The Possessed Quotes
A people... who are possessed of the spirit of commerce, who see and who will pursue their advantages may achieve almost anything.
. . . the mind is desperate to fix the river {of events} in place: Possessed by ideas of the past, preoccupied with images of the future, it overlooks the plain truth of the moment.
A good man is not mine to see. Could I see a man possessed of constancy, that would satisfy me.
I boldly entered the arena of business and exercised the rights I already possessed.
I have possessed that heart, that noble soul, in whose presence I seemed to be more than I really was, because I was all that I could be.
Every actor and actress is possessed of the absorbing passion to create something distinctive and unique.
We truly possess only what we are able to renounce; otherwise, we are simply possessed by our possessions.
A just and reasonable modesty does not only recommend eloquence, but sets off every great talent which a man can be possessed of.
What the devil possessed me to reply 1. ... e5?? I compltely forgot that Spassky, like Spielmann in the past, very much likes to play the King's Gambit.
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 of circulating medium which it before possessed.
If people were possessed by reason, running marathons would never work. But we are not creatures of reason. We are creatures of passion.
At that time, a friend shall lose his friend's hammer, and the young shall not know where lieth the things possessed by their fathers that their fathers put there only just the night before.
My mind is wholly possessed by Love, who rules every part there of, in virtue of his all-embracing deity.
Capablanca's phenomenal move-searching algorithm in those early years, when he possessed a wonderful ability for calculating variations very rapidly, made him invincible.
The American Revolution was a vindication of liberties inherited and possessed. It was a conservative revolution.
We are possessed by the things we possess. When I like an object, I always give it to someone. It isn't generosity-it's only because I want others to be enslaved by objects, not me.
The German decision to fight is implacable. Even if they were given more than they ask, they would attack just the same, because they are possessed by the demon of destruction.
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 talents I possessed for my fellow workers, for the poor.
Mothers sometimes are overly possessive, but not all children allow themselves to be possessed.
Songwriting is like ... being possessed. You try to go to sleep but the song won't let you.
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 pieties have wrought great evil.
Never has there been one possessed of complete sincerity who did not move others. Never has there been one who had not sincerity who was able to move others.
In India, I found a race of mortals living upon the Earth, but not adhering to it, inhabiting cities, but not being fixed to them, possessing everything, but possessed by nothing.
Many speak the truth when they say that they despise riches, but they mean the riches possessed by others.
Being a Christian is more like having your soul possessed by a spirit than having your mind clothed with new beliefs... It is like being haunted by the Holy Ghost.
Obstinacy standing alone is the weakest of all things in one whose mind is not possessed by wisdom.
No punishment has ever possessed enough power of deterrence to prevent the commission of crimes.
I can't imagine what possessed you to propose to me." "Well that will give you something to puzzle over any time you can't sleep.
We cannot believe that the church of God is already possessed of all that light which God intends to give it; nor that all Satan's lurking places have already been found out.
Ooh, I'd love to be in a movie with Meryl Streep or Martin Scorsese. There are so many different things I want to do, maybe like a possessed child or an evil something... I don't know!
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 all to myself. I was poor but I knew that life is beautiful.
The mystical impulse in men is somehow a desire to possess the universe. In women, it's a desire to be possessed.
History, if viewed as a repository for more than anecdote or chronology, could produce a decisive transformation in the image of science by which we are now possessed.
In our rich consumers' civilization we spin cocoons around ourselves and get possessed by our possessions.
The poets are nothing but interpreters of the gods, each one possessed by the divinity to whom he is in bondage.
The only fruitful promise of which the life of any individual or any nation can be possessed, is a promise determined by an ideal.
In this condition of the most devastating humiliation, I still possessed the most precious of liberties, that no-one could take away from me: that of deciding who I wanted to be.
If you go back to the first single-cell form of life, it clearly possessed the capacity to receive, to utilize, to store, to transform, and to transmit information.
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 the stuff of which he is made.
When our friends are alive, we see the good qualities they lack; dead, we remember only those they possessed.
I do not believe that since man was in the habit of living on this planet anyone has ever lived possessed of the impudence of Jay Gould.