Quotes about Possessed

Possessing what we still were unpossessed by, Possessed by what we now no more possessed. Votes: 3

Possessions. The very word is potent - suggestive as it is of ownership both material and erotic. To possess. Possession. Possessed. Votes: 3

Possessed of courage but devoid of morality, a superior man will make trouble while a small man will be a brigand. Votes: 3

As far as specific bands from the 90s death metal era, I love Death, Carcass, Possessed, Morbid Angel, Gorguts, Autopsy, Atheist, etc. Votes: 3

I got on a Dostoyevsky kick right after college. I started with 'Crime and Punishment,' went on to 'The Possessed' and then 'The Brothers Karamazov' and 'The Idiot.' Votes: 3

Two evils, monstrous either one apart, Possessed me, and were long and loath at going: A cry of Absence, Absence, in the heart, And in the wood the furious winter blowing. Votes: 3

. . . the mind is desperate to fix the river {of events} in place: Possessed by ideas of the past, preoccupied with images of the future, it overlooks the plain truth of the moment. Votes: 3

[On James Gould Cozzens' By Love Possessed:] It is a vast enterprise encompassing all sorts of love, except, naturally, those branches which extend to Jews, Negroes, and people who have lost track of their great-grandparents ... Votes: 3

Possessed with a full confidence of the certain success which British valor must gain over such enemies, I have led you up these steep and dangerous rocks, only solicitous to show you the foe within your reach. Votes: 3

Real riches are the riches possessed inside. Votes: 1

Those who are possessed by nothing possess everything. Votes: 1

No one worth possessing can be quite possessed. Votes: 1

He is lost who is possessed by carnal desire. Votes: 1

Liberty must be limited in order to be possessed. Votes: 1

Most of us have far more courage than we ever dreamed we possessed. Votes: 1

Love possesses not nor will it be possessed, for love is sufficient unto love. Votes: 1

In times of joy, all of us wished we possessed a tail we could wag. Votes: 1

The jealous are possessed by a mad devil and a dull spirit at the same time. Votes: 1

Some people possess talent, others are possessed by it. When that happens, a talent becomes a curse. Votes: 1

This life is a hospital in which every patient is possessed with a desire to change his bed. Votes: 1

The idea of winning a doctor's degree gradually assumed the aspect of a great moral struggle, and the moral fight possessed immense attraction for me. Votes: 1

Anything you cannot relinquish when it has outlived its usefulness possesses you, and in this materialistic age a great many of us are possessed by our possessions. Votes: 1

The nation that complacently and fearfully allows its artists and writers to become suspected rather than respected is no longer regarded as a nation possessed with humor or depth. Votes: 1

Emotion is something that you don't simply receive. Emotion is compelled. Other than that, we're just shells until we're possessed or reanimated from time to time by different emotions. Votes: 1

There is no arguing with the pretenders to a divine knowledge and to a divine mission. They are possessed with the sin of pride, they have yielded to the perennial temptation. Votes: 1

In the same manner if any nation wasted part of its wealth, or lost part of its trade, it could not retain the same quantity of circulating medium which it before possessed. Votes: 1

Everything that is new or uncommon raises a pleasure in the imagination, because it fills the soul with an agreeable surprise, gratifies its curiosity, and gives it an idea of which it was not before possessed. Votes: 1

That so unlikely an outcome should accrue to a man possessed of such limited talent and so many flaws, and one lacking in a sense of ethics and decency was one of the bitter ironies of history. Votes: 1

I had spent some time in the outback, but to meet Aboriginals and work with them was wonderful. It gave me a great appreciation of how tough life is and about the indomitable spirit that the Aboriginal people have always possessed. Votes: 1

We must have constantly present in our minds the difference between independence and liberty. Liberty is a right of doing whatever the laws permit, and if a citizen could do what they forbid he would no longer be possessed of liberty. Votes: 1

No punishment has ever possessed enough power of deterrence to prevent the commission of crimes. On the contrary, whatever the punishment, once a specific crime has appeared for the first time, its reappearance is more likely than its initial emergence could ever have been. Votes: 1

Anybody who's away from what's normal is just kind of pushed aside as, 'Oh, he's crazy.' But in reality, this world is crazy. It's just chaos everywhere. It's really hard to be part of this world, because it's very possessed. And very egocentric. Votes: 1

Ferdinand was a gold trader. He was a lawyer for mining companies. When he entered politics in l949, he had tons and tons of gold. When Bill Gates was a college dropout, Ferdinand already possessed billions of dollars and tons of gold. It wasn't stolen. Votes: 1

Wolves and women are relational by nature, inquiring, possessed of great endurance and strength. They are deeply intuitive, intensely concerned with their young, their mate and their pack. Yet both have been hounded, harassed and falsely imputed to be devouring and devious, overly aggressive, of less value than those who are their detractors. Votes: 1

I was never a class clown or anything like that, but I do remember being in the first grade and my teacher, Mr. Chad, told the class one day that we were going to do some exercises. He meant math exercises, but I stood up and started doing jumping jacks. To this day, I don't know what possessed me to do that, but all my friends cracked up. Votes: 1

Stefan G. Bucher is a man possessed. Votes: 0

An idea discovered is much better possessed. Votes: 0

Tranquility, allied to loneliness, possessed no charms. Votes: 0

There's no room for demons when you're self-possessed. Votes: 0

Never self-possessed, or prudent, love is all abandonment. Votes: 0

More than a process, painting is being possessed... Votes: 0

What is not fully understood is not possessed. Votes: 0

a man possessed with peace is always smiling Votes: 0

Love seeks not to possess, but to be possessed. Votes: 0

I'm possessed by love — but isn't everybody? Votes: 0

Possession without obligation to the object possessed approaches felicity. Votes: 0

