I Possessed Quotes
16 quotes by 14 authors
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I have somewhere met with the epitaph on a charitable man which has pleased me very much. I cannot recollect the words, but here is…
— Joseph Addison
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And in that moment I possessed and lost the whole world and everything in it and was left with the feeling and the knowledge, which…
— Ann Rinaldi
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Shortly after this I was made a member of the boys choir, it being found that I possessed a clear, strong soprano voice. I enjoyed…
— James Weldon Johnson
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I once believed that I possessed creative talent, but I have given up this idea; a woman must not desire to compose — there has…
— Clara Schumann
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I offered up a special prayer, a prayer which came with tears and anguish, that some way would open up for me to use what…
— Dorothy Day
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I wish I'd known from the beginning that I was born a strong woman. What a difference it would have made! I wish I'd known…
— Sarah Ban Breathnach
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Whatever capital you divert to the support of a shiftless and good-for-nothing person is so much diverted from some other employment, and that means from…
— William Graham Sumner
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So there was not an "I" anymore-not a basis on which I could organize my self-respect-save my limitless capacity for toil that it seemed I…
— F. Scott Fitzgerald
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If, Sir, I possessed the power of conveying unlimited sexual attraction through the potency of my voice, I would not be reduced to accepting a…
— Gilbert Harding
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He, who is gone, was one of the very kindest friends I possessed, and yet he was not kinder perhaps to me, than to others.…
— John Keats
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We kissed, then, and the ardour of her kiss stole my breath away. I returned her passion with all the fervor I possessed. A lifetime…
— Stephen R. Lawhead
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I used many times to touch my own chest and feel, under its asthmatic quiver, the engine of the heart and lungs and blood and…
— Stephen Fry
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Irony, perfect definition: that for which I want to possess it, I would no longer want once I possessed it.
— Karen Marie Moning
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If for nine years I have possessed a goodly apple that is rotten at the core and discover its rottenness only in nine years and…
— Ford Madox Ford
Who Wrote These I Possessed Quotes
14 authors contributed a total of 16 I Possessed Quotes as follows: