Possessed Quotes

530 Possessed quotes by 418 unique authors

The rainbow is such a remarkable phenomenon of nature, and its cause has been so meticulously sought after by inquiring minds throughout the ages, that… — Rene Descartes
I'm possessed by love — but isn't everybody? — Freddie Mercury
In that moment, when watches and clocks misbehave and you feel a cold vapor wrap itself around your heart, you unconsciously draw a line at… — James Lee Burke
Washington possessed the superb self-confidence that comes only to those men whose inner life is faint. — William E. Woodward
Not necessarily reputation, rank, societal position or status,but the happiness and enjoyment that a person pretends or fakes to derive with his possessed money or… — Anuj
Television hangs on the questionable theory that whatever happens anywhere should be sensed everywhere. If everyone is going to be able to see everything, in… — Elwyn Brooks White
I wanted to explore cancer not just biologically, but metaphorically. The idea that tuberculosis in the 19th century possessed the same kind of frightening and… — Siddhartha Mukherjee
We are possessed by the things we possess. When I like an object, I always give it to someone. It isn't generosity-it's only because I… — Jean-Paul Sartre
The present age is demented. It is possessed by a sense of dislocation, a loss of personal identity, an alternating sentimentality and rage which, in… — Walker Percy
I'm inspired by the sheer ingenuity and intelligence possessed by my fellow band mates. — Brad Delson
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
I have known some men possessed of good qualities which were very serviceable to others, but useless to themselves; like a sun-dial on the front… — Jonathan Swift
Unless the concepts of work and play and reward for work change absolutely, women must continue to provide cheap labor, and even more, free labor… — Germaine Greer
Possession without obligation to the object possessed approaches felicity. — George Meredith
Great artistic talent in any direction... is hardly inherent to the man. It comes and goes; it is often possessed only for a short phase… — Hilaire Belloc
A revolution does not march a straight line. It wanders where it can, retreats before superior forces, advances wherever it has room, attacks whenever the… — Mao Zedong
Threefold are those supreme births of this divine force that is in the world, they are true, they are desirable; he moves there wide-overt within… — Sri Aurobindo
The enmity of such a party towards Socialism does not mean that the members are only prejudiced against it because they do not know it;… — Karl Radek
It is true that of far the greater part of things, we must content ourselves with such knowledge as description may exhibit, or analogy supply;… — Samuel Johnson
When you listen to what entities say, the gradually work their way into your thoughts. After a while you will start thinking their thoughts. You… — Frederick Lenz
The adventure evoked a quality of his character that he didn't know he possessed. — Joseph Campbell
It is precisely as though I were possessed by some other spirit when I enter on a new task of acting, as though something within… — Conrad Veidt
What I'm trying to tell you is that there are men who are possessed by an urge so strong to do some particular thing that… — W. Somerset Maugham
America is a great power possessed of tremendous military might and a wide-ranging economy, but all this is built on an unstable foundation which can… — Osama bin Laden
The most powerful force possessed by the individual citizen is her own government. ... Government is the only organized mechanism that makes possible that level… — John Ralston Saul

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