Held Captive Quotes

#1. The plan of God for your life is that you should be held captive by His power, doing that which you in the natural world would never do, but that which you are forced to do by the power of the Holy Ghost moving through you.

Smith Wigglesworth

#2. The nights and days had merged, trapped in that little house held captive by a stubborn old woman.

Srividya Srinivasan

#3. Of course Will was right again. But I realized clearly for the first time how desperate our plight was. It has been foolish to think we could rescue Kai. Now, wherever he is, it couldn't be worse than being held captive by pirates. Even cannibals were more trustworthy.

Cameron Stracher

#4. My name is Valentin Belrov. I have a sister called Inessa Belrov. I have a love called Zoya Kostava. They are being held captive. I have to set them free!

Tillie Cole

#5. In the winter of 1973, the American POWs held captive in Vietnam were released according to the terms of the Paris Peace Accords.

Annie Jacobsen

#6. A Christian is held captive by anything that hinders the abundant and effective Spirit-filled life God planned for him or her.

Beth Moore

#7. 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

#8. If I'm going to be held captive by social media, I'm going to use it against itself.

Michelle Shocked

#9. It's just as well I'm not claustrophobic. Even so, being held captive in a bottle was not how I'd planned to spend my weekend. It was also one of the most undignified positions I've ever been in; a water sprite can be squished down pretty small, but it doesn't mean we enjoy the process.

Deborah Jay

#10. She stretched beneath him, bare and aching, held captive by an entirely new form of magic, one she'd thought existed only in books and movies.

Christine Warren

#11. True sincerity reveals a powerful form of clarity and discernment that is necessary in order to perceive yourself honestly without flinching or being held captive by your conditioned mind's judgments and defensiveness.

Adyashanti

#12. But 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.

Tim Gunn

#13. People whose magic could affect others in an overt manner didn't need to bite, he imagined, nor would they allow themselves to be held captive

Terry Goodkind

#14. NICUs are like the bowels of the technological underworld. They are places where infants are literally held captive for weeks and months and subjected to all manner of painful and torturous medical procedures, most of the time without being given any form of pain relief whatsoever.

Jeanice Barcelo

#15. Sometimes, we are unable to break free because we are held captive by divine assignment because in our problem God has given us a unique purpose.

Shannon L. Alder

#16. Pain immobilizes people. Pain locks them in place so they spend hours, days, and lifetimes held captive.

Christopher Greyson

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

Kobe Bryant

#18. It has got to the point in this country where men believe they are men, just because that is their birthright. If that is true, then, by the same logic, an animal held captive in a zoo is still a free wild beast.

William Powell

#19. My greatest struggle is to coexist while watching the people I love choose less than life-supporting paths via drugs, alcohol, or poor lifestyle decisions. There is so much to life; my heart breaks watching someone held captive by addiction.

Mike Love

#20. Democracy is held captive, not just by money, but by ideas - the ideas that money buys.

William Greider

#21. Obsession; when thoughts are held captive and no longer your own.

Donna Lynn Hope

#22. You should go update your Match profile with that information. The ladies will be lining up outside, because nothing screams romance like being held captive in a cage.

Jennifer L. Armentrout

#23. The voice of the Dreamer often pushes us to escape. When we listen to her voice, our dreams are held captive. We dream things shaped by heaven but twisted by the world, things of escape and vacation and eternal lounging.

Emily P. Freeman

#24. We're not only held captive by our sin, but also by the delusion of our righteousness. Resting in God's grace isn't just about confessing your sin; it's about forsaking your righteousness as well.

Paul David Tripp

#25. Narnia, held captive by the "post-Christian" Telmarines, cannot be rescued and renewed until Peter and Edmund exercise their masculine gifts to defeat the Telmarine army while Susan and Lucy exercise their feminine gifts to wake up the trees from their deep slumber.

Louis A. Markos

#26. Your perspective on life comes from the cage you were held captive in.

Shannon L. Alder

#27. What breadth, what beauty and power of human nature and development there must be in a woman to get over all palisades, all fences, within which she is held captive!

Alexander Herzen

#28. He was once a captive in her attic. Now she was the one held captive, enraptured by his unwavering trust.

Pam Godwin

#29. Trauma is personal. It does not disappear if it is not validated. When it is ignored or invalidated the silent screams continue internally heard only by the one held captive.

Danielle Bernock

#30. Go free those held captive, and free the souls who are bound in the darkness." -Driscoll

Brittany L. Engels

#31. Learn to forgive others so that you can release yourself from being held captive by the very negative thoughts around you.

Stephen Richards

#32. Yes"
Somehow, I wasn't surprised to hear his low voice. I opened my eyes, and Asher's fierce, unblinking stare held me captive. I couldn't think while trapped by the power of that intent look.
"Yes what?"
"Yes, you're worth dying for.

Corrine Jackson

#33. I'll go gentle, baby," he whispered against my lips. "I promise. You'll always be safe with me."
Oh. My.
"Mitch," I breathed.
His soulful eyes held mine captive as he repeated firmly, "Always.

Kristen Ashley

#34. He'd mesmerized her, held her soul captive. And she couldn't move.
"Unless you want more than a dream," he said.
She did.
"Will you stay?" he whispered. "Or will you go?"
She stayed. Heaven help her, she stayed.
And Michael showed her just how romantic a library could be.

Julia Quinn

#35. Bran held his voice leve. "In time,you will regret these words. You may hold me captive now, and believe me helpless. But each foulword you speak of her brings your death a little closer."
Bran to Eamonn

Juliet Marillier

#36. It was ironic; he held her captive, yet she'd captivated him.

Jeaniene Frost

#37. Once upon a time, Caleb held me captive in the dark, now he used it to seduce me.

C.J. Roberts

#38. Valten's blood boiled at the thought of Ruexner holding Gisela, of him taking her by force, dragging her away from underneath Valten's nose, from his own home.

Melanie Dickerson

#39. Even if I am simply one more woman laying one more brick in the foundation of a new and more humane world, it is enough to make me rise eagerly from my bed each morning and face the challenge of breaking the historic silence that has held women captive for so long.

Judy Chicago

#40. A picture held us captive. And we could not get outside it, for it lay in our language and language seemed to repeat it to us inexorably.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

#41. I thought that my invincible power would hold the world captive, leaving me in a freedom undisturbed. Thus night and day I worked at the chain with huge fires and cruel hard strokes. When at last the work was done and the links were complete and unbreakable, I found that it held me in its grip.

Rabindranath Tagore

#42. It was not once upon a time, but a certain time in history, before anyone knew what was happening, that Walt Disney cast a spell on the fairy tale, and he has held it captive ever since.

Jack Zipes

#43. Anarchism is the great liberator of man from the phantoms that have held him captive; it is the arbiter and pacifier of the two forces for individual and social harmony.

Emma Goldman

#44. He held you captive and managed to fall in love with you in the process.

Tahereh Mafi

#45. 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

#46. Free will I have often heard of, but I have never seen it. I have always met with will, and plenty of it, but it has either been led captive by sin or held in the blessed bonds of grace.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon