation. They can be resolved in a special session later.

We're trying to go the distance for a change, but we're basically hostage to these geopolitical events. We're not going to sustain anything consistently on the upside until we get a resolution to this thing.

We believe that very, very soon we should be able to reach the hostage takers. We've put in place a very powerful committee.

we are working on to confirm what happened to him. We will exert maximum effort to have him released safely and as soon as possible, if he was indeed taken hostage or injured gravely.

We will fight hostage taking like we fight terrorism.

We're not holding anyone hostage. The faculty and the students are both being held hostage by a management that refuses to negotiate.

Why should the rest of the people of Northern Ireland be held hostage by the IRA? Why should we not be allowed to proceed with the democratic process?

While fundamentals are tight in several of the metals, they cannot justify current valuations. Markets are, instead, held hostage by the growing amount of investment and speculative money out there that is increasingly finding its way into commodities.

There are a combination of forces which could be positive, on net. The market's been held hostage by the election and Iraq, and those may at least temporarily fade as preoccupations if better economic news takes hold.

And yet, Republicans have held hostage every penny of relief until the Senate passes their special interest tax breaks,

I spoke to a lot of parents that were crying when they called not knowing if their kids were safe. This one suspect kept the community hostage for a long time.

Russia has proven it will use energy as a weapon and try to hold countries hostage to their political strong-arm tactics.

People don't want to be held hostage by the fuel companies, and in an emergency situation, if all else fails, they could find a piece of wood to heat the house.

After last week's great run, the market is directionless. We're somewhat hostage until we get more proof that the economy is slowing.

After last week's great run, the market is directionless, ... We're somewhat hostage until we get more proof that the economy is slowing.

Do you know in what conditions such video are made? Do you think I was free to say what I wanted? To be a hostage means one is not free to talk freely in a video. Yes, they gave me food, drink and medicine, but I was captive, without light, without nothing. But do you think I was free to say the kidnappers didn't treat me well?

This is definitely an inconvenience. The parents are being held hostage because they are making it inconvenient for us until they get the tax issue they want.

They've been held hostage to pretty tough operating conditions. You want to be able to deliver good results into current market conditions but they haven't been able to do that.

American politics as you know . . . is very often a matter of capture the flag. The party that loses the flag, as the Democratic party did basically from 1972 through the Iran hostage crisis, is in trouble.

You can't look at the history of hostage taking over the last few years in Iraq and have confidence in that outcome,

There's always that question of what do you do first thing in the morning-hair and makeup or do you go and set up the shot. You can't be at all places at all times. So you have to try and not hold yourself hostage and be methodical about the work and hope that the weather gods will smile.

It is regrettable that this report was published, ... If this sort of report ... continues to be made public, it will very much impede the Peruvian government's efforts to end the hostage crisis.

It makes the government look horrible they would do that to a family, that they would hold her hostage that way.

The officer was able to strategically gun this guy down before he was able to kill his hostage, ... It appeared he was about to kill his hostage before this officer put an end to it.

They created an issue. They want the taxpayers of Ada County to pay to solve the issue. And they want to hold motorists hostage until they get the terms to their liking. It's extortion, plain and simple.

The nation's energy needs will be hostage to politically unstable states unless the government's energy policy promotes clean coal technology and new nuclear power build.

In a lot of ways we're hostage to the weather. . . . Everybody is kind of keeping their eye on the thermometer, seeing where that's going.

In the near-term, the euro seems to be hostage to downside risks against the Japanese yen due to growing interest for Asian currencies as a whole, and this is likely to weigh on the euro against the dollar.

I personally think it is absurd, but the market is again hostage to the U.S. Nasdaq index. Our problem is a lack of volume.

How can one accept that the political debate in our country is being held hostage by some false accusations and manipulations.

Fishing makes us less the hostages to the horrors of making a living.

He's indicated he's got a service worker hostage and holding a child and he claims to be armed. We think this may have domestic roots.

Do not let the future be held hostage by the past

It is worth emphasizing that Iran released our hostages in 1981 the day Ronald Reagan was sworn into office.

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

Oddly enough, I find the best hostages are the live ones. - Karl

The markets so far have been unable to build on yesterday's gains, and right now are being held hostage by the bond market. But we are seeing some strength in semiconductors, energy stocks and some of the metals companies.

You and I both know that as long as our representatives are held hostage to their funders - and their funders are not all of us - our system will not work

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

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

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