Seizes Quotes

66 quotes by 56 authors

A government that seizes control of the economy for the good of the people, ends up seizing control of the people for the good of… — Bob Dole
Sickness seizes the body from bad ventilation. — Ovid
We re-make nature by the act of discovery, in the poem or in the theorem. And the great poem and the deep theorem are new… — Jacob Bronowski
The man with a heart cannot think about or see creatures without his eyes filling up with tears because of the immense compassion which seizes… — Isaac of Nineveh
I had a truly horrible dream last night ... [Arnold Schwarzenegger, Mike Tyson and I] were on our way to a TV studio for a… — Hunter S. Thompson
Our leisure is the time the Devil seizes upon to make us work for him; and the only way we can avoid conscription into his… — James Ellis
In the consciousness of the truth he has perceived, man now sees everywhere only the awfulness or the absurdity of existence and loathing seizes him. — Friedrich Nietzsche
All emotions are pure which gather you and lift you up; that emotion is impure which seizes only one side of your being and so… — Rainer Maria Rilke
Riding a horse is not a gentle hobby, to be picked up and laid down like a game of solitaire. It is a grand passion.… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Whatever the imagination seizes as Beauty must be truth -whether it existed before or not — John Keats
But once an idea for a novel seizes a writer...well, itâ€™s like an inner fire that at first warms you and makes you feel good… — Dean Koontz
Happiness always has an object... Depends on external things. Joy... Has no object. It seizes you for no apparent reason, it's like the sun, its… — Susanna Tamaro
We know that no one ever seizes power with the intention of relinquishing it. — George Orwell
Art is a kind of innate drive that seizes a human being and makes him its instrument. The artist is not a person endowed with… — Carl Jung
Whoever you are: in the evening step out of your room, where you know everything; yours is the last house before the far-off: whoever you… — Rainer Maria Rilke
Art is a kind of innate drive that seizes a human being and makes him its instrument. To perform this difficult office it is sometimes… — Carl Jung
When one great passion seizes possession of the soul all other feelings are crowded out. — Lucy Maud Montgomery
There's some muscle group around your shoulders that seizes up during the perfection dance and doesn't let go until you are asleep, or alone. Or… — Anna Quindlen
There is one province in which, sooner or later, virtually everyone gets dealt a leading role--hero, heroine, or villain.... Unlike the slight implications of quotidian… — Lionel Shriver
Seize the day, whatever's in it to seize, before something comes along and seizes you. — Lloyd Alexander

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