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No one worth possessing can be quite possessed.


Sara Teasdale


#possessing #quite #worth

The poet is in command of his fantasy, while it is exactly the mark of the neurotic that he is possessed by his fantasy.


Lionel Trilling


#exactly #fantasy #his #mark #neurotic

Who is there that ever receives a gift and tries to make bargains about it? Let us, then, return thanks for what He has bestowed on us. Who can tell whether, if we had had a larger share of ability or stronger health, we should not have possessed them to our destruction.


Alphonsus Liguori


#about #bargains #bestowed #destruction #ever

That so unlikely an outcome should accrue to a man possessed of such limited talent and so many flaws, and one lacking in a sense of ethics and decency was one of the bitter ironies of history.


William Thomas Green Morton


#decency #ethics #flaws #history #ironies

So it is that the life force may take possession of a man-- so that in the end he may be possessed by something greater, no longer at all belonging to himself.


Wendell Berry


#possessed #life

A person possessed with an idea cannot be reasoned with.


James Anthony Froude


#idea #person #possessed #reasoned

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

The admiral, or commander in chief of a squadron, being frequently invested with a great charge, on which the fate of a kingdom may depend, ought certainly to be possessed of abilities equal to so important a station and so extensive a command.


William Falconer


#being #certainly #charge #chief #command

The only fruitful promise of which the life of any individual or any nation can be possessed, is a promise determined by an ideal.


Herbert Croly


#determined #fruitful #ideal #individual #life

To me, the appeal of opera lies in the fact that a myriad of singers and instruments, each possessed of different qualities of voice and sound, against the backdrop of a grand stage and beautiful costumes, come together in one complete and impressive drama.


Junichiro Koizumi


#appeal #backdrop #beautiful #come #complete






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