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
A few months ago I told the American people I did not trade arms for hostages. My heart and my best intentions still tell me that`s true, but the facts and the evidence tell me it is not.
Ronald Reagan
You must avoid giving hostages to fortune, like getting an expensive wife, an expensive house, and a style of living that never lets you aford the time to take the chance to write what you wish.
Alexis Redmond
We`re trying to get some movement going, to appeal to the kidnappers and make them understand there`s nothing to be gained from this and the right thing to do is release (the hostages).
Terry Anderson
We are extremely pleased. Taking product companies as hostages has never been a solution. I am glad to see that things are getting back to normal.
Barbara Reyelts
Unprovoked attacks on Israel`s borders, murdering Israeli soldiers, taking Israeli hostages and showering rockets targeting and killing Israeli civilians are not furthering any legitimate goal.
Aiko Uemura
The issue of terrorism must be dealt with firmly. We must work very hard to avoid loss of life. We must work very hard to avoid civilian casualties. And those terrorists and Baathists are holding the people of Fallujah hostage. We must release the hostage...
Ahmed Kamal
If it includes threats to the life or physical integrity of individuals taking no active part in hostilities, or the taking of hostages, such action would be a grave violation of international human rights standards.
Ian Martin
He that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune; for they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief.
Francis Bacon
At the beginning, because the lives of the hostages were at stake, then during this silent period we have taken several measures like not accepting the ultimatum of the terrorists threatening to kill our foreign affairs minister.
Aidan O`Rourke