Top 100 Possess'd Quotes
#1. There is one Quality, which has somewhat so heavenly in it; that by so much the more we are possess'd of it, by so much the more we draw nearer to the Great Author of Nature.
Eliza Haywood
#2. The orchestra whirls me wider than Uranus flies, It wrenches such ardors from me I did not know I possess'd them
Walt Whitman
#3. A prison! heav'ns, I loath the hated name,
Famine's metropolis, the sink of shame,
A nauseous sepulchre, whose craving womb
Hourly inters poor mortals in its tomb;
By ev'ry plague and ev'ry ill possess'd,
Ev'n purgatory itself to thee 's a jest.
Tom Brown Jr.
#4. None are so desolate but something dear, Dearer than self, possesses or possess'd A thought, and claims the homage of a tear.
Lord Byron
#5. The strong desires of man's insatiate breast may stand possess'd Of all that earth can give; but earth can give no rest.
Francis Quarles
#7. Yet beauty, though injurious, hath strange power, After offence returning, to regain Love once possess'd.
John Milton
#8. The average person is full of artificial desires, desires that have been suggested by what other people possess or require.
Christian D. Larson
#9. A parent holds within their hands the gift of a child to which they must expend the gift of themselves. And in such a monumental outpouring, the parent will lose both the child and the gifts given, but they will possess the far greater gift of knowing that they gave both.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#10. And here I'm struck by an epiphany so monstrous in its scale, so blinding in its effect that I feel my skin has turned inside out under the sun, that my innards possess magnetic qualities able to call vast fortunes together. And it's this: anything can happen if I want it to.
D.B.C. Pierre
#11. Every time I fuck you, I want to possess you. Your pleasure, your pain. Look.
C.D. Reiss
#12. What insanity would lead me to believe that I possess the power, much less the aptitude to manipulate all of the consequences out of all of my decisions?
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#13. I dream of a love that is more than two people craving to possess one another.
Irvin D. Yalom
#14. The human spirit glows from that small inner light of doubt whether we are right, while those who believe with certainty that they possess the right are dark inside and darken the world outside with cruelty, pain, and injustice.
Saul D. Alinsky
#15. The worst passion we mortals cherish is the desire to possess. Even when we know that our final destination is a hole not more than three feet square, we have the strongest craving
D.T. Suzuki
#16. Everything (N.W.A.) attempted had to possess criminal undertones. I can only assume they spent hours trying to deduce villainous ways to microwave popcorn (and if they'd succeeded, there would absolutely be a song about it, assumedly titled "Pop Goes the Corn Killa", or "45 Seconds to Bitch Snack").
Chuck Klosterman
#17. I couldn't live a week without a private library - indeed, I'd part with all my furniture and squat and sleep on the floor before I'd let go of the 1500 or so books I possess.
H.P. Lovecraft
#18. No true love is possible, Lewis demonstrates, until we abandon our claims, our rights, our grievances. Until then we will be trapped in the obscurity of our heart's mixed motives, our will to possess, to control, to be our own gods.
Michael D. O'Brien
#19. Humans colonizing and conquering others have a propensity for this, for burning behind them what they cannot possess or control, as if their conflicts are not with themselves and their own way of being, but with the land itself.
Linda Hogan
#20. Kinship among nations is not determined in such measurements as proximity of size and age. Rather we should turn to those inner things - call them what you will - I mean those intangibles that are the real treasures free men possess.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
#21. Hath not a Sith eyes?
Hath not a Sith such feelings, heart and soul,
As any Jedi Knight did e'er possess?
If you prick us, do we not bleed? If you Blast us, shall we not injur'd be? If you Assault with lightsaber, do we not die?
Ian Doescher
#22. He'd risk everything for you, Sam," Wyatt said. "He'd trade heaven for an eternity in the depths of hell to possess you.
Debra Dunbar
#23. Let us set our goals too high; let us demand more of ourselves than we believe we possess
Haile Selassie
#24. We possess nothing in the world - a mere chance can strip us of everything - except the power to say 'I.
