Hostage Taking Quotes

#1. We will fight hostage taking like we fight terrorism.

Ali Abdullah Saleh

#2. I had some training on how to cope with hostage-taking.

Richard Engel

#3. Over the next sixteen years, I would grow close to the ringleaders of the infamous Peterhead Prison Riot and hostage-taking incidents would loom large in my life.

Stephen Richards

#4. Just win. Period.

Vikrmn

#5. I love that moment, when you stop struggling to stay awake and your eyelids shut sink down and you slip effortlessly into another realm that's beckoning to you.

Rachel Klein

#6. It was inelegant, but what was not when taking a hostage?

Thomm Quackenbush

#7. Interest groups are not the same as individuals. Through false nostalgia for the New Deal, you are taking the younger generation hostage. They are the ones who are going to have to pay far greater taxes. They are the future's forgotten men.

Amity Shlaes

#8. The greatest fault of the day is the absence of stillness.

Hazrat Inayat Khan

#9. I'm made from a lot of unfulfilled arson.

Jenny Lawson

#10. Are you taking my hat hostage?

Derek Landy

#11. When I hear [about a housing bubble] I get the sense that people aren't connecting the dots.

James K. Glassman

#12. I was an overnight sensation.

Elvis Presley

#13. The first one, obviously, was walking into my office at eight o'clock in the morning on Wednesday, and being told there was a telephone call saying that there was an incident at Three Mile Island, and that it had shut down and that beyond that we didn't know.

William Scranton

#14. The only thing that ever scared him was finding out there was something he couldn't do, so he damn well made sure there was anything he couldn't.

Joey W. Hill