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“Fighting hard to protect yourself and your relatives is good for your genes, but when captured and escape is not possible, giving up short of dying and making the best you can of the new situation is also good for your genes.”

Giving Hard Home Fighting Situation Family Dying Protect Giving Up Relative Genes Captured Protect Yourself New Situations Fighting Hard

Author:Keith Henson

“The artist had captured a moment that went on suggesting other moments in the mind of the beholder. This, Timmon told me, was what every painter, every singer, every craftsman sought to create.”

Mind Art Moments Artist Singers Painter Captured Suggesting Craftsman Beholder

Author:Jim Grimsley

“We had our own civilization in Africa before we were captured and carried off to this land. We smelted iron, danced, made music and folk poems; we sculpted, worked in glass, spun cotton and wool, wove baskets and cloth. We invented a medium of exchange, mined silver and gold, made pottery and cutlery, we fashioned tools and utensils of brass, bronze, ivory, quartz, and granite. We had our own literature, our own systems of law, religion, medicine, science, and education.”

“...and my signature is drawn in magic markeron the lower right hand corner of the windowso when something passes in the darkit's captured for a moment inside my work.”

Moments Hands Magic Corners Captured Signatures

Author:David Berman

“I think what I love most [about writing] is that feeling that you really nailed something. Sometimes with a line you feel that it really captured what it is that you had inside you and you got it out for a stranger to read, someone who may never love you or meet you, but he or she is going to get that experience from that line.”

Thinking Feels Writing May Sometimes Feelings Lines Love You Stranger Captured

Author:Andre Dubus

“People ask 'How does doing a film compare to doing an ad?' Well, when you're doing a commercial you don't have to sell tickets. You have a captured audience. Which is actually completely rare and great; it gives you a lot of freedom. When you make a film, you have to do advertisements for the film.”

People Giving Wells Doe Film Asks Audience Sells Compare Ads Tickets Captured Advertisements

Author:Mike Mills

“If I was being perfectly honest, which I'm not going to be, I think the movie touches on a lot of things that we all went through... the first kiss, which was more than a first kiss for Harry [Eden], and those electrifying moments when you're a teenager that form who you are as a human being. I think those, for me, are what Baillie captured so well.”

Ifs Thinking Firsts Humans Wells Moments Form Human Beings Honest Kissing Who You Are Teenager Captured Eden First Kiss

Author:Daniel Craig

“My mother's people, the people who captured my imagination when I was growing up, were of the Deep South - emotional, changeable, touched with charisma and given to histrionic flourishes. They were courageous under tension and unexpectedly tough beneath their wild eccentricities, for they had and unusually close working agreement with God. They also had an unusually high quota of bullshit.”

People Mother Given Imagination Growing Up Growing Emotional Tough South Tension Touched Agreement Courageous Bullshit My Imagination Captured Charisma Eccentricity Quota Histrionic

Author:Willie Morris

“We can call this "the progress principle": Pleasure comes more from making progress toward goals than from achieving them. Shakespeare captured it perfectly: "Things won are done; joy's soul lies in the doing."”

Soul Done Joy Lying Goal Pleasure Principles Progress Achieve Captured

Book:The Happiness Hypothesis: Finding Modern Truth in Ancient Wisdom

Source: The Happiness Hypothesis: Finding Modern Truth in Ancient Wisdom

“All writers must go from now to once a upon a time; all must go from here to there; all must descend to where the stories are kept; all must take care not to be captured and held immobile by the past.”

Stories Care Past Take Care Captured

Book:Negotiating with the Dead: A Writer on Writing

Source: Negotiating with the Dead: A Writer on Writing

“Love is not simply a feeling of romantic excitement; it is more than a desire to marry a potential partner; it goes beyond intense sexual attraction; it exceeds the thrill at having "captured" a highly desirable social prize. Real love is an expression of the deepest appreciation for another human being; it is awareness of his or her needs and longings- past, present and future. It is unselfish, giving and caring.”

“You can't direct yourself but if you're in the moment and you feel it, there's nothing more you can do but hope there was some truth captured for the screen.”

Ifs Feels Moments Can Do Direct Screens Captured

Author:Jaime Zevallos

“Each fragrance bottle and name captured a moment in time perfectly.”

Moments Names Bottles Fragrance Captured Moments In Time

Author:Roja Dove

“Saddam was tranquillised when captured ... He would be a lion even when caged. Every honest person who knows Saddam knows that he is firm and powerful.”

