Seized Quotes

164 quotes by 153 authors

My small torrent of words dissipated into an elaborate sense of expanding and receding. It was my entrance into the radiance of imagination. This process… — Patti Smith
It makes us a thread in a tapestry that has unrolled for centuries before us, and will unroll for centuries after us. We're midway through… — Kim Stanley
When the most abstract and "useless" disciplines have been cultivated for a time, they are often seized upon as practical tools by other departments of… — James R Newman
I believe that with the complete formation of the global Zionist network, they have seized control of the fate of the European governments, and of… — Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
There is little value in insuring the survival of our nation if our traditions do not survive with it. And there is very grave danger… — John F. Kennedy
The summer has seized you, as when, last month in Amalfi, I saw lemons as large as your desk-side globe-that miniature map of the world-and… — Anne Sexton
Mechanized recreation already has seized nine-tenths of the woods and mountains; a decent respect for minorities should dedicate the other tenth to wilderness. — Aldo Leopold
I shall go so far that people will be seized with terror at the sight of each of my works of 'living' art. — Egon Schiele
Bathed in sweat and trembling with agitation, no, not with agitation, but with fear, for he finally admitted it to himself: it was naked fear… — Patrick SÃ¼skind
When people who earn more than the average have their 'surplus', or the greater part of it, seized from them in taxes, and when people… — Henry Hazlitt
We have the opportunity to change Denmark - that opportunity must be seized. — Helle Thorning-Schmidt
He had thrown himself away, he had lost interest in everything, and life, falling in with his feelings, had demanded nothing of him. He had… — Hermann Hesse
The cable news channels have cleverly seized on the creed of objectivity and redefined it in populist terms. They attack news based on verifiable fact… — Chris Hedges
The strangest whim has seized me ... After all I think I will not hang myself today. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
... any country that is not careful can be seized. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Because I have conducted my own operas and love sheep-dogs; because I generally dress in tweeds, and sometimes, at winter afternoon concerts, have even conducted… — Ethel Smyth
Are you not moved to tears and bitter compassion, when you behold the only Son of God seized by the most impious, dragged away, mocked,… — Peter Abelard
With the people, especially a people seized of property, resides the aggregate of original power. — Ezra Stiles
People often ask why I left CNN - I didn't like management. I liked my colleagues in the news gathering but the corporate culture that… — Greta Van Susteren
Other things may be seized by might, or purchased with money, but knowledge is to be gained only by study, and study to be prosecuted… — Samuel Johnson

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