Best Captives Quotes

We are all captives of a story.

Mind is a captive of the body.

You can’t be held captive by the fear of failure or the fear of what people may say.

The creative person is overpowered, captive of and driven by a demon… They become our legendary heroes.

This concern with the basic condition of freedom — the absence of physical constraint — is unquestionably necessary, but is not all that is necessary. It is perfectly possible for a man to be out of prison and yet not free — to be under no physical constraint and yet to be a psychological captive, compelled to think, feel and act as the representatives of the national State, or of some private interest within the nation, want him to think, feel and act.

We live in all we seek. The hidden shows up in too-plain sight. It lives captive on the face of the obvious – the people, events, and things of the day – to which we as sophisticated children have long since become oblivious. What a hideout: Holiness lies spread and borne over the surface of time and stuff like color.

For an individual as well as a society, there is a gulf between merely living and living worthily. To fight in a battle and live in glory is one mode. To beat a retreat, to surrender and to live the life of a captive is also a mode of survival.

The attentions of others matter to us because we are afflicted by a congenital uncertainty as to our own value, as a result of which affliction we tend to allow others’ appraisals to play a determining role in how we see ourselves. Our sense of identity is held captive by the judgements of those we live among.

What makes us Christians shrug our shoulders when we ought to be flexing our muscles? What makes us apathetic in a day when there are loads to lift, a world to be won and captives to be set free? Why are so many bored when the times demand action?

We’re all time’s captives, hostages to eternity.

Concepts vs. self-actualization. – Instead of dedicating your life to actualize a concept of what you should be like, ACTUALIZE YOURSELF. The process of maturing does not mean to become a captive of conceptualization. It is to come to the realization of what lies in our innermost selves.

What good’s a captive without her captor?

A mightier love for the Son of God, to overpower and subdue and lead captive these wayward and truant affections of the natural heart – this is what is needed.

A good storyteller can hold everybody captive without the special effects of Hollywood.

Anything you strive to hold captive will hold you captive, and if you desire freedom you must give freedom.

I’ve become a captive of my own ambitions.

That’s how it goes, my friend. The problem is not falling a captive, it’s how to avoid surrender.

We are not in the business of iron ore. Whatever captive iron ore sources we have, we use it to make steel.

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I was a captive and a slave. I loved Dora Spenlow to distraction! She was more than human to me. She was a Fairy, a Sylph, I dont know what she was–anything that no one ever saw, and everything that everybody ever wanted.

You’re not free until you’ve been made captive by supreme belief.

You’ve been captive for so long that you don’t even realize you want freedom anymore.

My conscience is captive to the Word of God

The world is not going to survive very much longer as humanity’s captive.

We are all captives of the picture in our head – our belief that the world we have experienced is the world that really exists.

If I had to choose a single destination where I’d be held captive for the rest of my time in New York, I’d choose the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Democracy is held captive, not just by money, but by ideas – the ideas that money buys.

On from room to room I stray,Yet mine Host can ne’er espy,And I know not to this day,Whether guest or captive I.

Somewhere in the archives of crudest instinct is recorded the truth that it is better to be endangered and free than captive and comfortable.

Words have to murder reality before they can hold it captive.

The state is captive to vested interests.

I was sorry to lose it, and if you make me another one, I promise not to get taken captive by bandits and have to use it to save my life.

The liberal intelligentsia has allowed its party to become a captive of corporate interests.

There was no such thing as perfect privacy, life was a perpetual concert-hall recital with a captive audience.

I entirely approve the measures proposed by you in relation to the Marines who are lately captives in Tripoli. Therefore execute them.