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Many person might have achieved wisdom had they not supposed that they already possessed it.
This life is a hospital in which every patient is possessed with a desire to change his bed.
Aimee-"If someone's possessed by a demon, how do you get the demon out?" Xedrix-"Call a priest.
Art Modell was a visionary, a deal-maker and a friend. And he possessed a marvelous sense of humor.
It stresses me out writing songs,; I get really super nervous and speedy. I feel like I'm possessed.
Once the mass of the defending infantry become possessed of low moral, the battle is as good as lost.
You don't have to fear defeat if you believe it may reveal powers that you didn't know you possessed.
Every actor and actress is possessed of the absorbing passion to create something distinctive and unique.
Many speak the truth when they say that they despise riches, but they mean the riches possessed by others.
In our rich consumers' civilization we spin cocoons around ourselves and get possessed by our possessions.
Allow yourself to be possessed by God by receiving Jesus, and you will never be possessed by anything else.
At 15, I did a ouija board with my best friend. I pretended I was possessed by a ghost, and she believed it.
I'm not possessed about owning the Buffalo Bills, just as I wasn't possessed about owning the Buffalo Sabres.
We have long possessed the art of war and the science of war, which have been evolved in the minutest detail.
I have been compelled to dig deep inside and pull out strengths I never knew I possessed in order to protect my family.
The overwhelming majority of Americans are possessed of two great qualities a sense of humor and a sense of proportion.
The poet is in command of his fantasy, while it is exactly the mark of the neurotic that he is possessed by his fantasy.
Less possessing-less possessed. More possessing-more possessed. More possessed-less accessed. Less possessed-more accessed.
The Christianity that saves is a thing personally grasped, personally experienced, personally felt and personally possessed.
Steve Martin in 'All of Me,' when he did that whole thing where he was possessed by the spirit in his body? It was brilliant.
Humans are possessed, to some degree, with the power of foresight. Yet we so often learn things the hard way, through disaster.
Each angel that God created was in himself a masterpiece. Each one possessed his own degree of intelligence and his own beauty.
A just and reasonable modesty does not only recommend eloquence, but sets off every great talent which a man can be possessed of.
I'm terrified of having to go back to a day job. And that's why I'm training like a man possessed. Because I want to keep winning.
The only fruitful promise of which the life of any individual or any nation can be possessed, is a promise determined by an ideal.
Most poets, like most people, try hard to be like someone they admire or they are possessed with an image of what they ought to be.
What we need and have not got at Westminster are real experience and wisdom, possessed by people who do not view politics as a career.
In so far as one denies what is, one is possessed by what is not, the compulsions, the fantasies, the terrors that flock to fill the void.
I don't own a watch anymore. Literally, that was an addiction. I'm not afraid to admit that. It took me over. My possessions possessed me.
Friendship is a thing most necessary to life, since without friends no one would choose to live, though possessed of all other advantages.
I often heard Latvians compare Russia and America. Latvians find both countries and their leaders possessed of the same mysterious confidence.
I did a couple of movies when I was little. You have to be possessed to be an actress, and I was not possessed... It was not my life's passion.
I have a checklist of things I'd like to do in movies. One of them is get possessed. Die on a deathbed with a ghostly pallor - that's on my list.
You could say that I had become possessed, in the classical sense, by the art of the great architects of the past. And that led me to engineering.
The idea of winning a doctor's degree gradually assumed the aspect of a great moral struggle, and the moral fight possessed immense attraction for me.
We writers of series fiction tend to idealize ourselves in our characters, giving them attributes we wish we possessed and ever more interesting lives.
Shortly after this I was made a member of the boys' choir, it being found that I possessed a clear, strong soprano voice. I enjoyed the singing very much.
I seem to have been possessed by a mind of my own and I did not merely want to be a pop product, but I wanted to be an artist which was always my ambition.
The Greeks possessed a knowledge of human nature we seem hardly able to attain to without passing through the strengthening hibernation of a new barbarism.
I'm currently shooting 'Ava's Possessions,' which is a really fun movie about a woman who gets possessed by a demon. I call it 'Memento' meets 'The Exorcist.'
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.
Britain, which in the years immediately before this war was rapidly losing such democratic virtues as it possessed, is now being bombed and burned into democracy.
The effect of robotization would be profoundly different if, say, truckers possessed their own autonomous vehicles rather than a corporation controlling them all.
If you go back to the first single-cell form of life, it clearly possessed the capacity to receive, to utilize, to store, to transform, and to transmit information.
Anything you cannot relinquish when it has outlived its usefulness possesses you, and in this materialistic age a great many of us are possessed by our possessions.
I got on a Dostoyevsky kick right after college. I started with 'Crime and Punishment,' went on to 'The Possessed' and then 'The Brothers Karamazov' and 'The Idiot.'
When you are younger you get blamed for crimes you never committed and when you're older you begin to get credit for virtues you never possessed. It evens itself out.
I'd like to learn how to cook. I've hauled around this big, old, heavy Martha Stewart cookbook in my suitcase to Cape Cod, L.A., Paris. I don't know what possessed me.
I think Whitman more than any other poet possessed the gift of revealing to others the beauty of everything around us, the beauty of nature, the beauty of human beings.
Historically, individuals possessed of the confidence that privilege and good fortune bestow have often proved conspicuous reformers: think only of Franklin D. Roosevelt.