What demon possessed me that I behaved so well? Votes: 0

I am possessed by love and have no options. Votes: 0

A person possessed with an idea cannot be reasoned with. Votes: 0

I still tour like a man possessed, because I am. Votes: 0

Molly was arrested. Possession." I blinked at himShe was possessed?" Votes: 0

The metaphor is probably the most fertile power possessed by man Votes: 0

every question possessed a power that was lost in the answer . . . Votes: 0

The wealthy seldom possess wealth: oftener they are possessed by it. Votes: 0

Sometimes I feel like I'm possessed with a multitude of demons. Votes: 0

Cats don't need to be possessed; they're evil on their own. Votes: 0

Less possessing-less possessed. More possessing-more possessed. More possessed-less accessed. Less possessed-more accessed. Votes: 0

Molly was arrested. Possession." I blinked at him. "She was possessed? Votes: 0

Creative people neither like to be possessive nor like to be possessed. Votes: 0

He had everything, but he possessed nothing. There is the spiritual secret. Votes: 0

... both therapy and friendship possessed the common denominator of discovering a self ... Votes: 0

All the great Founders of religions have been possessed of clairvoyant sight. Votes: 0

What have you given the world it never possessed before you came? Votes: 0

All have the gift of speech, but few are possessed of wisdom. Votes: 0

He that is possessed with a prejudice is possessed with a devil. Votes: 0

I feel as though that was someone else playing. I was possessed! Votes: 0

You feel the spirit move you. I can be possessed really well. Votes: 0

At least he possessed enough sense to recognize how little sense he possessed. Votes: 0

Songwriting is about getting the demon out of me. It's like being possessed. Votes: 0

An agile but unintelligent and abnormal German, possessed of the mania of grandeur. Votes: 0

No wild enthusiast could rest, till half the world like him was possessed. Votes: 0

I think that they [Bush Administration] are men who are possessed of evil. Votes: 0

But when I direct I become possessed, a possession I've never quite understood. Votes: 0

The guitar has a kind of grit and excitement possessed by nothing else. Votes: 0

Webster was much possessed by death And saw the skull beneath the skin. Votes: 0

The guitar has a kind of grit and excitement possessed by nothing else Votes: 0

My soul is possessed by this devil my new name is Rain Man. Votes: 0

Movie people are possessed by demons, but a very low form of demons. Votes: 0

We do not live by what is possessed but by what is promised. Votes: 0

Love is a light that never dwelleth in a heart possessed by fear. Votes: 0

Everyone is possessed with an irresistible desire to know his relationship to the Infinite. Votes: 0

The adventure evoked a quality of his character that he didn't know he possessed. Votes: 0

Truly, whoever possesses little is that much less possessed: praised be a little poverty! Votes: 0

I'm inspired by the sheer ingenuity and intelligence possessed by my fellow band mates. Votes: 0

Beware what spirit rages in your breast; for one inspired, ten thousand are possessed. Votes: 0

I boldly entered the arena of business and exercised the rights I already possessed. Votes: 0

He who possesseth little is so much the less possessed. Blessed be moderate poverty! Votes: 0

Mothers sometimes are overly possessive, but not all children allow themselves to be possessed. Votes: 0

The wise only possess ideas; the greater part of mankind are possessed by them. Votes: 0

If I owned Gideon, he possessed me. I couldn't imagine belonging to anyone else. Votes: 0

May we always be possessed by the consciousness that we are not our own. Votes: 0

I have wanted women whose very shoes are worth all I have ever possessed. Votes: 0

I felt that Paris was illuminated by a splendor possessed by no other places. Votes: 0

Regard your good name as the richest jewel yoou can possibly be possessed of. Votes: 0

I was hell bent on destruction... it was like being possessed by a demon. Votes: 0

Love hath so long possessed me for his own And made his lordship so familiar. Votes: 0

No longer possessed by possessions, we may become open enough to become possessed by God. Votes: 0

Many person might have achieved wisdom had they not supposed that they already possessed it. Votes: 0

Hillary Clinton has emphasized that she is afflicted with or possessed of the responsibility gene. Votes: 0

Photographs objectify: they turn an event or a person into something that can be possessed. Votes: 0

The artist should have a powerful will. He should be powerfully possessed by one idea Votes: 0

We do not possess an 'ego.' We are possessed by the idea of one. Votes: 0

I die but first I have possessed, And come what may, I have been blessed. Votes: 0

No beast is more savage than man when possessed with power answerable to his rage. Votes: 0

No punishment has ever possessed enough power of deterrence to prevent the commission of crimes. Votes: 0

Faith is that quality or power by which the things desired become the things possessed. Votes: 0

Was there ever any domination that did not appear natural to those who possessed it? Votes: 0

Possessiveness destroys love. And they should not be possessed, because that again destroys your love. Votes: 0

The rich are never as possessed by their riches as the poor are by their poverty. Votes: 0

Had Windham possessed discretion in debate, or Sheridan in conduct, they might have ruled their age. Votes: 0

Everything possessed the power to transform itself, or else, and what meant more, to be transformed. Votes: 0

Washington possessed the superb self-confidence that comes only to those men whose inner life is faint. Votes: 0

no one worth knowing can be quite known, no one worth possessing can be quite possessed Votes: 0

Every actor and actress is possessed of the absorbing passion to create something distinctive and unique. Votes: 0

In our rich consumers' civilization we spin cocoons around ourselves and get possessed by our possessions. Votes: 0

The American Revolution was a vindication of liberties inherited and possessed. It was a conservative revolution. Votes: 0

If you are possessed by an idea, you find it expressed everywhere, you even smell it. Votes: 0

The Christianity that saves is a thing personally grasped, personally experienced, personally felt and personally possessed. Votes: 0

