Seizing Quotes

Seizing Quote of the day

Taxation of earnings from labor is on a par with forced labor. Seizing the results of someone's labor is equivalent to seizing hours from him and directing him to carry on various activities.

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

You are alive today, and no matter what your condition, make a mark here and now. Opportunity is at every moment, seizing it is pleasure.

Authors are magpies, echoing each other's words and seizing avidly on anything that glitters.

For the wise man delights in establishing his merit, the brave man likes to show his courage in action, the covetous man is quick at seizing advantages, and the stupid man has no fear of death.

Painting isn't a question of sensibility; it's a matter of seizing the power, taking over from nature, not expecting her to supply you with information and good advice.

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

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.

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

Every day of our lives we are on the verge of making those slight changes that would make all the difference.

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

The repossession by women of our bodies will bring far more essential change to human society than the seizing of the means of production by workers.

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

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

[Documentary photography] is unwittingly literary, because it is nothing other than an observation of contemporary life apprehended at the right moment by an artist capable of seizing it. (1928)

The success or failure of a life, as far as posterity goes, seems to lie in the more or less luck of seizing the right moment of escape

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

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.

More women speaking up and seizing the helm of power can create its own momentum. It can change the culture that helps perpetuate those external forces.

What thou meanest by seizing the whole earth; but because I do it with a petty ship, I am called a robber, whilst thou who dost it with a great fleet art styled emperor.

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

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

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

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

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

Opportunities to climb to greater heights will surely come. But the question is, are you ready to seize them when they do?

When you live in the present, the past is forgotten & the future takes care of itself.

If we seek for the best times to act, we may miss some opportunities. We must seize the moment and make it great.

Life isn’t meant to be lived perfectly…but merely to be LIVED. Boldly, wildly, beautifully, uncertainly, imperfectly, magically LIVED.

What lies ahead? Worrying about it or creating it. Both requires a choice, one opens the door.