Possessed Quotes
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I'd like to learn how to cook. I've hauled around this big, old, heavy Martha Stewart cookbook in my suitcase to Cape Cod, L.A., Paris. I don't know what possessed me.
Mamie Gummer
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Happy the man, and happy he alone, he who can call today his own: he who, secure within, can say, tomorrow do thy worst, for I have lived today. 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 has power, but what has been, has been, and I have had my hour.
Horace
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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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I was possessed by London.
Manolo Blahnik
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Was there ever any domination that did not appear natural to those who possessed it?
John Stuart Mill
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I still tour like a man possessed, because I am.
Ted Nugent
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He is lost who is possessed by carnal desire.
Mahatma Gandhi
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I went with an exorcist for a bit. I just want to know really practical things, like how do you hold someone possessed by the devil.
Keanu Reeves
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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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This man (FreddieMercury) truly possessed the greatest voice in the history of rock. Journalists, culture experts and analysts have already made several hundred comments on this topic and nothing can be added here.
Brian May Queen
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He who possesseth little is so much the less possessed. Blessed be moderate poverty!
Friedrich Nietzsche
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One ought to be afraid of nothing other then things possessed of power to do us harm, but things innoucuous need not be feared.
Dante Alighieri
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I am possessed by love and have no options.
Elizabeth Smart
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The Christianity that saves is a thing personally grasped, personally experienced, personally felt and personally possessed.
J. C. Ryle
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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 think themselves the most unhappy would prefer the share they are already possessed of before that which would fall to them by such a division.
Socrates
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We all possess, like it or not, the people we know, and are possessed by them in turn.
William Boyd
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no one worth knowing can be quite known, no one worth possessing can be quite possessed
William Landay
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We live in an age which is so possessed by demons, that soon we shall only be able to do goodness and justice in the deepest secrecy, as if it were a crime.
Franz Kafka
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The Whites have carried to these (colonial) people the worst that they could carry: the plagues of the world: materialism, fanaticism, alcoholism, and syphilis. Moreover, since what these people possessed on their own was superior to anything we could give them, they have remained themselves... The sole result of the activity of the colonizers is: they have everywhere aroused hatred.
Adolf Hitler
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The fury of a demon instantly possessed me. I knew myself no longer. My original soul seemed, at once, to take its flight from my body; and a more than fiendish malevolence, gin-nurtured, thrilled every fibre of my frame.
Edgar Allan Poe
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Art Modell was a visionary, a deal-maker and a friend. And he possessed a marvelous sense of humor.
Steve Tisch
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No one worth possessing can be quite possessed.
Sara Teasdale
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It's like being possessed: like a psychic or a medium. I felt like a hollow temple filled with many spirits, each one passing through me, each inhabiting me for a little time and then leaving to be replaced by another.
John Lennon The Beatles
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One possessed a thousand and three women (in Spain alone), the other only one. But it is multiplicity that is impoverished, whilethe entire world is concentrated in a single being infinitely possessed. Tristan no longer needs the world--because he loves! While Don Juan, always loved, cannot love in return. Hence his anguish and his frenzied course.
Denis de Rougemont