He possessed the rare merit of making a property of his time and not a burden. Votes: 0

The comics were not only stories to enjoy; for me they were drawings that possessed me. Votes: 0

My body is no longer mine. My soul dormant. I am once again, possessed.www.thethreeimmortalblades.com Votes: 0

To be possessed by Jesus and to possess Him - that is the perfect reign of Love. Votes: 0

You both should feel honored." "Right, very honored," I said. "Always wanted to be possessed! Votes: 0

The basis of good manners is self-reliance. Necessity is the law of all who are not self-possessed. Votes: 0

Once upon a time men were possessed by devils. Now they are not less obsessed by ideas Votes: 0

Your Potential is all that you can HAVE but have not yet possessed. No limits. No boundaries Votes: 0

When the body of the people is possessed of the supreme power, it is called a democracy. Votes: 0

Songwriting is like ... being possessed. You try to go to sleep but the song won't let you. Votes: 0

When the body of the people is possessed of the supreme power, it is called a democracy. Votes: 0

A 'possessed' dog in the neighborhood won't let me stop killing until he gets his fill of blood. Votes: 0

I was supposed to be powerless, and as a result they failed to see that I possessed claws. Votes: 0

We all possess, like it or not, the people we know, and are possessed by them in turn. Votes: 0

Does there exist a single instance of a saint asserting that he himself possessed the gift of miracles? Votes: 0

Aimee-"If someone's possessed by a demon, how do you get the demon out?" Xedrix-"Call a priest. Votes: 0

We truly possess only what we are able to renounce; otherwise, we are simply possessed by our possessions. Votes: 0

Art Modell was a visionary, a deal-maker and a friend. And he possessed a marvelous sense of humor. Votes: 0

He was ruined in every way, but a man possessed of passion is not a bankrupt in life. Votes: 0

Obstinacy standing alone is the weakest of all things in one whose mind is not possessed by wisdom. Votes: 0

I actually think I may be possessed with demons, I was dropped on my head as a kid. Votes: 0

Central planning, judicial activism, and the nanny state all presume vastly more knowledge than any elite have ever possessed. Votes: 0

When our friends are alive, we see the good qualities they lack; dead, we remember only those they possessed. Votes: 0

No one is saying you're possessed by the devil anymore except the most ignorant of people in modern culture. Votes: 0

Of the things they possessed in common, greatest of all was their almost uncanny pull at each others hearts. Votes: 0

Dinner at the Huntercombes possessed only two dramatic features the wine was a farce and the food a tragedy Votes: 0

Philosophy ... should not pretend to increase our present stock, but make us economists of what we are possessed of. Votes: 0

Allow yourself to be possessed by God by receiving Jesus, and you will never be possessed by anything else. Votes: 0

She has always been a bystander in family destruction, never realizing she herself possessed the capacity to inflict it. Votes: 0

I never knew I had the power to hurt him, only that he possessed the power to hurt me. Votes: 0

Never has grief been possessed, never has love been learned, and what removes us in death is not revealed. Votes: 0

Many speak the truth when they say that they despise riches, but they mean the riches possessed by others. Votes: 0

Once the mass of the defending infantry become possessed of low moral, the battle is as good as lost. Votes: 0

For to be possessed of a vigorous mind is not enough; the prime requisite is rightly to apply it. Votes: 0

Nick"˜s eyes widened as a total state of befuddled huh possessed him. Was he in the Twilight Zone? Votes: 0

What I spent I lost; what I possessed is left to others; what I gave away remains with me. Votes: 0

My mind is wholly possessed by Love, who rules every part there of, in virtue of his all-embracing deity. Votes: 0

You don't have to fear defeat if you believe it may reveal powers that you didn't know you possessed. Votes: 0

I think of painting as possessed by a structure... but a structure born of the flow of color feeling. Votes: 0

if you posses more than just eight things then y o u are possessed by t h e m Votes: 0

Once the mass of the defending infantry become possessed of low moral, the battle is as good as lost. Votes: 0

The star of the unconquered will, He rises in my breast, Serene, and resolute, and still, And calm, and self-possessed. Votes: 0

Irony, perfect definition: that for which I want to possess it, I would no longer want once I possessed it. Votes: 0

A good man is not mine to see. Could I see a man possessed of constancy, that would satisfy me. Votes: 0

The overwhelming majority of Americans are possessed of two great qualities a sense of humor and a sense of proportion. Votes: 0

Those of our writers who have possessed a vivid personal talent have been paralyzed by a want of social background. Votes: 0

He had possessed the arrogance of a tall member of a short race, with no obligation save to be tall. Votes: 0

Dinner at the Huntercombes' possessed only two dramatic features - the wine was a farce and the food a tragedy. Votes: 0

Jim Stavridis is the former NATO commander who is sometimes on people's lists, also very plausible, self-possessed, someone with sobriety. Votes: 0

Personal righteousness is a choice. Faith is a gift from God, and one possessed of it can receive enormous spiritual power. Votes: 0

The main thing about the novel that is totally fascinating: It's not possessed by the writer; it's possessed by the reader. Votes: 0

The greatest geniuses have always attributed everything to God, as if conscious of being possessed of a spark of His divinity. Votes: 0

Mother Dolores Hart's prose is a reflection of the inner beauty she has always possessed. A fascinating read... and read again! Votes: 0

For me Esoteric Hitlerism is being possessed by the archetypes of the collective unconscious which the Greeks used to call gods. Votes: 0

If one abandons their principles when tested by struggle, they were never true principles but advertisements for character they never possessed. Votes: 0

The object of ambition, unlike that of love, never being wholly possessed, ambition is the more durable passion of the two. Votes: 0

