Possessed Quotes

• No punishment has ever possessed enough power of deterrence to prevent the commission of crimes. On the contrary, whatever the punishment, once a specific crime has appeared for the first time, its reappearance is more likely than its initial emergence could ever have been.

  Hannah Arendt

  Punishment, Criminals, Firsts

  Hannah Arendt (2006). “Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil”, p.238, Penguin

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• Love possesses not nor will it be possessed, for love is sufficient unto love.

  Khalil Gibran

  Love, Twilight Zone, Prophet

  Khalil Gibran, “Love”

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• Everything that is new or uncommon raises a pleasure in the imagination, because it fills the soul with an agreeable surprise, gratifies its curiosity, and gives it an idea of which it was not before possessed.

  Joseph Addison

  Life, Ideas, Giving

  Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steel (1840). “Selections from the Spectator: Embracing the Most Interesting Papers by Addison, Steel, and Others”, p.273

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• Real riches are the riches possessed inside.

  B. C. Forbes

  Business, Real, Riches

  B. C. Forbes (2005). “Keys to Success”, p.3, Lulu.com

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• 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 one against whom it is directed.

  Carl Sandburg

  Hurt, Anger, Passion

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• No one worth possessing can be quite possessed.

  Sara Teasdale

  Friendship, Women, Memorable

  Sara Teasdale (1933). “Strange victory: by Sara Teasdale”

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• In times of joy, all of us wished we possessed a tail we could wag.

  W. H. Auden

  Dog, Joy, Tails

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• Life is a hospital in which every patient is possessed by a desire to change his bed.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Desire, Bed, Literature

  "The Essence of Laughter: And Other Essays, Journals, and Letters".

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• A just and reasonable modesty does not only recommend eloquence, but sets off every great talent which a man can be possessed of.

  Joseph Addison

  Humility, Pride, Men

  Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele (1826). “The Spectator: With Notes, and a General Index”, p.301

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• Most of us have far more courage than we ever dreamed we possessed.

  Dale Carnegie

  Inspirational, Success, Confidence

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• For love is sufficient unto love.

  Khalil Gibran

  Love Is, Age Love, Weddings And Love

  Khalil Gibran (2014). “The Prophet - Der Prophet”, p.24, Lulu.com

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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

  Heart, Desire, Machines

  W. G. Sebald (2016). “The Rings of Saturn”, p.101, New Directions Publishing

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• Civilisation will not last, freedom will not survive, peace will not be kept, unless a very large majority of mankind unite together to defend them and show themselves possessed of a constabulary power before which barbaric and atavistic forces will stand in awe.

  Winston Churchill

  Peace, Together, Majority

  Winston Churchill (1966). “Churchill in His Own Words: Years of Greatness, Memorable Speeches of the Man of the Century”

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• I'd spent five hours that morning trying to write a song that was meaningful and good, and I finally gave up and lay down. Then, "Nowhere Man" came, words and music, the whole damn thing, as I lay down...Song writing is about getting the demon out of me. It's like being possessed. You try to go to sleep, but the song won't let you. So you have to get up and make it into something, and then you're allowed sleep.

  John Lennon

  Meaningful, Song, Morning

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• Mankind, by the perverse depravity of their nature, esteem that which they have most desired as of no value the moment it is possessed, and torment themselves with fruitless wishes for that which is beyond their reach.

  Francois Fenelon

  Wish, Moments, Depravity

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• A person possessed with an idea cannot be reasoned with.

  James Anthony Froude

  Ideas, Reason, Persons

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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

  Motivation, Rain, Fate

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• Capablanca's phenomenal move-searching algorithm in those early years, when he possessed a wonderful ability for calculating variations very rapidly, made him invincible.

  Mikhail Botvinnik

  Moving, Years, Variation

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• It is a celebrated thought of Socrates, that if all the misfortunes of mankind were cast into a public stock, 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. [as they realise their problems could be worse!]

  Joseph Addison

  Gratitude, Fall, Thinking

  Joseph Addison, Richard Steele (1855). “The Spectator”, p.255

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• It is probable that all heavy matter possesses - latent and bound up with the structure of the atom - a similar quantity of energy to that possessed by radium. If it could be tapped and controlled what an agent it would be in changing the world's destiny! The man who put his hand on the lever by which a parsimonious nature regulates so jealously the output of this store of energy would possess a weapon by which he could destroy the earth if he chose.

  Frederick Soddy

  Destiny, Men, Hands

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• Genius is a sovereign power; it forms schools; it lays hold on the spirits of men, with irresistible might; and it exercises an immeasurable influence on the whole condition of human life. This sovereignty of genius is a gift of God, possessed only by his grace. It is subject to no one and is responsible to him alone who has granted it this ascendancy.

  Abraham Kuyper

  School, Exercise, Men

  Abraham Kuyper (2007). “Lectures on Calvinism”, p.95, Cosimo, Inc.

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• The passing of every old man or woman means the passing of some tradition, some knowledge of sacred rites possessed by no other...consequently the information that is to be gathered, for the benefit of future generations, respecting the mode of life of one of the great races of mankind, must be collected at once or the opportunity will be lost for all time.

  Edward S. Curtis

  Mean, Men, Opportunity

  Edward S. Curtis (2015). “The Apache, The Jicarillas, The Navajo”, p.16, Native American Book Publishers, LLC

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• We have no inherent holiness. We are holy as we are possessed by the Holy
  Presence. We are holy in His holiness, loving in His love, strong in His
  strength, tender in His tenderness, patient in His patience, calm in His peace,
  and consecrated in His consecration.

  F. E. Marsh

  Christian, Strong, Holiness

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• I care not what black spiritual crisis we may come through or what delightful spiritual Canaan we may enter, no blessing of the Christian life becomes continually possessed unless we are men and women of regular, daily, unhurried secret lingerings in prayer.

  J. Sidlow Baxter

  Christian, Spiritual, Prayer

  "The Power of Prayer". Book by Wright L. Lassiter, p. 14, 2005.

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• We save the honor of Jesus when we restore His Person to life from the state of inanity to which the apologists have reduced it, and give it once more a living relation to history, which it certainly possessed.

  Bruno Bauer

  Jesus, Giving, Honor

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