What had possessed her to kiss him?

“Derek's breath touched Sara's throat in unsteady urges. "Sometimes," he whispered, "I'm so close to you ... and I'm still not close enough. I…

— Lisa Kleypas

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

— William Boyd

“The way my imagination was running I’d be thinking I was possessed by everyone in hell.”

— Karina Halle

Songwriting is about getting the demon out of me. It's like being possessed. You try to go to sleep, but the song won't let…

— John Lennon

Possession without obligation to the object possessed approaches felicity.

— George Meredith

“He had thought that home was something one possessed, but the things one had possessed were cursed with change; it was what one didn't…

— Graham Greene

We may... affirm that the balance of power in a society accompanies the balance of property in land. The only possible way, then, of…

— John Adams

I knew neither jealousy nor hate but was possessed by a rage to recreate a new world, the world which my eyes perceived, a…

— Maurice de Vlaminck

In order to the attaining of all useful knowledge this is most necessary, that we fear God; we are not qualified to profit by…

— Matthew Henry

The enmity of such a party towards Socialism does not mean that the members are only prejudiced against it because they do not know…

— Karl Radek

There is an indefinable quality possessed by some artists. You simply can't explain it.

— Vera-Ellen

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

— George Sand

One can be a great artist without being a great technician. There have been many famous ballet stars who did not have the ideal…

— Fernando Bujones

“When you feel terribly angry, you're possessed by anger ghost.”

— Toba Beta

I could not limit my values and pursuits to what makes others comfortable. Being possessed by a promise I live without options. I will…

— Bill Johnson