Captive Greece took captive her savage conquerer and brought the arts to rustic Latium
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JEANIENE FROST Captive Audience
DAVID IVES Whose words all ears took captive. -All 's Well that Ends Well. Act v. Sc. 3.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Therefore now shall they go captive with the first that go captive, and the banquet of them that str...
BIBLE Let him come to Charcy, with his hithertos and his wherefores, and there he will find me, and with a...
C.S. PACAT The crow commands, the captive must obey.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN All other states where it has occurred have been states where there are captive breeders, and some s...
MICHAEL SERAPHIN quite simply, they have a captive audience.
CLARK JOHNSON The relationship with time changes when you're captive.
INGRID BETANCOURT She was owner and captive, both, of a bitterly divided heart.
GUY GAVRIEL KAY She had simply shed the mantle of slavery as easily as she had worn it, making him realize that she ...
JOHANNA LINDSEY If he was to be treated no better than an animal, he would at least learn the limits of his cage.
SHIRA ANTHONY Anyway, it's easy to be what people want: give them something to stare at, nod and smile, tell them ...
LUCY CHRISTOPHER If you pull some lame-ass 'I'm your father' bullshit, right now, I'm going to lose it.
MARTIN LEICHT When laced into his clothing, Laurent's dangerous grace lent him an almost androgynous quality. Or p...
C.S. PACAT To get what you want, you have to know exactly how much you are willing to give up.
C.S. PACAT And simple truth miscalled simplicity,
And captive good attending captain ill.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE I've become a captive of my own ambitions.
PATSY CLINE Thou hast ascended on high, thou hast led captivity captive.
BIBLE Call the police, my husband's been holding me captive since 8 a.m.
BRUCE GRAHAM The liberal intelligentsia has allowed its party to become a captive of corporate interests.
RALPH NADER You're not free until you've been made captive by supreme belief
MARIANNE MOORE There is no other advertising medium that truly holds people captive.
JENNIFER STEFANO Knowledge can never imprison you, but you can be captive to your ignorance.
A.E. SAMAAN Seek freedom and become captive of your desires. Seek discipline and find your liberty.
FRANK HERBERT Seek freedom and become captive of your desires, seek discipline and find your liberty.
FRANK HERBERT Advertising in the past has been predicated on a mass market and a captive audience.
HOWARD RHEINGOLD Your perspective on life comes from the cage you were held captive in.
SHANNON L. ALDER Our goal is to strengthen our global risk management through this captive insurance company.
KOJI KOBAYASHI I could see what God was doing. I had a captive audience.
ANNE ANGELELLI And He drove down those of the followers of the Book who backed them from their fortresses and He ca...
QURAN People often believed they were safer in the light, thinking monsters only came out at night.
C.J. ROBERTS I lack," said Laurent, "the easy mannerisms that are usually shared with," you could see him pushing...
C.S. PACAT But he would give the Spainish no satisfaction. When they offered him a drink, he smashed the glass ...
MARC ARONSON In recent months, the emotional aspect has become as necessary to me as the physical. It amuses me, ...
ANNA ZAIRES If you wanted to kill me, why haven't you smothered me in my sleep?" "No sport in that." She gesture...
SANDRA BROWN It was with a shock that he felt the touch of Laurent's fingers against the back of his wrist. [...]...
C.S. PACAT The collar came first, and when Guerin drew it from his neck he felt the collar's absence like a lig...
C.S. PACAT We've been running a captive-breeding programme with the boreal toad ( Bufo boreas ) since 1995,
CYNTHIA CAREY We're talking about a very captive audience. And this is one way to grab a guy's undivided attention...
JAMES HITCHCOCK Through television and movies, our society is a virtual captive of an entire world of violence
ROBERT E. MCAFEE, MD. If it weren’t for her setting me free, I may still be a caged bird today, holding my own daughter ...
RAQUEL CEPEDA Grudges are a waste of perfect happiness. To forgive is to set a captive free and discover the hosta...
LILY CHATTERJEE Athens, the eye of Greece, mother of arts
And eloquence.
JOHN MILTON Athens, the eye of Greece, mother of arts / And eloquence.
JOHN MILTON You're not free until you've been made captive by supreme belief.
