Seize Upon Quotes
16 quotes by 15 authors
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Thanks to the circus between my ears, I can seize upon the smallest disquieting observation and from it extrapolate a terror of cataclysmic proportions.
— Dean Koontz
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Occasions are rare; and those, who know how to seize upon them, are rarer.
— Josh Billings
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I hate crowds and making speeches. I hate facing cameras and having to answer to a crossfire of questions. Why popular fancy should seize upon…
— Albert Einstein
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Who can mistake great thoughts? They seize upon the mind; arrest and search, And shake it; bow the tall soul as by wind; Rush over…
— Philip James Bailey
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It is not a question of skimming the surface of the art, it must be probed to its depths, for to seize upon superficial things…
— Jean-Georges Noverre
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The work of art must seize upon you, wrap you up in itself, carry you away. It is the means by which the artist conveys…
— Pierre-Auguste Renoir
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When describing nature, a writer should seize upon small details, arranging them so that the reader will see an image in his mind after he…
— Anton Chekhov
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But the fundamentalists, the "creationists," seize upon these vacancies in the scientific hotel to pack the conferences with their delegates. They see the opening-creativity is…
— Ken Wilber
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"The work of art must seize upon you...carry you away."
— Pierre-Auguste Renoir
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Opportunity is latent in the very foundation of human society. Opportunity is everywhere about us. But the preparation to seize upon the opportunity, and to…
— Orison Swett Marden
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How like fish we are: ready, nay eager, to seize upon whatever new thing some wind of circumstance shakes down upon the river of time!…
— Aldo Leopold
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Even the West has known the architecture of empty space, whose object, for thousands of years, has been less to construct divine houses, than to…
— Andre Malraux
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I believe in opportunity and the power of reason to seize upon it.
— Spartacus
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In general, questions are fine; you can always seize upon the parts of them that interest you and concentrate on answering those. And one has…
— Vikram Seth
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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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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 Upon Quotes
15 authors contributed a total of 16 Seize Upon Quotes as follows: