Hostage Situation Quotes

#1. You make it sound almost like a hostage situation," I tease. "It's love, darling," he says and then adds, feigning an evil grin, "It takes everyone hostage.

E.K. Blair

#2. Yes, you're very very old
But try to think of it as not being cursed
After all, in a hostage situation
You'd be released first!

John Walter Bratton

#3. You ever want to negotiate a hostage situation in Quebec, I'm your man. Send me in for a little parley and the francophone miscreants will flee, hands over bleeding ears.

Will Ferguson

#4. If someone with multiple personalities threatens to kill himself, is it considered a hostage situation?

George Carlin

#5. I've been in true love many times. I just try to avoid it as much as possible. For if there's one thing I know about true love, it is that sooner or later, it results in a hostage situation.

Kinky Friedman

#6. If a person with multiple personalities threatens suicide, is that considered a hostage situation?

Steven Wright

#7. You can't get much more liberal than John Kerry is. I mean, he's my candidate, but, I mean, come on.

Don Imus

#8. President Obama and I disagree on policy with Israel. He seems to say ... 'We want peace, but we want to act like Switzerland. We're going to be a neutral party to everyone.' I think that's negotiating from weakness.

James Lankford

#9. That's right, folks. This is the sort of novel that starts with a fucking Venn diagram. Buckle up, bitches.

Robert Kroese

#10. You and I are the force for transformation in the world. We are the consciousness that will define the nature of the reality we are moving into.

Ram Dass

#11. When we're connected to others, we become better people.

Randy Pausch

#12. Mozart combines serenity, melancholy, and tragic intensity into one great lyric improvisation. Over it all hovers the greater spirit that is Mozart's - the spirit of compassion, of universal love, even of suffering - a spirit that knows no age, that belongs to all ages.

Leonard Bernstein

#13. We think the world is ours forever, but we are little more than squatters.

Alexander McCall Smith

#14. Forgive yourself first. Release the need to replay a negative situation over and over again in your mind. Don't become a hostage to your past by always reviewing and reliving your mistakes. Don't remind yourself of what should have, could have or would have been. Release it and let it go. Move on.

Les Brown

#15. The debate we won't be having is whether or not the debt ceiling should be raised. We will not have a situation where people will hold the American economy hostage in order to achieve a specific agenda - at least not until 2013. So we think that is incredibly important as a matter of economic good.

Jay Carney

#16. And yet the quality of the life is good. All human potentialities are in it. Given proper conditions, it could live through the centuries, and great men, heroes and masters, spring from it and make the world better by having lived.

Jack London

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

Dave Cullen

#18. Outsiders are way more likely to approach your organization with fabulous projects if they think they're likely to both get a good reception and succeed when they get to market.

Seth Godin

#19. Music is like comedy in that you can enjoy a very - for want of abetter word - sophisticated classical piece as much as you enjoy something that's very simple pop.

Kate Bush

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

Shannon Celebi