Captiver Quotes & Sayings

And now he was mine and I said we should not let our love be threatened.
We should not let the family fall apart.
We should not accept an evil we can change.
We would stand up against it, would we not?
Yes. We should.
We would be heroes, even. — E. Lockhart

What should worry us is not the number of people who oppose us, but how good their reasons are for doing so. We should therefore divert our attention away from the presence of unpopularity to the explanations for it. It may be frightening to hear that a high proportion of a community holds us to be wrong, but before abandoning our position, we should consider the method by which their conclusions have been reached. It is the soundness of their method of thinking that should determine the weight we give to their disapproval. We seem afflicted by the opposite tendency: to listen to everyone, to be upset by every unkind word and sarcastic observation. We fail to ask ourselves the cardinal and most consoling question: on what basis has this dark censure been made? We treat with equal seriousness the objections of the critic who has thought rigorously and honestly and those of the critic who has acted out of misanthropy and envy. — Alain De Botton

Gambling is part of the human condition. I love it. I have the best time gambling. I've been winning fortunes, and I've been losing them. — Jerry Lewis

hard-wired to seek love, joy, fulfillment - and health. Though we've too often been talked out of our desires as children, — Christiane Northrup

When you work hard all day with your head and know you must work again the next day what else can change your ideas and make them run on a different plane like whisky? — Ernest Hemingway,

The first thing that happens is I unseal an envelope and Dad's death falls out onto the breakfast table. — Leo Hunt

Miss, I'm sure lots of women think of running away when men disappoint us. But if all of us was to actually do that, there wouldn't be a woman left in London. — Loretta Chase