If we justify war, it is because all peoples always justify the traits of which they find themselves possessed, not because war… — Ruth Benedict Copy Share Image
“My mom thinks I'm the heroine in every book I write... so I'm a demon possessed, call girl, vampire killing, elfin college… — H.M. Ward Copy Share Image
I think that that's always been a real talent of mine is to be able to spot somebody who has that thing… — Rosie O'Donnell Copy Share Image
Steve Martin in 'All of Me,' when he did that whole thing where he was possessed by the spirit in his body?… — Carol Burnett Copy Share Image
In teaching, regard must be had to the faculties possessed by the pupil. In childhood, memory; in youth, the understanding; in mature… — Joseph P. Bradley Copy Share Image
The first - the most obvious test of a true social entrepreneur - is are they possessed, really possessed by an idea. — Bill Drayton Copy Share Image
We live in an age which is so possessed by demons, that soon we shall only be able to do goodness and… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
The mystical impulse in men is somehow a desire to possess the universe. In women, it's a desire to be possessed. — Colin Wilson Copy Share Image
I wanted to explore cancer not just biologically, but metaphorically. The idea that tuberculosis in the 19th century possessed the same kind… — Siddhartha Mukherjee Copy Share Image
If nature had produced spontaneously all the objects which we desire, and in sufficient abundance for the desires of all, there would… — James Mill Copy Share Image
A deep sense of sin, a humble willingness to be saved in God's way, a teachable readiness to give up our own… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Marriage partners are to serve each other. Elevate, help, teach, strengthen each other, but above all, serve. Raise their children honorably, lovingly… — J. D. Salinger Copy Share Image
Human love wants to possess and be possessed by the world. Divine love wants to establish its inseparable oneness with the world… — Sri Chinmoy Copy Share Image
You want to know the biggest illusion about success? That it's like a pinnacle to be climbed, a thing to be possessed,… — Tony Robbins Copy Share Image
Ownership of thought depends on the thinker not subordinating himself to a 'ruling thought'. This is particularly difficult, argues Stirner, ... for… — John Carroll Copy Share Image
And Archimedes, as he was washing, thought of a manner of computing the proportion of gold in King Hiero's crown by seeing… — Plutarch Copy Share Image
“Editing. This never-ending maze through which I run, searching soulful nooks for the faintest shimmers of solace or escape. There is no… — Kristine Cheney Copy Share Image
“This person is (pick one): 1. on a perilous journey from which we can learn much when he or she returns; 2.… — Susanna Kaysen Copy Share Image
Of the various executive abilities, no one excited more anxious concern than that of placing the interests of our fellow-citizens in the… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
In order to the attaining of all useful knowledge this is most necessary, that we fear God; we are not qualified to… — Matthew Henry Copy Share Image
Man has existed for about a million years. He has possessed writing for about 6,000 years, agriculture somewhat longer, but perhaps not… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
We believe that we live in the 'age of information,' that there has been an information 'explosion,' an information 'revolution.' While in… — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
To possess money is very well; it may be a valuable servant; to be possessed by it is to be possessed by… — Tryon Edwards Copy Share Image
“He was possessed now with that obsession for the cross in which so many lips have worn themselves away on crucifixes.” — Émile Zola Copy Share Image
Friendship is a thing most necessary to life, since without friends no one would choose to live, though possessed of all other… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
It is not earthly riches which make us or our sons happy; for they must either be lost by us in our… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
Let us be done with the notion that religion is confined to petty pieties and small constraints. All too often people who… — A. Powell Davies Copy Share Image
Loving if the answering breast Seem not to be thus possessed, Still in hoping have a care; If it do, beware, beware!… — Arthur Hugh Clough Copy Share Image
I don't think I”m a very good actor. Everything is very tentative and at a certain point you click in and just… — River Phoenix Copy Share Image
We have long possessed the art of war and the science of war, which have been evolved in the minutest detail. — Fredrik Bajer 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
If you go back to the first single-cell form of life, it clearly possessed the capacity to receive, to utilize, to store,… — Dee Hock Copy Share Image
No government can be trusted, that does not trust its own people with military-style arms of greater weight and power than those… — Vin Suprynowicz Copy Share Image
“Someone dropped her off in a shopping mall food court just before her third birthday. Pinned to her dress was a note… — Rysa Walker Copy Share Image
I knew neither jealousy nor hate but was possessed by a rage to recreate a new world, the world which my eyes… — Maurice de Vlaminck Copy Share Image
That so unlikely an outcome should accrue to a man possessed of such limited talent and so many flaws, and one lacking… — William Thomas Green Morton Copy Share Image
“What the hell is that?" I jumped and glanced over to see Kristof staring at Grady, who was waving his arms, rolling… — Kelley Armstrong Copy Share Image
If people were possessed by reason, running marathons would never work. But we are not creatures of reason. We are creatures of… — Noel Carroll Copy Share Image
Seamus Coleman is quiet by nature. He comes in here, he'd be very well mannered. Take him onto the field now and… — Martin O'Neill Copy Share Image
My mother always seemed to me like a fairy princess: a radiant being possessed of limitless riches and power. She shone for… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
