Best Seizing Quotes

One secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.

You will never ‘find’ time for anything. If you want time, you must make it.

Begin doing what you want to do now. We are not living in eternity. We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand – and melting like a snowflake.

Invention consists in the capacity of seizing on the capabilities of a subject, and in the power of moulding and fashioning ideas suggested to it.

And now she has you seizing control of my army. Your army? I thought this was Gaunt’s. So did he.

Success of life depends upon keeping one’s mind open to opportunity and seizing it when it comes.

Begin by seizing something which your opponent holds dear; then he will be amenable to your will.

Seizing the initiative can make all the difference between winning and loosing.

It is time for blacks to begin the shift from a wartime to a peacetime identity, from fighting for opportunity to the seizing of it.

Government does not grow by seizing our freedoms, but by assuming our responsibilities.

If people believed in eternal damnation they might not be seizing the day quite so much.

The inflection point at which we have arrived is one in which we are increasingly seizing the keys to all creation, as astonding as that might seem.

There’s a big difference between seeing an opportunity and seizing an opportunity

Bidding the wizard farewell, he turned to his daughter, who held up her finger and said, Daddy, look — one of the gnomes actually bit me! How wonderful! Gnome saliva is enormously beneficial! said Mr. Lovegood, seizing Luna’s outstretched finger and examining the bleeding puncture marks. Luna, my love, if you should feel any burgeoning talent today — perhaps an unexpected urge to sing opera or to declaim in Mermish — do not repress it! You may have been gifted by the Gernumblies! Ron, passing them in the opposite direction, let out a loud snort.

Why not seize the pleasure at once? — How often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish preparation!

One can make a day of any size

Government power is always abused by seizing and perverting the law. And with few exceptions, government always determines what is law.

And when the drums of war have reached a fever pitch and the blood boils with hate and the mind is closed, the leader will have no need in seizing the rights of the citizenry. Rather, the citizenry infused with fear and blinded by patriotism, will offer up all of their rights unto the leader and do it gladly so.

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 and joy, about seizing the moment and following your heart.

Reality is an aspect of property. It must be seized. And investigative journalism is the noble art of seizing reality back from the powerful.

Life is very persistent and very ingenious in seizing every opportunity.

When I observed a strong man approaching I generally took advantage of him by being a little quicker than he was and seizing him by the tip of the fingers, giving him a hearty shake, and thus preventing him from getting a full grip upon me.

No individual can be in full control of his fate-our strengths come significantly from our history, our experiences largely from the vagaries of chance. But by seizing the opportunity to leverage and frame these experiences, we gain agency over them. And this heightened agency, in turn, places us in a stronger position to deal with future experiences, even as it may alter our own sense of strengths and possibilities.

Carpe diem. (Seize the day.)

Thanks to his complex convictions, made strong with the forces of animus and anima, the alchemist believes he is seizing the soul of the world, participating in the soul of the world. Thus, from the world to the man, alchemy is a problem of souls.

A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.

I held a moment in my hand, brilliant as a star, fragile as a flower, a tiny sliver of one hour. I dripped it carelessly, Ah! I didn’t know, I held opportunity.

What Secretary Ash Carter is looking at is the constant pressure that Russia’s putting on our European allies. The way that Russia is trying to move the boundaries of the post-World War II Europe. The way that he is trying to set European countries against one another, seizing territory, holding it in Crimea. Beginning to explore whether they could make some inroads in the Baltics.

The role of the artist, like that of the scholar, consists of seizing current truths often repeated to him, but which will take on new meaning for him and which he will make his own when he has grasped their deepest significance.

Thought Has joys apart, even in blackest woe, And seizing some fine thread of verity Knows momentary godhead.

Power is poison. Its effect on Presidents has been always tragic, chiefly as an almost indecent excitement at first, and a worse reaction afterwards; but also because no mind is so well balanced as to bear the strain of seizing unlimited force without habit or knowledge of it; and finding it disputed with him by hungry packs of wolves and hounds whose lives depend on snatching the carion.

I thought, when I came upon her, that I was seizing hold of life… Instead I lost hold of life completely. I reached out for something to attach myself to – and I found nothing. But in reaching out, in the effort to grasp, to attach myself, left high and dry as I was, I nevertheless found something I had not looked for – myself.

seizing the swift logic of a woman,Curse God and die.

Some champions of ever-greater governmental power and spending invent the theory that the taxpayers, left to themselves, spend the money they have earned very foolishly, on all sorts of trivialities and rubbish, and that only the bureaucrats, by first seizing it from them, will know how to spend it wisely.

A detective with his murder mystery, a chemist seeking the structure of a new compound, use little of the formal and logical modes of reasoning. Through a series of intuitions, surmises, fancies, they stumble upon the right explanation, and have a knack of seizing it when it once comes within reach.