Quotes with captive

  • What breadth, what beauty and power of human nature and development there must be in a woman to get over all the palisades, all the fences, within which she is held captive!

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  • Simone Weil A man whose mind feels that it is captive would prefer to blind himself to the fact. But if he hates falsehood, he will not do so; and in that case he will have to suffer a lot. He will beat his head against the wall until he faints. He will come to again
    Simone Weil
    French philosopher (1909 - 1943)
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  • Angelus Silesius By the will art thou lost, by the will art thou found, by the will art thou free, captive, and bound.
    Angelus Silesius
    German Catholic priest and physician (1624 - 1677)
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  • Terry Waite Freeing hostages is like putting up a stage set, which you do with the captors, agreeing on each piece as you slowly put it together; then you leave an exit through which both the captor and the captive can walk with sincerity and dignity.
    Terry Waite
     
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  • Tennessee Williams Oh, Jacques, we're used to each other, we're a pair of captive hawks caught in the same cage, and so we've grown used to each other. That's what passes for love at this dim, shadowy end of the Camino Real.
    Tennessee Williams
    American playwright (1911 - 1983)
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  • Frank Herbert Seek freedom and become captive of your desires. Seek discipline and find your liberty.
    Frank Herbert
    American science fiction writer (1920 - 1986)
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  • Mark Caine The first step toward success is taken when you refuse to be a captive of the environment in which you first find yourself.
    Mark Caine
    American writer
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  • Alexander Herzen What breadth, what beauty and power of human nature and development there must be in a woman to get over all the palisades, all the fences, within which she is held captive!
    Alexander Herzen
    Russian journalist and political thinker (1812 - 1870)
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  • Dwight D. Eisenhower Yet, in holding scientific research and discovery in respect, as we should, we must also be alert to the equal and opposite danger that public policy could itself become the captive of a scientific-technological elite.
    Source: Speech, 17-01-1961
    Dwight D. Eisenhower
    American president (1890 - 1969)
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