Knows Persons Would Be Powerful Honest Firm Lions Saddam Captured Caged Honest Person

Author:Raghad Hussein

“The important thing here to understand is that the people that are at Guantanamo are bad people. I mean, these are terrorists for the most part. These are people that were captured in the battlefield of Afghanistan or rounded up as part of the Al Qaeda network. We've already screened the detainees there and released a number, sent them back to their home countries. But what's left is hard core.”

People Mean Important Country Hard Home Left Numbers Important Things Core Terrorist Als Afghanistan Captured Battlefields Bad People Al Qaeda Guantanamo Hard Core Home Country Detainees

Author:Dick Cheney

“The nature of the new war places a high premium on other factors, such as the ability to quickly obtain information from captured terrorists and their sponsors in order to avoid further atrocities against American civilians.”

War Order Ability Information Terrorist Factors Civilians Captured Atrocities Sponsors Premium

Author:Alberto Gonzales

“It is sufficient to estimate the enemy situation correctly and to concentrate your strength to capture him. There is no more to it than this. He who lacks foresight and underestimates his enemy will surely be captured by him.”

Situation Enemy Sufficient Capture Underestimate Captured Foresight

Author:Sun Tzu

“The Red Army is like a furnace in which all captured soldiers are melted down and transformed the moment they come over.”

Moments Red Army Down And Soldier Transformed Captured Furnaces Red Army

Book:Mao's Road to Power: From the Jinggangshan to the establishment of the Jiangxi Soviets, July 1927-December 1930

Source: Mao's Road to Power: From the Jinggangshan to the establishment of the Jiangxi Soviets, July 1927-December 1930

“The most effective method of propaganda directed at the enemy forces is to release captured soldiers and give the wounded medical treatment... Whenever soldiers of enemy forces are captured, we immediately conduct propaganda among them...This immediately knocks the bottom out of the enemy's slander that the Communist bandits kill everyone on sight.”

Giving Force Enemy Sight Method Bottom Soldier Medical Release Propaganda Treatment Communist Wounded Captured Slander Bandits Medical Treatment

Author:Mao Zedong

“Reality is captured in the categorical nets of Language only at the expense of fatal distortion.”

Reality Language Expenses Captured Distortion

Author:Friedrich Nietzsche

“You have to keep your goal in mind and never lose sight of it. I envisioned myself winning the heavyweight title for ten years before I actually captured it. If you're not driven to do your best, you'll never reach the level of excellence in your life.”

Ifs Years Mind Winning Goal Loses Levels Ten Sight Excellence Driven Titles Captured Heavyweights

Book:God In My Corner: A Spiritual Memoir

Source: God In My Corner: A Spiritual Memoir

“Typically, we make money when we buy things. We count the profits later, but we know we have captured them when we buy the bargain.”

Knows Profit Making Money Captured Bargains

Author:Seth Klarman

“Everywhere you go, people have recorded or captured events in real time on their mobile phones. It becomes one of the first questions you ask when you go in to investigate something.”

People Firsts Real Asks Events Phones Mobile Captured Mobile Phones

Author:Jeremy Scahill

“You are the instruments that God is gonna use to bring about universal change, and that is why Barack has captured the youth. And he has involved young people in a political process that they didn't care anything about. That's a sign. When the Messiah speaks, the youth will hear, and the Messiah is absolutely speaking.”

People Use Care Young Political Speak Process Youth Involved Universal Instruments Barack Captured Messiah

Author:Louis Farrakhan

“John Walker Lindh, a twenty-year-old American studying in Pakistan, was captured in Northern Afghanistan fighting for the Taliban. Experts call it the worst semester abroad program ever.”

Years Fighting Study Worst Program Twenties Experts Afghanistan Pakistan Captured Taliban Walkers Semester

Author:Jimmy Fallon

“I enjoyed learning something and, uh, so I think like with anything in life, in the schoolroom in an artistic endeavor, if you have just a really good teacher, it's inspiring. I certainly use, in my work, I mean, I used to rely heavily on imagery. I was obsessed with this photograph that was in the NY Times of a fish engulfing a smaller fish and this smaller fish had this look in its eyes; it knew what was about to happen and, I don't know how they ever captured such an image, but I've used that for a play I (did). It's called "Saved."”

