Dispossesses Quotes & Sayings

In using all means, seek God alone. In and through every outward thing, look only to the power of His Spirit, and the merits of His Son. Beware you do not get stuck in the work itself; if you do, it is all lost labor. Nothing short of God can satisfy your soul. Therefore, fix on Him in all, through all, and above all ... Remember also to use all means as means-as ordained, not for their own sake ... — John Wesley

It is impossible to imagine anything which better becomes a ruler than mercy. — Seneca The Younger

What's the point of having this superb military you're always talking about, if we can't use it? — Madeleine Albright

I can take a newspaper and make it a lethal weapon. — Sarah Shahi

I write about my life and my own experience, but I also write about things that I have no knowledge of whatsoever. — Reeve Carney

It's hard to stay committed when our heart isn't in it. — Deborah Day

Nanny Ogg looked under her bed in case there was a man there. Well, you never knew your luck. — Terry Pratchett

I know who the fuck you are," he clips the words out coldly. "You're the only one that doesn't. Dani could have anticipated the Hag's movements. You could not. Jada. — Karen Marie Moning

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To work through pain is not to make it disappear, but to make it mean something different for us - to turn it into wisdom. — Eric Greitens

Who cares if your outfit is black and you're sporting a brown belt? Wear it, rock it, love it - and others will, too. Nothing beats a belt. — Rachel Nichols

When stalking one's prey, it is best to take one's time. Say nothing, and as sure as eggs he will become curious and emerge. — Harper Lee

The road to Epidaurus is like the road to creation. One stops searching. One grows silent, stilled by the hush of mysterious beginnings. If one could speak one would become melodious. There is nothing to be seized or reassured or cornered off here: there is only a breaking down of the walls which lock the spirit in. The landscape does not recede, it installs itself in the open places of the heart j it crowds in, accumulates, dispossesses. You are no longer riding through something - call it Nature, if you will - but participating in a rout, a rout of the forces of greed, malevolence, envy, selfishness, spite, intolerance, pride, arrogance, cunning, duplicity and so on.
It is the morning of the first day of the great peace, the peace of the heart, which comes with surrender, I never knew the meaning of peace until I arrived at Epidaurus. Like everybody I had used the word all my life, without once realizing that I was using a counterfeit. — Henry Miller

I tried. But not everybody thought so. — Andrew Young

My rich dad believed we should all learn to take care of ourselves. — Robert Kiyosaki

If poetry introduces the strange, it does so by means of the familiar. The poetic is the familiar dissolving into the strange, and ourselves wit it. It never dispossesses us entirely, for the words, the images (once dissolved) are charged with emotions already experienced, attached to objects which link them to the known. — Georges Bataille

I like the mountains because they make me feel small,' Jeff says. 'They help me sort out what's important in life. — Mark Obmascik