MARIANNE MOORE Heav'n first taught letters for some wretch's aid,
Some banish'd lover, or some captive maid.
ALEXANDER POPE In many cases, captive colonies will be our only short-term way of avoiding extinction.
CLAUDE GASCON Our hearts are all prison walls when we hold people captive with chains of unforgiveness.
IKECHUKWU IZUAKOR Lack of space is the reason for most of the ailments that captive elephants are suffering from.
CAROL BUCKLEY The best mistakes are made when the worst of heart breaks occur. When Love is blind and the captive,...
SOLANGE NICOLE Glory drags all men along, low as well as high, bound captive at
the wheels of her glittering car.
...
HORACE (QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS) Not by prayers alone will a captive be freed, but by another man’s prayers matched by his deeds.
JOHN KRAMER By the will art thou lost, by the will art thou found, by the will art thou free, captive, and bound...
ANGELUS SILESIUS And the seasons, they go round and round,/ And the painted ponies go up and down./ We're captive on ...
JONI MITCHELL You've got a captive audience of all 32 teams, and that's something you don't have at (an on-campus ...
GIL BRANDT If one has never known freedom, it is easy to be blind to the gridirons composing one's cell.
NENIA CAMPBELL Military families on or near base are a captive audience for everyone from used car salesmen to payd...
MARY SHAPIRO I hope when people hear us it makes their day. We're saying something, declaring something, liberati...
JAKE HAWS Your fetus is a captive diner, eating in a uterine cafe that you're catering, ... What To Eat When Y...
HEIDI MURKOFF There is no excuse for keeping wild animals in amusement parks or circuses. Until our governments ta...
PETER SINGER We are not in the business of iron ore. Whatever captive iron ore sources we have, we use it to make...
LAKSHMI MITTAL We are not in the business of iron ore. Whatever captive iron ore sources we have, we use it to make...
LAKSHMI MITTAL Under Illinois law, these captive customers are entitled to regulated rates and consumer protections...
LISA MADIGAN Therefore, she hummed the provincial lullaby she had learned from the officers’ children in the En...
V.S. CARNES The first step toward success is taken when you refuse to be a captive of the environment in which y...
MARK CAINE the train rolls by the cows
grazing in the meadows
.. and they hear the moos
the frightened cries
of...
O ANNA NIEMUS What white woman, however lonely, was ever captive or insulted by me? Yet they say I am a bad Indian...
SITTING BULL It's good in a sense that it diversifies revenue sources so they are not held captive by any one mar...
LEO VENEZUELA In the end if you give it another 5-years, it's reasonable to bet that offshore captive centers will...
BEN TROWBRIDGE A picture held us captive. And we could not get outside it, for it lay in our language and language ...
LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN Since all limestone mines are captive mines of cement plants and mining regulations are poor, cement...
CHANDRA BHUSHAN Oh, Jacques, we're used to each other, we're a pair of captive hawks caught in the same cage, and so...
TENNESSEE WILLIAMS Sceptical Ketman is widely disseminated throughout intellectual circles. One argues that humanity do...
CZESłAW MIłOSZ Sometimes I hate him. When he does the dishes, he shakes off each one before setting it in the dryin...
TARRYN FISHER I am alive, and drunk on sunlight.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN That isn't why. She would have chosen him even if you'd had royal blood in your veins, even if you'd...
C.S. PACAT Nicaise had picked up a gilt three-pronged fork, but had paused before sampling the dish in order to...
C.S. PACAT The Regency,' said Laurent, addressing the troop, 'thought to take us outnumbered. It expected us to...
C.S. PACAT Divine love does not weigh down, nor carry his servant captive and enslaved to the lowest depths, bu...
GIORDANO BRUNO I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
KELLY JONES To death do I hand them over, with the fetters of death they have been bound. To the evil messengers...
ATHARVA VEDA The rise of digital technology put marketers in a bind. No longer a captive audience, consumers were...
SHAWN AMOS The captive birds no longer flew
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and Avian Spongiform Encephalopa...
O ANNA NIEMUS The LORD shewed me, and, behold, two baskets of figs were set before the temple of the LORD, after t...
BIBLE I'm fighting now only for individual captive dolphins and dolphins in general but also for people, f...
RICHARD O'BARRY Until the rise of American advertising, it never occurred to anyone anywhere in the world that the t...
