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
Strength is a capacity for endurance. One of the dividends of suffering is the universal discovery the we posses a strength within… — Dennis Wholey Copy Share Image
If you are possessed by an idea, you find it expressed everywhere, you even smell it. — Thomas Mann Copy Share Image
Never has there been one possessed of complete sincerity who did not move others. Never has there been one who had not… — Mencius Copy Share Image
The object of ambition, unlike that of love, never being wholly possessed, ambition is the more durable passion of the two. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
The disabusing a man strongly possessed with an opinion of his own worth is the very same ill office that was done… — Francois Alexandre Frederic, duc de la Rochefoucauld-Liancourt Copy Share Image
The large and rapid fortunes by which vulgar and ignorant people become possessed of splendid houses, splendidly furnished, do not of course,… — Fanny Kemble 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
All are agreed that the various moral qualities are in a sense bestowed by nature: we are just, and capable of temperance,… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
A young girl is possessed by a devil, and Constantine shouts, 'I need a mirror! Now! At least three feet high!' He… — Roger Ebert 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
He has fantastic powers. He can be imperious, abrupt, impatient with sloppy procedures, but he is also poetic, visionary, romantic. He is… — Warren Winiarski Copy Share Image
Apart from any other basis which might justify a superiority, education, as a power, raised him who possessed it over the weak,… — Max Stirner Copy Share Image
Hitherto without being; hidden away in the womb of eternity; possessed neither of thought nor feeling; remote from the range of human… — Leonid Andreyev Copy Share Image
I'd spent five hours that morning trying to write a song that was meaningful and good, and I finally gave up and… — John Lennon 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
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… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
No one is saying you're possessed by the devil anymore except the most ignorant of people in modern culture. — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Chopin's rubato possessed an unshakeable emotional logic. It always justified itself by a strengthening or weakening melodic line, by exaggeration or affectation. — Karol Mikuli Copy Share Image
Britain, which in the years immediately before this war was rapidly losing such democratic virtues as it possessed, is now being bombed… — J. B. Priestley Copy Share Image
In the period after the Second World War, there were still leaders in Europe who represented weak countries, but possessed a sense… — Henry A. Kissinger 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
Possessed, as are all the fair daughters of Eve, of an hereditary propensity, transmitted to them undiminished through succeeding generations, to be… — Maria Edgeworth Copy Share Image
For my part I am very sorry for him. It is an uneasy lot at best, to be what we call highly… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