Ifs Thinking Knows Looks Mean Play Use Happens Eye Used Know How Teacher Photograph Fishes Saved Enjoyed Artistic Obsessed Rely Endeavor Imagery Captured Good Teacher Anything In Life Engulfing

Author:Amy Ryan

“There are photographers who push for war because they make stories. They search for a Chinese who has a more Chinese are than the others and they end up finding one. They have him take a typically Chinese pose and surround him with chinoiseries. What have they captured on their film? A Chinese? Definitely not: the idea of the Chinese.”

Ideas War Ends Stories Film Findings Photographer Chinese Surround Captured

Author:Jean-Paul Sartre

“A red brick Presbyterian church... captured by kudzu vines as surely as a butterfly in a net.”

Church Red Butterfly Bricks Captured Vines Presbyterians

Author:Barbara Ascher

“To get the best picture of a captured prisoner, you have to get him just as he is captured. The expression he wears then is lost forever... The human mechanism is remarkably recuperative. A half hour later, the expressions are gone, the faces have changed. The mother with the dead baby in her arms does not look griefstruck anymore, no matter what she feels.”

Feels Humans Looks Doe Matter Faces Mother Lost Hours Half Gone Forever Changed Expression Baby Arms No Matter What Prisoner Mechanism Captured Half Hours Best Picture Dead Baby

Author:Horst Faas

“If you're lucky enough to have captured maybe two hundred memorable pictures, you still haven't captured that much experience, have you?”

Ifs Stills Two Enough Havens Lucky Hundred Memorable Captured

Author:Phil Stern

“The lover of photography is fascinated both by the instant and by the past. The moment captured in the image is of near-zero duration and is located in a ever-receding then. At the same time, the spectator's now, the moment of looking at the image, has no fixed duration. It can be extended as long as fascination lasts and endlessly reiterated as long as curiosity returns.”

Long Moments Lasts Past Return Lovers Photography Curiosity Fixed Instant Zero Fascinated Spectators Fascination Captured Duration

Author:Peter Wollen

“...liberals said the war was a failure because we hadn't captured Abu Musab al-Zarqawi. Then we killed al-Zarqawi and a half-dozen of his aides in an air raid. Then they said the war was a failure because ... you get the picture.”

Said War Half Air Als Dozen They Said Captured

Author:Ann Coulter

“Now, part of the problem with the climate debate is that so much gas board language like that [the IPCC's language] has been used and there's been too little plain, scientific, and economic thinking. And so, the entire political class has been captured by an idea, which as always with the best bad ideas has a grain of truth in it, which is then exaggerated beyond all reason. This has happened before - one thinks of the Dreyfus case, for instance.”

“he issue of inequality in this country [USA], and the ways that money has captured our political system, are serious indicators of that. And climate change is a game-changer. We really are in serious trouble as a species if we stick with business as usual. We desperately need to find alternatives, and in fact we are surrounded by them.”

“When women are relegated to moods, mannerisms, and contours that conform to a single ideal of beauty and behavior, they are captured in both body and soul, and are no longer free.”

Soul Body Behavior Ideals Mood Conform Captured Mannerisms

Author:Clarissa Pinkola Estes

“Every design is a rigorous attempt to capture a concrete moment of a transitory image in all its nuances. The extent to which this transitory quality is captured, is reflected in the designs: the more precise they are, the more vulnerable.”

Moments Quality Design Vulnerable Capture Concrete Precise Captured Nuance Transitory

Author:Alvaro Siza Vieira

“It is important to remember when making jokes about women, that they are not a minority. They weren't captured on another continent and brought here in leg-irons (funny shoes, yes, but not leg-irons) and Hitler didn't blame them for Germany's loss in WWI. Therefore, you can make any kind of fun of them you want.”

Want Kind Important Remember Fun Loss Jokes Blame Shoes Legs Germany Minorities Iron Continents Remember When Captured Wwi

Author:P. J. O'Rourke

“Scientists who have dedicated their lives to building machines that think, feel that it's only a matter of time before some form of consciousness is captured in the laboratory.”

Thinking Feels Matter Form Consciousness Building Machines Scientist Dedicated Laboratory Captured Matter Of Time

Book:Visions: How Science Will Revolutionize the 21st Century

Source: Visions: How Science Will Revolutionize the 21st Century

“The abuse of prisoners hurts America's cause in the war on terror, endangers US service members who might be captured by the enemy, and is anathema to the values Americans have held dear for generations.”

