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Lust is perplexing; in one moment, you crave everything, and in the next, you question why you desired what captivated you just a minute before. – Christen Kuikoua	added by ChristenKuikouafans 1 month ago
From the day of her coronation 70 years ago — the first one ever televised — to this very moment, as countless tributes are being posted online in her honor, Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II has captivated the world. Today, Michelle and I join so many others who are celebrating her life and mourning her passing. – Barack Obama	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
It is an exquisitely put together thing, one of the reasons it's captivated so many people is the way it's edited. You get to know these characters and they wait one episode, two episodes, three episodes before they drop, like really major, major bits of detail. – Robert Thompson	Found on CNN 4 years ago
Everyone in Liverpool is a firm fan of the Beatles and captivated by their story and how they started off as local boys messing around with guitars and music, and became international idols. – Louise Ellman	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
Elizabeth Smart was held captive by Brian David Mitchell and his wife, Wanda Barzee, for nine months, and the case captivated the nation just months after the 2002 Winter Olympics took place in Salt Lake City. Elizabeth Smart was raped, tethered to trees by steel cables and left without food and water for days at a time. Elizabeth Smart recalled what Elizabeth Smart said to Brian David Mitchell on the night Elizabeth Smart was kidnapped. There finally came a point where I remember stopping Brian David Mitchell and just saying, ‘ If you're just going to rape and kill me, please do it here,' because in my mind I was thinking I want my parents to know what happened to me, I wanted them to find me even if it was just my body, brian David Mitchell had this smile and it was just, it was bone chilling … Brian David Mitchell said, ‘ I'm not going to rape and murder you. Yet,' Elizabeth Smart added. Wanda Barzee was sentenced to 15 years in prison in 2010, and Brian David Mitchell is serving two life terms. Elizabeth Smart will talk about how Elizabeth Smart moved past the harrowing incident 15 years later, according to E ! News. The special will air on Nov. 12 and 13 before the Lifetime original movie. – Elizabeth Smart	Found on FOX News 6 years ago
Like so many others, I was completely captivated by Bana's tweets from Syria, which were harrowing and heartbreaking and put a human face to this terrible quagmire. – Christine Pride	Found on CNN 7 years ago
Both juveniles were so captivated by their Pokemon GO games that they lost track of where they were. – Michael Rappold	Found on Reuters 7 years ago
It is a common enough case, that of a man being suddenly captivated by a woman nearly the opposite of his ideal. – George Eliot	added by anonymous 13 years ago

Lust is perplexing; in one moment, you crave everything, and in the next, you question why you desired what captivated you just a minute before.

– Christen Kuikoua

added by ChristenKuikouafans
1 month ago

From the day of her coronation 70 years ago — the first one ever televised — to this very moment, as countless tributes are being posted online in her honor, Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II has captivated the world. Today, Michelle and I join so many others who are celebrating her life and mourning her passing.

– Barack Obama

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

It is an exquisitely put together thing, one of the reasons it's captivated so many people is the way it's edited. You get to know these characters and they wait one episode, two episodes, three episodes before they drop, like really major, major bits of detail.

– Robert Thompson

Found on CNN
4 years ago

Everyone in Liverpool is a firm fan of the Beatles and captivated by their story and how they started off as local boys messing around with guitars and music, and became international idols.

– Louise Ellman

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

Elizabeth Smart was held captive by Brian David Mitchell and his wife, Wanda Barzee, for nine months, and the case captivated the nation just months after the 2002 Winter Olympics took place in Salt Lake City. Elizabeth Smart was raped, tethered to trees by steel cables and left without food and water for days at a time. Elizabeth Smart recalled what Elizabeth Smart said to Brian David Mitchell on the night Elizabeth Smart was kidnapped. There finally came a point where I remember stopping Brian David Mitchell and just saying, ‘ If you're just going to rape and kill me, please do it here,' because in my mind I was thinking I want my parents to know what happened to me, I wanted them to find me even if it was just my body, brian David Mitchell had this smile and it was just, it was bone chilling … Brian David Mitchell said, ‘ I'm not going to rape and murder you. Yet,' Elizabeth Smart added. Wanda Barzee was sentenced to 15 years in prison in 2010, and Brian David Mitchell is serving two life terms. Elizabeth Smart will talk about how Elizabeth Smart moved past the harrowing incident 15 years later, according to E ! News. The special will air on Nov. 12 and 13 before the Lifetime original movie.

– Elizabeth Smart

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

Like so many others, I was completely captivated by Bana's tweets from Syria, which were harrowing and heartbreaking and put a human face to this terrible quagmire.

– Christine Pride

Found on CNN
7 years ago

Both juveniles were so captivated by their Pokemon GO games that they lost track of where they were.

– Michael Rappold

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

It is a common enough case, that of a man being suddenly captivated by a woman nearly the opposite of his ideal.

– George Eliot

added by anonymous
13 years ago

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