Hijack Quotes

“People listening to songs are like people reading novels: for a few minutes, for a few hours, someone else gets to come in and hijack that part of your brain that's always thinking. A good book or song kidnaps your interior voice and does all the driving. With the artist in charge you're free for a little while to leave your body and be someone else.”
― Douglas Coupland, Player One: What Is to Become of Us

“Whatever criticism we may have for Jonah, at least it can be said that Jonah was consistent. This legalistic, over-judgmental, young prophet will consistently proscribe the most severe form of punishment for the guilty--even when the guilty party is himself. The young Jonah hijacks written Torah to condemn everyone--even himself.”
― Michael Ben Zehabe, A Commentary on Jonah

“The days of passengers sitting still during plane hijackings ended with 9/11. Before then, the worst that would have happened was that you'd probably spend a few days on a runway in a banana republic while the hijackers made their demands. On September 11th, 2001, it was just fireballs of instant death as the planes got deliberately crashed by the terrorists. From that point on, passivity was never an option again.”
― Stewart Stafford

“At some point I would have to realize that my feelings, instincts, wants, and desires were highly unreliable and unpredictable things to base my wellbeing upon. I already knew they were not capable of satisfying, but I kept letting them call the shots. More than that, I let my feelings hijack my life like a teen thug committing grand theft auto. Only I gave them the keys.”
― Michael J Heil, Pursued: God’s relentless pursuit and a drug addict’s journey to finding purpose