Ransom famous quotes

I do not hold God ransom to my success; whatever is his will is my way. I stand by moments; I do not stand by time.
-- Akshay Kumar

#Ransom #Way #Moments

One of the most ignored dimensions of the Iraqi insurgency are the Iraqis themselves who are regularly abducted, held for ransom and sometimes executed.
-- Bruce Hoffman

#Ransom #Abduction #Dimensions

I have just realized that the stakes are myself I have no other ransom money, nothing to break or barter but my life
-- Diane di Prima

#Ransom #Break #Stakes

Well, you won't unless you come to lunch with me," Cal said. "I'm holding it for ransom. There's a gun to its heel right now." "I have lunch at my desk," Min began, and thought,Oh, for crying out loud, could I beany more pathetic ? "Emilio is experimenting with a lunch menu. He needs you. I need you.
-- Jennifer Crusie

#Gun #Lunch #Ransom

I rode in a gang. We robbed trains, banks, held people ransom. We killed people we didn't like. Bill Williamson was in that gang. If I don't capture my former brother-in-arms, great harm will befall my family.
-- John Marston

#Brother #People #Ransom

No family of an American hostage has ever been prosecuted for paying a ransom for the return of their loved ones. The last thing we should ever do is to add to a family's pain.
-- Mark Steyn

#Pain #Ransom #Lasts

That the Creator himself comes to us and becomes our ransom - this is the reason for our rejoicing.
-- Martin Luther

#Ransom #Reason #Rejoice

Here's the plan: we get the warhead and we hold the world ransom for… one million dollars!
-- Mike Myers

#World #Ransom #Dollars

I have always believed that writing advertisements is the second most profitable form of writing. The first, of course, is ransom notes...
-- Phil Dusenberry

#Writing #Marketing #Ransom

Progress never defines its ultimate objective but thrusts its victims at once into an infinite series,' Mr. [John Crowe] Ransom said' 'Industrialism,' he declared, 'is rightfully a menial, of almost miraculous cunning, but no intelligence; it needs to be strongly governed, or it will destroy the economy of the household. Only a community of tough conservative habit can master it.
-- Richard M. Weaver

#Community #Progress #Ransom

Mexico has many more kidnappings than the United States. The U.S. has very few kidnappings.The reason is, in the United States, we don't pay ransom. We turn it over to the FBI. They catch the person. And then, of course, we used to have the death penalty for it. Now it's life in prison. In Mexico, everybody pays. It's a business...
-- Rudy Giuliani

#Mexico #Ransom #Pay

We'll abduct Garian. Or Jason." "And—?" "And dump them into the ocean. Nobody would ever pay a ransom for them.
-- Sherwood Smith

#Ocean #Ransom #Pay

It was called a tribute before a battle and a ransom afterwards.
-- T. H. White

#Battle #Ransom #Tribute

I receive Thee ransom of my soul. For love of Thee have I studied and kept vigil toiled preached and taught…
-- Thomas Aquinas

#Soul #Taught #Ransom

Being born he have himself as our Companion, Eating with us he gave himself as Food, Dying He became our Ransom, Reigning he gives himself as our Reward
-- Thomas Aquinas

#Giving #Dying #Ransom

One difference between French appeasement and American appeasement is that France pays ransom in cash and gets its hostages back while the United States pays ransom in arms and gets additional hostages taken.
-- William Safire

#Taken #Differences #Ransom