Possessed Quotes

530 quotes by 432 authors

No punishment has ever possessed enough power of deterrence to prevent the commission of crimes. On the contrary, whatever the punishment, once a specific crime… — Hannah Arendt
In times of joy, all of us wished we possessed a tail we could wag. — Wystan Hugh Auden
This life is a hospital in which every patient is possessed with a desire to change his bed. — Charles Baudelaire
Everything that is new or uncommon raises a pleasure in the imagination, because it fills the soul with an agreeable surprise, gratifies its curiosity, and… — Joseph Addison
A just and reasonable modesty does not only recommend eloquence, but sets off every great talent which a man can be possessed of. — Joseph Addison
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
Liberty must be limited in order to be possessed. — Edmund Burke
Most of us have far more courage than we ever dreamed we possessed. — Dale Carnegie
Nowadays Christians appear to treat prayer as a means to accomplish their aims and ideas. If they possessed just a little deeper understanding, they would… — Watchman Nee
Prayer is the one prime, eternal condition by which the Father is pledged to put the Son in possession of the world. Christ prays through… — Edward McKendree Bounds
I concluded some time ago that a major part of success of a team, or of an individual, has a great deal to do with… — Dick Bennett
What is not fully understood is not possessed. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
To me there never has been a higher source of honour or distinction than that connected with advances in science. I have not possessed enough… — Humphry Davy
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
On 17th July there came to us at Potsdam the eagerly-awaited news of the trial of the atomic bomb in the [New] Mexican desert. Success… — Winston Churchill
No beast is more savage than man when possessed with power answerable to his rage. — Plutarch
You don't have to fear defeat if you believe it may reveal powers that you didn't know you possessed. — Napoleon Hill
In order to the attaining of all useful knowledge this is most necessary, that we fear God; we are not qualified to profit by the… — Matthew Henry
The wise only possess ideas; the greater part of mankind are possessed by them. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Sannyas is the art of flying... the art that stops the process of gravitation and starts the process of grace. All that is needed is… — Rajneesh

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