We know that no one ever seizes power with the intention…

Servitude seizes on few, but many seize on her.

— Seneca the Younger

Law it is . . . which hears without ears, sees without eyes, moves without feet and seizes without hands.

— Marsilio Ficino

Love seizes us suddenly, without giving warning, and our disposition or our weakness favors the surprise; one look, one glance, from the fair fixes…

— Jean de la Bruyere

When fear seizes, change what you are doing. You are doing something wrong.

— Jean Craighead George

Seize the day, whatever's in it to seize, before something comes along and seizes you.

— Lloyd Alexander

The agitator seizes the word. The artist is seized by it.

— Karl Kraus

There is, of course, a difference between what one seizes and what one really possesses.

— Pearl S. Buck

“The keen spirit seizes the prompt occasion-makes the thought start into action, and at once plans and performs, resolves and executes.”

— Hannah Moore

Discouragement seizes us only when we can no longer count on chance.

— George Sand

The absurd man will not commit suicide; he wants to live, without relinquishing any of his certainty, without a future, without hope, without illusions…

— Anonymous

Forgiveness feels most dramatic when some ancient pattern of self-punishment collapses in a torrent of tears. But it is just as effective when practiced…

— D. Patrick Miller

“Relinquishing resentment is redemption”

— Priyanka Deshmukh

...I swore I would battle not only for myself but for freedom and opportunity for everything living that wore chains, especially sex chains. It…

— Rheta Childe Dorr

“Our strength, in other words, has rested in our determination to reject simplistic absolutes and to redefine and revitalize a productive middle ground, relinquishing…

— Hillary Rodham Clinton

Next to the assumption of power was the responsibility of relinquishing it.

— Benjamin Disraeli