Possessed Quotes

530 Possessed quotes by 418 unique authors

Wolves and women are relational by nature, inquiring, possessed of great endurance and strength. They are deeply intuitive, intensely concerned with their young, their mate… — Clarissa Pinkola Estes
I was never a class clown or anything like that, but I do remember being in the first grade and my teacher, Mr. Chad, told… — Will Ferrell
Real riches are the riches possessed inside. — B. C. Forbes
I had spent some time in the outback, but to meet Aboriginals and work with them was wonderful. It gave me a great appreciation of… — Hugh Jackman
We are long before we are convinced that happiness is never to be found, and each believes it possessed by others, to keep alive the… — Samuel Johnson
The jealous are possessed by a mad devil and a dull spirit at the same time. — Johann Kaspar Lavater
In our rich consumers' civilization we spin cocoons around ourselves and get possessed by our possessions. — Max Lerner
The Greeks possessed a knowledge of human nature we seem hardly able to attain to without passing through the strengthening hibernation of a new barbarism. — Georg C. Lichtenberg
There is no arguing with the pretenders to a divine knowledge and to a divine mission. They are possessed with the sin of pride, they… — Walter Lippmann
If you are possessed by an idea, you find it expressed everywhere, you even smell it. — Thomas Mann
Ferdinand was a gold trader. He was a lawyer for mining companies. When he entered politics in l949, he had tons and tons of gold.… — Imelda Marcos
We must have constantly present in our minds the difference between independence and liberty. Liberty is a right of doing whatever the laws permit, and… — Baron de Montesquieu
I still tour like a man possessed, because I am. — Ted Nugent
Anything you cannot relinquish when it has outlived its usefulness possesses you, and in this materialistic age a great many of us are possessed by… — Peace Pilgrim
Britain, which in the years immediately before this war was rapidly losing such democratic virtues as it possessed, is now being bombed and burned into… — J. B. Priestley
The overwhelming majority of Americans are possessed of two great qualities a sense of humor and a sense of proportion. — Franklin D. Roosevelt
Anger is the most impotent of passions. It effects nothing it goes about, and hurts the one who is possessed by it more than the… — Carl Sandburg
Some people possess talent, others are possessed by it. When that happens, a talent becomes a curse. — Rod Serling
Though the artist must remain master of his craft, the surface, at times raised to the highest pitch of loveliness, should transmit to the beholder… — Alfred Sisley
There is perhaps not an enlightened Christian in America who, notwithstanding he may believe that, at the time of Jesus, men were possessed of devils,… — Lysander Spooner
When you are younger you get blamed for crimes you never committed and when you're older you begin to get credit for virtues you never… — Casey Stengel
What have you given the world it never possessed before you came? — Billy Sunday
The nation that complacently and fearfully allows its artists and writers to become suspected rather than respected is no longer regarded as a nation possessed… — James Thurber
Those who are possessed by nothing possess everything. — Morihei Ueshiba
Like our bodies and like our desires, the machines we have devised are possessed of a heart which is slowly reduced to embers. — W G Sebald

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