Care that is once enter'd into the breast Will have the whole possession ere it rest. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
In the houses of the humble a little library in my opinion is a most precious possession. — John Bright Copy Share Image
All our possessions are as nothing compared to health, strength, and a clear conscience. — Hosea Ballou Copy Share Image
Property monopolized or in the possession of a few is a curse to mankind. — John Adams Copy Share Image
“Creative people neither like to be possessive nor like to be possessed.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
An object in possession seldom retains the same charm that it had in pursuit. — Pliny the Elder Copy Share Image
I can't even drive a car. I don't have a driver's license. I have a rented apartment in New York. That's it.… — Lady Gaga Copy Share Image
Remember our words, then, and whatever is your aim let virtue be the condition of the attainment of your aim, and know… — Plato Copy Share Image
“You would not believe what skill, power and ability your total intelligence possesses until you lose your balance.” — Bryant McGill Copy Share Image
Character isn't inherited. One builds it daily by the way one thinks and acts, thought by thought, action by action. If one… — Helen Gahagan Douglas Copy Share Image
Whatever the intellectual is too certain of, if he is healthily playful, he begins to find unsatisfactory. The meaning of his intellectual… — Richard Hofstadter Copy Share Image
How the early priests came into possession of these secrets does not appear, and if there were ever any records of this… — Harry Houdini Copy Share Image
It's a truth universally acknowledged that an FBI special agent in possession of great skill and talent is likely to engage in… — Julie James Copy Share Image
A man is a beggar who only lives to the useful, and, however he may serve as a pin or rivet in… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
My wish simply is to live my life as fully as I can. In both our work and our leisure, I think,… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
First the husband tried to make the wife his possession, and once she is a possession he loses interest. There is some… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The only census of the senses, so far as I am aware, that ever before made them more than five, was the… — Lord Kelvin Copy Share Image
Without initiation into the scientific spirit one is not in possession of the best tools humanity has so far devised for effectively… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
Ma'alesh; no matter; never mind; what can you do but accept things as they are? Ma'alesh, your pot overturned in the fire;… — Laurie R. King Copy Share Image
A bath in Ganges undoubtedly absolves one of all sins; but what does that avail? They say that the sins perch on… — Ramakrishna Copy Share Image
He who sees his heir in his own child, carries his eye over hopes and possessions lying far beyond his gravestone, viewing… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
I am an artist. For me, a picture is like poetry. When you make art, this is not coming from an intellectual… — Alejandro Jodorowsky Copy Share Image
The Greek word for philosopher (philosophos) connotes a distinction from sophos. It signifies the lover of wisdom (knowledge) as distinguished from him… — Karl Jaspers Copy Share Image
My hunch, for what it's worth, is that most of us probably find it much, much harder than we realize to really… — Decca Aitkenhead Copy Share Image
“One watches them on the seashore, all the people, and there is something pathetic, almost wistful in them, as if they wished… — D.H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
The ideals which have lighted my way, and time after time have given me new courage to face life cheerfully, have been… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
...the tragedy of consumerism: one acquires more and more things without taking the time to ever see and know them, and thus… — Brian D. McLaren Copy Share Image
It was this feminine conspiracy which made Southern society so pleasant. Women knew that a land where men were contented, uncontradicted ans… — Margaret Mitchell Copy Share Image
I should like to be the landscape which I am contemplating, I should like this sky, this quiet water to think themselves… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
What Music expresses is eternal, infinite, and ideal; she expresses not the passion, love, desire, of this or that individual in this… — Richard Wagner Copy Share Image
The uses of government should be to foster, protect and promote the possession of equality. — Victoria Woodhull Copy Share Image
What’s writing really about? It’s about trying to take fuller possession of the reality of your life. — Ted Hughes Copy Share Image
Our wisdom lies as much at the mercy of fortune as our possessions do. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Nothing on this planet is permanent, and this is why I believe there can be no such thing as possession. — Sebastien Foucan Copy Share Image
Happiness is not a possession to be prized, it is a quality of thought, a state of mind. — Daphne du Maurier Copy Share Image
There is a tendency in all parties, when they have been for a long time in possession of power, to augment it. — John C. Calhoun Copy Share Image
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