I have a daughter who, when younger, possessed no barrier between her emotional self and the outside world. Her emotional insides spilled… — Heidi Julavits Copy Share Image
What one thinks continually, they become; what one cherishes in their heart and mind they make a part of the pulsation of… — Edgar Cayce Copy Share Image
Thirsting desires and longings possessed my soul after perfect holiness. God was so precious to my soul that the world with all… — David Brainerd Copy Share Image
The Seer Stone referred to here was a chocolate-colored, somewhat egg-shaped stone which the Prophet found while digging a well in company… — B. H. Roberts Copy Share Image
Phronimos, possessing practical wisdom . But the only virtue special to a ruler is practical wisdom; all the others must be possessed,… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
I had toward the poetic art a peculiar relation which was only practical after I had cherished in my mind for a… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
... being perpetually charmed by his familiar siren, that is, by his geometry, he neglected to eat and drink and took no… — Plutarch Copy Share Image
We save the honor of Jesus when we restore His Person to life from the state of inanity to which the apologists… — Bruno Bauer Copy Share Image
The Chinese had gunpowder, but it didn't occur to them to put it in a gun. They possessed the compass but didn't… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
Capablanca possessed an amazing ability to quickly see into a position and intuitively grasp its main features. His style, one of the… — Garry Kasparov Copy Share Image
Sincerity becomes apparent. From being apparent, it becomes manifest. From being manifest, it becomes brilliant. Brilliant, it affects others. Affecting others, they… — Confucius Copy Share Image
Anyone, without any great penetration, may distinguish the dispositions consequent on wealth; for its possessors are insolent and overbearing, from being tainted… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Ancient art has a specific inner content. At one time, art possessed the same purpose that books do in our day, namely:… — G. I. Gurdjieff Copy Share Image
Not all the pride of beauty; Those eyes, that tell us what the sun is made of; Those lips, whose touch is… — Edward Young Copy Share Image
The world that we must seek is a world in which the creative spirit is alive, in which life is an adventure… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
As patterns of obedience develop, the specific blessings associated with obedience are realized and belief emerges. Desire, hope, and belief are forms… — Kevin W. Pearson Copy Share Image
It's that quality possessed by some which draws al others with magnetic force. With 'IT' you win all men if you are… — Elinor Glyn Copy Share Image
America is a great power possessed of tremendous military might and a wide-ranging economy, but all this is built on an unstable… — Osama bin Laden Copy Share Image
Man, having an ideal before him of that which he ought to be, and is not, and acting as though he possessed… — William Batchelder Greene Copy Share Image
Today there survives more than 25,0000 partial and complete, ancient handwritten manuscript copies of the New Testament. These hand written manuscripts have… — Charlie Campbell Copy Share Image
I request that they may be considered in confidence, until the members of Congress are fully possessed of their contents, and shall… — John Adams Copy Share Image
If we possessed a thorough knowledge of all the parts of the seed of any animal (e.g. man), we could from that… — Rene Descartes Copy Share Image
The present age is demented. It is possessed by a sense of dislocation, a loss of personal identity, an alternating sentimentality and… — Walker Percy Copy Share Image
So-called professional mathematicians have, in their reliance on the relative incapacity of the rest of mankind, acquired for themselves a reputation for… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
For one thing, I want gesture-any kind of gesture, all kinds of gesture-gentle or brutal, joyous or tragic; the gesture of space… — Elaine de Kooning Copy Share Image
No skill, no special aptitude, no vividness of imagination or precision of thinking would go unrecognized because the child who possessed it… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
You may consider me presumptuous, gentlemen, but I claim to be a citizen of the United States, with all the qualifications of… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
I learned how to sumon, from somewhere deep within, the extra will I didn't know I possessed. Knowing it was there, and… — Sugar Ray Leonard Copy Share Image
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… — Troy Polamalu Copy Share Image
If men possessed wisdom, which stands in the same relation to the form of man as the sight to the eye, they… — Maimonides Copy Share Image
You see, we need instruction on how to possess money without being possessed by money. We need help to learn how to… — Richard J. Foster Copy Share Image
Television hangs on the questionable theory that whatever happens anywhere should be sensed everywhere. If everyone is going to be able to… — E. B. White Copy Share Image
Money is a jealous mistress If you want money you must want only money. ... I must tell you the one secret… — Christina Stead Copy Share Image
The first piece of 'long' fiction I wrote was a novella parody of Stephen King's 'Christine.' I was in high school, and… — Kelley Armstrong Copy Share Image
Philosophy can add to our happiness in no other manner but by diminishing our misery; it should not pretend to increase our… — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
“Since holiness is the main thing that excites, draws, and governs all gracious affections, it is no wonder that all such affections… — Jonathan Edwards Copy Share Image
If all the misfortunes of mankind were cast into a public stack in order to be equally distributed among the whole species,… — Socrates Copy Share Image
It is precisely as though I were possessed by some other spirit when I enter on a new task of acting, as… — Conrad Veidt Copy Share Image
It's like being possessed: like a psychic or a medium. I felt like a hollow temple filled with many spirits, each one… — John Lennon Copy Share Image
We need, men so possessed by the Spirit of God that God can think His thoughts through our minds, that He can… — Alan Redpath Copy Share Image
