Until the rise of American advertising, it never occurred to anyone anywhere in the world that the teenager was a captive in a hostile world of adults.
The creative writer is usually captive to his next book.
In England they always try out new mobile phones in Isle of Man. They've got a captive society. So I said, you should try the legalization of all drugs on the Isle of Man and see what happens.
I've become a captive of my own ambitions.
We're the most captive nation of slaves that ever came along. The moral timidity of the average American is quite noticeable. Everybody's afraid to be thought in any way different from everyone else.
My conscience is captive to the Word of God
There was no such thing as perfect privacy, life was a perpetual concert-hall recital with a captive audience.
Captive people have a need for song.
That's how it goes, my friend. The problem is not falling a captive, it's how to avoid surrender.
I was sorry to lose it, and if you make me another one, I promise not to get taken captive by bandits and have to use it to save my life.
Neither this nation nor this party can afford a candidate so captive to the demands of the intolerant right that we end up re-electing a president of the incompetent left.
Make me a captive Lord, then I shall be truly free.
Religion has treated knowledge sometimes as an enemy, sometimes as a hostage; often as a captive and more often as a child; but knowledge has become of age, and religion must either renounce her acquaintance, or introduce her as a companion and respect her as a friend.
My favorite job is being a father. I have four girls now. They're a captive audience.
Heav'n first taught letters for some wretch's aid, Some banish'd lover, or some captive maid.
But love is what we want, not freedom. Who then is the unluckier man? The beloved, who is given his heart's desire and must for ever after fear its loss, or the free man, with his unlooked-for liberty, naked and alone between the captive armies of the earth?
A good storyteller can hold everybody captive without the special effects of Hollywood.
War proves nothing. To kill a man does not prove that he was in the wrong. Bloodletting cannot change men's spirits, neither can the evil of men's thoughts be driven out by blows. If I go to my neighbor's house, and break her furniture, and smash her pictures, and bind her children captive, it does not prove that I am fitter to live than she - yet according to ethics of nations it does. I have conquered her and she must pay me for my trouble; and her house and all that is left in it belongs to my heirs and successors, forever. That is war!
Emotions are captive to reality
Knowing you’re worthless doesn’t give you value any more than knowing you are a captive sets you free.