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Vashti was seized with the terrors of direct experience. She shrank back into the room, and the wall closed up again.
— E. M. Forster
It is pleasant to see a notorious profligate seized with a concern for religion, and converting his spleen into zeal.
— Joseph Addison
Life was a destiny waiting to be seized.
— Karen Azinger
Any country that is not careful can be seized.
— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Love, that exempts no one beloved from loving, seized me with pleasure of this man so strongly, that, as thou seest, it doth not yet desert me.
— Dante Alighieri
Where are the forms the sculptor's soul hath seized? In him alone, Can nature show as fair?
— Lord Byron
He seized a bucket and plunging it into one of the half jars took up three hens and a couple of geese,
— Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra
Suddenly I'm seized by a minor anxiety attack. There are too many fucking movies to choose from.
— Bret Easton Ellis
Language was not given to man: he seized it.
— Louis Aragon
what a strange nature is knowledge! It clings to the mind when it has once seized on it like a lichen on the rock.
— Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
They seized him, and of all the acts of will in a life famed for them, it was by far the greatest that he resisted them not.
— Brent Weeks
With a whirl of thought oppressedI sink from reverie to rest.
An horrid vision seized my head,
I saw the graves give up their dead. — Jonathan Swift
No one knows better than I that it's all here, and need not be explained or interpreted - just seized.
— Mark Helprin
Some weaknesses beg to be seized.
— Jill Alexander Essbaum
We have the opportunity to change Denmark - that opportunity must be seized.
— Helle Thorning-Schmidt
The monkeys seized all the cocoanuts within their reach and sent them down upon us
— Johann David Wyss
surprise, she seized Fred and George and pulled them both into such a tight hug that their heads
— J.K. Rowling
Myth: US housing market is in recovery. Fact: Big banks have been hiding their bloated home inventory, seized by virtue of home foreclosures.
— Ziad K. Abdelnour
When one is seized with a passion to understand one's self, one has to leave behind all normal life and habitual modes of thought.
— R.K. Narayan
The lust of avarice as so totally seized upon mankind that their wealth seems rather to possess them than they possess their wealth.
— Pliny The Elder
My heart seized, and I stared as if he were holding out a vial of poison.
— Kelley Armstrong
Of what a strange nature is knowledge! It clings to a mind when it has once seized on it like a lichen on a rock.- Frankenstein p115 — Mary Shelley
Whenever the masses seized political power, then it was happiness rather than truth and beauty that mattered.
— Aldous Huxley
A collective spasm of carbophobia seized the country, ...
— Michael Pollan
Not sorry, not calling, not cryingAll will pass like smoke of white apple trees
Seized by the gold of autumn,
I will no longer be young. — Sergei Yesenin
His mouth descended on hers in a fierce kiss.He seized, he captured.
He dominated.
And she loved every second of it. — Donna Grant
When Jesus wept, the falling tearin mercy flowed beyond all bound;
when Jesus groaned, a trembling fear
seized all the guilty world around. — William Billings
But you've slipped under my skin, invaded my blood and seized my heart.
— Maria V. Snyder
Some delicate matters must be treated like pins, because if they are not seized by the right end, we get pricked.
— Jean Antoine Petit-Senn
A madness of tender caressing seized her. She purred as a tiger might have done, while she undulated like a snake.
— Elinor Glyn
If you can attain repose and calm, believe that you have seized happiness.
— Jeanne Julie Eleonore De Lespinasse
Fortune seized at the right moment gives victory.
— Alexander Suvorov
The opportunity of a lifetime needs to be seized during the lifetime of the opportunity.
— Leonard Ravenhill
The French seized his arms and put a blade to his throat, calling to Eroica, "Geben Sie oben,
— Naomi Novik
After scolding one's cat one looks into its face and is seized by the ugly suspicion that it understood every word. And has filed it for reference.
— Charlotte Gray
For eager teachers seized my youth, pruned my faith and trimmed my fire. Showed me the high, white star of truth, there bade me gaze and there aspire.
— Matthew Arnold
I have been seized by the power of a great affection.
— Brennan Manning
Trust, like the lubricant in an engine, is noticed only when it is gone and the motor has seized up.
