Captives Quotes
We are captives of what we love, what we desire, and what we are.
Mahmoud Darwish (2013). “Unfortunately, It Was Paradise: Selected Poems”, p.31, Univ of California Press
You're not free until you've been made captive by supreme belief.
Marianne Moore (1994). “Complete Poems”, p.113, Penguin
Tom Robbins (2003). “Another Roadside Attraction”, p.76, Bantam
Words have to murder reality before they can hold it captive.
Simone de Beauvoir (1965). “The prime of life”
The world is not going to survive very much longer as humanity's captive.
Daniel Quinn (2009). “Ishmael: A Novel”, p.26, Bantam
My name is Truth and I am the most elusive captive in the universe.
Carl Sandburg (2012). “Chicago Poems: Unabridged”, p.50, Courier Corporation
Democracy is held captive, not just by money, but by ideas - the ideas that money buys.
William Greider (2010). “Who Will Tell The People: The Betrayal Of American Democracy”, p.39, Simon and Schuster
Ted Dekker (2009). “Bone Man's Daughters”, p.189, Hachette UK
Rabindranath Tagore, Mohit Kumar Ray (2007). “Poems”, p.85, Atlantic Publishers & Dist
When she was rested. she'd find a way to escape. It was the duty of the captive, wasn't it?
Julie Garwood (2010). “Honor's Splendour”, p.31, Simon and Schuster
To the captives, 'come out,' -- and to those in darkness, 'be free.'
Announces End of Major Combat Operations in Iraq, delivered 1 May 2003 from the USS Abraham Lincoln, off the coast of San Diego, CA
Few things hold the perception more thoroughly captive than anxiety about what we have got to say
George Eliot (189?). “Middlemarch”
Camille Paglia (2018). “Free Women, Free Men: Sex, Gender, Feminism”, p.46, Canongate Books
C. S. Lewis (2002). “On Stories: And Other Essays on Literature”, p.144, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt