The Possessed Quotes
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.
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.
Like our bodies and like our desires, the machines we have devised are possessed of a heart which is slowly reduced to embers.
Now I understood that the same road was to bring us together again. Whatever we had missed, we possessed together the precious, the incommunicable past.
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 the sensation which possessed the artist.
Friendship is a thing most necessary to life, since without friends no one would choose to live, though possessed of all other advantages.
It is a rule of creative ability that it does nothing of any value, while it is possessed by this afflatus of vanity.
Possessed of courage but devoid of morality, a superior man will make trouble while a small man will be a brigand.
Jim Stavridis is the former NATO commander who is sometimes on people's lists, also very plausible, self-possessed, someone with sobriety.
The object of ambition, unlike that of love, never being wholly possessed, ambition is the more durable passion of the two.
He had possessed the arrogance of a tall member of a short race, with no obligation save to be tall.
The masses are still ungrateful or ignorant. They prefer murder, poisonings, and crimes generally to a literature possessed of style and feeling.
if i repent of anything, it is very likely to be my good behavior. what demon possessed me that i behaved so well?
The main thing about the novel that is totally fascinating: It's not possessed by the writer; it's possessed by the reader.
Further, not only the United States, but the French, British, Germans and the United Nations all thought Hussein possessed weapons of mass destruction before the United States intervened.
Two evils, monstrous either one apart, Possessed me, and were long and loath at going: A cry of Absence, Absence, in the heart, And in the wood the furious winter blowing.
For me, to catch, to celebrate the reality and life and friends and everything around me the very moment it happens - that's what is, that's what I'm possessed by.
I possessed what is called the best of hearts -- a dangerous possession, as it is generally accompanied by the strongest passions, and the weakest judgment.
Painting is possessed of divine power, for not only does it make the absent present, but also makes the dead almost alive.
The fame of the rich man dies with him; the fame of the treasure, and not of the man who possessed it, remains.
Hillary Clinton has emphasized that she is afflicted with or possessed of the responsibility gene.
Life cannot be possessed. You cannot have it in your fist. If you want to have it, you have to keep your hands open.
All that is great cannot be possessed - and that is one of the most foolish things man goes on doing. We want to possess.
Greatness is a property for which no man gets credit too soon; it must be possessed long before it is acknowledged.
Tell me how all this, and love too, will ruin us. These, our bodies, possessed by light. Tell me we'll never get used to it.
Aunt Mimi possessed a horror of silence, which she battled with endless chat. The Typhoid Mary of the Telephone started her calls at 6:30 each morning.
Mother Dolores Hart's prose is a reflection of the inner beauty she has always possessed. A fascinating read... and read again!
The popularity of that baby-faced boy, who possessed not even the elements of a good actor, was a hallucination in the public mind, and a disgrace to our theatrical history.
He that is possessed with a prejudice is possessed with a devil, and one of the worst kinds of devils, for it shuts out the truth, and often leads to ruinous error.
When the mind is possessed of reality, it feels tranquil and joyous even without music or song, and it produces a pure fragrance even without incense or tea.
Money is neither god nor devil, that it should make one noble and another vile. It is an accident, and if honestly possessed, may pass from you to me, or from me to you, without a stain.
Traveling makes you realize what an immeasurably nice place much of America could be if only people possessed the same instinct for preservation as they do in Europe.
When you see yourself as calm, positive, truthful and possessed of high character, you behave with greater strength. Other people respect you more. You feel in control of yourself and the situation.
...congenital killers and criminals are possessed of not one but two Y chromosomes, bearing a double dose, as it were, of genetically undesirable maleness.