#seize

Rest in Peace?’ Why that phrase? That’s the most ridiculous phrase I’ve ever heard! You die, and they say ‘Rest in Peace!’ …Why would one need to ‘rest’ when they’re dead?! I spent thousands of years of world history resting. While Agamemnon was leading his ships to Troy, I was resting. While Ovid was seducing women at the chariot races, I was resting. While Jeanne d’Arc was hallucinating, I was resting. I wait until airplanes are scuttling across the sky to burst out onto the scene, and I’m only going to be here for a short while, so when I die, I certainly won’t need to rest again! Not while more adventures of the same kind are going on. ↗

— Roman Payne

#agamemnon #carpe-diem #death #jeanne-of-arc #mythology

Thoughtless risks are destructive, of course, but perhaps even more wasteful is thoughtless caution which prompts inaction and promotes failure to seize opportunity. ↗

— Gary Ryan Blair

#course #destructive #even #failure #inaction

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

— Edgar Lee Masters

#erected #first #good #good work #laid

Just when I think I hate fashion, I hate clothes, I'm seized by this crazy thing that I have to do. I have this little studio now where I just draw. I can be in the room for three days and not even look up. ↗

— Isaac Mizrahi

#crazy #days #draw #even #fashion

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. ↗

— Barack Obama

#got #jeopardy #moment #nobody #put

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

— Robert M. Parker, Jr.

#find #life #live #moments #part

The lust of avarice as so totally seized upon mankind that their wealth seems rather to possess them than they possess their wealth. ↗

— Pliny the Elder

#lust #mankind #possess #rather #seems

In the order I was in, each brother takes five vows, one of which is teaching the poor gratuitously. As a young person I was seized by this idea of social justice and I wanted very much to follow my vow of teaching the poor gratuitously. ↗

— Godfrey Reggio

#each #five #follow #i #idea

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. ↗

— Condoleezza Rice

#america #assured #best #chance #come

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

— Theodore Roosevelt

#become #get #intended #man #moment