The wise only possess ideas; the greater part of mankind are possessed by them. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
The jealous are possessed by a mad devil and a dull spirit at the same time. — Johann Kaspar Lavater Copy Share Image
I actually think I may be possessed with demonds, I was dropped on my head as a kid. — BTK (Dennis Rader Copy Share Image
Many speak the truth when they say that they despise riches, but they mean the riches possessed by others. — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Possessiveness destroys love. And they should not be possessed, because that again destroys your love. — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
She has always been a bystander in family destruction, never realizing she herself possessed the capacity to inflict it. — Curtis Sittenfeld Copy Share Image
Being a Christian is more like having your soul possessed by a spirit than having your mind clothed with new beliefs... It… — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
Everyone seems possessed with the desire of writing articles upon me and sends me long lists of all I am to say. — Kate Greenaway Copy Share Image
It is easier for a man to be thought fit for an employment that he has not, than for one he stands… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
We cannot see anything until we are possessed with the idea of it, take it into our heads,--and then we can hardly… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
There are so many things that we could do but education would be our primary need in this regard. And in obtaining… — Leonard Peltier Copy Share Image
“His voice, with some faint Irish melody running through it, wooed the world, yet she felt the layer of hardness in him,… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
Stamping down the weakness of mind and heart, stand up, saying, "I am possessed of heroism, I am possessed of a steady… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Prayer is the one prime, eternal condition by which the Father is pledged to put the Son in possession of the world.… — Edward McKendree Bounds Copy Share Image
“If culture did not filter, it would be inane — as inane as the formless, boundless Internet is on its own. And… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
I offered up a special prayer, a prayer which came with tears and anguish, that some way would open up for me… — Dorothy Day Copy Share Image
It was a ludicrous, insane situation in which modern fighting men, possessed all of the highly destructive engines of war, were ordered… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
All revolutions more or less threaten the tenure of property: but most of those who live in democratic countries are possessed of… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
That I can read and be happy while I am reading, is a great blessing. Could I have remembered, as some men… — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
Captain Ahab was a man possessed with an obsessional drive to pursue the white whale which had harmed him - which had… — Edward Said Copy Share Image
Mr. Darwin's hypothesis is not, so far as I am aware, inconsistent with any known biological fact; on the contrary, if admitted,… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
Upon the decease [of] my wife, it is my Will and desire th[at] all the Slaves which I hold in [my] own… — George Washington Copy Share Image
“Poured his grief into me in the form of a wet violent kiss, and had come alive as soon as we’d fallen… — Santino Hassell Copy Share Image
I don't think it's a bad thing to play a character that's not necessarily a super-woman. Even if the character is a… — Megalyn Echikunwoke Copy Share Image
War both needs and generates certain virtues; not the highest, but what may be called the preliminary virtues, as valor, veracity, the… — Walter Bagehot Copy Share Image
As a matter of selective necessity, man is an agent. He is, in his own apprehension, a centre of unfolding impulsive activity-'teleological… — Thorstein Veblen Copy Share Image
“Life was taking its vengeance on me, and that vengeance consisted merely in coming back, nothing more. Every case of madness involves… — Clarice Lispector Copy Share Image
“This person is (pick one): 1. on a perilous journey from which we can learn much when he or she returns; 2.… — Susanna Kaysen Copy Share Image
I think that they [Bush Administration] are men who are possessed of evil. — Harry Belafonte Copy Share Image
To be possessed by Jesus and to possess Him - that is the perfect reign of Love. — Peter Julian Eymard Copy Share Image
Both therapy and friendship possessed the common denominator of discovering a self. — Dorothy Gilman Copy Share Image
Songwriting is about getting the demon out of me. It's like being possessed. — John Lennon Copy Share Image
An obstinate man does not hold opinions, but they hold him; for when he is once possessed with an error, it is,… — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
Was there ever any domination that did not appear natural to those who possessed it? — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
The occult powers may be possessed by soul, but if they are not used in the right way it is a loss… — Virchand Gandhi Copy Share Image
Possessed of courage but devoid of morality, a superior man will make trouble while a small man will be a brigand. — Confucius Copy Share Image
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