26 Captive Quotes for You to Enjoy

The first step toward success is taken when you refuse to be a captive of the environment in which you first find yourself. Mark Caine

Motivational Success You Yourself First Find Step Taken Environment Toward First Step Refuse Which Success Is Captive

By the will art thou lost, by the will art thou found, by the will art thou free, captive, and bound. Angelus Silesius

Art Will Free Lost Thou Bound Captive Found

The relationship with time changes when you're captive. Ingrid Betancourt

Time Relationship You Changes Time Changes Captive

For any sport to be sustainable, it cannot survive on government or corporate grants alone. The sporting ecosystem needs more investments from businesses, and businesses need to see the returns from their investment in sport. Cricket has achieved that distinction, but I feel a country of a billion-plus people cannot remain captive to one sport. Anand Mahindra

Alone Government Needs People Country Cricket Corporate Distinction See More Remain Investment Investments Feel Ecosystem Sport Returns Survive Any Achieved Sustainable Cannot Grants Businesses Captive Need

I thought of school as a captive audience. It gave me a chance to work on my material. Bonnie Hunt

Work Me School Thought Gave Audience Material Captive Chance

Try not to be either intimidated by or a captive of jargon. Even though it's language, and language is about communication, it often exists actually to obfuscate and to control power and not to communicate. Christie Hefner

Communication Communicate Try Language Power Control Intimidated Though About Exists Often Either Jargon Captive Even Actually

I was a drama teacher, so I had the opportunity to show off in front of a captive audience. I essentially did 13 years of stand-up. Whether my pupils would agree that I was remotely interesting or not is another question. Greg Davies

I was a high school senior and home alone one night with my younger brother. And a guy - gunman - kicked in our front door at our home in New Jersey and held the two of us captive. We escaped. He caught us again. We escaped again. So, a pretty horrific experience. James Comey

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With Barack Obama as president and the super-happening Michelle Obama as First Lady, you would think a new tone, a new tune, a kicky new jazzitude, would have entered Washington discourse, but it remains a landlocked island unto itself, held captive by its tribal fevers. James Wolcott

You Tribal First First Lady Think President Entered Obama Would Remains New Unto Island Discourse Itself Michelle Michelle Obama Lady Tune Barack Barack Obama Held Captive Washington Tone

It was our view of the worst that could befall our people if they were taken captive. So, what was fascinating to me was that somehow it appears the techniques that we have feared most in the world would be used on our people, we are using on people in our custody. Jane Mayer

Me Custody People World Our Our People Worst Would Would-Be Feared Somehow Could Taken Most Were Befall View Used Fascinating Using Captive Appears Techniques

As far as I can see, the best writers in the last two hundred years have been Whitman, Rilke, Proust, Kafka. Their best works: 'Leaves of Grass - 1855;' 'Duino Elegies;' 'The Captive & The Fugitive;' 'The Castle.' Jesse Ball

You're not free until you've been made captive by supreme belief. Marianne Moore

You Made Free Until Supreme Been Captive Belief

This is the 21st century, and you cannot hold a nation captive against their will. Mark Francois

You Will Nation Hold Cannot Against Century Captive

Elephant populations in India and also in the whole of Asia are under severe stress. The captive ones are rendered jobless due to changes in the mode of transport and lifestyle of people. The ones in the wild are also no better off, as the forests are shrinking. Mark Shand

Robots are great. I am saying that now so that when a future civilization of robots takes us captive, they will search through the 'Guardian' web archive and realise I said, 'Robots are great,' and then they'll choose to save me. Matt Haig

I wrote 'My Name is Red' just to remember painting, where the hand does it before the intellect. When I'm captive to it, I'm a happier person. Kierkegaard tells us that a happy person is someone who lives in the present; the unhappy person, someone who lives either in the past or the future. Orhan Pamuk

Future Happy Remember Unhappy Past Before Painting Tells Someone Red Name Wrote Does Intellect Hand Person Just Where In The Past Either Happier Us Happy Person Who Captive Lives Present

The answer was that in Burundi, having a clean bill of health has taken on a very particular meaning: unless and until you have paid for your hospital treatment, you simply can't leave, you are in effect a captive. Rowan Williams

The rise of digital technology put marketers in a bind. No longer a captive audience, consumers were splitting their time across devices, social networks and websites. Shawn Amos

When you think about brands and movie studios and everybody who is trying to reach millennials, having a captive audience in the back of Lyft or an Uber is a pretty great place. Troy Carter

Great You Think Everybody Back Pretty About Having Great Place Studios Reach Audience Brands Trying Movie Place Who Captive Millennials

Our bodies are held captive, but our pursuit of freedom cannot be contained. Joshua Wong

Freedom Our Pursuit Contained Cannot Held Bodies Captive

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