Wealth and rank are what people desire, but unless they are obtained in the right way they may not be possessed. Votes: 0

I shall think soon that what people say is true: every woman is possessed by her own peculiar devil of curiosity Votes: 0

The poets are nothing but interpreters of the gods, each one possessed by the divinity to whom he is in bondage. Votes: 0

The mystical impulse in men is somehow a desire to possess the universe. In women, it's a desire to be possessed. Votes: 0

My question is, do you believe in an evil possessed of its own purity? or does every act intend some good?... Votes: 0

We have long possessed the art of war and the science of war, which have been evolved in the minutest detail. Votes: 0

The masses are still ungrateful or ignorant. They prefer murder, poisonings, and crimes generally to a literature possessed of style and feeling. Votes: 0

That happy state of mind, so rarely possessed, in which we can say, "I have enough," is the highest attainment of philosophy. Votes: 0

Under Saddam Hussein, the nation of Iraq possessed and used chemical weapons against both their own Kurdish population and Iranian military forces. Votes: 0

A people... who are possessed of the spirit of commerce, who see and who will pursue their advantages may achieve almost anything. Votes: 0

Greatness is a property for which no man can receive credit too soon; it must be possessed long before it is acknowledged. Votes: 0

Painting is possessed of divine power, for not only does it make the absent present, but also makes the dead almost alive. Votes: 0

Chopin's rubato possessed an unshakeable emotional logic. It always justified itself by a strengthening or weakening melodic line, by exaggeration or affectation. Votes: 0

She had not really a sensitive soul, but to put it in exact terms, was possessed by an uncontrollable feeling of mind Votes: 0

Capablanca's phenomenal move-searching algorithm in those early years, when he possessed a wonderful ability for calculating variations very rapidly, made him invincible. Votes: 0

Imagine that you're a gay man and you're spending all your time with people who believe you are possessed by the devil. Votes: 0

The first - the most obvious test of a true social entrepreneur - is are they possessed, really possessed by an idea. Votes: 0

Everyone seems possessed with the desire of writing articles upon me and sends me long lists of all I am to say. Votes: 0

A just and reasonable modesty does not only recommend eloquence, but sets off every great talent which a man can be possessed of. Votes: 0

The fame of the rich man dies with him; the fame of the treasure, and not of the man who possessed it, remains. Votes: 0

In a free government almost all other rights would become worthless if the government possessed power over the private fortune of every citizen. Votes: 0

Friendship is a thing most necessary to life, since without friends no one would choose to live, though possessed of all other advantages. Votes: 0

To crave for happiness in this world is simply to be possessed by a spirit of revolt. What right have we to happiness? Votes: 0

Like our bodies and like our desires, the machines we have devised are possessed of a heart which is slowly reduced to embers. Votes: 0

If Christ has once possessed the affections, there is no dispossessing of him again. A fire in the heart overcomes all fires without. Votes: 0

if i repent of anything, it is very likely to be my good behavior. what demon possessed me that i behaved so well? Votes: 0

I know very few young people, but it seems to me that they are all possessed with an almost fatal hunger for permanence. Votes: 0

It is a rule of creative ability that it does nothing of any value, while it is possessed by this afflatus of vanity. Votes: 0

If people were possessed by reason, running marathons would never work. But we are not creatures of reason. We are creatures of passion. Votes: 0

war is, in some not yet entirely defined sense, a self-replicating pattern of behavior, possessed of a dynamism not unlike that of living things. Votes: 0

One must travel, to learn. Every day, now, old Scriptural phrases that never possessed any significance for me before, take to themselves a meaning. Votes: 0

Those who have accomplished the greatest results are those...who never grow excited or lose self-control, but are always calm, self-possessed, patient and polite. Votes: 0

He couldn't think of his robbed left eye without hate squirting into his veins from some deep poison gland he hadn't known he possessed. Votes: 0

...congenital killers and criminals are possessed of not one but two Y chromosomes, bearing a double dose, as it were, of genetically undesirable maleness. Votes: 0

I can't imagine what possessed you to propose to me." "Well that will give you something to puzzle over any time you can't sleep. Votes: 0

One ought to be afraid of nothing other then things possessed of power to do us harm, but things innoucuous need not be feared. Votes: 0

Life cannot be possessed. You cannot have it in your fist. If you want to have it, you have to keep your hands open. Votes: 0

The poet is in command of his fantasy, while it is exactly the mark of the neurotic that he is possessed by his fantasy. Votes: 0

The rules of grammar are mere human statutes, which is why when he speaks out of the possessed the Devil himself speaks bad Latin. Votes: 0

The only fruitful promise of which the life of any individual or any nation can be possessed, is a promise determined by an ideal. Votes: 0

God knows what possessed me, but having that science book in my hand propelled me to immediate action. So I hit her with it. Votes: 0

To lose a friend is the greatest of all evils, but endeavour rather to rejoice that you possessed him than to mourn his loss. Votes: 0

Ivy Hisselpenny was the unfortunate victim of circumstances that dictated she be only-just-pretty, only-just-wealthy, and possessed of a terrible propensity for wearing extremely silly hats. Votes: 0

The Greeks possessed a knowledge of human nature we seem hardly able to attain to without passing through the strengthening hibernation of a new barbarism. Votes: 0

Aunt Mimi possessed a horror of silence, which she battled with endless chat. The Typhoid Mary of the Telephone started her calls at 6:30 each morning. Votes: 0

That was the moment he got the idea he possessed me in a certain way, and that was the moment I grew tired of him. Votes: 0

Really, Alexia, what could have possessed you to attach yourself to the side of the ship in such a juvenile fashion? It is positively barnacle-like. Votes: 0

Our ancestors ... possessed a right, which nature has given to all men, of departing from the country in which chance, not choice has placed them. Votes: 0

