#hostage

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

— William Hurt

#executed #held #hostage #i #man

Rushdie is a hostage. ↗

— Don DeLillo

Unprovoked attacks on Israel's borders, murdering Israeli soldiers, taking Israeli hostages and showering rockets targeting and killing Israeli civilians are not furthering any legitimate goal. ↗

— Alcee Hastings

#attacks #borders #civilians #furthering #goal

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

— Charlayne Hunter-Gault

#do the right thing #hostages #informed #people #prejudice

He that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune; for they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief. ↗

— Francis Bacon

#either #enterprises #fortune #given #great

I'm 100% Celt. In fact, I'm directly related to the progenitor of the high kings of Ireland, Niall of the Nine Hostages. ↗

— Brian Cox

#fact #high #hostages #i #in fact

In fact, this is a blackmail of the terrorists at the expense of the suffering of the hostages. ↗

— Alberto Fujimori

#fact #hostages #in fact #suffering #terrorists

I have a wife, I have sons: all of them hostages given to fate. ↗

— Lucan

#given #hostages #i #sons #them

The feeling of not belonging, of not being entirely worthy, of being sometimes hostage to your own sensibilities. Those things speak to me very personally. ↗

— Anthony Minghella

#belonging #entirely #feeling #hostage #me

I was shooting a bikini promotion in Mahe in the Seychelles in 1980 when there was a military coup and I, along with a roomful of other people, ended up being kidnapped and held hostage at gunpoint in a windowless room with no ventilation for 36 hours. ↗

— Brigitte Nielsen

#being #bikini #coup #ended #held