Ransoming Quotes

#1. I think some of our members may have thought the default issue was a hostage you might take a chance at shooting. Most of us didn't think that. What we did learn is this - it's a hostage that's worth ransoming. And it focuses the Congress on something that must be done.

Mitch McConnell

#2. The ransoming of captives has been practiced by Jews for many centuries and has been regarded as a greater obligation than charity for the poor.

Elliott Abrams

#3. It was cold out there, bitter, biting, cutting, piercing, hyperborean, marmoreal cold, and there were all these Minnesotans running around outdoors, happy as lambs in the spring.

Charles Kuralt

#4. You can't ascribe great cosmic significance to a simple earthly event. Coincidence. That's all anything ever is. Nothing more than coincidence.

Scott Neustadter

#5. Never had movement been such a burden. Never had a heart been so definite and big in her adolescent chest.

Markus Zusak

#6. What we really are seems much more like an obscure system of energy out of which choices and visible acts of will emerge at intervals in ways which are often unclear and often dependent on the condition of the system in between moments of choice.

Iris Murdoch

#7. People have a greater tolerance for evil than for violence. If crooked gamboling, thieving and robing are covered over folks will tolerate it longer than out right violence, even when the violence may be cleansing.

Louis L'Amour

#8. You never know what you're going to share. I can play, I know what is written - the marks, the things the composer tells me to do - and I do it, but it will still sound different each day.

Igor Levit

#9. Aren't I lucky, to have survived so much bad luck.

Ashleigh Brilliant

#10. I think we all want to find the love of our life and live our fantasies. What art student hasn't used his art to get girls? What journalists or actors haven't used their craft as well? It's a very human instinct to pursue.

Max Minghella

#11. We ... must avoid the impulse to live only for today, plundering for our own ease and convenience the precious resources of tomorrow.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

#12. I just got a body wave because I wanted it to look good when it was down.

Christy Romano

#13. I stand entwined in fire on the inextinguishable bonfire of inconceivable love.

Daniel Handler