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#hostage

Read through the most famous quotes by topic #hostage




I remember the last three days that I was president, I never went to bed at all. I never went to bed until we had negotiated the final release of the hostages. ↗


— Jimmy Carter


#days #final #had #hostages #i

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

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. ↗


— Phillip E. Johnson


#been #brazen #creationists #effective #evolutionary

We have good security. It's hard to get in here. Barring a tactical entry where terrorists come in and hold us hostage, that's about the only thing that could possibly warrant me carrying a gun in the clubhouse. That's highly unlikely, and I admit that. But my personal belief is I don't want to suffer from the poor choices of others. ↗


— Luke Scott


#admit #barring #belief #carrying #choices

The issue of terrorism must be dealt with firmly. We must work very hard to avoid loss of life. We must work very hard to avoid civilian casualties. And those terrorists and Baathists are holding the people of Fallujah hostage. We must release the hostages. ↗


— Ahmed Chalabi


#casualties #civilian #civilian casualties #dealt #firmly

Hannah expected this to make her sob even more, but instead she found her tears drying up and her tummy growing warm. How dare they? How dare they do this to little girls? She understood now why her parents go so angry when they saw the result of bombers in the white hot streets of the Middle East, why men and women wailed in anger as well as grief as they lifted the limp bodies of children from the rubble. How dare they? No, she wasn't going to die like this, wrapped up like some helpless baby. ↗


— Stephen M. Irwin


#bombs #captive #captured #child #courage

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

The debate we won't be having is whether or not the debt ceiling should be raised. We will not have a situation where people will hold the American economy hostage in order to achieve a specific agenda - at least not until 2013. So we think that is incredibly important as a matter of economic good. ↗


— Jay Carney


#agenda #american #american economy #ceiling #debate

Every happiness is a hostage to fortune. ↗


— Arthur Helps


#fortune #happiness #hostage

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






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