#possessed

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. ↗

— Casey Stengel

#blamed #committed #credit #crimes #evens

This life is a hospital in which every patient is possessed with a desire to change his bed. ↗

— Charles Baudelaire

#change #desire #every #his #hospital

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

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

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

But when I direct I become possessed, a possession I've never quite understood. ↗

— Ted Kotcheff

#direct #i #never #possessed #possession

Possessed with a full confidence of the certain success which British valor must gain over such enemies, I have led you up these steep and dangerous rocks, only solicitous to show you the foe within your reach. ↗

— James Wolfe

#certain #confidence #dangerous #foe #full

In our rich consumers' civilization we spin cocoons around ourselves and get possessed by our possessions. ↗

— Max Lerner

#civilization #consumers #get #our #ourselves