Painting is possessed of divine power, for not only does it make the absent present, but also makes the dead almost alive. — Leon Battista Alberti Copy Share Image
In so far as one denies what is, one is possessed by what is not, the compulsions, the fantasies, the terrors that… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
I used to watch a lot of documentaries about Satanic possession - and I don't know if this is racist or not… — Chuck Klosterman Copy Share Image
You can either tell yourself, 'It's too hard, I don't think I'll be able to do it,' or 'Yes, I can do… — Josei Toda Copy Share Image
The greater part of what my neighbors call good I believe in my soul to be bad, and if I repent of… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The priest is Christ's slave, and Christ himself took the form of a slave and became obedient to death. So the priest… — Arthur Middleton Copy Share Image
I have somewhere met with the epitaph on a charitable man which has pleased me very much. I cannot recollect the words,… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
The enmity of such a party towards Socialism does not mean that the members are only prejudiced against it because they do… — Karl Radek Copy Share Image
The organized churches must become schools of spiritual discipline where Christians are taught how to own without treasuring (Matt. 6:21); how to… — Dallas Willard Copy Share Image
If we do not control our minds with our Buddha nature, do not practice seriously, are not honest to ourselves and do… — Ching Hai Copy Share Image
Any one who thinks is an agnostic about something, otherwise he must believe that he is possessed of all knowledge. And the… — Clarence Darrow Copy Share Image
The mineral kingdom consists of the fossil substances found in the earth. These are either entirely destitute of organic structure, or, having… — Torbern Bergman Copy Share Image
The American Revolution represented the informed and mature convictions of a great mass of independent, liberty-loving, God-fearing people who knew their rights,… — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
I'm the mother of two daughters, one of whom is going to get possessed. It's really spooky and great. I'm shooting it… — Geena Davis Copy Share Image
They will have time enough, in those endless aeons, to attempt all things, and to gather all knowledge no Gods imagined by… — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
This future man, whom the scientists tell us they will produce in no more than a hundred years, seems to be possessed… — Hannah Copy Share Image
No one worth possessing Can be quite possessed; Lay that on your heart, My young angry dear; This truth, this hard and… — Sara Teasdale Copy Share Image
There is something about the Himalayas not possessed by the Alps, something unseen and unknown, a charm that pervades every hour spent… — Frank Smythe Copy Share Image
A man who knows how to mix pleasures with business is never entirely possessed by them; he either quits or resumes them… — Charles de Saint-Evremond Copy Share Image
If men of wisdom and knowledge, of moderation and temperance, of patience, fortitude and perseverance, of sobriety and true republican simplicity of… — Samuel Adams Copy Share Image
The unicorns were the most recognizable magic the fairies possessed, and they sent them to those worlds where belief in the magic… — Terry Brooks Copy Share Image
“My books are a subject of much discussion. They pour from shelves onto tables, chairs and the floor, and Chaz observes that… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
“There is a thing that lives in us, eating our food, breathing our air, looking out through our eyes, and when it… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“We were playing this music and we were trying to be the heaviest thing on the face of the planet. We wanted… — Albert Mudrian Copy Share Image
Who is there that ever receives a gift and tries to make bargains about it? Let us, then, return thanks for what… — Alphonsus Liguori Copy Share Image
“To have been possessed by something so awful and so alien, and then the next morning wake up from it, remember what… — James C. Dobson Copy Share Image
He, who is gone, was one of the very kindest friends I possessed, and yet he was not kinder perhaps to me,… — John Keats Copy Share Image
No punishment has ever possessed enough power of deterrence to prevent the commission of crimes. On the contrary, whatever the punishment, once… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
If any generation of men ever possessed the right of dictating the mode by which the world should be governed for ever,… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
... the majority of colored men do not yet think it worth while that women aspire to higher education… The three R's,… — Anna Julia Cooper Copy Share Image
“It is not real," he whispered. "This place is only a thought that has grabbed hold of you. It cannot harm you.… — Rita Murphy Copy Share Image
I was never a class clown or anything like that, but I do remember being in the first grade and my teacher,… — Will Ferrell Copy Share Image
That I have the right to express myself freely at all times in all circumstances entails the idea that free speech is… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
This man (FreddieMercury) truly possessed the greatest voice in the history of rock. Journalists, culture experts and analysts have already made several… — Brian May Copy Share Image
Mankind, by the perverse depravity of their nature, esteem that which they have most desired as of no value the moment it… — Francois Fenelon Copy Share Image
Healthy wolves and healthy women share certain psychic characteristics: keen sensing, playful spirit, and a heightened capacity for devotion. Wolves and women… — Clarissa Pinkola Estes Copy Share Image
The teachers tried everything, even pleading, but Tomas was in the habit of addressing them only in Latin, a language he spoke… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon Copy Share Image
A martial nobility and stubborn commons, possessed of arms, tenacious of property, and collected into constitutional assemblies form the only balance capable… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
We say that knowledge is not mere talk, but a certain divine knowledge, that light which is kindled in the soul as… — Clement of Alexandria Copy Share Image
If, Sir, I possessed the power of conveying unlimited sexual attraction through the potency of my voice, I would not be reduced… — Gilbert Harding Copy Share Image