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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

Faith is permitting ourselves to be seized by the things we do not see. — Martin Luther

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

Opportunities multiply as they are seized. — Sun Tzu

Still being ambitious to want to play on the record, I was a mediocre keyboard player. And uh, I seized the opportunity and played the organ. — Al Kooper

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 oppressed
I sink from reverie to rest.
An horrid vision seized my head,
I saw the graves give up their dead. — Jonathan Swift

It's one thing to see a vision; it's another thing to be seized by a vision. — Bill Hybels

The city's government seized and sold Church property until the — Tim Parks

No one knows better than I that it's all here, and need not be explained or interpreted - just seized. — Mark Helprin

Truth is often better seized and louder in the silence of the written word. — Ina Catrinescu

Some weaknesses beg to be seized. — Jill Alexander Essbaum

Rights are to be taken, not requested; seized, not begged for. — Jose Marti

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

The agitator seizes the word. The artist is seized by it. — Karl Kraus

Disruptive innovation is competitive strategy for an age seized by terror. — Jill Lepore

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

Is it a misfortune that magnificent California was seized from the lazy Mexicans who did not know what to do with it. — Karl Marx

A collective spasm of carbophobia seized the country, ... — Michael Pollan

Not sorry, not calling, not crying
All will pass like smoke of white apple trees
Seized by the gold of autumn,
I will no longer be young. — Sergei Yesenin

He had glimpsed a glorious ideal, had struggled toward it and seized it and come to understand it, and was disappointed. One could sympathize. — John Gardner

His mouth descended on hers in a fierce kiss.
He seized, he captured.
He dominated.
And she loved every second of it. — Donna Grant

The constant petty behests of life permit few opportunities for major satisfactions, and when one is offered it should be seized. — Rex Stout

When Jesus wept, the falling tear
in 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

Everybody seized upon a bit of the beast. The Sultan claimed the liver, which, when dried and powdered, is worth twice its weight in gold as medicine. — Isabella Bird

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

He who contemplates the depths of Paris is seized with vertigo.
Nothing is more fantastic. Nothing is more tragic.
Nothing is more sublime. — Victor Hugo

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

He owns them more completely than if he had seized their balls in his hands — Nick Lake

Wealth should not be seized, but the god-given is much better. — Hesiod

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

Smile even if your burdens are awfully heavy.Smile even if your face is seized by wrinkles.Smile even if your teeth suffer from deformity Just SMILE — Yasser Kashef

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

Capture me, Wade." I begged him.
"Oh, Evelyn. I have captured you from the very moment I set my eyes upon you. And you have seized me. — Lilly James

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

He was seized and dragged off to King Philip, and being asked who he was, replied, A spy upon your insatiable greed . — Diogenes

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

Events such as the 1991 Tailhook debacle have been seized upon and used by feminists to attack the military culture and bring about major concessions. — Jim Webb

I was eleven years old when I saw a woman for the first time, and I was seized by such sudden surprise that I burst into tears. — Mia Couto

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

Who knows that each day is not a gift but a prize that is to be seized — Jessica Khoury

kitchen radio brought news that the jihadists who had the previous day seized an ocean liner in the Mediterranean were now beheading passengers. — Dean Koontz

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

Her heart kicked hard against her ribs, seized by a terrible fear that refused to let go no matter how hard she pushed. — Kady Cross

With my teeth
I have seized life
Upon the knife of my youth.
With my lips today,
With my lips alone ... — Rene Char

Change is not a force to be feared, but an opportunity to be seized. — Sam Weiss

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

His first theory was that if human beings didn't keep exercising their lips, their mouths probably seized up. — Anonymous

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