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
“And by being possessed, you possess, because that's how love works.” — Patrick Ness Copy Share Image
The basis of good manners is self-reliance. Necessity is the law of all who are not self-possessed. — Ralph Waldo Emerson 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
I hope you will be yourself, human, even a little sentimental, possessed of a sense of humor and a sense of humility.… — Harry A. Blackmun 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
The American Revolution was a vindication of liberties inherited and possessed. It was a conservative revolution. — William E. Gladstone 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
But without Adolf Hitler, who was possessed of a demonic personality, a granite will, uncanny instincts, a cold ruthlessness, a remarkable intellect,… — William L. Shirer Copy Share Image
I have known some men possessed of good qualities which were very serviceable to others, but useless to themselves; like a sun-dial… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
We may... affirm that the balance of power in a society accompanies the balance of property in land. The only possible way,… — John Adams Copy Share Image
A man possessed of splendid talents, which he often abused, and of a sound judgment, the admonitions of which he often neglected;… — Thomas B. Macaulay 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
Each member of society can have only a small fraction of the knowledge possessed by all, and...each is therefore ignorant of most… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
My proposal is not that we understand what the word ‘god’ means and manage somehow to fit Jesus into that. Instead, I… — N. T. Wright Copy Share Image
“In our time... a man whose enemies are faceless bureaucrats almost never wins. It is our equivalent to the anger of the… — Chaim Potok Copy Share Image
Any real change implies the breakup of the world as one has always known it, the loss of all that gave one… — James A. Baldwin Copy Share Image
Songwriting is about getting the demon out of me. It's like being possessed. You try to go to sleep, but the song… — John Lennon Copy Share Image
All manifestations of art are but landmarks in the progress of the human spirit toward a thing but as yet sensed and… — Robert Henri Copy Share Image
“You know what can make a person possessed, Sylvie? It's not Satan or Lucifer or any of that nonsense. Do you know… — John Searles Copy Share Image
Naught is possessed, neither gold, nor land nor love, nor life, nor peace, nor even sorrow nor death, nor yet salvation. Say… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The next step in human evolution is to transcend thought. This is now our urgent task. It doesn't mean not to think… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Neither is it safe to count upon the weakness of any man's understanding, who is thoroughly possessed of the spirit of revenge… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
You are greater than anything that can happen to you. In a big and terrifying crisis, people find within themselves a power… — Norman Vincent Peale Copy Share Image
We truly possess only what we are able to renounce; otherwise, we are simply possessed by our possessions. — Sydney J. Harris Copy Share Image
I do not believe that since man was in the habit of living on this planet anyone has ever lived possessed of… — Jay Gould Copy Share Image
