Seized Quotes

164 quotes by 153 authors

Numerous politicians have seized absolute power and muzzled the press. Never in history has the press seized absolute power and muzzled the politicians. — David Brinkley
To be governed is to be watched, inspected, spied upon, directed, law-ridden, regulated, penned up, indoctrinated, preached at, checked, appraised, seized, censured, commanded, by beings… — Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
Listen, my friend! Your helplessness is your best prayer. It calls from your heart to the heart of God with greater effect than all your… — Ole Hallesby
I ought to have seized the initiative in 1938 instead of allowing myself to be forced into war in 1939; for war was, in any… — Adolf Hitler
Some things arrive in their own mysterious hour, on their own terms and not yours, to be seized or relinquished forever. — Gail Godwin
Those who foresee the future and recognize it as tragic are often seized upon by a madness which forced them to commit the very acts… — Rebecca West
It was my teacher's genius, her quick sympathy, her loving tact which made the first years of my education so beautiful. It was because she… — Helen Keller
Characteristically skeptical of the idea that living things would faithfully follow mathematical formulas, [Robert Harper] seized upon factors in corn which seemed to blend in… — Charles Thom
Generally speaking, geologists seem to have been much more intent on making little worlds of their own, than in examining the crust of that which… — Henry De la Beche
A horrible sense of blackness and the treachery of fate seized hold upon the soul of the unhappy student. — Robert Louis Stevenson
An acquaintance of mine, a notary by profession, who, by perpetual writing, began first to complain of an excessive wariness of his whole right arm… — Bernardino Ramazzini
Well, every man has a religion; has something in heaven or earth which he will give up everything else for - something which absorbs him… — Walt Whitman
Sometimes the very learned and clever can be brilliantly foolish, especially when seized by an apparently good cause. — George Pell
A photograph is neither taken or seized by force. It offers itself up. It is the photo that takes you. One must not take photos. — Henri Cartier-Bresson
Return to Shaoshan I regret the passing, the dying, of the vague dream: my native orchards thirty-two years ago. Yet red banners roused the serfs,… — Mao Zedong
Behind the black portent of the new atomic age lies a hope which, seized upon with faith, can work out salvation. . . . Let… — Bernard Baruch
Our enthusiasm for digital technology about which we have little understanding and over which we have little control leads us not toward greater agency, but… — Douglas Rushkoff
I have a congenital desire to contradict; my whole life is merely a chain of sad and unsuccessful contradictions to heart and mind. When faced… — Mikhail Lermontov
Time is an ethereal and sometimes cruel goddess. In her relentless passing, she steals away our youth and vitality, often in ways that seem insignificant… — Michael Kelleher
None of us offers resistance when he is seized, or avenges himself for your unjust violence, although our people are numerous and plentiful...it is not… — Cyprian

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