(81 quotes found)
“In Lowell, Indiana, there was a four-hour hostage standoff in a bank. The bank customers were made to line up and stand still for hours . . . just like in a regular visit.”
Bill Maher
“Did you ever notice they never take any fat hostages? You never see a guy coming out of Lebanon going: I was held hostage for seven months and I lost 175 pounds, I feel good and I look good and I learned self-discipline. That's the important thing.”
Denis Leary
“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
“The feeling of not belonging, of not being entirely worthy, of being sometimes hostage to your own sensibilities. Those things speak to me very personally.”
Anthony Minghella
“There are a number of elements involved with hostage-taking,”
Barham Salih
“It's not like anyone is holding them hostage. We just kind of felt it was up to that individual. That's always been our thinking on it.”
Bill Parker
“A concrete criminal group was identified, an organizer of the abductions was arrested and an approximate location of the hostages was determined,”
Aslan Maskhadov
“We don't need to hold schoolchildren hostage to a controversial proposal.”
Bob Ekey
“The officer was able to strategically gun this guy down before he was able to kill his hostage, ... It appeared he was about to kill his hostage before this officer put an end to it.”
Brent Mull
“We're looking for bodies, and we're looking for a hostage taker.”
Brian Harrison
