Once upon a time men were possessed by devils. Now they are not less obsessed by ideas — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
Life is a hospital in which every patient is possessed by a desire to change his bed. — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
He possessed the rare merit of making a property of his time and not a burden. — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
Regard your good name as the richest jewel yoou can possibly be possessed of. — Socrates Copy Share Image
I have possessed that heart, that noble soul, in whose presence I seemed to be more than I really was, because I… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Central planning, judicial activism, and the nanny state all presume vastly more knowledge than any elite have ever possessed. — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
. . . the mind is desperate to fix the river {of events} in place: Possessed by ideas of the past, preoccupied… — Laozi Copy Share Image
Most poets, like most people, try hard to be like someone they admire or they are possessed with an image of what… — James Broughton Copy Share Image
What the devil possessed me to reply 1. ... e5?? I compltely forgot that Spassky, like Spielmann in the past, very much… — David Bronstein Copy Share Image
Further, not only the United States, but the French, British, Germans and the United Nations all thought Hussein possessed weapons of mass… — Jim Gerlach Copy Share Image
There are men who are possessed by an urge so strong to do some particular thing that they can't help themselves, they've… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
The fame of the rich man dies with him; the fame of the treasure, and not of the man who possessed it,… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
The English Writers of Tragedy are possessed with a Notion, that when they represent a virtuous or innocent Person in Distress, they… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
“Even in her trances, even while possessed, my sister was very shrewd about her prospects. A fantasy would collapse like a wave… — Karen Russell Copy Share Image
If there be a pleasure on earth which angels cannot enjoy, and which they might almost envy man the possession of, it… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
The world is so possessed by the power of what is and the efforts of adjustment to it, that the adolescent's rebellion,… — Max Horkheimer Copy Share Image
All the objects pursued by the multitude not only bring no remedy that tends to preserve our being, but even act as… — Baruch Spinoza Copy Share Image
The search for truth can be compared to a cat chasing her tail: frantic in her pursuit, her quarry nevetheless eludes her;… — Gina Barreca Copy Share Image
“She pauses several treads from the bottom, listening, waiting; she is again possessed (it seems to be getting worse) by a dream-like… — Michael Cunningham Copy Share Image
The people, when they have been unchecked, have been as unjust, tyrannical, brutal, barbarous, and cruel, as any king or senate possessed… — John Adams Copy Share Image
“One day I realized the perfect coincidence between the books I was trying to finish on gnosticism and moral behavior, and the… — Robin Sacredfire Copy Share Image
It is not surprising that only one medieval state, Venice, long possessed anything clearly identifiavble as a navy in this sense. We… — Nicholas Rodger Copy Share Image
It is probable that all heavy matter possesses - latent and bound up with the structure of the atom - a similar… — Frederick Soddy Copy Share Image
I wish I'd known from the beginning that I was born a strong woman. What a difference it would have made! I… — Sarah Ban Breathnach Copy Share Image
“Jesus expressed intense anger toward those who where immoral, such as the self-righteous Pharisees, but he never suggested that they were demonized.… — Gregory A. Boyd Copy Share Image
If the land was divided among all the inhabitants of a country, so that each of them possessed precisely the quantity necessary… — Anne-Robert-Jacques Turgot, Baron de Laune Copy Share Image
It was a truism that all civilizations were basically neurotic until they made contact with everybody else and found their place within… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I'm possessed by evil demons that torture me while I'm sleeping I keep dreaming of death and I'm hearing people screaming The… — Patience Copy Share Image
Songwriting is like ... being possessed. You try to go to sleep but the song won't let you. — John Lennon Copy Share Image
“The way my imagination was running I’d be thinking I was possessed by everyone in hell.” — Karina Halle Copy Share Image
Photographs objectify: they turn an event or a person into something that can be possessed. — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
“But was there ever any domination which did not appear natural to those who possessed it?” — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
No wild enthusiast could rest, till half the world like him was possessed. — William Cowper Copy Share Image
“It's very easy to detect the possessed by the devil for they smile right after each evil action.” — Robin Sacredfire Copy Share Image
But when I direct I become possessed, a possession I've never quite understood. — Ted Kotcheff Copy Share Image
