#hostage

To me, nudity is a joke. I don't think nude people are very attractive at all. I like my women fully clothed. I like to imagine what might be under there. It might not be the standard thing. Imagine, stripping a woman down, and she has a body like a little submarine. With periscope, propellers, torpedoes. That would be the one for me. I'd marry her right off and be faithful to the end. ↗

— Charles Bukowski

#humor #faith

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. ↗

— Mira Bartok

#hostage #mental-health #family

It's hard being a hostage in somebody else's mouth - or a character in somebody else's novel. ↗

— David Antin

#character #else #hard #hostage #mouth

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. ↗

— Ibrahim Babangida

#cannot #controllable #dimensions #economic forces #forces

We can't allow the world's worst leaders to blackmail, threaten, hold freedom-loving nations hostage with the world's worst weapons. ↗

— George W. Bush

#freedom-loving #hold #hostage #leaders #nations

At the beginning, because the lives of the hostages were at stake, then during this silent period we have taken several measures like not accepting the ultimatum of the terrorists threatening to kill our foreign affairs minister. ↗

— Alberto Fujimori

#affairs #because #beginning #during #foreign

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. ↗

— Alex Morrison

#decide #get #got #hate #held

The Iranian regime suppresses its own people as well as others in the region. It prevents peace by sponsoring terror globally. With the ultimate weapon that it is deceptively developing, the regime aims to gain hegemony over the entire Middle East and hold the world's economy hostage. ↗

— Shimon Peres

#deceptively #developing #east #economy #entire

Naturally, it is a terrible, despicable crime when, as in Munich, people are taken hostage, people are killed. But probing the motives of those responsible and showing that they are also individuals with families and have their own story does not excuse what they did. ↗

— Steven Spielberg

#crime #despicable #did #does #excuse

She put her tongue out and felt the raw edges of the torn silk. She looped her tongue around them and drew them into her teeth. Just a little bit, she thought, that's all I need to free my eyelids. She pulled the tasteless web between her teeth and ground, pulling her jaw down in a grimace - it felt as it she was eating the very skin off her face. But the silk over her eyelids shifted. ↗

— Stephen M. Irwin

#bound #captive #captured #courage #creepy