It is often lamented by the churchmen that Washington and Lincoln possessed little religion except that found in the word 'God.' All… — David Swing Copy Share Image
All goes to show that the soul in man is not an organ, but animates and exercises all the organs; is not… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
History, if viewed as a repository for more than anecdote or chronology, could produce a decisive transformation in the image of science… — Thomas Kuhn Copy Share Image
The poets are nothing but interpreters of the gods, each one possessed by the divinity to whom he is in bondage. — Plato 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
Complaisance, though in itself it be scarce reckoned in the number of moral virtues, is that which gives a lustre to every… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Greece expects you not merely to die for her, for that is little, indeed; she expects you to conquer. That is why… — Eleftherios Venizelos Copy Share Image
Beauty has nothing to do with possession. If possession and beauty must go together, then we are lost souls. A beautiful flower… — Diana Vreeland Copy Share Image
There is perhaps not an enlightened Christian in America who, notwithstanding he may believe that, at the time of Jesus, men were… — Lysander Spooner 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
Saddam Hussein had a lengthy history of reckless and sudden aggression. He cultivated ties to terror -- hosting the Abu Nidal organization,… — Dick Cheney Copy Share Image
[On James Gould Cozzens' By Love Possessed:] It is a vast enterprise encompassing all sorts of love, except, naturally, those branches which… — Dorothy Parker Copy Share Image
But the morbidity of sorrow-not cultivated sorrow, but that which comes inevitably-is often a productive sluggishness, a time when the soul slows… — Eric G. Wilson Copy Share Image
When one is possessed with doubt, that though he call upon the Lord he cannot be heard, and that God has turned… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
I will now direct the attention of scientists to a previously unnoticed cause which brings about the metamorphosis and decomposition phenomena which… — Justus von Liebig Copy Share Image
In the unawakened state you don't use thought, but thought uses you. You are, one could almost say, possessed by thought, which… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
It is a rule of creative ability that it does nothing of any value, while it is possessed by this afflatus of… — Christina Stead Copy Share Image
Up to that time I never realized that I possessed any particular gift of discovery, but Lord Rayleigh, whom I always considered… — Nikola Tesla 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 very singular how the fact of a man's death often seems to give people a truer idea of his character,… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
I think it was something I inherited from my mother, who learned to do it. You know, I, like a baby duckling,… — Trevor Noah Copy Share Image
Though the artist must remain master of his craft, the surface, at times raised to the highest pitch of loveliness, should transmit… — Alfred Sisley Copy Share Image
I have somewhere met with the epitaph on a charitable man which has pleased me very much. I cannot recollect the words,… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
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