Top 27 Dispossess'd Quotes
#1. 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
#2. A wise person would make certain their words aren't so sharp.
Jonas Lee
#3. Humility counts for much, but it may be that vanity does not dispossess that admirable quality.
Walter J. Phillips
#4. 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
#5. 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
#7. I did three DVD's for 'Baby Einstein,' teaching babies how to sign. It really helps a parent communicate because babies can't talk. But it has been proven that they can communicate using their hands to communicate. So sign language is a great tool in that way.
Marlee Matlin
#8. 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
#9. Make the people sovereign and the poor will use the machinery of government to dispossess the rich.
C. Northcote Parkinson
#10. Everybody, I think, who hopes to become a judge would aspire to be able to write as well as Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes. None are going to be able to attain that.
Merrick Garland
#11. It (land value taxation) guarantees that no one dispossess fellow citizens by obtaining a disproportionate share of what nature provides for humanity.
William Vickrey
#12. Sometimes we look at life from the perspective of our own problems and, in so doing, ignore how fortunate we are.
The Prophet Of Life
#13. Yes, there is weeping, even in heaven, but it is for those who are still crawling on the earth.
Nikos Kazantzakis
#14. I desire the things that destroy me in the end,
Lily Paradis
#15. Tom's mouth spread into a grin. "Ah, but you need to excite me to get the remedy you crave." Benjamin
K.A. Merikan
#16. 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
#17. 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
#18. 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
#19. Presidential election results in 2008 and 2012 clarified that talk radio was not, in fact, running the country.
Timothy Noah
#20. 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
#21. 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
#22. 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
#23. I worked out of Hollywood for 10 years and I had my heart broken half a dozen times, so I know all the things that can go wrong.
George R R Martin
#24. 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
#25. You have to figure out 'who am I?' 'What do I want to do?' 'What do I want to say?'
Ryan Eggold
#26. 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
#27. He doesn't seem that nervous to me," Parker said.
Oreo farted audibly.
Zoe fanned the air. "See? Nervous."
Parker laughed. "My guess would be he's eaten some of your cookies.
Jill Shalvis
