Hugh Laurie

I feel like a hostage to fortune. Not that I am complaining. I wanted to play the role. But in truth I didn't think the show would be such a success. OK, I thought it would fail. Not because it was bad. I was confident it was good, but plenty of good things just sort of wither on the vine.

British Actor

Sam Harris

Almost all our suffering is the product of our thoughts. We spend nearly every moment of our lives lost in thought, and hostage to the character of those thoughts. You can break this spell, but it takes training just like it takes training to defend yourself against a physical assault.

American Author

Benazir Bhutto

I have led an unusual life. I have buried a father killed at age 50 and two brothers killed in the prime of their lives. I raised my children as a single mother when my husband was arrested and held for eight years without a conviction - a hostage to my political career.

Pakistani Leader

Amanda Lindhout

I made a vow to myself while I was a hostage that if I were lucky enough to live and to get out of Somalia, I would do something meaningful with my life - and specifically something that would be meaningful in the country where I'd lost my freedom.

Canadian Journalist

Ingrid Betancourt

In the jungle, every day is like the other. So you need to have a special discipline to make things different and to keep in your memory the dates and the days. And I think that's something that's very important when you are held hostage.

Colombian Politician

Newt Gingrich

If you live your life as a hostage to everybody else's decision, you either have to live a very narrow life, or you have to spend a lot of time in pain.

American Politician

Christopher Voss

In Syria, for some time, they have been trading hostages for a number of things: for weapons, for money, for political influence, and for favors.

American Businessman

Tom Cotton

We have taught Iran's leaders and the world a very bad lesson: that there is a price on the head of Americans to be held hostage.

David Antin

It's hard being a hostage in somebody else's mouth - or a character in somebody else's novel.

American Poet

Wayne Dyer

You can either be a host to God, or a hostage to your ego. It's your call.

American Psychologist

The word 'hostage' often indicates a high-risk situation where lives are in danger.

High Stakes

'Hostage' implies that the captor has demands before releasing the captive.

Demand and Release

Using 'hostage' can evoke strong emotions and a sense of urgency or danger.

Emotionally Charged

'Hostage' signifies a form of leverage or bargaining chip in negotiations.

Leverage

Hostages are often held because they have strategic value to the enemy.

Strategic Value

The term reflects a power imbalance, where the hostage taker has control.

Power Dynamics

In a metaphorical sense, 'hostage' can represent being trapped by non-physical means.

Metaphorical Use

Used figuratively, it can describe someone controlled by a situation or another person.

Figurative Situations

Refers to being a 'prisoner' of concepts like time, society, or addictions.

Conceptual Captivity

 who stood up and said, "This is our state, too." Those are successes that tell me how I can get it done. But they also let me understand the obstacles aren't insurmountable. They're just a little high. But I also understand that there are three things that always hold us hostage.

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 Bechtel test and I don't think it should because there a lot of the movie and oh no if you've seen it but a lot of the movie takes place in this embassy where men and women are hiding out during the hostage crisis we got quite a few scenes of the men having deep angst-ridden

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 I don't know if you've seen it, but a lot of the movie takes place in this embassy where men and women are hiding out during the hostage crisis. We've got quite a few scenes of the men having deep, angst-ridden conversations in this hideout,

 I come to also look at this as this fear that we have as men, this fear that just has us paralyzed, holding us hostage to this man box. I can remember speaking to a 12-year-old boy, a football player, and I asked him, I said,

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 but it doesn't have to be that way. Anybody can have a transformation if we create the space for that to happen. So what I'm asking today is that you envision a world where men and women aren't held hostage to their pasts,

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 these strangers and their words became lifelines, dispatches from people of so many different backgrounds, with so many different experiences, all showing me the same you can be held hostage

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 was nothing compared to that of the other hostages, because, obviously they were scared -- we were all scared -- and they were afraid that, because of me, they would be punished. But for me,

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 three will storm through the terminal doors eliminate the terrorists and free the hostages the next day in total secrecy the army builds a life-sized replica of the terminal they handpick

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 I was afraid we were losing this battle because people were blaming us for being sick. Public policy was being held hostage by stigma and fear, and also held hostage

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