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Yet a greater, unlearned skill he possessed, which was the art of kindness.
— Ursula K. Le Guin
Sometimes when I'm writing, I wonder if the words have a mind of their own, and if they're really just using me as a puppet to manifest themselves.
— Travis J. Dahnke
Nations are possessed with an insane ambition to perpetuate the memory of themselves by the amount of hammered stone they leave.
— Henry David Thoreau
Which man among us is not, most of the time, possessed of the desire to curl himself into a foetal ball?
— Rick Moody
Does there exist a single instance of a saint asserting that he himself possessed the gift of miracles?
— Edward Gibbon
He had possessed the arrogance of a tall member of a short race, with no obligation save to be tall.
— F Scott Fitzgerald
The fame of the rich man dies with him; the fame of the treasure, and not of the man who possessed it, remains.
— Leonardo Da Vinci
A hand closed around her arm, warm and hard, and it could possibly have been comforting if she had possessed the faintest idea whose appendage it was.
— Lilith Saintcrow
He was ruined in every way, but a man possessed of passion is not a bankrupt in life.
— Joseph Conrad
If you are possessed of Fear, do not waste time trying to "kill out" Fear, but instead cultivate the quality of Courage, and the Fear will disappear.
— Three Initiates
No longer possessed by possessions, we may become open enough to become possessed by God.
— David Adam
To be possessed by Jesus and to possess Him - that is the perfect reign of Love.
— Peter Julian Eymard
If you posses more than just eight things then y o u are possessed by t h e m
— Piet Pieterszoon Hein
I had possessed her - and she never knew it.
— Vladimir Nabokov
Thaumatomane: a person possessed of a passion for magic and wonders, Dictionary of the English Language by Samuel Johnson.
— Susanna Clarke
Aimee-"If someone's possessed by a demon, how do you get the demon out?"Xedrix-"Call a priest. — Sherrilyn Kenyon
But if the Dream Kings were mine, what would I have to dream about? If I possessed the impossible landscapes, what would remain of the impossible?
— Fernando Pessoa
Dinner at the Huntercombes' possessed only two dramatic features - the wine was a farce and the food a tragedy.
— Anthony Powell
God knows who we became when we masturbated. It was like our desire was a spirit that possessed us and took over.
— Heather O'Neill
You are my son, then, I'll tell you' and your mother was a wicked slut to leave you in ignorance of the sort of father you possessed.
— Emily Bronte
Mmm, not sure I'd call Paige. Remember what you tried to do when you were possessed?" "That was not me. And don't remind me. I'm still creeped out.
— Kelley Armstrong
A person possessed with an idea cannot be reasoned with.
— James Anthony Froude
Whatever beauty she thought she might have possessed she realized had only been through her husband's assessment of her
— Molly Ringwald
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
I'm possessed by love - but isn't everybody?
— Freddie Mercury
The disease which racked his body was a sweetheart compared to the more obscure one that possessed his sick mind.
— Irvine Welsh
Never self-possessed, or prudent, love is all abandonment.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
No one worth knowing can be quite known, no one worth possessing can be quite possessed
— William Landay
Actually, I'm possessed, only I'm possessed by something so much older and cooler than Satan.
— Paul Tremblay
Mother Dolores Hart's prose is a reflection of the inner beauty she has always possessed. A fascinating read ... and read again!
— Robert Evans
It is a rule of creative ability that it does nothing of any value, while it is possessed by this afflatus of vanity.
— Christina Stead
She moaned in the darkness, all the time he possessed her. The
— Pauline Reage
Run, Torak! The bear...is...possessed...
— Michelle Paver
The man who ceases to be astonished is hollow, possessed of an extinguished heart.
— Ryszard Kapuscinski
No punishment has ever possessed enough power of deterrence to prevent the commission of crimes.
— Hannah Arendt
You could make friends with a possessed unicorn, couldn't you?""Probably so. We both fart rainbows. — Jamie Farrell
Some people possess talent, others are possessed by it. When that happens, a talent becomes a curse.
