Seized Quotes

164 quotes by 145 authors

That mercy towards one set of creatures was cruelty towards another sickened his sense of harmony. As you got older, and felt yourself to be… — Thomas Hardy
I read library books as fast as I could go, rushing them home in the basket of my bicycle. From the minute I reached our… — Eudora Welty
The monstropolous beast had left his bed. The two hundred miles a hour wind had loosed his chains. He seized hold of his dikes and… — Zora Neale Hurston
After scolding one's cat one looks into its face and is seized by the ugly suspicion that it understood every word. And has filed it… — Charlotte Gray
Of what a strange nature is knowledge! It clings to a mind when it has once seized on it like a lichen on a rock."… — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
The woman dashed up the staircase toward the library's main doors. Arriving at the top of the stairs, she grabbed the handle and tried desperately… — Dan Brown
And she, the new mother of a daughter, felt a fierceness come over her that seized at her heart, that made her feel as if… — Lauren Groff
But you've slipped under my skin, invaded my blood and seized my heart. — Maria V. Snyder
Many people do not like the idea that time has a beginning, probably because it smacks of divine intervention. (The Catholic Church, on the other… — Stephen Hawking
However, as words become particularized, and as men begin - in however small a way - to use them in personal, arbitrary ways, so their… — Yukio Mishima
Yelena, you've driven me crazy. You've caused me considerable trouble and I've contemplated ending your life twice since I've known you." Valek's warm breath in… — Maria V. Snyder
I was amazed as people must be who are seized and kidnapped, and who realize that in the strange world of their captors they have… — Alice Munro
Gabbe jumped up and seized the cocanut first, giving its contents a sniff. "Arriane, she has just been through a trama," she scolded. Arriane tossed… — Lauren Kate
My Lord, I find thy face apelike and thy form misshapen. Thy beard, moreover, is an offense against decency, resembling more closely the scabrous fir… — David Eddings
Strife and Confusion joined the fight, along with cruel Death, who seized one wounded man while still alive and then another man without a wound,… — Homer
Nobody believes that the man who says, 'Look, lady, you wanted equality,' to explain why he won't give up his seat to a pregnant woman… — Judith Martin
Oh, I can never get enough," he said. "Which, incidentally, is what your sister said to me when - " The carriage door flew open.… — Cassandra Clare
I AM NOT PAYING FOR SOME CRACKPOT OLD FOOL TO TEACH HIM MAGIC TRICKS!" yelled Uncle Vernon. Hagrid seized his pink umbrella and whirled it… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
Sin also carries on its war by entangling the affections and drawing them into an alliance against the mind. Grace may be enthroned in the… — John Owen
Love, that exempts no one beloved from loving, seized me with pleasure of this man so strongly, that, as thou seest, it doth not yet… — Dante Alighieri

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