Seize Quotes

My friends, history, history calls us to this time and to this place. A solemn choice rests with us - where do we go from here? Do we move slowly and incrementally? Or do we seize the challenge of our time and tackle the great issues of our day.

Get action. Seize the moment. Man was never intended to become an oyster.

To perceive means to immobilize... we seize, in the act of perception, something which outruns perception itself.

I urge the Iraqi leadership for sake of its own people... to seize this opportunity and thereby begin to end the isolation and suffering of the Iraqi people.

You've got to seize the opportunity if it is presented to you.

Nobody wants to put the creditworthiness of the United States in jeopardy. Nobody wants to see the United States default. So we've got to seize this moment, and we have to seize it soon.

It's insanity for a party that believes in freedom to allow some Republicans to seize an agenda that is totally alien to the agenda that was established in the election.

Carpe per diem - seize the check.

We can seize this time and do it our way and in the process be proud of ourselves and prosper as well.

Lose not yourself in a far off time, seize the moment that is thine.

You're never guaranteed about next year. People ask what you think of next season, you have to seize the opportunities when they're in front of you.

God hates violence. He has ordained that all men fairly possess their property, not seize it.

Seize the day. Well, I aspire to that anyway.

Those who first oppose a good work, seize it and make it their own, when the cornerstone is laid and memorial tablets are erected.

You didn't have to worry that marauding bands would come and seize everything in your factory and hire someone to protect against this because of the work the rest of us did.

Some parents say it is toy guns that make boys warlike. But give a boy a rubber duck and he will seize its neck like the butt of a pistol and shout "Bang!"

We see violence to forcibly seize land, at any price, murders and corruption.

Know the true value of time; snatch, seize, and enjoy every moment of it. No idleness, no laziness, no procrastination: never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.

Part of life is to live it, and enjoy it, and seize the moments that you find particularly pleasing.

If you must break the law, do it to seize power: in all other cases observe it.

There is a time for risky love. There is a time for extravagant gestures. There is a time to pour out your affections on one you love. And when the time comes - seize it, don't miss it.

In my opinion, a master is morally obliged to seize every sort of opportunity and to try to solve the problems of the position without fear of some simplifications.

Seize the moment of excited curiosity on any subject to solve your doubts; for if you let it pass, the desire may never return, and you may remain in ignorance.

There are goods so opposed that we cannot seize both, but, by too much prudence, may pass between them at too great a distance to reach either.

Success is not assured, but America is resolute: this is the best chance for peace we are likely to see for some years to come - and we are acting to help Israelis and Palestinians seize this chance.

The European Union, which is not directly responsible to voters, provides an irresistible opportunity for European elites to seize power in order to impose their own vision on a newly socially regimented Europe.

Seize the day, and put the least possible trust in tomorrow.

I think a moment of critical energy has suddenly emerged. But moments like this come and go unless we seize them at their height.

Our work is before us. It cannot be passed to future legislatures and must not be passed to future generations. May we boldly seize the moment with singular unity. And may we build a Texas of unlimited possibility.

My officers and men understood wishes so well that this movement was executed under fire, the right wing keeping up fire, without giving the enemy any occasion to seize or even to suspect their advantage.