Tell me how all this, and love too, will ruin us. These, our bodies, possessed by light. Tell me we'll never get used to it. Votes: 0

I refuse to believe that Hendrix had the last possessed hand,that Joplin had the last drunken throat,that Morrison had the last enlightened mind. Votes: 0

Now I understood that the same road was to bring us together again. Whatever we had missed, we possessed together the precious, the incommunicable past. Votes: 0

And the bad guys love to pick on the defenseless necromancer. This time, though, I swear I won’t get kidnapped or possessed. ~Jaime Vegas Votes: 0

Words were all he knew; they possessed and overwhelmed him, as if they were a thousand white cats with whom he shared a one-room apartment. Votes: 0

Humans have long since possessed the tools for crafting a better world. Where love, compassion, altruism and justice have failed, genetic manipulation will not succeed. Votes: 0

All that is great cannot be possessed - and that is one of the most foolish things man goes on doing. We want to possess. Votes: 0

(Those who) possessed in highest degree the attributes (of the Tao) did not (seek) to show them, and therefore they possessed them (in fullest measure)." Votes: 0

The occult powers may be possessed by soul, but if they are not used in the right way it is a loss rather than a gain. Votes: 0

There are boxers possessed of such remarkable intuition, such uncanny prescience, one would think they were somehow recalling their fights, not fighting them as we watch. Votes: 0

I wish the English still possessed a shred of the old sense of humour which Puritanism, and dyspepsia, and newspaper reading, and tea-drinking have nearly extinguished. Votes: 0

A book of great beauty and manically exquisite insight with a wild and deadly humor . . . The only American novelist who may conceivably be possessed by genius. Votes: 0

There were certain qualities you possessed carelessly. And you couldn't retrieve them when they were gone. The very act of caring made them impossible to regain. Votes: 0

I possessed what is called the best of hearts -- a dangerous possession, as it is generally accompanied by the strongest passions, and the weakest judgment. Votes: 0

The soul of man is divided into three parts, intelligence, reason, and passion. Intelligence and passion are possessed by other animals, but reason by man alone. Votes: 0

Britain, which in the years immediately before this war was rapidly losing such democratic virtues as it possessed, is now being bombed and burned into democracy. Votes: 0

I went with an exorcist for a bit. I just want to know really practical things, like how do you hold someone possessed by the devil, Votes: 0

We cannot see anything until we are possessed with the idea of it, take it into our heads,--and then we can hardly see anything else. Votes: 0

Neither is it safe to count upon the weakness of any man's understanding, who is thoroughly possessed of the spirit of revenge to sharpen his invention. Votes: 0

Nothing that lived and breathed was truly objective"”even in a vacuum, even if all that possessed the brain was a self-immolating desire for the truth. Votes: 0

The gift of self cannot be given to us. It is an incomparable gift that has already been given. We have possessed it from the beginning. Votes: 0

Most poets, like most people, try hard to be like someone they admire or they are possessed with an image of what they ought to be. Votes: 0

All manifestations of art are but landmarks in the progress of the human spirit toward a thing but as yet sensed and far from being possessed. Votes: 0

What the devil possessed me to reply 1. ... e5?? I compltely forgot that Spassky, like Spielmann in the past, very much likes to play the King's Gambit. Votes: 0

All day, the colors had been those of dusk, mist moving like a water creature across the great flanks of mountains possessed of ocean shadows and depths. Votes: 0

The highest praise we can attribute to any writer, painter, sculptor, builder, is, that he actually possessed the thought or feeling with which he has inspired us. Votes: 0

There's her cousin, an she were not possessed with a fury, exceeds her as much in beauty as the first of May doth the last of December. Votes: 0

I do not believe that since man was in the habit of living on this planet anyone has ever lived possessed of the impudence of Jay Gould. Votes: 0

I thought there was a good chance the fridge was possessed. It was subtle about it, but I had its number. I knew its ways. Oh yes. Votes: 0

In so far as one denies what is, one is possessed by what is not, the compulsions, the fantasies, the terrors that flock to fill the void. Votes: 0

Teachers' using grades and the fear of failure mould the brains of the young until they have lost every ounce of imagination they might once have possessed. Votes: 0

The "second sight" possessed by the Highlanders in Scotland is actually a foreknowledge of future events. I believe they possess this gift because they don't wear trousers. Votes: 0

So there was not an "I" anymore-not a basis on which I could organize my self-respect-save my limitless capacity for toil that it seemed I possessed no more. Votes: 0

The hurt is in the act of possession: we are too small in mind and body to possess another person without pride or to be possessed without humiliation. Votes: 0

No government can be trusted, that does not trust its own people with military-style arms of greater weight and power than those possessed by the central government itself. Votes: 0

Traveling makes you realize what an immeasurably nice place much of America could be if only people possessed the same instinct for preservation as they do in Europe. Votes: 0

Where you just possessed?" Cookie asked after a long moment, awe softening her voice. "'Cause let me tell you, sweetheart, if that was possession, I'm selling my soul. Votes: 0

Happiness is never found in materialistic things; it exists in things that cannot be physically possessed. Therefore, happiness is priceless. It can never be purchased. Love is happiness. Votes: 0

If you go back to the first single-cell form of life, it clearly possessed the capacity to receive, to utilize, to store, to transform, and to transmit information. Votes: 0

Further, not only the United States, but the French, British, Germans and the United Nations all thought Hussein possessed weapons of mass destruction before the United States intervened. Votes: 0

I have possessed that heart, that noble soul, in whose presence I seemed to be more than I really was, because I was all that I could be. Votes: 0

History, if viewed as a repository for more than anecdote or chronology, could produce a decisive transformation in the image of science by which we are now possessed. Votes: 0

