Quotes of Obsess - somelinesforyou

“ That virtue we appreciate is as much ours as another's. We see so much only as we possess. ”

- Henry David Thoreau

“ Fewer possess virtue, than those who wish us to believe that they possess it. ”

- Marcus Tullius Cicero

“ A belief is not merely an idea the mind possesses; it is an idea that possesses the mind. ”

- Robert Oxton Bolton

“ You've got to get obsessed and stay obsessed. ”

- John Irving

“ Even as a child I was obsessed by the prospect of playing football. Nothing else ever interested me. It was just football. ”

- Alessandro Del Piero

“ I'm kind of insane when it comes to music, a little obsessed. ”

- Elijah Wood

“ We know better than we do. We do not yet possess ourselves… ”

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

“ Force is as pitiless to the man who possesses it, or thinks he does, as it is to its victims; the second it crushes, the first it intoxicates. The truth is, nobody really possesses it. ”

- Simone Weil

“ It is a good idea to be alone in a garden at dawn or dark so that all its shy presence may haunt you and possess you in a reverie of suspended thought. ”

- James Douglas

“ It is good to be alone in a garden at dawn or dark so that all its shy presences may haunt you and possess you in a reverie of suspended thought. ”

- James Douglas

“ A man possesses talent; genius possesses the man. ”

- Isaac Stern

“ He does not possess wealth; it possesses him. ”

- Benjamin Franklin

“ Of a rich man who was mean and niggardly, he said, "That man does hot possess his estate, but his estate possesses him. ”

- Diogenes

“ It is a good idea to be alone in a garden at dawn or dark so that all its shy presences may haunt you and possess you in a reverie of suspended thought. ”

- James Douglas

“ One essential to success is that your desire be an all-obsessing one, your thoughts and aims be co-ordinated, and your energy be concentrated and applied without letup. ”

- Claude M. Bristol

“ Earnestness is not by any means everything; it is very often a subtle form of pious pride because it is obsessed with the method and not with the Master. ”

- Oswald Chambers

“ He who is obsessed by death is made guilty by it. ”

- Elias Canetti

“ I write about violence as naturally as Jane Austen wrote about manners. Violence shapes and obsesses our society, and if we do not stop being violent we have no future. ”

- Edward Bond

“ To have long term success as a coach or in any position of leadership, you have to be obsessed in some way. ”

- Pat Riley

“ Today's Catholic church seems to reward authoritarian personalities who are clearly ill, violent, sexually obsessed and unable to remember the past. ”

- Matthew

“ Victory becomes, to some degree, a state of mind. Knowing ourselves superior to the anxieties, troubles, and worries which obsess us, we are superior to them. ”

- Basil King

“ Obsessed by a fairy tale, we spend our lives searching for a magic door and a lost kingdom of peace. ”

- Eugene O’Neill

“ The triple is the most exciting play in baseball. Home runs win a lot of games, but I never understood why fans are so obsessed with them. ”

- Hank Aaron

“ I'm obsessed with crocodiles and getting eaten by one. When I hear that someone's been eaten by a crocodile or shark, I just get all gooey. I start salivating. ”

- Tori Amos

“ We have a good life when we manage to live with both satisfied and unsatisfied needs, when we are not obsessed by what is beyond our reach. ”

- Kjell Magne Bondevik

“ I'm not going to deny it. I'm a neat person, there's no question. But I don't become obsessed with it. ”

- Courteney Cox

“ Any biographer must of necessity become a pilgrim a peripatetic, obsessed literary pilgrim, a traveler with four eyes. ”

- Leon Edel

“ I'm death obsessed. You know, I have death all over my house. I have a stuffed two headed sheep! ”

- Kirk Hammett

“ Court TV. I can't stop watching it. I am absolutely obsessed! If I'm not reading a book or spending time with my husband, my friends or my dog, I am watching Court TV. ”

- Debra Messing

“ OBSESSED, p.p. Vexed by an evil spirit, like the Gadarene swine and other critics. Obsession was once more common than it is now. Arasthus tells of a peasant who was occupied by a different devil for every day in the week, and on Sundays by two. They were frequently seen, always walking in his shadow, when he had one, but were finally driven away by the village notary, a holy man; but they took the peasant with them, for he vanished utterly… ”

- Ambrose Bierce
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