Seize Quotes
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To articulate the past historically does not mean to recognize it "the way it really was"...It means to seize hold of a memory as it flashes up at a moment of danger.
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More Seize Quotes
The most favorable moment to seize a man and influence him is when he is alone in the mass. It is at this point that propaganda can be most effective.
jacques ellul— Vintage, p.9.
Oh, we have had great lovers that we followed to the pyre; Our boasts out-do the Sabine girls the Mosque of St. Sophia. And we are very sure of ours, for when a city falls, They seize us and they love us and they hurl us from the walls.
nathalia crane— "Our Lovers"
The true simple question of the present dispute is, whether the House of Lords and Court Influence shall predominate over the House of Commons, and annihilate its existence, or whether the House of Commons...shall have power to....regulate the prerogative of the Crown, which was ever ready to seize upon the freedom of the Electors of this country.
charles james fox— Speech to his constituents in Westminster (1784), quoted in W. T. Laprade, 'William Pitt and the Westminster Election', American Historical Review, 23 (1912), p. 263.
But pleasures are like poppies spread You seize the flow'r, its bloom is shed; Or like the snow falls in the river A moment white then melts forever.
Robert Burns— Robert Burns, Tam o' Shanter (1790) Line 59
But pleasures are like poppies spread, You seize the flower, its bloom is shed; Or like the snow falls in the river, A moment whitethen melts for ever.
Robert Burns— 1790 'Tam o' Shanter. A Tale'.
I'll seize the rosebuds in their perfumed bed, The violet knots, like curious mazes spread O'er all the garden, taste the ripened cherry, The warm, firm apple, tipped with coral berry. Then will I visit with a wandering kiss The vale of lilies and the bower of bliss, And where the beauteous region doth divide Into two milky ways, my lips shall slide Down those smooth alleys, wearing as I go A track for lovers on the printed snow.
thomas carew— 'A Rapture' (1640)
Ruin seize thee, ruthless King! Confusion on thy banners wait, Tho'fanned by Conquest's crimson wing They mock the air with idle state.
thomas gray— 1757 The Bard. A Pindaric Ode, l.1-4.
Your record raises troubling questions about whether you appreciate the checks and balances in our Constitution -- the careful efforts of our Founding Fathers to protect us from a government or a president determined to seize too much power over our lives.
samuel alito— Sen. Dick Durbin, (D-ILL) at Alito's confirmation hearing.
But pleasures are like poppies spread—You seize the flow'r, its bloom is shed;Or like the snow falls in the river—A moment white—then melts forever.
Robert Burns— Line 59
This American system of ours ... call it Americanism, call it capitalism, call it what you like, gives to each and every one of us a great opportunity if we only seize it with both hands and make the most of it.
al capone— Interview with Claud Cockburn, Quoted in “Mr. Capone, Philosopher,” Cockburn Sums Up (1981)
Be your holiness persuaded that I am, and ever shall be, of such moderation as to keep aloof, as far as possible, from every undertaking which may testify any hatred towards the Roman Catholic religion. Nay, rather I will seize all opportunities, by a gentle and generous mode of conduct, to remove all sinister suspicions entirely; so that, as we all confess one undivided Trinity and one Christ crucified, we may be banded together unanimously into one faith.
— Letter to Pope Gregory XV (20 April, 1623).
— Sir Charles Petrie (ed.), The Letters...of King Charles I (1935), p. 16.
Live while you live, the epicure would say,And seize the pleasures of the present day;Live while you live, the sacred preacher cries,And give to God each moment as it flies.Lord, in my views, let both united be:I live in pleasure when I live to thee.
Philip Doddridge— Epigram on his Family Arms, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
There can be no greater stretch of arbitrary power than is required to seize children from their parents, teach them whatever the authorities decree they shall be taught, and expropriate from the parents the funds to pay for the procedure.
isabel paterson— p. 255 (The God of the Machine (1943))
When ice appears out of doors, and boys seize it up while it is solid, at first they experience new pleasures. But in the end their pride will not agree to let it go, but their acquisition is not good for them if it stays in their hands. In the same way an identical desire drives lovers to act and not to act.
