Abducting Quotes & Sayings

I'd made a long list of exceptions to cover the area between "ignoring her completely" and "abducting her at knifepoint. — Dan Wells

His failure hurt too badly for that. It was a bad equation. Best erase it and try a new one.
If adults could put aside their obsessions with such firmness, the world would undoubtedly be a better place. Robertson Davies does not say that in his Deptford Trilogy ... but he strongly hints at it. — Stephen King

Every day I walk myself into a state of well-being and walk away from every illness; I have walked myself into my best thoughts. — Soren Kierkegaard

I've always loved the desert. I've spent most of my life in the Southwest. It's certainly influenced my work. I used to dream about it when I was young. — Joy Harjo

I challenge you, me. Die or live and be great. — Alfred Bester

You can't dingleberry that! That's a flagrant misuse of the dingleberry! — John Green

If we're afraid, sometimes there are things that can feed on that fear. Fear makes it worse for us. The trick is to concentrate on what you can see and stop thinking about yourself. It works every time ... — Joseph Delaney

If abducting the woman I loved was wrong, I didn't want to be right.

A different guy might find a better way to make Raven listen. I wasn't a different guy and I didn't know how to be soft when imagining my woman fucking some loser. Hell, chloroform was as soft as I got when jealousy tore me apart. — Bijou Hunter

We have never denied that it is possible, indeed probable, that other forms of life, even intelligent life, exist in the universe. But this is different from the belief that we are now being visited by extraterrestrial beings in spacecraft, that they are abducting people, and the there is a vast government cover-up. — Paul Kurtz

Are you looking at a dead man now? — Markus Zusak

It seems unwise to allocate a large portion of investable capital to any one deep value opportunity, even if the latter promises a large expected return. — John Mihaljevic

Even the Raven King - who was not a fairy, but an Englishman - had a somewhat regrettable habit of abducting men and women and taking them to live with him in his castle in the Other Lands. Now, had you and I the power to seize by magic any human being that took our fancy and the power to keep that person by our side through all eternity, and had we all the world to chuse from, then I dare say our choice might fall on someone a little more captivating than a member of the Learned Society of York Magicians, but this comforting thought did not occur to the gentlemen inside York Cathedral — Susanna Clarke

The world was full of dangers now that she was pregnant: mercury in tuna, hot tubs, beer, secondhand smoke, over-the-counter medicine. Not to mention crazy baby-abducting fairy kings. — Jennifer McMahon

O, Heart, remember thee That Man is none, Save One. — Coventry Patmore

Success comes when you have the trust on self, passion to transcend, and courage to do. — Amit Ray

Leaving?" she squeaked, bemused, as Max opened her wardrobe. "You're abducting me?"
"Eloping. Eloping involves hurried packing. Abducting involves masked men and a burlap sack. — Kate Noble

In real life, the monsters are the ones abducting and killing children or flying hijacked airplanes into skyscrapers or looting our treasury and sending our kids off to fight a bullshit war just so they can line their own pockets and the pockets of their corporate buddies or eradicating our Bill of Rights in the name of national security. Those are the real monsters. — Brian Keene

One final time I told myself I wasn't abducting my little brother. — Marcus Sedgwick