Seizing Quotes

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Then also pretexts for seizing property are never wanting, and one who begins to live by rapine will always find some reason for taking the… — Niccolo Machiavelli
Life is very persistent and very ingenious in seizing every opportunity. — Joseph Wood Krutch
The Trilateralist Commission is international...(and)...is intended to be the vehicle for multinational consolidation of the commercial and banking interests by seizing control of the political… — Barry Goldwater
Government does not grow by seizing our freedoms, but by assuming our responsibilities. — Mike Cloud
When we let our mind relax, a moment will come when we rest without thoughts. This stable state is like an ocean without waves. Within… — Bokar Rinpoche
If asked how to cope with a great host of the enemy in orderly array and on the point of marching to the attack, I… — Sun Tzu
Vigilance in watching opportunity, tact and daring in seizing upon opportunity, force and persistence in crowding opportunity to its utmost of possible achievement - these… — Austin Phelps
It's the camel's nose in the tent. Look at Stalin, Mussolini, Hitler, Mao Zedong, Pol Pot, Idi Amin--every one of these monsters, on seizing power,… — Charlton Heston
The inflection point at which we have arrived is one in which we are increasingly seizing the keys to all creation, as astonding as that… — Joel Garreau
Broad access to opportunity is the key to a truly equitable America. No matter who you are or where you grew up, Black Faces in… — Angela Glover Blackwell
Invention consists in the capacity of seizing on the capabilities of a subject, and in the power of moulding and fashioning ideas suggested to it, — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Intuition is a method of feeling one's way intellectually into the inner heart of a thing, in order to locate what is unique and inexpressible… — Henri Bergson
Being an entrepreneur isnâ€™t just a job title, and it isnâ€™t just about starting a company. Itâ€™s a state of mind. Itâ€™s about seeing connections… — Tory Burch
A detective with his murder mystery, a chemist seeking the structure of a new compound, use little of the formal and logical modes of reasoning.… — Gilbert N. Lewis
Reality is an aspect of property. It must be seized. And investigative journalism is the noble art of seizing reality back from the powerful. — Julian Assange
Begin by seizing something which your opponent holds dear; then he will be amenable to your will. — Sun Tzu
Authors are magpies, echoing each other's words and seizing avidly on anything that glitters. — Bergen Evans
What thou meanest by seizing the whole earth; but because I do it with a petty ship, I am called a robber, whilst thou who… — Saint Augustine
Love is the Water of Life Everything other than love for the most beautiful God is agony of the spirit, though it be sugar- eating.… — Rumi
Thanks to his complex convictions, made strong with the forces of animus and anima, the alchemist believes he is seizing the soul of the world,… — Gaston Bachelard

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