Sophocles— Achilles' Loves, only surviving fragment, often quoted as "Love is like ice in the hands of children".
Oh seize the instant time; you never willWith waters once passed by impel the mill.
richard chenevix trench— Poems (Ed. 1865), p. 303. Proverbs, Turkish and Persian.
Philosophy springs from the love of being; it is man's loving endeavor to perceive the order of being and attune himself to it. Gnosis desires dominion over being; in order to seize control of being the Gnostic constructs his system. The building of systems is a gnostic form of reasoning, not a philosophical one.
eric voegelin— Eric Voegelin, Science, Politics, and Gnosticism in Collected Works, Vol. 5: Modernity Without Restraint, edited by Manfred Henningsen, ISBN 082621245X, p. 273.
Ruin seize thee, ruthless King! Confusion on thy banners wait, Though fanned by Conquest's crimson wing They mock the air with idle state.
thomas gray— I, 1, Line 1.
How like fish we are: ready, nay eager, to seize upon whatever new thing some wind of circumstance shakes down upon the river of time! ... Even so, I think there is some virtue in eagerness, whether its object prove true or false.
aldo leopold— “June: The Alder Fork”, p. 39
How would your life be different if … You stopped worrying about things you can't control and started focusing on the things you can? Let today be the day … You free yourself from fruitless worry, seize the day and take effective action on things you can change.
steve maraboli— p. 42 (Life, the Truth, and Being Free (2010))
Thou art most rich, being poor; Most choice, forsaken; and most lov'd, despis'd! Thee and thy virtues here I seize upon.
william shakespeare— King Lear (1608), Act I, scene 1, line 252.
For the first time since World War:;II the international community is united. The leadership of the United Nations, once only a hoped-for ideal, is now confirming its founders’ vision. .:;.:;. The world can therefore seize this opportunity to fulfill the long-held promise of a new world order.
— George H. W. Bush, the President of the United States in his State of the Union message to that nation, January 29, 1991.
They may seize On the white wonder of dear Juliet's hand.
william shakespeare— William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet (1597), Act III, scene 3, line 35.
It is a truism that almost any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creed into law if it acquires the political power to do so, and will follow it by suppressing opposition, subverting all education to seize early the minds of the young, and by killing, locking up, or driving underground all heretics.
— Lazarus Long, in Time Enough for Love by Robert A. Heinlein
[W]e were inspired by the fierce dignity of Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, as she proved that no human being can truly be imprisoned if hope burns in your heart. [...] You're the ones who are going to have to seize freedom, because a true revolution of the spirit begins in each of our hearts.
— Barack Obama, Yangon University Speech, Remarks by President Obama at the University of Yangon, Rangoon, Burma, (19 November 2012)
When ice appears out of doors, and boys seize it up while it is solid, at first they experience new pleasures. But in the end their pride will not agree to let it go, but their acquisition is not good for them if it stays in their hands. In the same way an identical desire drives lovers to act and not to act.
— Achilles' Loves, only surviving fragment, often quoted as "Love is like ice in the hands of children".
Know the true value of time; snatch, seize, and enjoy every moment of it. No idleness, no laziness, no procrastination: never put off till to-morrow what you can do to-day.
— Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield, Letters to his Son. Dec. 26, 1749.
seize the loud, vociferous bells, and Clashing, clanging to the pavement Hurl them from their windy tower!
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Christus, The Golden Legend (1872), Prologue.
Clarence is come; false, fleeting, perjured Clarence, That stabbed me in the field by Tewksbury; seize on him, Furies, take him to your torments!
— Clarence, scene iv
seize the moments of happiness, love and be loved! That is the only reality in the world, all else is folly.
— Leo Tolstoy in War and Peace (1865-1869)