It is easier for a man to be thought fit for an employment that he has not, than for one he stands already possessed of, and is exercising. Votes: 0

Those who have once got an ascendancy, and possessed themselves of all the resources of the nation, their revenues and offices, have immense means for retaining their advantage. Votes: 0

The demand for liberty is a demand for power, either for possession of powers of action not already possessed or for retention and expansion of powers already possessed. Votes: 0

When the mind is possessed of reality, it feels tranquil and joyous even without music or song, and it produces a pure fragrance even without incense or tea. Votes: 0

What makes you succeed must be possessed where it cannot be taken away. The internal capacity to succeed is more important than the external and temporal manifestation of success. Votes: 0

Old books that we have known but not possessed cross our path and invite themselves over. New books try to seduce us daily with tempting titles and tantalizing covers. Votes: 0

He'd possessed all the key elements of a school shooter: hormones, misery, ammunition. People wondered how something like Columbine could happen. Jude wondered why it didn't happen more often. Votes: 0

Throughout his career, W.G. Sebald wrote poems that were strikingly similar to his prose. His tone, in both genres, was always understated but possessed of a mournful grandeur. Votes: 0

In teaching, regard must be had to the faculties possessed by the pupil. In childhood, memory; in youth, the understanding; in mature life, the reason is the predominating faculty. Votes: 0

Shortly after this I was made a member of the boys choir, it being found that I possessed a clear, strong soprano voice. I enjoyed the singing very much. Votes: 0

Somehow he became certain the he himself possessed the skills of a hypnotist. How he reached this judgement, I have no idea, but never convinced the rest of us. Votes: 0

Shortly after this I was made a member of the boys' choir, it being found that I possessed a clear, strong soprano voice. I enjoyed the singing very much. Votes: 0

The great secret possessed by the great men of all ages was their ability to contact and release the powers of their subconscious mind. You can do the same. Votes: 0

Never has there been one possessed of complete sincerity who did not move others. Never has there been one who had not sincerity who was able to move others. Votes: 0

The most sublime courage I have ever witnessed has been among that class too poor to know they possessed it, and too humble for the world to discover it. Votes: 0

Talent is cheap, you have to be possessed or obsessed, rather. You really have to feel like you cannot not do art, and that is something you can't will. Votes: 0

Let us be done with the notion that religion is confined to petty pieties and small constraints. All too often people who have possessed these pieties have wrought great evil. Votes: 0

If we justify war, it is because all peoples always justify the traits of which they find themselves possessed, not because war will bear an objective examination of its merits Votes: 0

Stamping down the weakness of mind and heart, stand up, saying, "I am possessed of heroism, I am possessed of a steady intellect..." Never allow weakness to overtake your mind. Votes: 0

Trevor possessed many of the qualities of a vampire without actually being one. He constantly preyed on me, was deeply charismatic, and tried to suck the life out of me. Votes: 0

If we justify war, it is because all peoples always justify the traits of which they find themselves possessed, not because war will bear an objective examination of its merits. Votes: 0

I think Whitman more than any other poet possessed the gift of revealing to others the beauty of everything around us, the beauty of nature, the beauty of human beings. Votes: 0

Part of Obama's persona is self-reliance. He's calm; he's cool; he's self-possessed. In many ways, he has tried to define himself in opposition to Clinton's sometimes needy, often undisciplined, emotionalism. Votes: 0

I think Whitman more than any other poet possessed the gift of revealing to others the beauty of everything around us, the beauty of nature, the beauty of human beings. Votes: 0

For me, to catch, to celebrate the reality and life and friends and everything around me the very moment it happens - that's what is, that's what I'm possessed by. Votes: 0

When you are younger you get blamed for crimes you never committed and when you're older you begin to get credit for virtues you never possessed. It evens itself out. Votes: 0

Being a Christian is more like having your soul possessed by a spirit than having your mind clothed with new beliefs... It is like being haunted by the Holy Ghost. Votes: 0

The popularity of that baby-faced boy, who possessed not even the elements of a good actor, was a hallucination in the public mind, and a disgrace to our theatrical history. Votes: 0

Though the artist must remain master of his craft, the surface, at times raised to the highest pitch of loveliness, should transmit to the beholder the sensation which possessed the artist. Votes: 0

In India, I found a race of mortals living upon the Earth, but not adhering to it, inhabiting cities, but not being fixed to them, possessing everything, but possessed by nothing Votes: 0

I think you’re possessed.” “Old news.” “Huh. Anyone I know?” “My dad. It’s a family issue I’m working on. Votes: 0

In this condition of the most devastating humiliation, I still possessed the most precious of liberties, that no-one could take away from me: that of deciding who I wanted to be. Votes: 0

I say that the power of vision extends through the visual rays to the surface of non-transparent bodies, while the power possessed by these bodies extends to the power of vision. Votes: 0

The German decision to fight is implacable. Even if they were given more than they ask, they would attack just the same, because they are possessed by the demon of destruction. Votes: 0

A crisis creates the opportunity to dip deep into the reservoirs of our very being, to rise to levels of confidence, strength, and resolve that otherwise we didn't think we possessed. Votes: 0

There is no arguing with the pretenders to a divine knowledge and to a divine mission. They are possessed with the sin of pride. They have yielded to the perennial temptation. Votes: 0

I have a checklist of things I'd like to do in movies. One of them is get possessed. Die on a deathbed with a ghostly pallor - that's on my list. Votes: 0

In the last analysis, then, we believe that we all know and think about and talk about the same world because we believe our PERCEPTS are possessed by us in common Votes: 0

The delights of lust terminate in languishment and dejection; the object thou burnest for nauseates with satiety, and no sooner hadst thou possessed it, but thou wert weary of its presence. Votes: 0

