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I think of painting as possessed by a structure... but a structure born of the flow of color feeling (Possessed Quotes)
The large and rapid fortunes by which vulgar and ignorant people become possessed of splendid houses, splendidly furnished, do not of course, give them the feelings and manners of gentle folks (Possessed Quotes)
A good many causes tend to make good masters and mistresses quite as rare as good servants... The large and rapid fortunes by which vulgar and ignorant people become possessed of splendid houses, splendidly furnished, do not, of course, give them the feelings and manners of gentle folks, or in any way really raise them above the servants they employ, who are quite aware of this fact, and that the possession of wealth is literally the only superiority their employers have over them (Possessed Quotes)
Those who have once got an ascendancy, and possessed themselves of all the resources of the nation, their revenues and offices, have immense means for retaining their advantage (Possessed Quotes)
The fame of the rich man dies with him; the fame of the treasure, and not of the man who possessed it, remains (Possessed Quotes)
For me, it was like this: pronounced antipathy to conversing about matters of practical life, the future, dates, politics. You are fixated on the intellectual sphere as a man possessed may be fixated on the sexual: under its spell, sucked into it (Possessed Quotes)
Money is neither God nor devil, that it should make one noble and another vile. It is an accident, and if honestly possessed, may pass from you to me, or from me to you, without a stain (Possessed Quotes)
Man, having an ideal before him of that which he ought to be, and is not, and acting as though he possessed the character he ought to have, but has not, comes, by the very virtue of his aspiration, to possess the character he imagines (Possessed Quotes)
It’s like being possessed: like a psychic or a medium. I felt like a hollow temple filled with many spirits, each one passing through me, each inhabiting me for a little time and then leaving to be replaced by another (Possessed Quotes)
In a free government almost all other rights would become worthless if the government possessed power over the private fortune of every citizen (Possessed Quotes)
The demand for liberty is a demand for power, either for possession of powers of action not already possessed or for retention and expansion of powers already possessed (Possessed Quotes)
Does there exist a single instance of a saint asserting that he himself possessed the gift of miracles? (Possessed Quotes)
It is very singular how the fact of a man’s death often seems to give people a truer idea of his character, whether for good or evil, than they have ever possessed while he was living and acting among them (Possessed Quotes)
Philosophy... should not pretend to increase our present stock, but make us economists of what we are possessed of (Possessed Quotes)
The masses are still ungrateful or ignorant. They prefer murder, poisonings, and crimes generally to a literature possessed of style and feeling (Possessed Quotes)
There are boxers possessed of such remarkable intuition, such uncanny prescience, one would think they were somehow recalling their fights, not fighting them as we watch (Possessed Quotes)
Healthy wolves and healthy women share certain psychic characteristics: keen sensing, playful spirit, and a heightened capacity for devotion. Wolves and women are relational by nature, inquiring, possessed of great endurance and strength (Possessed Quotes)
Everyone seems possessed with the desire of writing articles upon me and sends me long lists of all I am to say (Possessed Quotes)
What I spent I lost; what I possessed is left to others; what I gave away remains with me (Possessed Quotes)
It is a rule of creative ability that it does nothing of any value, while it is possessed by this afflatus of vanity (Possessed Quotes)
The highest praise we can attribute to any writer, painter, sculptor, builder, is, that he actually possessed the thought or feeling with which he has inspired us (Possessed Quotes)
The rich are never as possessed by their riches as the poor are by their poverty (Possessed Quotes)
The delights of lust terminate in languishment and dejection; the object thou burnest for nauseates with satiety, and no sooner hadst thou possessed it, but thou wert weary of its presence (Possessed Quotes)
Nations are possessed with an insane ambition to perpetuate the memory of themselves by the amount of hammered stone they leave. What if equal pains were taken to smooth and polish their manners? (Possessed Quotes)
Our ancestors... possessed a right, which nature has given to all men, of departing from the country in which chance, not choice has placed them (Possessed Quotes)
It is easier for a man to be thought fit for an employment that he has not, than for one he stands already possessed of, and is exercising (Possessed Quotes)
We must have constantly present in our minds the difference between independence and liberty. Liberty is a right of doing whatever the laws permit, and if a citizen could do what they forbid he would no longer be possessed of liberty (Possessed Quotes)
Many speak the truth when they say that they despise riches, but they mean the riches possessed by others (Possessed Quotes)
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 (Possessed Quotes)
Obstinacy standing alone is the weakest of all things in one whose mind is not possessed by wisdom (Possessed Quotes)