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Contempt is a kind of gangrene which, if it seizes one part of a character, corrupts all the rest by degrees. — Samuel Johnson

My ideas sometimes get the better of me. Before I clearly explain one, another comes to mind and seizes my attention ... — Ellen Langer

Lawyers are like that famous vampire-bat, said to exist in Hungary, which seizes on a creature, and never lets go while there is blood left. — Walter Besant

There is, of course, a difference between what one seizes and what one really possesses. — Pearl S. Buck

Solicitude for material things distracts the soul and divides it. The devil seizes the divided soul and drags it to hell. — Anthony

When fear seizes, change what you are doing. You are doing something wrong. — Jean Craighead George

An earnest purpose finds time, or makes it. It seizes on spare moments, and turns fragments to golden account. — William Ellery Channing

A writer seizes every opportunity to wonder. — Lailah Gifty Akita

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

Whatever the imagination seizes as Beauty must be truth -whether it existed before or not — John Keats

To a life that seizes
Upon content,
Locality seems
But accident. — Elizabeth Jane Coatsworth

If the mass of people hesitate to act, strike with swiftly and with boldness, the brave heart that understands and seizes opportunity can everything. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

It never seizes to amaze me how much I enjoy playing here and how much you fans have meant to me over the years. — Andre Agassi

No; he is not a man that it is easy to draw out, though he can be communicative enough when the fancy seizes him. — Arthur Conan Doyle

The true warrior understands and seizes that moment by giving an effort so intense and so intuitive that it could only be called one from the heart. — Pat Riley

The football season is like pain. You forget how terrible it is until it seizes you again. — Sally Quinn

All emotions are pure which gather you and lift you up; that emotion is impure which seizes only one side of your being and so distorts you. — Rainer Maria Rilke

Seize the day, whatever's in it to seize, before something comes along and seizes you. — Lloyd Alexander

Sickness seizes the body from bad ventilation. — Ovid

Change your ways when fear seizes," he had said, "for it usually means you are doing something wrong. — Jean Craighead George

Once one seizes happiness, one should hang onto it like an octopus. — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Once a culture becomes entirely advertising friendly, it seizes to be a culture at all. — Mark Crispin Miller

The Photography is a chopper which in the eternity seizes the moment which dazzled it. — Henri Cartier-Bresson

When one great passion seizes possession of the soul all other feelings are crowded out. — L.M. Montgomery

Law it is ... which hears without ears, sees without eyes, moves without feet and seizes without hands. — Marsilio Ficino

A government that seizes control of the economy for the good of the people, ends up seizing control of the people for the good of the economy — Bob Dole

The wide awake man seizes opportunities or makes them, and thus those who are widest awake usually come to the front. — Charles Haddon Spurgeon

James (like the far more visceral Conrad) seizes your life. — Cynthia Ozick

In the consciousness of the truth he has perceived, man now sees everywhere only the awfulness or the absurdity of existence and loathing seizes him. — Friedrich Nietzsche

In every contest, there comes a moment that separates winning from losing. The true warrior understands and seizes that moment. — Pat Riley

Servitude seizes on few, but many seize on her. — Seneca The Younger

The Ancient Mariner seizes the guest at the wedding feast and will not let go until he has told all his story: the prototype of the bore. — Mason Cooley

We know that no one ever seizes power with the intention of relinquishing it. — George Orwell

The right man is the one who seizes the moment. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Heretic ... is a person who seizes upon a truth and pushes it to the point at which it becomes a falsehood. — T. S. Eliot

Eros seizes and shakes my very soul like the wind on the mountain
shaking ancient oaks. — Sappho

Such is the privilege of genius; it perceives, it seizes relations where vulgar eyes see only isolated facts. — Francois Arago

This is the reason why our Theology is certain: because it seizes us from ourselves and places us outside ourselves. — Martin Luther

The world is a sacred vessel that cannot be changed. He who changes it will destroy it. He who seizes it will lose it. — Laozi

[Photography] remains servile to a thoughtless vision of the world ... As the term snapshot suggests, photography seizes the moment and exhibits it. — Claude Levi-Strauss

Discouragement seizes us only when we can no longer count on chance. — George Sand

Once again Love, that loosener of limbs,
bittersweet and inescapable, crawling thing,
seizes me. — Sappho

He belongs to time, and by the horror that seizes him, he recognizes his worst enemy. — Albert Camus

A good tree never seizes to bear good fruits. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Those who know their unworthiness seize grace as a hungry man seizes bread: the self-righteous resent grace. — Randy Alcorn

Without the religious element, life is like an engine running without oil-it seizes up. — Romano Guardini

What the imagination seizes as Beauty must be truth — John Keats

Love is when there is no denying "it" ... that magical, elusive feeling that really seizes us and takes us from the inside. — Stephanie Ellis