“To be called insane: challenge convention. To be called possessed: challenge religion.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
An agile but unintelligent and abnormal German, possessed of the mania of grandeur. — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Once the mass of the defending infantry become possessed of low moral, the battle is as good as lost. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“When something is finished, it cannot be possessed. Nothing can be possessed but the struggle.” — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
But you can't be possessed by your possessions. Those are just things. — Kathy Hilton Copy Share Image
Many person might have achieved wisdom had they not supposed that they already possessed it. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
In our rich consumers' civilization we spin cocoons around ourselves and get possessed by our possessions. — Max Lerner Copy Share Image
Possessions. The very word is potent - suggestive as it is of ownership both material and erotic. To possess. Possession. Possessed. — Hamish Bowles Copy Share Image
The star of the unconquered will, He rises in my breast, Serene, and resolute, and still, And calm, and self-possessed. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
I can't imagine what possessed you to propose to me." "Well that will give you something to puzzle over any time you… — Georgette Heyer Copy Share Image
There's her cousin, an she were not possessed with a fury, exceeds her as much in beauty as the first of May… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
All these troubles revolve around the irritable mutual dependence of life and art - with their need and contempt for one another.… — Philip Guston 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
“He had thought that home was something one possessed, but the things one had possessed were cursed with change; it was what… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
All the strength and force of man comes from his faith in things unseen. He who believes is strong; he who doubts… — James Freeman Clarke Copy Share Image
Man's unconscious... contains all the patterns of life and behaviour inherited from his ancestors, so that every human child, prior to consciousness,… — Carl Jung 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
Men ablaze are invincible. Hell trembles when men kindle. The stronghold of Satan is proof against everything but fire. The Church is… — Samuel Chadwick Copy Share Image
The Tathagatha... is the originator of the path unarisen before, the producer of the path unproduced before, the declarer of the path… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
As the eye naturally seeks the light and vision, and our body naturally desires food and drink, so our mind is possessed… — Origen Copy Share Image
“If she was possessed by anything other than faulty brain chemistry and/or DNA, I like to imagine her as being possessed by… — Paul Tremblay Copy Share Image
Contemporary man is blind to the fact that, with all his rationality and efficiency, he is possessed by "powers" that are beyond… — Carl Jung 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
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
Do not talk about giftedness, inborn talents! One can assume great men of all kinds who were very little gifted. They acquired… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I think it is no small attraction in a painter to be able to give a pleasing air to his figures, and… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
Rhetoric is useful because the true and the just are naturally superior to their opposites, so that, if decisions are improperly made,… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Awareness of time as flying has some advantages; it precludes boredom, for one thing. It matters little that younger people find older… — Germaine Greer Copy Share Image
Even more than the depression, it was my anxiety and agitation that became the defining symptoms of my illness. Like epileptic seizures,… — Douglas Bloch Copy Share Image
Some of the worst abuses of government force in recent years were precipitated by technical and victimless gun-law violations. For example, the… — Dave Kopel Copy Share Image
I never knew I had the power to hurt him, only that he possessed the power to hurt me. — Ann Aguirre Copy Share Image
He had everything, but he possessed nothing. There is the spiritual secret. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“We all possess, like it or not, the people we know, and are possessed by them in turn.” — William Boyd Copy Share Image
Does there exist a single instance of a saint asserting that he himself possessed the gift of miracles? — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
When the body of the people is possessed of the supreme power, it is called a democracy. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Possessed he is with greatness and speaks not to himself but with a pride that quarrels at self-breath. — Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Obstinacy standing alone is the weakest of all things in one whose mind is not possessed by wisdom. — Aeschylus Copy Share Image
Possession without obligation to the object possessed approaches felicity. — George Meredith Copy Share Image
