Britain, which in the years immediately before this war was rapidly losing such democratic virtues as it possessed, is now being bombed and burned into democracy. Votes: 1
Shortly after this I was made a member of the boys' choir, it being found that I possessed a clear, strong soprano voice. I enjoyed the singing very much. Votes: 1
I think Whitman more than any other poet possessed the gift of revealing to others the beauty of everything around us, the beauty of nature, the beauty of human beings. Votes: 1
Although a man may wear fine clothing, if he lives peacefully; and is good, self-possessed, has faith and is pure; and if he does not hurt any living being, he is a holy man. Votes: 1
It is precisely as though I were possessed by some other spirit when I enter on a new task of acting, as though something within me presses a switch and my own consciousness merges into some other, greater, more vital being. Votes: 1
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. Votes: 1
It's been said that horror films are experimental forms of art, and I agree. As an actress, you're put in positions and have to experience emotions that are way beyond reality, whether fighting in a post-apocalyptic world or being possessed by the Devil. Votes: 1
I was never a class clown or anything like that, but I do remember being in the first grade and my teacher, Mr. Chad, told the class one day that we were going to do some exercises. He meant math exercises, but I stood up and started doing jumping jacks. To this day, I don't know what possessed me to do that, but all my friends cracked up. Votes: 1
More than a process, painting is being possessed... Votes: 0
Songwriting is about getting the demon out of me. It's like being possessed. Votes: 0
I was hell bent on destruction... it was like being possessed by a demon. Votes: 0
Songwriting is like ... being possessed. You try to go to sleep but the song won't let you. Votes: 0
The object of ambition, unlike that of love, never being wholly possessed, ambition is the more durable passion of the two. Votes: 0
The greatest geniuses have always attributed everything to God, as if conscious of being possessed of a spark of His divinity. Votes: 0
For me Esoteric Hitlerism is being possessed by the archetypes of the collective unconscious which the Greeks used to call gods. Votes: 0
All manifestations of art are but landmarks in the progress of the human spirit toward a thing but as yet sensed and far from being possessed. Votes: 0
Shortly after this I was made a member of the boys choir, it being found that I possessed a clear, strong soprano voice. I enjoyed the singing very much. Votes: 0
My mother always seemed to me like a fairy princess: a radiant being possessed of limitless riches and power. She shone for me like the evening star. I loved her dearly. Votes: 0
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.
My sister, with her ratty red-highlighted hair and her linen pajamas and her combat boots"how could she possibly worry about being possessed by a goddess? What goddess would want her, except the goddess of chewing gum?
For centuries, epilepsy was the exact expectation of someone being possessed by the Devil. There was no better explanation, and it allows you to admit the existence of the Devil. If there's a Devil, that mean's there's a God.
The person whose clothes are extremely fine I am too apt to consider as not being possessed of any superiority of fortune, but resembling those Indians who are found to wear all the gold they have in the world in a bob at the nose.
Life is about Being & Becoming Votes: 5 Carl Rogers
Possessing what we still were unpossessed by, Possessed by what we now no more possessed. Votes: 3 Robert Frost