GORE VIDAL Once I was free in the shackles of sin:
Free to be tempted, just bound to give in;
Free to...
JOHN F. MACARTHUR JR. Gov. Bush says his approach to this issue is working. Environmentalists say that he has been captive...
ALAN MILLER Each day I was more vulnerable than the last. Each day he stripped away more of my sense of self. An...
C.J. ROBERTS There's not a lot that can be done when it occurs in a wild animal. Obviously it's much easier to co...
MICHAEL SERAPHIN Anarchism is the great liberator of man from the phantoms that have held him captive; it is the arbi...
EMMA GOLDMAN What breadth, what beauty and power of human nature and development there must be in a woman to get ...
ALEXANDER HERZEN We have to be conscious of the fact that it's a captive audience. There are going to be children. Th...
AMY KUDWA It takes the strength of a Greek god to untangle yourself from the twisted sheets of slumber and thr...
COLLEEN LAUKKA It seems that it is madder never to abandon one's self than often to be infatuated; better to be wou...
MARGARET FULLER Believe in yourself, your abilities and your own potential. Never let self-doubt hold you captive. Y...
ROY BENNETT We were like captive animals that had lost the will to fight. We even went so far as to defend the v...
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HORACE I teach that all men are mad.
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HORACE In the word of no master am I bound to believe.
HORACE He will always be a slave who does not know how to live upon a little.
HORACE Gold will be slave or master.
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HORACE In labouring to be concise, I become obscure.
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HORACE When you introduce a moral lesson, let it be brief.
HORACE Be ever on your guard what you say of anybody and to whom.
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HORACE It is the false shame of fools to try to conceal wounds that have not healed.
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HORACE Rule your mind or it will rule you.
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HORACE The foolish are like ripples on water, For whatsoever they do is quickly effaced; But the righteous ...
HORACE Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.
HORACE Force without wisdom falls of its own weight.
HORACE Mediocrity is not allowed to poets, either by the gods or man.
HORACE Whatever advice you give, be brief.
HORACE Those that are little, little things suit.
HORACE They change their climate, not their soul, who rush across the sea.
HORACE Make a good use of the present.
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HORACE The years as they pass plunder us of one thing after another.
HORACE The covetous man is ever in want.
HORACE Once a word has been allowed to escape, it cannot be recalled.
HORACE Make money, money by fair means if you can, if not, but any means money.
HORACE It is when I struggle to be brief that I become obscure.
HORACE He wins every hand who mingles profit with pleasure.
HORACE He who has begun has half done. Dare to be wise; begin!
HORACE With silence favor me.
(Favete Linguis)
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HORACE The appearance of right oft leads us wrong.
HORACE Remember when life's path is steep to keep your mind even.
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HORACE I will not add another word.
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HORACE Faults are soon copied.
HORACE In adversity remember to keep an even mind.
HORACE Wisdom is not wisdom when it is derived from books alone.
HORACE In peace, as a wise man, he should make suitable preparation for war.
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HORACE The disgrace of others often keeps tender minds from vice.
HORACE It is of no consequence of what parents a man is born, as long as he be a man of merit.
HORACE Words will not fail when the matter is well considered.
HORACE A word once uttered can never be recalled.
HORACE Youth is unduly busy with pampering the outer person.
HORACE There is measure in all things.
HORACE With you I should love to live, with you be ready to die.
HORACE Whoever cultivates the golden mean avoids both the poverty of a hovel and the envy of a palace.
HORACE Seize the day, put no trust in the morrow!
[Carpe diem, quam minimum credula postero.]
HORACE Cease to ask what the morrow will bring forth. And set down as gain each day that Fortune grants.
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HORACE Testy, querulous and given to praising the way things were when he was a boy.
HORACE The mountains will be in labor, and a ridiculous mouse will be born.
HORACE Seize the day, and put the least possible trust in tomorrow.
HORACE It's a good thing to be foolishly gay once in a while.
HORACE I shall not altogether die.
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HORACE Alas, Postumus, Postumus, the fleeting years are slipping by.
HORACE Apollo does not always keep his bow strung.
HORACE If a better system is thine, impart it; if not, make use of mine
HORACE Cease to inquire what the future has in store, and take as a gift whatever the day brings forth.
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