Seizes Quotes

66 quotes by 56 authors

My ideas sometimes get the better of me. Before I clearly explain one, another comes to mind and seizes my attention.... — Ellen Langer
The world is a sacred vessel that cannot be changed. He who changes it will destroy it. He who seizes it will lose it. — Laozi
Once a culture becomes entirely advertising friendly, it seizes to be a culture at all. — Mark Crispin Miller
Law it is . . . which hears without ears, sees without eyes, moves without feet and seizes without hands. — Marsilio Ficino
There comes a special moment in everyone's life, a moment for which that person was born. That special opportunity, when he seizes it, will fulfill… — Winston Churchill
What you are in love with, what seizes your imagination, will affect everything. It will decide what gets you out if bed in the mornings,… — Pedro Arrupe
Solicitude for material things distracts the soul and divides it. The devil seizes the divided soul and drags it to hell. — Anthony
"The people" is that massive portion of a society that lives by its pathetic subjection to sheer immediacy or self-obviousness, and that therefore uncritically seizes… — Kenny Smith
Why are we reading if not in hope that the writer will magnify and dramatize our days, will illuminate and inspire us with wisdom, courage,… — Annie Dillard
Art is a kind of innate drive that seizes a human being and makes him its instrument... — Carl Jung
In every contest, there comes a moment that separates winning from losing. The true warrior understands and seizes that moment. — Pat Riley
Sometimes I'll drive around for months despair, nothing, nothing, then suddenly I will see something that seizes me... a shape, a combination of shapes, a… — Jeffrey Smart
Therein lies the social significance of art: It is constantly at work educating the spirit of the age, conjuring up the forms in which the… — Carl Jung
...the right to free expression is something one seizes, not something one is given.... if it does exist, it exists to be used against the… — Pablo Picasso
I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the Heartâ€™s affections and the truth of the Imagination â€“ What the imagination seizes as Beauty… — John Keats
Such is the privilege of genius; it perceives, it seizes relations where vulgar eyes see only isolated facts. — Francois Arago
Love seizes us suddenly, without giving warning, and our disposition or our weakness favors the surprise; one look, one glance, from the fair fixes and… — Jean de la Bruyere
I like the man who takes the stones Upon his rocky road With smiling lips instead of groans, Whate'er his heavy load Who seizes each… — John Kendrick Bangs
Everything is autobiography, even if one writes something that is totally objective. The fact that it's a subject that seizes you makes it autobiographical. — Lisel Mueller
You know, that's what I've regretted the most, that joy. Of course, later there were times when I felt happy, but happiness is to joy… — Susanna Tamaro

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