Ransom Quotes

I do not hold God ransom to my success; whatever is his will is my way. I stand by moments; I do not stand by time.

I have always believed that writing advertisements is the second most profitable form of writing. The first, of course, is ransom notes.

Till now poets were privileged to insert a certain proportion of nonsense - very far in excess of one-half of one per cent - into their otherwise sober documents.

One of the most ignored dimensions of the Iraqi insurgency are the Iraqis themselves who are regularly abducted, held for ransom and sometimes executed.

When critics are waiting to pounce upon poetic style on exactly the same grounds as if it were prose, the poets tremble.

Alimony - the ransom that the happy pay to the devil.

That the Creator himself comes to us and becomes our ransom - this is the reason for our rejoicing.

I have just realized that the stakes are myself I have no other ransom money, nothing to break or barter but my life

Here's the plan. We get the warhead and we hold the world ransom for... ONE MILLION DOLLARS!

You're here for a reason and it's not to hoard a lot of physical stuff.

It was called a tribute before a battle and a ransom afterwards.

And how can poetry stand up against its new conditions? Its position is perfectly precarious.

Too much is demanded by the critic, attempted by the poet.

I rode in a gang. We robbed trains, banks, held people ransom. We killed people we didn't like. Bill Williamson was in that gang. If I don't capture my former brother-in-arms, great harm will befall my family.

The arts generally have had to recognize Modernism - how should poetry escape?

Well,' said Ransom, 'if it is a delusion, it's a pretty stubborn one.

I'd like to be called Ransom Spunk or Spunk Ransom.

Pity was meant to be a spur that drives joy to help misery. But it can be used the wrong way round. It can be used for a kind of blackmailing. Those who choose misery can hold joy up to ransom, by pity.

I receive Thee ransom of my soul. For love of Thee have I studied and kept vigil toiled preached and taught.

Being born he have himself as our Companion, Eating with us he gave himself as Food, Dying He became our Ransom, Reigning he gives himself as our Reward

We'll abduct Garian. Or Jason." "And—?" "And dump them into the ocean. Nobody would ever pay a ransom for them.

Mexico has many more kidnappings than the United States. The U.S. has very few kidnappings.The reason is, in the United States, we don't pay ransom. We turn it over to the FBI. They catch the person. And then, of course, we used to have the death penalty for it. Now it's life in prison. In Mexico, everybody pays. It's a business.

No family of an American hostage has ever been prosecuted for paying a ransom for the return of their loved ones. The last thing we should ever do is to add to a family's pain.

Put up at the moment of greatest suffering a prayer, not for thy own escape, but for the enfranchisement of some being dear to thee, and the sovereign spirit will accept thy ransom.

The Church limits her sacramental services to the faithful. Christ gave Himself upon the cross a ransom for all.