Simone Weil
#25. The Bible is there to enable God's people to be equipped to do God's work in God's world, not to give them an excuse to sit back smugly, knowing they possess all God's truth
N. T. Wright
#26. O Son of Spirit! My first counsel is this: Possess a pure, kindly and radiant heart, that thine may be a sovereignty ancient, imperishable and everlasting.
Baha'u'llah
#27. What our species needs, above all else, is a generally accepted ethical system that is compatible with the scientific knowledge we now possess.
Derek Freeman
#29. I will place no value on anything I have or may possess except in relation to the kingdom of Christ.
David Livingstone
#30. Of Equality
as if it harm'd me, giving others the same chances and rights as myself
as if it were not indispensable to my own rights that others possess the same.
Walt Whitman
#31. I will possess you so entirely that you will ask for permission to fucking breathe.
D.H. Sidebottom
#32. Not that the Red Indian will ever possess the broad lands of America. At least I presume not. But his ghost will.
D.H. Lawrence
#33. That which I cannot hold is that which I can treasure the most because it affords me no burden other than to enjoy it.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#34. Measurements of the specific ionization of both the positive and negative particles, by counting the number of droplets per unit length along the tracks, showed the great majority of both the positive and negative particles to possess unit electric charge.
Carl D. Anderson
#35. He felt again irresistibly drawn to her. He felt there was a secret bond, a secret thread between him and her, something very exclusive, which shut out everybody else and made him and her possess each other in secret.
D.H. Lawrence
#36. For to desire is better than to possess, the finality of the end was dreaded as deeply as it was desired.
D.H. Lawrence
#37. In my desperation, I have finally discovered that the only way that I can begin to fill the gaping hole within me is to be thankful for what's there, and not angry for what's not.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#38. I find that most channeled discourses possess the spiritual and philosophical sophistication of a Dick-and-Jane book.
D. Scott Rogo
#39. To make a choice not to sacrifice is to decide that I am better off allowing a life to perish than release the resources I possess that might allow it to thrive. And because of choices such as these, the life that I am really allowing to perish is mine.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#40. I possess everyone who sleeps in the motor court, roam their memories, and embed recurrent nightmares that will destroy their sleep for weeks after I've departed them."
"I'd prefer a free continental breakfast.
Dean Koontz
#41. Security comes first from inside of you. Then, if you are very lucky, you will be in a position to find other people who also possess that same sort of security, and build some sort of family or community as a team.
Anthony D. Ravenscroft
#42. The power of a thing is not based on the power it actually possesses. Rather, it is much more about the power that we permit it to possess.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#43. The key to understanding if something is truly precious is to ask if we can hold it, for things truly precious cannot be held.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#44. The better to slay me?! Mt healing factors make me a mutant. Lacing my bones with adamantium and giving me these claws, that was done to me. but, you asked to be changed. You did this to yourself. Threw away a humanity i'd give pretty near anything to possess.
Chris Claremont
#45. What was the first thing that came to your mind when you met Tree?" She blew into her half-empty beer bottle and awaited his answer. It didn't take him long. "That she was stunning . . . and one day I'd possess her heart." The
Jessica Topper
#46. Although I'm seldom aware enough to see it, the greater cost regarding that which I possess was not what I paid for it, but what someone along the way sacrificed so that I might have the opportunity to pay for it.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#47. I guess if I had to pick a spiritual figurehead to possess the deed to the entirety of Earth, I'd go with Buddha, but only because he wouldn't want it.
Sarah Vowell
#48. You may not possess a body that everyone want to admire.
You may not possess wealth that everyone want to have.
However you should possess a character that will make you worthy to love.
Gloria D. Gonsalves
#49. The science of loving, yes, that's the only kind of science I want I'd barter away everything I possess to win it.
