You don't pay back your parents. You can't. The debt you owe them gets collected by your children, who hand it down in turn. It's a sort of entailment. Or if you don't have children of the body, it's left as a debt to your common humanity. Or to your God, if you possess or are possessed by one.
Lois McMaster Bujold
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What is not fully understood is not possessed.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Anger is the most impotent of passions. It effects nothing it goes about, and hurts the one who is possessed by it more than the one against whom it is directed.
Carl Sandburg
All the documents possessed by the different (Iranian) organs show the intervention and cooperation of British military commanders in southern Iraq to create insecurity in Iran.
Manuchehr Mottaki
Our team played well in both matches. We possessed the ball well and Ashley (Foster) provided us with some firepower up front. You can see that our players are learning while gaining both experience and confidence in these games.
Chris Petrucelli
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
Indeed, in a free government almost all other rights would become worthless if the government possessed power over the private fortune of every citizen.
Dr. John Marshall
The release ... raises the historical question once again of what Allied governments knew about the Holocaust during World War II and what might have been done with information they possessed.
Richard Breitman
They possessed the ball nicely. We had a lot of possession and we had a lot of through balls. We just couldn't capitalize and finish the shots.
Jeff Lenherr
Anne possessed infinite patience. She was a behind-the-scenes kind of person who hated being the center of attention. But she was extraordinarily powerful in her own way.
Bernadette Baldino
He literally was demon possessed with the bottle, ... In that regard, he's not like 'Nuke' LaLoosh.
Ron Shelton
We possessed the ball really well. We moved the ball very well, and we created a lot of opportunities to score.
Dave Pinkham
I'm a passionate believer in the inherent creativity possessed by all people and our inherent ability--if it's not clouded by convention--to appreciate authentic beauty in all forms, whether we like it or not.
Porter Arneill
It really is crazy for him to be so possessed to kill his mother and brother.
Darrell Jones
Friday's game was very physical. They played hard against us. They tackled hard. Cudahy possessed the ball pretty well, but didn't get shots against us.
Tom Konkol
No one worth possessing Can be quite possessed.
Sara Teasdale
We talked about that. They took us out of our game plan. They possessed the ball like crazy. Mentally, we were not on our game plan.
Frank Baumholtz
A person possessed with an idea cannot be reasoned with.
James A. Froude
I saw them lose to Walpole (in the championship game at the Rebel Hoop Classic) and I thought maybe... Then they came out the other night against Walpole, looked like they were possessed and it carried over.
Dick Bliss
Some herders who possessed between 30 and 50 animals woke up with none.
Amadou Doutchi
He possessed a lot of qualities that we wanted in a consultant.
Mike Alden
Love gives naught but itself and takes naught but from itself. Love possesses not nor would it be possessed; For love is sufficient unto love.
Kahlil Gibran
I feel blessed to be able to represent Chucky and will do my best to live up to the characteristics he possessed. I became familiar with his story when I was a freshman. He was a special person.
Patrick Willis
Those who are possessed by nothing possess everything.
Morihei Ueshiba
Only the wise possess ideas; the greater part of mankind are possessed by them.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Some people possess talent, others are possessed by it. When that happens, a talent becomes a curse.
Rod Serling
There's no testimony that he ever used it, possessed it, borrowed it.
Gerald Schwartzbach
The reason for longevity is truth and honesty, and I think we that we possessed that and it manifested itself in our art form.
Mccoy Tyner
We really don't know what his status is. But we certainly could not grant immunity (because of the fall). He certainly consumed and possessed alcohol that night.
Tyrone Parham
It was a good weekend for our team, playing two top 25 teams and not giving up a goal. We possessed the ball well and were able to create some chances. We would like to have finished more of those opportunities, but that will come over time.
Chris Petrucelli
That's what I said today. You know, 'How could you do this to him?'... I don't know what possessed him to do it. I can't even comprehend that.
Taryn Thompson
For me Esoteric Hitlerism is being possessed by the archetypes of the collective unconscious which the Greeks used to call gods.
Miguel Serrano
I think that they [Bush Administration] are men who are possessed of evil.
Harry Belafonte
Painting is possessed of a divine power, for not only . . . does it make the absent present, but it also, after many centuries, makes the dead almost alive, so that they are recognized with great admiration . . .
Leon Battista Alberti
David suffered from periods of deep depression and evidently could no longer cope. His mother and I trust that he is now at peace with the demons that finally possessed him.
Jack Ferguson
He was possessed.
Liam Clancy
One ugly trick has often spoiledThe sweetest and the best;Matilda, though a pleasant child,One ugly trick possessed.
Ann Taylor
John was a man possessed. He played with a lot of confidence, and I think he came out hungry.
Nick Latorre
[She was] a copy editor, possessed of the rare capacity to sit all day in a small cubicle, like a monk in a cell, and read with an almost penitential rigor.
David Leavitt
There were two different styles of play out there they played the long ball and we possessed the ball. But they're very strong up top, so they're good at it. Out of the 90 minutes, we played a bad 10 minutes and they scored two goals.
Eric Bagley
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