Possessed Quotes

530 Possessed quotes by 418 unique authors

To possess money is very well; it may be a valuable servant; to be possessed by it is to be possessed by the devil, and… — Tryon Edwards
Webster was much possessed by death And saw the skull beneath the skin. — Thomas Stearns Eliot
Obstinacy standing alone is the weakest of all things in one whose mind is not possessed by wisdom. — Aeschylus
The comics were not only stories to enjoy; for me they were drawings that possessed me. — Jean Giraud
I'd like to learn how to cook. I've hauled around this big, old, heavy Martha Stewart cookbook in my suitcase to Cape Cod, L.A., Paris.… — Mamie Gummer
The "second sight" possessed by the Highlanders in Scotland is actually a foreknowledge of future events. I believe they possess this gift because they don't… — Georg C. Lichtenberg
Once the mass of the defending infantry become possessed of low moral, the battle is as good as lost. — Douglas Haig, 1st Earl Haig
Everybody talks about the entitlement generation. There is no time I'd rather live in than now, and there is no generation I would more entrust… — Jon Stewart
The world that we must seek is a world in which the creative spirit is alive, in which life is an adventure full of joy… — Bertrand Russell
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
I think Whitman more than any other poet possessed the gift of revealing to others the beauty of everything around us, the beauty of nature,… — Ella Reeve Bloor
But when I direct I become possessed, a possession I've never quite understood. — Ted Kotcheff
To be possessed by Jesus and to possess Him - that is the perfect reign of Love. — Peter Julian Eymard
The fact is that a "minor exorcism" takes place in every Baptism and Confirmation ceremony when we renounce Satan and all his works and empty… — Thomas J. Paprocki
A strongly accentuated zoophilism, such as an inordinate love of horses or dogs, throws the emotional nature out of balance; and those who are possessed… — William E. Woodward
A man possessed of splendid talents, which he often abused, and of a sound judgment, the admonitions of which he often neglected; a man who… — Thomas B. Macaulay
It is not earthly riches which make us or our sons happy; for they must either be lost by us in our lifetime, or be… — Saint Augustine
In order to exert influence over people, there were other things that could be used besides love. Knowledge seemed to be an equally strong force,… — Peter Prange
An agile but unintelligent and abnormal German, possessed of the mania of grandeur. — Leo Tolstoy
The object of ambition, unlike that of love, never being wholly possessed, ambition is the more durable passion of the two. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
We truly possess only what we are able to renounce; otherwise, we are simply possessed by our possessions. — Sydney J. Harris
A martial nobility and stubborn commons, possessed of arms, tenacious of property, and collected into constitutional assemblies form the only balance capable of preserving a… — Edward Gibbon
Let us be done with the notion that religion is confined to petty pieties and small constraints. All too often people who have possessed these… — A. Powell Davies
As a matter of selective necessity, man is an agent. He is, in his own apprehension, a centre of unfolding impulsive activity-'teleological activity.' He is… — Thorstein Veblen
Beauty has nothing to do with possession. If possession and beauty must go together, then we are lost souls. A beautiful flower is not to… — Diana Vreeland

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