Quotes About Seize

If you were to give yourself over to this angel, Rilke tells the reader, some day, some night, the angel's light hands kämen denn … dich ringender zu prüfen, und gingen wie Erzürnte durch das Haus und griffen dich als ob sie dich erschüfen und brächen dich aus deiner Form heraus. would come more fiercely to interrogate you, and rush to seize you blazing like a star, and bend you as if trying to create you, and break you open, out of who you are.

The hour bows down and stirs me with a clear and ringing stroke; my senses tremble. I feel that I can-- and seize the forming day.

The days come and go but they say nothing, and if we do not use the gifts they bring, they carry them as silently away.

You have all the time in the world, but don't waste a moment.

Live as if you'd drop dead in 10 seconds! - Granger Fahrenheit 451

Live each day as if it were your last, 'cause I'm gonna kill you but I'm not super-good w/schedules

Seize the moment, 'cause tomorrow you might be dead.

Even if you have to do it afraid, make the most of every opportunity God puts in front of you.

Live for the moment. There might be no tomorrow. And even if there is, nobody really gives a damn.

There is never any time but now, and there never will be any time but now. If you are ever to begin to make ready for the reception of what you want, you must begin NOW.

Do not waste, your only chance to live, the greatest human experience, to be happy."

Live today, tomorrow is uncertain!

CARPE DIEM, ORAZIO I, 11 Leuconoe, quando io e te si muoia non chiederlo agli Dei.

Go after what is beneficial for you there and then, not what is good.

You must have been warned against letting the golden hours slip by. Yes, but some of them are golden only because we let them slip by.

You must have been warned against letting the golden hours slip by; but some of them are golden only because we let them slip by.

You have been warned against letting the golden hours slip by. Yes, but some of them are golden only because we let them slip by.

Haven't I been worth five years' excellent gossip to you? Are you not all waiting agog to see me seize my sister-in-law by the hair? When I think of it, damn it, I'm a public benefactor.

That's what terrorism is, basically—pure theater. Nothing in particular is ever accomplished by it, other than to focus attention on a small group of people who seize absolute power by threatening everything that holds civilization together.

tomorrow's gone-we'll have tonight!

Carpe diem. ¿Quién sabe lo que nos traerá el mañana?

Next year, maybe, she will look back on the experience and tell her friends that it was "fun"; but oh, the pity of it, not to gather the flowers of the Present, to let them wither, and never pluck them till they are dried wrecks of the Past!

Carpe Diem means 'Seize the Day'! Make the BEST of it in Every way! Don't lose a moment, come what may! Forget about tomorrow, Just Live Today!

This American system of ours . . . call it Americanism, call it capitalism, call it what you like, gives to each and every one of us a great opportunity if we only seize it with both hands and make the most of it.