If what Proust says is true, that happiness is the absence of fever, then I will never know happiness. For I am possessed by a fever for knowledge, experience, and creation. Votes: 0

The large and rapid fortunes by which vulgar and ignorant people become possessed of splendid houses, splendidly furnished, do not of course, give them the feelings and manners of gentle folks. Votes: 0

We are long before we are convinced that happiness is never to be found, and each believes it possessed by others, to keep alive the hope of obtaining it for himself. Votes: 0

How many ills spring from adultery? First the supreme law that is violated, Nobility oft stain'd with bastardy, Inheritance of land falsely possessed, The husband scorn'd, wife sham'd, and babes unbless'd. Votes: 0

An obstinate man does not hold opinions, but they hold him; for when he is once possessed with an error, it is, like a devil, only cast out with great difficulty. Votes: 0

Anger is the most impotent of passions. It effects nothing it goes about, and hurts the one who is possessed by it more than the one against whom it is directed. Votes: 0

Be that blind bard who on the Chian strand, By those deep sounds possessed with inward light, Beheld the Iliad and the Odyssey Rise to the swelling of the voiceful sea. Votes: 0

The American Revolution represented the informed and mature convictions of a great mass of independent, liberty-loving, God-fearing people who knew their rights, and possessed the courage to dare to maintain them. Votes: 0

My mother always seemed to me like a fairy princess: a radiant being possessed of limitless riches and power. She shone for me like the evening star. I loved her dearly. Votes: 0

Common sense says that if something possessed the ability to create itself from nothing, then that something wasn't nothing, it was something - a very intelligent creative power of some sort. Votes: 0

I love working with Liev [Schreiber]. I've known him for a long time. I just think he is a master. Few actors are so self-possessed and so focused and so confident. Votes: 0

The tenacious character I've possessed since I was a small child propelled me to successfully meet this challenge, and I was able to safely gain acceptance to the university of my choice. Votes: 0

The most powerful force possessed by the individual citizen is her own government. ... Government is the only organized mechanism that makes possible that level of shared disinterest known as the public good. Votes: 0

Like the bodies of dancers or athletes, the minds of readers are genuinely happy and self-possessed only when cavorting around, doing their stretches and leaps and jumps to the tune of words. Votes: 0

Will without intellect is the most vulgar and common thing in the world, possessed by every blockhead, who, in the gratification of his passions, shows the stuff of which he is made. Votes: 0

When you see yourself as calm, positive, truthful and possessed of high character, you behave with greater strength. Other people respect you more. You feel in control of yourself and the situation. Votes: 0

Man's unconscious... contains all the patterns of life and behaviour inherited from his ancestors, so that every human child, prior to consciousness, is possessed of a potential system of adapted psychic functioning. Votes: 0

He that is possessed with a prejudice is possessed with a devil, and one of the worst kinds of devils, for it shuts out the truth, and often leads to ruinous error. Votes: 0

She explained to me later that she must have been possessed by a subconscious desire to be raped. Well she found me in the mountains and she was raped - by me. Votes: 0

So it is that the life force may take possession of a man-- so that in the end he may be possessed by something greater, no longer at all belonging to himself. Votes: 0

Come, live with the doors of the senses guarded, diligent and mindful, vigilant and mindful, with the ways of the mind well watched, possessed of a mind that is awake and observing. Votes: 0

To create souls in men, to create fine happiness and fine despair she must remain deeply proud - proud to be inviolate, proud also to be melting, to be passionate and possessed. Votes: 0

Throughout our courtship, Kenny told me that he had proof that Saddam Hussein was a threat because he possessed weapons of mass destruction. I told him, 'You had me at weapons.' Votes: 0

Sometimes it is harder to deprive oneself of a pain than of a pleasure and the memory so possessed him that for the moment there was nothing to do but to pretend. Votes: 0

We cannot believe that the church of God is already possessed of all that light which God intends to give it; nor that all Satan's lurking places have already been found out. Votes: 0

I'd like to learn how to cook. I've hauled around this big, old, heavy Martha Stewart cookbook in my suitcase to Cape Cod, L.A., Paris. I don't know what possessed me. Votes: 0

I not only think that they (U.S. leaders) are misguided, but I think they know exactly what they are doing and I think that they are men who are possessed of evil. Votes: 0

Whoever is to acquire a competent knowledge of medicine, ought to be possessed of the following advantages: a natural disposition; instructionl a favorable place for the study; early tuition, love of labor; leisure. Votes: 0

I'm a passionate believer in the inherent creativity possessed by all people and our inherent ability--if it's not clouded by convention--to appreciate authentic beauty in all forms, whether we like it or not Votes: 0

Nations are possessed with an insane ambition to perpetuate the memory of themselves by the amount of hammered stone they leave. What if equal pains were taken to smooth and polish their manners? Votes: 0

This is the first adventure I’ve survived without being kidnapped, attacked, knocked unconscious or possessed by evil spirits. A ripped blouse? Ruined skirt? Bad hair? I’d call this progress. ~Jaime Vegas Votes: 0

I think that that's always been a real talent of mine is to be able to spot somebody who has that thing that is so non-definable, that thing that I wish I possessed. Votes: 0

Some of the gold possessed by the Romans is doubtless mixed with what we now possess; and some small part of it will be handed down as long as the human race exists. Votes: 0

The present age is demented. It is possessed by a sense of dislocation, a loss of personal identity, an alternating sentimentality and rage which, in an individual patient, could be characterized as dementia. Votes: 0

Naught is possessed, neither gold, nor land nor love, nor life, nor peace, nor even sorrow nor death, nor yet salvation. Say of nothing: It is mine. Say only: It is with me. Votes: 0

