Seize Quotes
414 Seize quotes by 327 unique authors
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Should Disappointment, parent of Despair, Strive for her son to seize my careless heart; When, like a cloud, he sits upon the air, Preparing on…
— John Keats
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Let us go forth, the tellers of tales, and seize whatever prey the heart long for, and have no fear. Everything exists, everything is true,…
— William Butler Yeats
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...Bin Laden's quotes from the Quaran resonated in my brain: "When you meet the unbelievers, strike them in the neck." "If you do not go…
— Ayaan Hirsi Ali
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My books happen. They tend to blast in from nowhere, seize me by the throat, and howl 'Write me! Write me now!' But they rarely…
— Robin McKinley
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The phrase "It's absolutely the same with me, I..." seems to be an approving echo, a way of continuing the other's thought, but that is…
— Milan Kundera
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Life is too uncertain... You must seize happiness where you find it.
— Deanna Raybourn
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Whoever reaches into a rosebush may seize a handful of flowers; but no matter how many one holds, it's only a small portion of the…
— Lou Andreas-Salomé
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If, in our world, there is any chance of becoming the person you haven't yet become...will I know how to seize that chance, turn my…
— Muriel Barbery
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I used to believe, although I don't now, that growing and growing up are analogous, that both are inevitable and uncontrollable processes. Now it seems…
— Nick Hornby
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And you know, it's possible that the priest and the Levite looked over that man on the ground and wondered if the robbers were still…
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Seize the day, whatever's in it to seize, before something comes along and seizes you.
— Lloyd Alexander
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Theology is-- or should be-- a species of poetry,which read quickly or encountered in a hubbub of noise makes no sense. You have to open…
— Karen Armstrong
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But pleasures are like poppies spread, You seize the flower, it's bloom is shed; Or, like the snow-fall in the river, A moment white, then…
— Robert Burns
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we must seize life because we never know how much of it remains for us, that faith is the antidote to despair and that laughter…
— Dean Koontz
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Men must fumble awhile with error to separate it from truth, I think- as long as they don't seize the error hungrily because it has…
— Walter M. Miller, Jr.
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You never go away from us, yet we have difficulty in returning to You. Come, Lord, stir us up and call us back. Kindle and…
— Saint Augustine
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Seize what's been handed you. Make smart decisions. Make decisions because life is a temporary situation.
— James Patterson
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Life is like an escalator. You see, it carries you on regardless. And you might as well enjoy the view and seize every opportunity while…
— Sophie Kinsella
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Things are always given to us when we need them... You just have to decide if you're strong enough, brave enough, to seize it and…
— Sherrilyn Kenyon
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If you will tell me when God permits a Christian to lay aside his armour, I will tell you when Satan has left off temptation.…
— Charles Spurgeon
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Marisa! Marisa!” The cry was torn from Lord Asriel, and with the snow leopard beside her, with a roaring in her ears, Lyra’s mother stood…
— Philip Pullman
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Sometimes the course of our lives depends on what we do or don't do in a few seconds, a heartbeat, when we either seize the…
— Aidan Chambers
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Whatever you seize for yourself is worthless. Only what is given you has value.
— Gerald Morris
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Human vanity is so constituted that it stiffens before difficulties. The more an object conceals itself from our eyes, the greater the effort we make…
— Percy Bysshe Shelley
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Fairest Cordelia, that art most rich, being poor; Most choice, forsaken; and most loved, despised! Thee and thy virtues here I seize upon: Be it…
— William Shakespeare
Who Wrote These Seize Quotes
327 authors contributed a total of 414 Seize Quotes, led by these top contributors: