#possessed

Not that he regretted having killed the guy in Stockton. The one who'd been ready to shoot him over the five crumpled dollar bills in his jeans pocket. He was quite happy to have sent that particular home boy to hell. ↗

— L.J. Smith

#gabriel #lj-smith #the-possessed #vision

No wild enthusiast could rest, till half the world like him was possessed. ↗

— William Cowper

#enthusiast #half #him #like #possessed

Some people possess talent, others are possessed by it. When that happens, a talent becomes a curse. ↗

— Rod Serling

#curse #happens #others #people #possess

Everything that is new or uncommon raises a pleasure in the imagination, because it fills the soul with an agreeable surprise, gratifies its curiosity, and gives it an idea of which it was not before possessed. ↗

— Joseph Addison

#agreeable #because #before #curiosity #everything

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

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We have long possessed the art of war and the science of war, which have been evolved in the minutest detail. ↗

— Fredrik Bajer

#art of war #been #detail #evolved #long

No punishment has ever possessed enough power of deterrence to prevent the commission of crimes. On the contrary, whatever the punishment, once a specific crime has appeared for the first time, its reappearance is more likely than its initial emergence could ever have been. ↗

— Hannah Arendt

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Those who are possessed by nothing possess everything. ↗

— Morihei Ueshiba

#nothing #possess #possessed #those #who

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. ↗

— Elizabeth Blackwell

#aspect #assumed #attraction #degree #doctor

I was possessed by London. ↗

— Manolo Blahnik

#london #possessed