Therese Of Lisieux
#50. Surrendering is intentionally laying down the power I possess. And have I considered that the power I lay down is often more powerful than that which I'm laying it down in front of? Therefore, I would be wise to recognize that surrender is less the absence of power and more the presence of fear.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#51. If a man couldn't affect the emotions you do possess - and you do have them - there'd be as much delight in such a union as there is in your relationship with the feed store owner." "What
Melissa Jagears
#52. I'd much rather buy an experience than something I can possess in the material world
Ashly Lorenzana
#53. Unlike all the other art forms, film is able to seize and render the passage of time, to stop it, almost to possess it in infinity. I'd say that film is the sculpting of time.
Andrei Tarkovsky
#54. Anger, as long as it is controlled anger, is no obstacle to efficiency. Self-control is one thing the sociopath does not usually possess. Use yours to his undoing.
Jeff Cooper
#55. Architecture is the constant fight between man and nature, the fight to overwhelm nature, to possess it. The first act of architecture is to put a stone on the ground. That act transforms a condition of nature into a condition of culture; it's a holy act.
Mario Botta
#56. To succeed in the world, it is much more necessary to possess the penetration to discern who is a fool, than to discover who is a clever man.
Charles Maurice De Talleyrand
#57. We truly possess only what we are able to renounce; otherwise, we are simply possessed by our possessions.
Sydney J. Harris
#58. When we have done everything within our power, we shall possess a great deal: but we once possessed the world.
Seneca.
#59. The first time I was pregnant, Kanye and I were dating, and I was just being introduced to the world of fashion. I wanted to work with a bunch of different stylists, and when you work with a new stylist, everyone wants to possess your look.
Kim Kardashian
#60. These memories, which are my life
for we possess nothing certainly except the past
were always with me.
Evelyn Waugh
#61. Most dancers I know, especially the talented and successful ones, seem to possess [my dog's] knack for living moment to moment. You see, their idea of time is related to those infinitely short moments when they are onstage being their superselves.
Paul Taylor
#62. A little kingdom I possess, where thoughts and feelings dwell; And very hard the task I find of governing it well.
Louisa May Alcott
#63. He recovers and seems to possess all his earlier faculties, with one exception: the formerly mild-mannered Gage is now something of a hellion, an impulsive shit-starter.
Mary Roach
#64. Learn to love yourself for you cannot give to others what you do not possess.
Jeffrey Fry
#65. The problem is not that America does not have energy. The problem is that our government - alone among the governments of the world - will not allow its own people to recover the energy that they possess.
Jim Talent
#66. Our possessions are a trust from God. What we clutch tightly, we lose. What we place in His hands, we will possess.
Phil Callaway
#67. Is then the fruit of a fig-tree not perfect suddenly and in one hour, and would you possess the fruit of a man's mind in so short a time and so easily?
Epictetus
#68. All this she must possess, and to all this she must yet add something more substantial, in the improvement of her mind by extensive reading. Mr. Darcy
Jane Austen
#69. Martin Luther put it well: "I have held many things in my hands, and have lost them all; but whatever I have placed in God's hands, that I still possess."84
Michael S. Horton
#70. Some of the gold possessed by the Romans is doubtless mixed with what we now possess; and some small part of it will be handed down as long as the human race exists.
William Stanley Jevons
#72. I love medieval cities; they do not clamor for attention; they possess their souls - their riches - in quiet; formal, courteous, they reveal themselves slowly, stone by stone, garden by garden; hidden treasures wait calmly to be loved and yield to introspective wandering.
Barbara Grizzuti Harrison
#73. If only I were articulate to paint in the frail medium of words what I see and know and possess incorporated in my consciousness of the mighty driftage of the races in the times before our present written history began!
Jack London
#74. There was something about a book that inspired dedication and a swelling desire to possess it.
Kate Morton
#75. Habits of literary composition are perfectly familiar to me. One of the rarest of all the intellectual accomplishments that a man can possess is the grand faculty of arranging his ideas. Immense privilege! I possess it. Do you?
Wilkie Collins
#76. Trust. Affection. Respect." I shoved her tainted after-school snack across the table. "It must be hard to think of qualities you don't possess.