War Might America Values Causes Hurt Enemy Generations Members Abuse Dear Terror Prisoner Captured War On Terror Anathema

Author:John McCain

“Subjecting prisoners to abuse leads to bad intelligence, because under torture a detainee will tell his interrogator anything to make the pain stop. Second, mistreatment of our prisoners endangers U.S. troops who might be captured by the enemy – if not in this war, then in the next. And third, prisoner abuses exact on us a terrible toll in the war of ideas, because inevitably these abuses become public.”

Ideas War Might Pain Enemy Terrible Thirds Abuse Torture Prisoner Troops Captured Tolls Mistreatment Detainees

Author:John McCain

“He has chosen you, in a mysterious but real way, to make you saviors with Him and like Him. Yes, Christ calls you, but He calls you in truth. His call is demanding, because He invites you to let yourselves be 'captured' by Him completely, so that your whole lives will be seen in a different light.”

Way Different Real Whole Light Christ Whole Life Chosen Mysterious Savior Invites Captured

Author:Pope John Paul II

“So what's the difference between republican and democratic forms of government? John Adams captured the essence of the difference when he said, 'You have rights antecedent to all earthly governments; rights that cannot be repealed or restrained by human laws; rights derived from the Great Legislator of the Universe.' Nothing in our Constitution suggests that government is a grantor of rights. Instead, government is a protector of rights.”

Humans Said Government Form Law Universe Differences Rights Republican Essence Constitution Democratic Captured Forms Of Government Legislators Protector

Book:Liberty Versus the Tyranny of Socialism: Controversial Essays

Source: Liberty Versus the Tyranny of Socialism: Controversial Essays

“Unlike previous wars, our enemy now is a stateless network of religious extremists. They do not obey the laws of war, they hide among peaceful populations and launch surprise attacks on civilians. They have no armed forces per se, no territory or citizens to defend and no fear of dying during their attacks. Information is our primary weapon against this enemy, and intelligence gathered from captured operatives is perhaps the most effective means of preventing future attacks.”

“He [John McCain] is a war hero because he was captured. I like people that weren`t captured.”

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Author:Donald Trump

“I was never a big reader as a kid. My imagination wasn't captured by books very often. It was captured more often by boys and partying and riding horses.”

Book Bigs Kids Imagination Party Boys Reader Horse Riding My Imagination Captured

Author:Bonnie Jo Campbell

“Dear God, I've done so many crazy hair colors and outfits and makeup looks where I look back and it's like, What the hell was I doing? You can't be afraid to make mistakes, you have to take risks. We all have those moments we look back on and wish weren't captured on film, but we're not alone in that.”

Looks Done Moments Film Wish Mistake Hell Risk Crazy Color Hair Dear Making Mistakes Makeup Not Alone Captured Doing You Outfits Dear God

Author:Evan Rachel Wood

“I was charging forward too hard, into too many war zones, working too long, drinking too heavily, pushing forward, pushing forward. And who knows, had this not happened, maybe I would have been one of the casualties as a journalist covering the war. Who knows, maybe I would have been captured and tortured somewhere along the line, because I always pushed things to the limit.”

Knows Long Has Beens War Hard Lines Happened Limits Drinking Journalist Zone Pushing Captured Covering Casualties Charging War Zones Pushing Forward

Author:Brad Willis

“You're always thinking, "What does that add up to?" You can't really get a handle on it. I was curious. I felt like it would be an interesting challenge for me to write down what I'd seen and done and learned - all the convolutions captured in one item that I could look at and get some grip on what the hell happened.”

Thinking Writing Looks Doe Done Would Be Felt Challenges Interesting Hell Happened Add Handle Curious Items Up To You Captured Always Thinking

Author:Richard Hell

“In Zen Buddhism, "The Great Cessation" is a term that points to the abandoning of the effort to define one's self by any outer definition and to give up acts of futility. It is to let the world remain a mystery that cannot be captured by science, language, or any invention of the mind.”

World Giving Mind Self Language Term Effort Mystery Buddhism Giving Up Definitions Invention Captured Futility Zen Buddhism

Author:Mike Scheidt

“Most of the people who come into slavery today, the people who enter into slavery for the first time in the present moment, are not captured, they're not knocked over the head, it doesn't follow the old sorts of mechanisms.”

People Firsts Moments Today First Time Slavery Present Moment Mechanism Captured Slavery Today

Author:Kevin Bales

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