Seizing Quotes

61 quotes by 57 authors

Cyborg writing must not be about the Fall, the imagination of a once-upon-a-time wholeness before language, before writing, before Man. Cyborg writing is about the… — Donna J. Haraway
It is possible to argue that the really influential book is not that which converts ten millions of casual readers, but rather that which converts… — Aldous Huxley
Harry!" said Fred, elbowing Percy out of the way and bowing deeply. "Simply splendid to see you, old boy-" "Marvelous," said George, pushing Fred aside… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
Chance, my master and my friend, will, I feel sure, deign once again to send me the spirits of his unruly kingdom. All my trust… — Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
A person can learn a lot from a dog, even a loopy one like ours. Marley taught me about living each day with unbridled exuberance… — John Grogan
The poet's mind is in fact a receptacle for seizing and storing up numberless feelings, phrases, images, which remain there until all the particles which… — Thomas Stearns Eliot
I'm sorry I never really believed," I said. "Not the way Jack did." "It doesn't make any difference," my mother replied. Her eyes focused on… — Cameron Dokey
When I first arrived in London, I so quickly tired of being surrounded by so many people that it was only with great difficulty that… — Cassandra Clare
For most women, being seen, having others pay attention to you, is imagined and experienced as more desirable and more powerful than commanding an army… — Phyllis Chesler
And now she has you seizing control of my army.â€ â€œYour army? I thought this was Gauntâ€™s.â€ â€œSo did he. — Michael J. Sullivan
Life...as God intended it enables us to live above the drag of fear, superstition, shame, pessimism, guilt, anxiety, worry, and all the negativity that keeps… — Charles R. Swindoll
Bidding the wizard farewell, he turned to his daughter, who held up her finger and said, â€œDaddy, look â€” one of the gnomes actually bit… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
Taxation of earnings from labor is on a par with forced labor. Seizing the results of someone's labor is equivalent to seizing hours from him… — Robert Nozick
The grandmother didn't want to go to Florida. She wanted to visit some of her connections in east Tennessee and she was seizing at every… — Flannery O'Connor
If we could honestly promise young couples that we knew how to give them offspring with superior character, why should we assume they would decline?… — James D. Watson
Technology is the means by which we have decommissioned natural selection and are seizing control. We are no longer to be victims of some blind… — Jason Silva
By seizing the opportunities that disruption presents and leveraging hard times into greater success through outworking/outinnovating/outthinking and outworking everyone around you, this just might be… — Robin S. Sharma
We have a real role in how our own collective lives, our nation, and our world and society turn out. Seizing those opportunities is important,… — Rebecca Solnit
The window of opportunity never passes by the right people at the right time. Life is, all about seizing your major opportunities! — Frederica Ehimen
Much of the success of life depends upon keeping one's mind open to opportunity and seizing it when it comes. — Alice Foote MacDougall

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