— David Hurst
The 19th century became the age of the museum. Objects were scrambled for, specimens seized, and friezes and antiques grasped.
— Kate Williams
She had been seized with a sudden existential horror. The house had white carpets and white furniture and, most significantly, no books.
— Alexander McCall Smith
The reason you do this stuff - comedy, plays, movies - is to be seized by something, to disappear in the service of an idea.
— Mike Nichols
You have slipped under my skin, invaded my blood, and seized my heart. You have poisoned me.
— Maria V. Snyder
Vatican II was a force that seized the mind of the Roman Catholic Church and carried it across centuries from the 13th to the 20th.
— Lance Morrow
Some things arrive in their own mysterious hour, on their own terms and not yours, to be seized or relinquished forever.
— Gail Godwin
Man lives two lives, woe, were it otherwise! One is seized by death, the other one, his honor, remains.
— Franz Grillparzer
The strangest whim has seized me ... After all I think I will not hang myself today.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
I shall go so far that people will be seized with terror at the sight of each of my works of 'living' art.
— Egon Schiele
(The Catholic Church, on the other hand, seized on the big bang model and in 1951 officially pronounced it to be in accordance with the Bible.) There
— Stephen Hawking
A horrible sense of blackness and the treachery of fate seized hold upon the soul of the unhappy student.
— Robert Louis Stevenson
There had been occasions when David could have seized position and power by means that would have compromised his commitment to the Lord.
— Sinclair B. Ferguson
The Magus,the sorcerer, the alchemist, are seized with the fascination of the unknown; and they desire a greatness that is inaccessible to mankind.
— W. Somerset Maugham
Pino was seized by something much more compelling and primal, as if Anna were not human but a spirit, a melody, a perfect instrument of love.
— Mark T. Sullivan
I was seized by the stern hand of Compulsion, that dark, unreasonable Urge that impels women to clean house in the middle of the night.
— James Thurber
It seemed as if hell were put into His cup; He seized it, and at one tremendous draught of love, He drank damnation dry.
— Charles Haddon Spurgeon
I feel my task is done. I feel a sense of satisfaction, ... It's the moment and I seized it.
— Max Mosley
When she'd stepped back into my life, I'd seized the moment. I'd carpe'd the fucking diem.
— Meghan March
With the people, especially a people seized of property, resides the aggregate of original power.
— Ezra Stiles
I was in Shanghai when the Japanese invaded China. I was there in Shanghai when, the morning after Pearl Harbor, they seized Shanghai.
— J.G. Ballard
Sometimes the very learned and clever can be brilliantly foolish, especially when seized by an apparently good cause.
— George Pell
The government paid the family of Richard Nixon $18 million for papers, tape recordings and other materials seized after Watergate.
— Dexter Scott King
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
The unforeseen, that strange, haughty power which plays with man, had seized Gauvain and held him fast.
— Victor Hugo
Between 1803 and 1812 Britain and France and their allies seized nearly fifteen hundred American ships, with Britain taking 917 to France's 558.
— Gordon S. Wood
He snaked an arm around her waist and pulled her into him with an unyielding strength. She'd been unmistakably seized.
— Elizabeth SaFleur
Every time I hear footsteps on the steps, my heart rate goes up. Every time I hear the clacking of high heels, I am seized with trepidation.
— Paula Hawkins
Panic bloomed in her mind and she seized it as a tool, compressing it to an edge with which to cut through her frightened immobility.
— Stephen King
With my teethI have seized life
Upon the knife of my youth.
With my lips today,
With my lips alone ... — Rene Char
I was seized by remorse and the sense of guilt, which hurried me away to a hell of intense tortures as no language can describe
— Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
What delusion has come over me? What sweet madness has seized me?
— Charlotte Bronte
... the Devil is the arrogance of the spirit, faith without smile, truth that is never seized by doubt.
— Umberto Eco
Humanity seized to exist when Israel was established.
— Dustin Hoffman
Social gains are never handed out. They must be seized.
— Sheryl Sandberg
So I do my duty," Sharpe said, "and land in the shit." "You have at last seized the essence of soldiering," Hogan said
— Bernard Cornwell
Happiness in life is not a given, it must be seized.
— Kate Morton