Possessed Quotes

530 Possessed quotes by 418 unique authors

Will without intellect is the most vulgar and common thing in the world, possessed by every blockhead, who, in the gratification of his passions, shows… — Arthur Schopenhauer
I wish neither to possess nor to be possessed. I no longer covet 'paradise'. More important, I no longer fear 'hell'. The medicine for my… — Bruce Lee
There's her cousin, an she were not possessed with a fury, exceeds her as much in beauty as the first of May doth the last… — William Shakespeare
Part of Obama's persona is self-reliance. He's calm; he's cool; he's self-possessed. In many ways, he has tried to define himself in opposition to Clinton's… — Dee Dee Myers
He that is possessed with a prejudice is possessed with a devil, and one of the worst kinds of devils, for it shuts out the… — Tryon Edwards
If men of wisdom and knowledge, of moderation and temperance, of patience, fortitude and perseverance, of sobriety and true republican simplicity of manners, of zeal… — Samuel Adams
FranÃ§oise could not help taking a surreptitious glance at XaviÃ¨re: she gave a start of amazement. XaviÃ¨re was no longer watching, her head was lowered.… — Simone de Beauvoir
Exorcists always need to distinguish demonic possessions from mental or psychiatric disorders, and they use three symptoms to identify people as possessed. First, those people… — Gerard Verschuuren
What the devil possessed me to reply 1. ... e5?? I compltely forgot that Spassky, like Spielmann in the past, very much likes to play… — David Bronstein
What is a gentleman? It is to be honest, to be gentle, to be generous, to be brave, to be wise; and possessed of all… — William Makepeace Thackeray
Attachment brings misery, unattachment brings blissfulness. So use things, but don't be used by them. Live life but don't be lived by it. Possess things,… — Rajneesh
In psychiatry there is a certain condition known as delusion of reprieve. The condemned man, immediately before his execution, gets the illusion that he might… — Viktor E. Frankl
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
All the great Founders of religions have been possessed of clairvoyant sight. — Rudolf Steiner
All manifestations of art are but landmarks in the progress of the human spirit toward a thing but as yet sensed and far from being… — Robert Henri
Talent is cheap, you have to be possessed or obsessed, rather. You really have to feel like you cannot not do art, and that is… — John Baldessari
The Christianity that saves is a thing personally grasped, personally experienced, personally felt and personally possessed. — J C Ryle
All the things that have ever deeply possessed your soul have been but hints of it, tantalizing glimpses, promises never quite fulfilled, echoes that died… — C.S. Lewis
A good man is not mine to see. Could I see a man possessed of constancy, that would satisfy me. — Confucius
Mary properly bore the name of Virgin, and possessed to the full all the attributes of purity. She was a virgin in both body and… — Gregory Palamas

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