Seized Quotes

164 quotes by 153 authors

All Germany was in turmoil. Revolutionaries seized power in the cities of Munich, Hanover and Cologne. One regional German government after another was toppled by… — James Cross Giblin
Benito Mussolini had barely seized power in Italy before the Vatican made an official treaty with him. . . . Catholicism became the only recognized… — Christopher Hitchens
If you can attain repose and calm, believe that you have seized happiness. — Jeanne Julie Eleonore de Lespinasse
The lust of avarice as so totally seized upon mankind that their wealth seems rather to possess them than they possess their wealth. — Pliny the Elder
It is characteristic of science that the full explanations are often seized in their essence by the percipient scientist long in advance of any possible… — John Desmond Bernal
I was eleven years old when I saw a woman for the first time, and I was seized by such sudden surprise that I burst… — Mia Couto
Avoid being seized by the police. The cops are not your friends. Don't tell them anything. — Hunter S. Thompson
The Devil is not the Prince of Matter; the Devil is the arrogance of the spirit, faith without smile, truth that is never seized by… — Umberto Eco
I am seized with an abiding fear regarding what these two instruments are doing to our society, our culture and our heritage. Our history will… — Edward R. Murrow
Marx, as we have seen, solved it by declaring capital to be a different thing from product, and maintaining that it belonged to society and… — Benjamin Tucker
Reality is an aspect of property. It must be seized. And investigative journalism is the noble art of seizing reality back from the powerful. — Julian Assange
I have seized the light. I have arrested its flight. — Louis Daguerre
Wealth should not be seized, but the god-given is much better. — Hesiod
Just when I think I hate fashion, I hate clothes, I'm seized by this crazy thing that I have to do. I have this little… — Isaac Mizrahi
I think that there are empty ecological niches in the literary landscape crying to be filled and when a book more or less fills a… — Edmund White
I had eventually come to understand that friendship was a delicate, gradual process that mustnâ€™t be rushed or seized upon but allowed and encouraged to… — Daniel Tammet
Fortune seized at the right moment gives victory. — Alexander Suvorov
Try as they may to savor the taste of eternity, their thoughts still twist and turn upon the ebb and flow of things in past… — Saint Augustine
The truly still mind, with which you were born, is the mind that moves freely. Without ignoring anything, it reacts wholeheartedly to everything it encounters,… — Soko Morinaga
An apt and true reply was given to Alexander the Great by a pirate who had been seized. For when that king had asked the… — Saint Augustine

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