Possessed

Famous quotes containing the word possessed:

“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.”
—François, Duc De La Rochefoucauld (1613–1680)

“We cannot see anything until we are possessed with the idea of it, take it into our heads,—and then we can hardly see anything else.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“There is no arguing with the pretenders to a divine knowledge and to a divine mission. They are possessed with the sin of pride, they have yielded to the perennial temptation.”
—Walter Lippmann (1889–1974)