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  • Too much is demanded by the critic, attempted by the poet.

    Ransom   Too Much   Poet  
  • I just take this job very seriously. It's almost like you play a kid's game for a king's ransom. And if you don't take it serious enough, eventually, one day, you're going to say, 'Oh, I could have done this, I could have done that.'

    Kings   Jobs   Kids  
  • To ignore or use silence is a cruel tool. Hence this quote: Silence is all we dread; there's ransom in a voice; but silence is infinity.

  • Alimony - the ransom that the happy pay to the devil.

    Marriage   Devil   Ransom  
    A Little Book in C Major ch. 6 (1916)
  • Her cheeks were flushed. She caught hold of the Savage's arm and pressed it, limp, against her side. He looked down at her for a moment, pale, pained, desiring, and ashamed of his desire. He was not worthy, not... Their eyes for a moment met. What treasures hers promised! A queen's ransom of temperament. Hastily he looked away, disengaged his imprisoned arm. He was obscurely terrified lest she should cease to be something he could feel himself unworthy of.

    Queens   Eye   Desire  
  • We'll abduct Garian. Or Jason." "And—?" "And dump them into the ocean. Nobody would ever pay a ransom for them.

    Ocean   Jason   Ransom  
    Sherwood Smith (2008). “The Trouble with Kings”, p.79, Samhain Publishing
  • It was called a tribute before a battle and a ransom afterwards.

    Battle   Ransom   Tribute  
    T.H. WHITE (1958). “THE ONCE AND FUTURE KING”
  • 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.

    Gun   Lunch   Needs  
    Jennifer Crusie (2007). “Bet Me”, p.122, St. Martin's Press
  • What I believe when it comes to big things in life, there are no accidents. Everything happens for a reason. You are here for a reason - and it's not to fail and die.

    Ransom Riggs (2014). “Hollow City: The Second Novel of Miss Peregrine's Peculiar Children”, p.49, Quirk Books
  • A nap is not to be confused with sleeping. We sleep to recharge our bodies. We nap to care for our souls. When we nap, we are resting our eyes while our imaginations soar. Getting ready for the next round. Sorting, sifting, separating the profound from the profane, the possible from the improbable. Rehearsing our acceptance speech for the Nobel Prize, our surprise on receiving the MacArthur genius award. This requires a prone position. If we're lucky, we might drift off, but we won't drift far. Just far enough to ransom our creativity from chaos.

  • A real man doesn't have to run from his mother, and may even have to face the reality that no great deed is going to be great enough for him to ransom himself completely, and he may always be in his mother's debt. If he understands that . . . he won't have to feel guilty, and he won't have to please her completely. He can go ahead and be nice to her and let her be part of his life.

    Mother   Running   Real  
  • Remember that mentor leadership is all about serving. Jesus said, “For even the Son of Man came not to be served but to serve others and to give his life as a ransom for many” (Mark 10:45).

    Jesus   Son   Men  
    Tony Dungy (2010). “The Mentor Leader: Secrets to Building People and Teams That Win Consistently”, p.44, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.
  • I have always believed that writing advertisements is the second most profitable form of writing. The first, of course, is ransom notes.

  • Spiritual beings do not sweat life's small stuff. They also know that most of what drives us crazy in life is small stuff. The only thing that isn't small stuff is the reason you're on earth in the first place: to find that portion of the world's lost heart that only you can ransom with your love and authentic gifts and then return it, so that all of us can experience Wholeness.

    Spiritual   Crazy   Heart  
  • Allah said, 'A prophet must slaughter before collecting captives. A slaughtered enemy is driven from the land. Muhammad, you craved the desires of this world, its goods and the ransom captives would bring. But Allah desires killing them to manifest the religion.'

    Land   Enemy   Desire  
  • The resurrection of Christ is one of the foundation stones of Christianity. It was the seal of the great work that He came on earth to do. It was the crowning proof that the ransom He paid for sinners was accepted, the atonement for sin accomplished, the head of him who had the power of death bruised, and the victory won.

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

  • 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.

    "Tar Baby Strikes Again" by William Safire, www.nytimes.com. November 13, 1986.
  • You are guilty of no evil, Ransom of Thulcandra, except a little fearfulness. For that, the journey you go on is your pain, and perhaps your cure: for you must be either mad or brave before it is ended.

    Pain   Fear   Journey  
  • Most of the money given by rich people in "charity" is made up of conscience money, "ransom," political bribery, and bids for titles.... One buys moral credit by signing a cheque, which is easier than turning a prayer wheel.

  • McDonald's offers a king's ransom to any hip-hop artist who is able to put Big Mac into a song. MTV - and more to the point, Viacom - is succeeding in extending a teenage life to twenty-nine or even thirty-one years old. It is about extending this market and removing any intelligent substance in the music.

    Song   Kings   Teenage  
    Interview with Antonino D'Ambrosio, progressive.org. July 20, 2005.
  • Here's the plan. We get the warhead and we hold the world ransom for... ONE MILLION DOLLARS!

    Dollars   World   Ransom  
    "Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery". www.imdb.com. 1997.
  • 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.

    Source: www.foxnews.com
  • 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.

    Ransom   Way   Moments  
  • I'm no expert on girls, but when one tries to pinch you four times, I'm pretty sure that's flirting

    Girl   Flirting   Trying  
    Ransom Riggs (2011). “Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children”, p.175, Quirk Books
  • A man who was completely innocent, offered himself as a sacrifice for the good of others, including his enemies, and became the ransom of the world. It was a perfect act.

    Friday   Jesus   Easter  
    Mahatma Gandhi (2007). “Gandhi on Non-Violence”, p.47, New Directions Publishing
  • That the Creator himself comes to us and becomes our ransom - this is the reason for our rejoicing.

    Ransom   Reason   Rejoice  
    Martin Luther, Helmut T. Lehmann (1986). “Luther's Works: Table talk”
  • We accept without reservation the scriptural teachings that Christ is the Son of God and that he came into the world to ransom men from the spiritual and temporal death brought into the world by the fall of Adam. No one can state too plainly or emphasize too strongly this eternal truth that salvation is in Christ and that it comes because of his atoning sacrifice. Nor can we set forth too clearly the gospel truth that we also must do certain things to be saved.

  • The arts generally have had to recognize Modernism - how should poetry escape?

    Art   Ransom   Should  
  • Put up at the moment of greatest suffering a prayer, not for thy own escape, but for the enfranchisement of some being dear to thee, and the sovereign spirit will accept thy ransom.

    Margaret Fuller, James Freeman Clarke, Ralph Waldo Emerson, William Henry Channing (1852). “Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli”, p.315
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