Possessed Quotes
530 Possessed quotes by 418 unique authors
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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
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Sincerity becomes apparent. From being apparent, it becomes manifest. From being manifest, it becomes brilliant. Brilliant, it affects others. Affecting others, they are changed by…
— Confucius
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It's that quality possessed by some which draws al others with magnetic force. With 'IT' you win all men if you are a woman–and all…
— Elinor Glyn
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The Seer Stone referred to here was a chocolate-colored, somewhat egg-shaped stone which the Prophet found while digging a well in company with his brother…
— B. H. Roberts
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May we always be possessed by the consciousness that we are not our own.
— Watchman Nee
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In the same manner if any nation wasted part of its wealth, or lost part of its trade, it could not retain the same quantity…
— David Ricardo
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True love cannot be found where it truly does not exist, Nor can it be hidden where it truly does. Anonymous Love possesses not nor…
— Khalil Gibran
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Yet it was impossible for me to say to people, 'Speak louder, shout, for I am deaf.' Ah, how could I possibly admit an infirmity…
— Ludwig van Beethoven
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No government can be trusted, that does not trust its own people with military-style arms of greater weight and power than those possessed by the…
— Vin Suprynowicz
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Jackson possessed the brutality essential in war; Lee did not. He could clasp the hand of a wounded enemy, whilst Jackson ground his teeth and…
— J F C Fuller
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If we possessed a thorough knowledge of all the parts of the seed of any animal (e.g. man), we could from that alone, be reasons…
— Rene Descartes
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