Possessed Quotes

530 Possessed quotes by 418 unique authors

I knew neither jealousy nor hate but was possessed by a rage to recreate a new world, the world which my eyes perceived, a world… — Maurice de Vlaminck
All these troubles revolve around the irritable mutual dependence of life and art - with their need and contempt for one another. Of necessity, to… — Philip Guston
You see, we need instruction on how to possess money without being possessed by money. We need help to learn how to own things without… — Richard J. Foster
Among the wealthy, compassionate men claim the richest wealth, For material wealth is possessed by even contemptible men. Find and follow the good path and… — Thiruvalluvar
The soul of man is divided into three parts, intelligence, reason, and passion. Intelligence and passion are possessed by other animals, but reason by man… — Pythagoras
You are greater than anything that can happen to you. In a big and terrifying crisis, people find within themselves a power and a strength… — Norman Vincent Peale
Man is the same today that he has always been. He is a rebel against God. He may, in some generations, hide his rebellion a… — Donald Barnhouse
If all the misfortunes of mankind were cast into a public stack in order to be equally distributed among the whole species, those who now… — Socrates
Socrates.- If all goes well, the time will come when one will take up the memorabilia of Socrates rather than the Bible as a guide… — Friedrich Nietzsche
I think of painting as possessed by a structure... but a structure born of the flow of color feeling. — Jules Olitski
Even more than the depression, it was my anxiety and agitation that became the defining symptoms of my illness. Like epileptic seizures, a series of… — Douglas Bloch
The large and rapid fortunes by which vulgar and ignorant people become possessed of splendid houses, splendidly furnished, do not of course, give them the… — Fanny Kemble
A good many causes tend to make good masters and mistresses quite as rare as good servants.... The large and rapid fortunes by which vulgar… — Fanny Kemble
Today there survives more than 25,0000 partial and complete, ancient handwritten manuscript copies of the New Testament. These hand written manuscripts have allowed scholars and… — Charlie Campbell
A preacher must have some intelligence to charm the people by his florid style, by his exhilarating system of morality, by the repetition of his… — Jean de la Bruyere
Be fair, or foul, or rain, or shine, The joys I have possessed, in spite of fate, are mine. Not heaven itself upon the past… — John Dryden
Be that blind bard who on the Chian strand, By those deep sounds possessed with inward light, Beheld the Iliad and the Odyssey Rise to… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
He, who is gone, was one of the very kindest friends I possessed, and yet he was not kinder perhaps to me, than to others.… — John Keats
I think the reason I was able to get the jobs I did is because I worked for some very strong, self-possessed filmmakers who wouldn't… — Joseph Gordon-Levitt
Love possesses not nor will it be possessed, for love is sufficient unto love. — Khalil Gibran
In so far as one denies what is, one is possessed by what is not, the compulsions, the fantasies, the terrors that flock to fill… — Ursula K. Le Guin
Many speak the truth when they say that they despise riches, but they mean the riches possessed by others. — Charles Caleb Colton
No wild enthusiast could rest, till half the world like him was possessed. — William Cowper
Although a man may wear fine clothing, if he lives peacefully; and is good, self-possessed, has faith and is pure; and if he does not… — Denis Diderot
Sarah Palin lacked the preparation or temperament to be one heartbeat away from the presidency, but what she possessed in abundance was the ability to… — Roger Ebert

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