If any generation of men ever possessed the right of dictating the mode by which the world should be governed for ever, it was the first generation that existed; and if that generation did it not, no succeeding generation can show any authority for doing it, nor can set any up.
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.
Anybody who's away from what's normal is just kind of pushed aside as, 'Oh, he's crazy. ' But in reality, this world is crazy. It's just chaos everywhere. It's really hard to be part of this world, because it's very possessed. And very egocentric.
No one worth possessing can be quite possessed.
Liberty must be limited in order to be possessed.
Great artistic talent in any direction. . . is hardly inherent to the man. It comes and goes; it is often possessed only for a short phase in his life; it hardly ever colors his character as a whole and has nothing to do with the moral and intellectual stuff of the mind and soul. Many great artists, perhaps most great artists, have been poor fellows indeed, whom to know was to despise.
I care not what black spiritual crisis we may come through or what delightful spiritual Canaan we may enter, no blessing of the Christian life becomes continually possessed unless we are men and women of regular, daily, unhurried secret lingerings in prayer.
Philosophy. . . should not pretend to increase our present stock, but make us economists of what we are possessed of.
Love is a light that never dwelleth in a heart possessed by fear.
My question is, do you believe in an evil possessed of its own purity? or does every act intend some good?
The world is so possessed by the power of what is and the efforts of adjustment to it, that the adolescent's rebellion, which once fought the father because his practices contradicted his own ideology, can no longer crop up. . . . Psychologically, the father is. . . replaced by the world of things.
You both should feel honored. ” “Right, very honored,” I said. “Always wanted to be possessed!
The Grecians and Romans were strongly possessed of the spirit of liberty but not the principle, for at the time they were determined not to be slaves themselves, they employed their power to enslave the rest of mankind.
Possessed, as are all the fair daughters of Eve, of an hereditary propensity, transmitted to them undiminished through succeeding generations, to be 'soonmoved withtheslightesttouch of blame'; very little precept and practice will confirm them in the habit, and instruct them all the maxims, of self-justification.
The Christianity that saves is a thing personally grasped, personally experienced, personally felt and personally possessed.
Less possessing-less possessed. More possessing-more possessed. More possessed-less accessed. Less possessed-more accessed.
The overwhelming majority of Americans are possessed of two great qualities a sense of humor and a sense of proportion.
I boldly entered the arena of business and exercised the rights I already possessed.
We do not live by what is possessed but by what is promised.
Greece expects you not merely to die for her, for that is little, indeed; she expects you to conquer. That is why each one of you, even in dying, should be possessed by one thought alone - how to conserve your strength to the last so that those who survive may conquer. And you will conquer, I am more than sure of this.