Possessed Quotes
530 Possessed quotes by 418 unique authors
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A 'possessed' dog in the neighborhood won't let me stop killing until he gets his fill of blood.
— David Berkowitz
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The great secret possessed by the great men of all ages was their ability to contact and release the powers of their subconscious mind. You…
— Joseph Murphy
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You must assume the feeling of the wish fulfilled until your assumption has all the sensory vividness of reality. You must imagine that you are…
— Neville Goddard
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We got rich by violating one of the central tenets of economics: thou shall not sell off your capital and call it income. And yet…
— Kalle Lasn
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The German decision to fight is implacable. Even if they were given more than they ask, they would attack just the same, because they are…
— Galeazzo Ciano
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So-called professional mathematicians have, in their reliance on the relative incapacity of the rest of mankind, acquired for themselves a reputation for profundity very similar…
— Georg C. Lichtenberg
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But the morbidity of sorrow-not cultivated sorrow, but that which comes inevitably-is often a productive sluggishness, a time when the soul slows down, too weary…
— Eric G. Wilson
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Personal righteousness is a choice. Faith is a gift from God, and one possessed of it can receive enormous spiritual power.
— Kevin W. Pearson
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Painting is possessed of divine power, for not only does it make the absent present, but also makes the dead almost alive.
— Leon Battista Alberti
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Word is murder of a thing, not only in the elementary sense of implying its absence - by naming a thing, we treat it as…
— Slavoj Žižek
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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
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The occult powers may be possessed by soul, but if they are not used in the right way it is a loss rather than a…
— Virchand Gandhi
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Although the many virtues that courtesans possessed were employed to defy circumstances, the role they played depended on the same circumstances over which they triumphed-…
— Susan Griffin
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If you go back to the first single-cell form of life, it clearly possessed the capacity to receive, to utilize, to store, to transform, and…
— Dee Hock
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Baseball has traditionally possessed a wonderful lack of seriousness. The game's best player, Babe Ruth, was a Rabelaisian fat man, and its most loved manager,…
— Thomas Boswell
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I felt that Paris was illuminated by a splendor possessed by no other places.
— Isak Dinesen
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You can either tell yourself, 'It's too hard, I don't think I'll be able to do it,' or 'Yes, I can do this. Let me…
— Josei Toda
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The Art of Peace is medicine for a sick world. There is evil and disorder in the world, because people have forgotten that all things…
— Morihei Ueshiba
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. . . the mind is desperate to fix the river {of events} in place: Possessed by ideas of the past, preoccupied with images of…
— Laozi
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Friendship is a thing most necessary to life, since without friends no one would choose to live, though possessed of all other advantages.
— Aristotle
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To me, the appeal of opera lies in the fact that a myriad of singers and instruments, each possessed of different qualities of voice and…
— Junichiro Koizumi
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Human love wants to possess and be possessed by the world. Divine love wants to establish its inseparable oneness with the world and then it…
— Sri Chinmoy
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So the divine love is sacrificial love. Love does not mean to have and to own and to possess. It means to be had and…
— Fulton J. Sheen
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It was a ludicrous, insane situation in which modern fighting men, possessed all of the highly destructive engines of war, were ordered to attack a…
— Unknown Author
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While tacit knowledge can be possessed by itself, explicit knowledge must rely on being tacitly understood and applied. Hence all knowledge is either tacit or…
— Michael Polanyi
Who Wrote These Possessed Quotes
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