Seized Quotes

164 quotes by 153 authors

Contact with [menstrual blood] turns new wine sour, crops touched by it become barren, grafts die, seed in gardens are dried up, the fruit of… — Pliny the Elder
Would the Holy One, Blessed is he, dispense judgment without justice? But we may say that he whom God loves will be chastised. For since… — Berel Wein
What I've learned, above all, is to keep marching forward because the best news is that since chance does play a role, one important factor… — Leonard Mlodinow
In each life there comes at least one moment, which, if recognized and seized, transforms the course of that life forever. Rely, therefore, on radical… — Ralph Blum
Businesses always have opportunities to improve service, product lines, manufacturing techniques, and the like, and obviously these opportunities should be seized. But a business that… — Warren Buffett
Everybody seized upon a bit of the beast. The Sultan claimed the liver, which, when dried and powdered, is worth twice its weight in gold… — Isabella Bird
So women just seized the opportunity. — Zhang Xi
A collective insanity seemed to have seized the nation and turned them into something worse than beasts. The princess de Lamballe, Marie Antoinette's intimate friend,… — J. Christopher Herold
A great emotion is too selfish ; it takes into itself all the blood of the spirit, and the congestion leaves the hands too cold… — Fernando Pessoa
What gives value to travel is fear. It is a fact that, at a certain moment, when we are so far from our own country,… — Albert Camus
And on Thursday, President Obama seized the opportunity of the National Prayer Breakfast to forthrightly criticize the 'terrible deeds' . . . committed 'in the… — Jonah Goldberg
This week, Iranian-backed Houthi rebels seized control of the Yemeni government, heretofore pro-American. In September, they overran Sanaa, the capital. On Tuesday, they seized the… — Charles Krauthammer
Jephthah called together the men of Gilead and fought against Ephraim. The Gileadites captured the fords of the Jordan leading to Ephraim, and whenever a… — Edwidge Danticat
It would be an instructive exercise for the skeptical reader to try to frame a definition of taxation which does not also include theft. Like… — Murray Rothbard
Your greatest regret at the end of your life will be the lions you didn't chase. You will look back longingly on risks not taken,… — Mark Batterson
Some delicate matters must be treated like pins, because if they are not seized by the right end, we get pricked. — Jean Antoine Petit-Senn
I first knew Laurie Lewis by her considerable reputation as a fiddle player and a writer of songs. When an opportunity came along to sing… — Linda Ronstadt
In boundless love as a Christian and as a man I read through the passage which tells us how the Lord at last rose in… — Adolf Hitler
Men seized of the urge to have a knowledge of God and to be pure in mind devote all their gathered energies to this one… — John Cassian
Rights are to be taken, not requested; seized, not begged for. — Jose Marti

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