Those who have experienced a great deal of violence or committed a great deal of violence themselves, those who are existing in… — Rupert Wyatt Copy Share Image
Was there ever any domination that did not appear natural to those who possessed it? — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
We lived in places that we never knew. We could not name the birds perched on our sill, Or see the trees… — Dana Gioia Copy Share Image
Nations are possessed with an insane ambition to perpetuate the memory of themselves by the amount of hammered stone they leave. What… — Henry David Thoreau 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
Imagination seems to be a glory and a misery, a blessing and a curse. Adam, to his sorrow, lacked it. Eve, to… — Stella Benson Copy Share Image
I wish the English still possessed a shred of the old sense of humour which Puritanism, and dyspepsia, and newspaper reading, and… — Norman Douglas Copy Share Image
Capablanca's phenomenal move-searching algorithm in those early years, when he possessed a wonderful ability for calculating variations very rapidly, made him invincible. — Mikhail Botvinnik Copy Share Image
It is to labor, and to labor only, that man owes everything possessed of exchangeable value. Labor is the talisman that has… — John Ramsay McCulloch Copy Share Image
The wise only possess ideas; the greater part of mankind are possessed by them. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
Paul Simon once said that a songwriter's supreme challenge was being complex and simple at the same time-writing songs with lasting depth… — Paul Zollo Copy Share Image
Common sense says that if something possessed the ability to create itself from nothing, then that something wasn't nothing, it was something… — Ray Comfort Copy Share Image
Françoise could not help taking a surreptitious glance at Xavière: she gave a start of amazement. Xavière was no longer watching, her… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
Wealth and rank are what men desire, but unless they be obtained in the right way they may not be possessed. Poverty… — Confucius 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
“~~You are not alone~~ No, really. Literally. Maybe you have always known (or suspected) this. Maybe this news is shocking, baffling, dismaying,… — A.T.W Copy Share Image
It is a grand thing to see a man thoroughly possessed with one master-passion. Such a man is sure to be strong,… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
I die but first I have possessed, And come what may, I have been blessed. — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
I think Whitman more than any other poet possessed the gift of revealing to others the beauty of everything around us, the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I was born on the 24th of September 1755 in the county of Fauquier, at that time one of the frontier counties… — John Marshall Copy Share Image
Snowden is almost preternaturally prepossessing and self-possessed. I think of a novelist whose dream character just walks into his or her head.… — Laura Poitras Copy Share Image
It has been observed that a pure democracy if it were practicable would be the most perfect government. Experience has proved that… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
It is true that of far the greater part of things, we must content ourselves with such knowledge as description may exhibit,… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Faith may always be acquired. Whoso is devoid of faith, and desires to have it, may acquire it by living for a… — William Batchelder Greene Copy Share Image