This man (FreddieMercury) truly possessed the greatest voice in the history of rock. Journalists, culture experts and analysts have already made several hundred comments on this topic and nothing can be added here. Votes: 0

We live in an age which is so possessed by demons, that soon we shall only be able to do goodness and justice in the deepest secrecy, as if it were a crime. Votes: 0

So-called professional mathematicians have, in their reliance on the relative incapacity of the rest of mankind, acquired for themselves a reputation for profundity very similar to the reputation for sanctity possessed by theologians. Votes: 0

Midas, they say, possessed the art of old; Of turning whatsoe'er he touch'd to gold; This modern statesmen can reverse with ease - Touch them with gold, they'll turn to what you please. Votes: 0

The mineral kingdom consists of the fossil substances found in the earth. These are either entirely destitute of organic structure, or, having once possessed it, possess it no longer: such are the petrefactions. Votes: 0

Healthy wolves and healthy women share certain psychic characteristics: keen sensing, playful spirit, and a heightened capacity for devotion. Wolves and women are relational by nature, inquiring, possessed of great endurance and strength. Votes: 0

The power which the Hellenes and even the Italians possessed, of civilizing and assimilating to themselves the nations susceptible of culture with whom they came into contact, was wholly wanting in the Phoenicians. Votes: 0

I keep three framed photographs on my desk: the latest school picture of my daughter; a photo of my wife getting her diploma from the University of Chicago; and Lytton Strachey, looking serenely self-possessed. Votes: 0

Their humble dwellings were of their own rearing; it was they themselves who had broken in their little fields; from time immemorial, far beyond the reach of history, had they possessed their mountain holdings. Votes: 0

His mother's favorite, he possessed the self-confidence that told him he would achieve something worth while in life, and the ambition to do so, though for long the direction this would take remained uncertain. Votes: 0

We are possessed by the things we possess. When I like an object, I always give it to someone. It isn't generosity-it's only because I want others to be enslaved by objects, not me. Votes: 0

All these troubles revolve around the irritable mutual dependence of life and art - with their need and contempt for one another. Of necessity, to create is a temporary state and cannot be possessed... Votes: 0

Please, Lord Maccon, use one of the cups. My delicate sensibilities." The earl actually snorted. "My dear Miss Tarabotti, if you possessed any such things, you certainly have never shown them to me. Votes: 0

To possess money is very well; it may be a valuable servant; to be possessed by it is to be possessed by the devil, and one of the meanest and worst kind of devils. Votes: 0

He often wondered whether it were possible to be more possessed by desire for any other woman. The fact was that they functioned well together, and they had a connection as addictive as heroin. Votes: 0

I don't think I"m a very good actor. Everything is very tentative and at a certain point you click in and just feel the spirit move you. I can be possessed really well. Votes: 0

Although a man may wear fine clothing, if he lives peacefully; and is good, self-possessed, has faith and is pure; and if he does not hurt any living being, he is a holy man. Votes: 0

We live alone in our cluttered psyches, possessed by our entrenched beliefs, our fatuous desires, our endless contradictions - and like it or not we have to put up with this in one another. Votes: 0

A martial nobility and stubborn commons, possessed of arms, tenacious of property, and collected into constitutional assemblies form the only balance capable of preserving a free constitution against the enterprise of an aspiring prince Votes: 0

At that time, a friend shall lose his friend's hammer, and the young shall not know where lieth the things possessed by their fathers that their fathers put there only just the night before ... Votes: 0

While tacit knowledge can be possessed by itself, explicit knowledge must rely on being tacitly understood and applied. Hence all knowledge is either tacit or rooted in tacit knowledge. A wholly explicit knowledge is unthinkable. Votes: 0

True emptiness is not empty, but contains all things. The mysterious and pregnant void creates and reflects all possibilities. From it arises our individuality, which can be discovered and developed, although never possessed or fixed. Votes: 0

I hope you will be yourself, human, even a little sentimental, possessed of a sense of humor and a sense of humility. . . . There are arrogant people in this world and, what is worse, arrogant judges. Votes: 0

The next step in human evolution is to transcend thought. This is now our urgent task. It doesn't mean not to think anymore, but simply not to be completely identified with thought, possessed by thought. Votes: 0

Ella was vapid and worthless at least nine-tenths of the time, but when she got really mad, her face became sharp and purposeful. Almost vicious. Like if Barbie were suddenly possessed by Atilla the Hun. Votes: 0

I think a good role model has to be sexy. Real, empowered, self-possessed women are sexy. When you're really in control of your choices, your mood, your body, and your opinions, people find you sexy. Votes: 0

You are greater than anything that can happen to you. In a big and terrifying crisis, people find within themselves a power and a strength and also a wisdom they had no idea they possessed. Votes: 0

True love cannot be found where it truly does not exist, Nor can it be hidden where it truly does. Anonymous Love possesses not nor would it be possessed; For love is sufficient unto love. Votes: 0

I offered up a special prayer, a prayer which came with tears and anguish, that some way would open up for me to use what talents I possessed for my fellow workers, for the poor. Votes: 0

It is a grand thing to see a man thoroughly possessed with one master-passion. Such a man is sure to be strong, and if the master-principle be excellent, he is sure to be excellent, too. Votes: 0

Of all that I have possessed in my life, my memories are the only things remaining to me. Indeed, I believe that memories are the only real treasure any human can hope to hold always. Votes: 0

What is a gentleman? It is to be honest, to be gentle, to be generous, to be brave, to be wise; and possessed of all these qualities to exercise them in the most graceful manner. Votes: 0

Although the many virtues that courtesans possessed were employed to defy circumstances, the role they played depended on the same circumstances over which they triumphed- conditions which to, fortunately for modern women, no longer exist. Votes: 0