Dia Reeves
#77. I don't need to touch a woman to possess her; I can reel in souls with a simple look, a light touch, a well-timed smile. It's not magic. This, this is simple biology.
C.M. Stunich
#78. Truth threatens peace. Those who think they possess it tend to turn into victimizers of the rest, like all the other bullies convinced of the superiority of their own race or class or caste or blood or wisdom.
Felipe Fernandez-Armesto
#79. What wouldn't I give now for a never-changing map of the ever-constant ineffable? To possess, as it were, an atlas of clouds.
David Mitchell
#80. Love is Noise.
Love is silence.
In love you're human.
In love you possess magical powers.
In love you shelter yourself.
In love, you expose yourself.
Nicholas Mosley
#81. My dress, my choice of vehicles, nor my profession would be indicative of the personality I possess. I have a great personality," I said. "Maybe if you pulled that stick out of your ass," she said.
Scott Hildreth
#82. Nature gives you the face you possess at twenty . . . Life the face you possess at thirty. But the face you have at fifty is the face you deserve.
Karleen Koen
#83. Be contented with what you possess in life; be thankful for what does not belong to you, for it is so much care the less; but try to obtain what you need in life, and make the best of every moment of your life.
Hazrat Inayat Khan
#84. Words move, turning over like tumbling clowns; like certain books and like fleas, they possess activity. All men equally have the right to say, 'This word shall bear this meaning,' and see if they can get it across. It is a sporting game, which all can play, only all cannot win.
Rose Macaulay
#85. When shallow critics denounce the profit motive inherent in our system of private enterprise, they ignore the fact that it is an economic support of every human right we possess and without it, all rights would disappear.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
#86. You were placed there by God for a reason, which is to possess the land for the glory of the KING!
Sunday Adelaja
#87. With passion you want to possess. The conversion of passion into compassion is the whole problem of marriage.
Joseph Campbell
#88. Although our physical reality may seem to indicate otherwise, we all possess an indomitable spirit that originates from our Divine nature.
Charles F. Glassman
#89. "Freedom" in capitalist countries exists only for those who possess money and who consequently hold power.
Nikita Khrushchev
#90. Hassan, he has the makings of a great chef, it is true, and he has talent beyond anything you and I possess.
Richard C. Morais
#91. It is strange," Mr. Willoughby said, and the air of reflection in his voice was echoed exactly by Jamie's, "but it was my joy of women that Second Wife saw and loved in my words. Yet by desiring to possess me - and my poems - she would have forever destroyed what she admired." Mr.
Diana Gabaldon
#92. What she couldn't stand, she said, was pretence of any kind, especially the pretence of desire, wherein someone feigned the need to possess her wholly when in fact what he wanted was to use her temporarily.
Rachel Cusk
#93. We can possess nothing - no property and no person ... It is God who owns everything, and we are but stewards of His property during the brief time we are on earth.
Billy Graham
#94. We must give up all that we are in order to possess all that He is.
Heidi Baker
#95. On a daily basis, people lose their lives, they lose their health, they lose their families, and they lose their children, only because they refuse to have a corresponding knowledge to what they possess in hand.
Sunday Adelaja
#96. Emotionally, I have no picture-book illustrated with memories of my first five years, but externally, I have impressions that possess a haunting vividness comparable only to the texture of dreams, when dreams are tumultuously alive.
E.F. Benson
#97. If we did but know how little some enjoy of the great things that they possess, there would not be much envy in the world.
Edward Young
#98. To the ego, loving and wanting are the same, whereas true love has no wanting in it, no desire to possess or for your partner to change.
Eckhart Tolle
#99. My smile has become my calling card. It is, after all, the most potent weapon I possess.
Andy Andrews
#100. Although we may come from vastly different stories and very different walks of life, we are one people who possess common values and common ideals; who celebrate individual excellence but also share a recognition that together, we can accomplish great and wonderful things we can't accomplish alone.
Barack Obama
