Hostage Crisis Quotes

#1. Few Westerners know Iran as well as Robin Wright: her first trip there as a journalist was in 1973, and she has covered every important milestone since, from the Islamic revolution and the hostage crisis to the more recent staring contest with the West over Tehran's nuclear program.

Nancy Gibbs

#2. Then came the hostage crisis during which Carter did nothing to rattle the ayatollahs who hung tough until Ronald Reagan was inaugurated, when they suddenly backed down.

Alexander Haig

#3. In Tehran, the 444 days of the Iran Hostage Crisis was the first world event in which you could literally have live events beamed into your living room. Now, every world event plays out on its own, and as a media event.

Chris Terrio

#4. British diplomats who worked in Iran during the 1980 hostage crisis are deeply upset by Ben Affleck's Oscar-winning film 'Argo,' which suggests they refused shelter to the group who managed to get out of the U.S. embassy.

Simon Hoggart

#5. I just keep going. When the water's too still, I start splashing around and things jump out of the water.

Erykah Badu

#6. Having stumbled upon a tolerable career, for the first time in my life I was actually living above the poverty line. My hunger to climb had been blunted, in short, by a bunch of small satisfactions that added up to something like happiness.

Jon Krakauer

#7. In fairy tales, the children are saved by caring adults. We need more caring adults in the lives of our children.

Donna Shalala

#8. Sure. You two are whack jobs separately. Together, you're a goddamn nut house.

Sylvia Day

#9. It's you. My heart...wants you.

Colleen Hoover

#10. On your journey, remember there is no end. That is true knowledge. There is no final knowledge. There is no final enlightenment, that is a very finite, human way of seeing things.

Frederick Lenz

#11. Love is about giving freedom and power, not about gaining control or possession.

Jeffrey Fry

#12. We leave a piece of ourselves and our magic in a person that we fall in love with.

Taylor Swift

#13. The big-time journalists generally had kidnapping insurance through their news organizations. Usually, it would pay for a crisis response company to help negotiate for a hostage's release. Freelancers most often had none.

Amanda Lindhout

#14. That's when this warm feeling buzzes through you and you smile to yourself, knowing God's watching you, knowing that He knows you're trying to be strong to please Him.

Randa Abdel-Fattah

#15. There is no honor in cruelty.

Jocelyn Murray

#16. When you want a thing so badly for so long, and then it comes time to face that you cannot have it, sometimes - '
'Sometimes you can't believe it when it comes to you. Sometimes you're afraid to believe it. I understand your hesitation.

Robin Hobb

#17. The goal with hostages is to gradually lower expectations; in nonhostage crises, it's to lower emotions.

Dave Cullen

#18. I felt held hostage by her illness and by the backward mental health system that once again was incapable of helping our family in crisis.

Mira Bartok

#19. Just five minutes, God, I chant like some hostage negotiator on the brink of a resolution. Five minutes alone. Please, please. Please.

Shannon Celebi