The wild force of genius has often been fated by Nature to be finally overcome by quiet strength. The volcano sends up its red bolt with terrific force, as if it would strike the stars; but the calm, resistless hand of gravitation seizes it and brings it to the earth.
A great man is one who seizes the vital issue in a complex question, what we might call the jugular vein of the whole organism, and spends his energies upon that
An earnest purpose finds time, or makes it. It seizes on spare moments, and turns fragments to golden account.
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.
The right man is the one who seizes the moment.
Brutes gaze on sights, they are arrested by sounds; and what they see and what they hear are sights and sounds only. The intellectof man, on the contrary, energises as well as his eye or ear, and perceives in sights or sounds something beyond them. It seizes and unites what the senses present to it; it grasps and forms what need not be seen or heard except in detail. It discerns in lines and colors, or in tones, what is beautiful and what is not. It gives them a meaning, and invests them with an idea.
You know, that's what I've regretted the most, that joy. Of course, later there were times when I felt happy, but happiness is to joy what an electric light bulb is to the sun. Happiness always has an object, you're happy because of something, it's a condition whose existence depends on external things. Joy, on the other hand, has no object. It seizes you for no apparent reason; it's like the sun- its burning is fueled by its own heart.
The real menace of our Republic is the invisible government which like a giant octopus sprawls its slimy legs over our cities, states and nation. At the head is a small group of banking houses. . . This little coterie. . . runs our government for their own selfish ends. It operates under cover of a self-created screen. . . seizes. . . our executive officers. . . legislative bodies. . . schools. . . courts. . . newspapers and every agency created for the public protection.
When fear seizes, change what you are doing. You are doing something wrong.
When I look on you a moment, then I can speak no more, but my tongue falls silent, and at once a delicate flame courses beneath my skin, and with my eyes I see nothing, and my ears hum, and a wet sweat bathes me and a trembling seizes me all over.
We know that no one ever seizes power with the intention of relinquishing it.
Art is a kind of innate drive that seizes a human being and makes him its instrument. The artist is not a person endowed with free will who seeks his own ends, but one who allows art to realize its purpose through him. As a human being he may have moods and a will and personal aims, but as an artist he is "man" in a higher sense— he is "collective man"— one who carries and shapes the unconscious, psychic forms of mankind.
Love is when there is no denying "it". . . that magical, elusive feeling that really seizes us and takes us from the inside.
The football season is like pain. You forget how terrible it is until it seizes you again.
The keen spirit seizes the prompt occasion.
Sometimes I'll drive around for months despair, nothing, nothing, then suddenly I will see something that seizes me. . . a shape, a combination of shapes, a play of light or shadows and I send up a prayer because I know I have the germ of a picture.
There is, of course, a difference between what one seizes and what one really possesses.
Those who know their unworthiness seize grace as a hungry man seizes bread: the self-righteous resent grace.
Art is a kind of innate drive that seizes a human being and makes him its instrument. To perform this difficult office it is sometimes necessary for him to sacrifice happiness and everything that makes life worth living for the ordinary human being.
If the mass of people hesitate to act, strike with swiftly and with boldness, the brave heart that understands and seizes opportunity can everything.
