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Quotes about Capture

I fear mostly my inability to capture all the things that come, I fear their mysterious source, I fear their fate, I fear me, in short. This is true…it's like finding a river of gold when you haven't even got a cup to save a cupful…you've but a thimble, and that thimble is your pathetic brain and labour and humanness.
— Jack Kerouac
When the news reached me of McPherson's victory at Raymond about sundown my position was with Sherman. I decided at once to turn the whole column towards Jackson and capture that place without delay.
— Ulysses S. Grant
I. A Fast-Fish belongs to the party fast to it. II. A Loose-Fish is fair game for anybody who can soonest catch it. But what plays the mischief with this masterly code is the admirable brevity of it, which necessitates a vast volume of commentaries to expound it.
— Herman Melville
The truth is a trap: you cannot get it without it getting you; you cannot get the truth by capturing it, only by its capturing you.
— Soren Kierkegaard
She learned to catch a moment in her hand before it flew away and hold it tightly while she had the chance.
— Beth Moore
Taking every thought captive to the obedience of Christ. 2 Corinthians 10:5
— Beth Moore
My! we couldn't get him out, Tom. And besides, 'twouldn't do any good; they'd ketch him again. Yes—so they would. But I hate to hear 'em abuse him so like the dickens when he never done—that. I do too, Tom. Lord, I hear 'em say he's the
— Mark Twain
What a snapshot is to your life, your life is to eternity, so wouldn't it be nice if eternity captured you smiling?
— Robert Brault
He had learned the rare secret that you must take happiness when you find it - that there is no use in marking the place and coming back to it at a more convenient season, because it will not be there then.
— LM Montgomery
It was a miracle to live as birds do, except for one thing: anyone seen in flight would surely be captured, perhaps even shot down like a crow flying above a cornfield. It's always dangerous to be different, to appear as a monster in most people's eyes, even from a distance.
— Alice Hoffman
The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means.
— William Faulkner
Photography is a tough life: you can be taken, framed, exposed, shot, captured, and hung all in the same day.
— Anonymous