— Rod Serling
She has always been a bystander in family destruction, never realizing she herself possessed the capacity to inflict it.
— Curtis Sittenfeld
A mind possessedby unmade books,
unwritten lines
on empty hooks. — Michael Faudet
The object of ambition, unlike that of love, never being wholly possessed, ambition is the more durable passion of the two.
— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
I am possessed by one insatiable passion , which I cannot restrain nor would I if I could ... I cannot get enough books .
— Francesco Petrarca
What's amazing is that she was possessed by Satan for almost a year and nobody noticed anything unusual!
— MaryJanice Davidson
We cannot see anything until we are possessed with the idea of it, take it into our heads, - and then we can hardly see anything else.
— Henry David Thoreau
Many person might have achieved wisdom had they not supposed that they already possessed it.
— Seneca The Younger
The mystical impulse in men is somehow a desire to possess the universe. In women, it's a desire to be possessed.
— Colin Wilson
Liberty must be limited in order to be possessed.
— Edmund Burke
The poet is in command of his fantasy, while it is exactly the mark of the neurotic that he is possessed by his fantasy.
— Lionel Trilling
To be called insane: challenge convention. To be called possessed: challenge religion.
— Mokokoma Mokhonoana
We do not live by what is possessed but by what is promised.
— Walter Brueggemann
A territory is only possessed for a moment in time.
— Barbara Kingsolver
The law must be consonant with life. . . . Mankind is possessed of no greater urge than to try to understand the age-old question: "Who am I$
— Barbara Bisantz Raymond
Had I known you, I would have possessed you, and had you known me, you would have possessed me. But then you and I would not be.
— Mahmoud Darwish
One worth knowing can be quite known, no one worth possessing can be quite possessed - but after all, we were children.
— William Landay
The way my imagination was running I'd be thinking I was possessed by everyone in hell.
— Karina Halle
Henry rested, possessed of many pills& gin & whiskey. He put up his feet
& switched on Schubert,
His tranquility lasted five minutes. — Jerome W. Berryman
The American Revolution was a vindication of liberties inherited and possessed. It was a conservative revolution.
— William E. Gladstone
Had he actually possessed the ability simply to airbrush an entire daughter out of his conscience?
— Jojo Moyes
Allow yourself to be possessed by God by receiving Jesus, and you will never be possessed by anything else.
— Stormie O'martian
I never thought I would end up with someone who wasn't possessed by music in the same way I am.
— David Levithan
Painting is possessed of divine power, for not only does it make the absent present, but also makes the dead almost alive.
— Leon Battista Alberti
Of the things they possessed in common, greatest of all was their almost uncanny pull at each others hearts.
— F Scott Fitzgerald
Our ancestors ... possessed a right, which nature has given to all men, of departing from the country in which chance, not choice has placed them.
— Thomas Jefferson
I suck at being social. I think one thing and my mouth says something completely different, like I'm possessed. By a whole lot of stupid.
— Ashley Poston
Greatness is a property for which no man can receive credit too soon; it must be possessed long before it is acknowledged.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
The coarse impudence of Rhett Butler. But, if he possessed
— Margaret Mitchell
Patience was a virtue he possessed in abundance.
— Sylvain Reynard
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
Irony, perfect definition: that for which I want to possess it, I would no longer want once I possessed it.
— Karen Marie Moning
It seemed to her that almost everything she possessed had its roots sunk in that dark soil and was deriving its nourishment from it.
— Haruki Murakami
I groaned, feeling stretched and possessed, as though every part of me was under his control and protection.
— C.D. Reiss
I still tour like a man possessed, because I am.
— Ted Nugent
I wish I possessed your particular brand of optimism," Rahim grumbled."And what brand would that be?"
"Idiotic. — Renee Ahdieh
I' is Absolute; it has been possessed by the ghosts of 'my'!
— Dada Bhagwan