Top 25 Dispossess Quotes
#1. To love someone is to isolate him from the world, wipe out every trace of him, dispossess him of his shadow, drag him into a murderous future. It is to circle around the other like a dead star and absorb him into a black light.
Jean Baudrillard
#2. The official bio is the wrongest thing you've ever seen in your entire life.
Vincent Kartheiser
#3. Horseshit," Shame said cheerfully. "He can dispossess you and die. Pretty easy, really. Most people die the right way the first time. You'd think a genius like him wouldn't screw it up so badly.
Devon Monk
#4. Below the belt is a pleasure-only zone," Casey said, gesturing to her skirt. "I don't approve of fighting there.
Lauren Blakely
#6. In ancient mythology," Langdon offered, "a hero in denial is the ultimate manifestation of hubris and pride. No man is more prideful than he who believes himself immune to the dangers of the world.
Dan Brown
#7. You live in a fairytale, princess and I'm about to destroy it.
Pepper Winters
#8. I conceived from the outset a strong objection to Zionism. I considered it immoral that immigrants should come from abroad with the avowed intention of attaining to majority in the country and thus to dispossess the people whose country it had been since time immemorial.
Muhammad Asad
#9. Many stories matter. Stories have been used to dispossess and to malign. But stories can also be used to empower, and to humanize. Stories can break the dignity of a people. But stories can also repair that broken dignity.
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
#10. The heart is not so constituted, and the only way to dispossess it of an old affection is by the expulsive power of a new one
Thomas Chalmers
#11. Add to the good. Dissolve the bad.
Never let the Bastards win.
Christian Cianci
#12. Although a man may lose a sense of his own importance when he is a mere unit among a busy throng, all utterly regardless of him, it by no means follows that he can dispossess himself, with equal facility, of a very strong sense of the importance and magnitude of his cares.
Charles Dickens
#13. But times are alter'd; trade's unfeeling train
Usurp the land, and dispossess the swain;
Along the lawn, where scatter'd hamlets rose,
Unwieldy wealth and cumbrous pomp repose.
Oliver Goldsmith
#14. If you want to dispossess a people, the simplest way to do it is to tell their story and to start with 'secondly'.
Mourid Barghouti
#15. Creativity means to push open the heavy, groaning doorway to life.
Daisaku Ikeda
#16. I do not now begin,
I still adore
Her whom I early cherish'd in my breast;
Then once again with prudence dispossess'd,
And to whose heart I'm driven back once more.
The love of Petrarch, that all-glorious love,
Was unrequited, and, alas, full sad ...
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#17. My grandmother was a teacher, my sister was a teacher, my daughter was a teacher and is now a superintendent in northern California, and my son-in-law is a high school principal. I am surrounded.
Loni Anderson
#18. It (land value taxation) guarantees that no one dispossess fellow citizens by obtaining a disproportionate share of what nature provides for humanity.
William Vickrey
#19. Make the people sovereign and the poor will use the machinery of government to dispossess the rich.
C. Northcote Parkinson
#20. Stories are not always innocent; ... they can be used to put you in the wrong crowd, in the party of the man who has come to dispossess you.
Chinua Achebe
#21. CLOWN. Fare thee well. Remain thou still in darkness: thou shalt hold the opinion of Pythagoras ere I will allow of thy wits; and fear to kill a woodcock, lest thou dispossess the soul of thy grandam. Fare thee well.
William Shakespeare
#22. Your voice
in this being unable to move away
from my gaze
things dispossess me
make of me a ship on a river of stones
if your voice is not
rain alone in my feverish silence
you unbind my eyes
and please
may you never stop
speaking
ever
Alejandra Pizarnik
#23. Some guarded their children when they saw me, as though congenital defects and loneliness were contagious, even at a distance and through glass.
Edward Fahey
#24. Humility counts for much, but it may be that vanity does not dispossess that admirable quality.
Walter J. Phillips
#25. And you cycle throughout so that you do about five to six cycles throughout the night. And we spend more time in REM later on in the night than we do earlier on.
Shelby Harris
