Hostage Negotiator Quotes

#1. I think we both need to work on our communication skills. (Kiara) I tried that once. (Nykyrian) And? (Kiara) Darling told me that I could never hold a job as a suicide counselor or hostage negotiator. He said my failure rate would become the stuff of legends. (Nykyrian)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#2. Speak to your darkest and most negative interior voices the way a hostage negotiator speaks to a violent psychopath: calmly, but firmly. Most of all, never back down. You cannot afford to back down. The life you are negotiating to save, after all, is your own.

Elizabeth Gilbert

#3. Their arguments always went like this. The angrier Madeline got, the more freakishly calm Ed became, until he reached a point where he sounded like a hostage negotiator dealing with a lunatic and a ticking bomb. It was infuriating.

Liane Moriarty

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

Shannon Celebi

#5. Working on a movie like 'Prince of Persia' was awesome. It was great fun to be an action hero and to jump around, running off walls and fighting and having great quippy lines.

Jake Gyllenhaal

#6. I have a boyfriend who's a ghost, I thought. Of course I'm living in a dreamworld.

Jeri Smith-Ready

#7. Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence. In other words, it is war minus the shooting.
(in "The Sporting Spirit", Tribune, GB, London, December 1945)

George Orwell

#8. Never take anything at face value. Dare to question and seek the truth.

Mike Colter

#9. If an economy in the doldrums could drift indefinitely, the price of government inaction might be graver by far than the consequences of bold unorthodoxy.

Robert Heilbroner

#10. I glance over in his direction and can't help but feel like he sure looks as if he moved right along to his Pamela Anderson wanna be.

L.M. Trio

#11. But it was very stupid of me not to see that of course the friend of Juliana must be this Mary Challoner. It was stupid of you too, Rupert. More stupid.

Georgette Heyer

#12. I was born in England - though both of my parents are American - and there's something about the 'Muppets' where they have this combination of English and American humor.

Nicholas Stoller

#13. Celebrity mentality sometimes misguides us to make wrong choices. That's why T.V screens sometimes lie to us!

Israelmore Ayivor

#14. This crisis is not just a crisis. Consumers are understanding for the first time that [their] degree of personal happiness doesn't rise past a certain earnings threshold.

Fernando Rodes Vila

#15. At the moment, the general perception ... is that the United States is an unreliable friend and a harmless enemy.

Bernard Lewis

#16. Poetry is the honey of all flowers, the quintessence of all sciences, the marrow of wit, and the very phrase of angels.

Thomas Nashe

#17. I have Immortal longings in me.

William Shakespeare

#18. To successfully gain a hostage's safe release, a negotiator had to penetrate the hostage-taker's motives, state of mind, intelligence, and emotional strengths and weaknesses. The negotiator played the role of bully, conciliator, enforcer, savior, confessor, instigator, and

Chris Voss

#19. Why do they call it the Department of Interior when they are in charge of everything outdoors?

Steven Wright

#20. Everything happens for a reason, but not everything needs to be explained

Erin Mack Smith