“I learned to love my son without wanting to possess him and I learned how to teach him to teach himself.” — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Murder is not about lust and it's not about violence. It's about possession. — Ted Bundy Copy Share Image
I glory, more in the cunning purchase of my wealth than in the glad possession. — Ben Jonson Copy Share Image
Roll back the clock, and every possession of every great country started with a crime. — David Mamet Copy Share Image
A true friend is the most precious of all possessions and the one we take the least thought about acquiring. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
[In my bio] is no drunk driving, there's no DUI's, there's no possession of cocaine, none of that stuff so you know,… — Jeff Dunham Copy Share Image
Any formal attack on ignorance is bound to fail because the masses are always ready to defend their most precious possession -… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The game of discontent has its rules, and he who disregards them cheats. It is not permitted to you to wish to… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
There are many persons of whom it may be said that they have no other possession in the world but their character,… — Samuel Smiles Copy Share Image
For all the books in his possession, he still failed to read the stories written plain as day in the faces of… — Emma Donoghue Copy Share Image
Love is like a hunter, who cares not for the game when once caught, which he may have pursued with the most… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
In the first place, when there is a policy of intentional aggression, inspired by a desire to get possession of the territory… — Elihu Root Copy Share Image
I bought a Honda CRX Si, a two seater, and immediately after I took possession, my wife and I found out we… — Yannick Bisson Copy Share Image
[Peter Pan] has never broken his terrible habit of eavesdropping. So, maybe that wasn't the rustle of pages you heard while this… — Geraldine McCaughrean Copy Share Image
If you overesteem great men, people become powerless. If you overvalue possessions, people begin to steal. The Master leads by emptying people's… — Laozi Copy Share Image
There is no greater egoism than that of learning when it is treated simply as a mark of personal distinction to be… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
I left the convent and that was because I wasn't a very good nun. I could see that I wasn't going to… — Karen Armstrong Copy Share Image
“Non-possession” does not mean having nothing. It does not mean to live as a penniless beggar. Rather than meaning having nothing, it… — Boep Joeng Copy Share Image
This is a precious possession which we cannot afford to tarnish, but society always is attempting to make the physician into a… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
This drive to always want more is based on the misconceptions that having more will make me more happy, more important, and… — Rick Warren Copy Share Image
continually measuring women's wants by men's achievements seems out of date, ignominious, and intolerably boring. ... Now that we have secured possession… — Eleanor Rathbone Copy Share Image
Contentment is never the outcome of fulfillment, of achievement, or of the possession of things; it is not born of action or… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
“Your personal health is your greatest possession; the most significant foundation of any future you will have.” — Bryant McGill Copy Share Image
When I've watched teams that play with five at the back and wing-backs, I've looked at their starting positions and positions out… — Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain Copy Share Image
Freedom is not a gift received from the State or leader, but a possession to be won every day by the effort… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Even if you forget everything else I want you to always remember that you are a person of value, and you have… — Bette Greene Copy Share Image
The role of the educator is one of tranquil possession of certitude in regard to the teaching of not only contents but… — Paulo Freire Copy Share Image
The present only is a man's possession; the past is gone out of his hand wholly, irrevocably. He may suffer from it,… — Dinah Maria Murlock Craik Copy Share Image
The will is a beast of burden. If God mounts it, it wishes and goes as God wills; if Satan mounts it,… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
The most radical question which anyone can be asked is not how much their possessions cost, but whether they have found something… — Alister E. McGrath Copy Share Image
Each elect soul ... possesses God directly and finds in that unique possession the fulfillment of his own individuality. — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share Image
I did not know that history is like a blood stain that keeps on showing on the wall no matter how many… — Peter Carey Copy Share Image
True generosity is an offering; given freely and out of pure love. No strings attached. No expectations. Time and love are the… — Suze Orman Copy Share Image
Between married persons, the cement of friendship is by the laws supposed so strong as to abolish all division of possessions: andhas… — David Hume Copy Share Image
We have no money. We have no possessions. Maybe that is why we value the things we do have ... loyalty and friendship. — Anthony Horowitz Copy Share Image
The most valuable possession you can own is an open heart. The most powerful weapon you can be is an instrument of… — Carlos Santana Copy Share Image
Property-owners are the most energetic flag-waggers and patriots in every country, but only so long as they enjoy their possessions: to safeguard… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I draw from my family and my friends and I feel like that small-town person. The achievements, the materialistic possessions have really… — Sheryl Crow Copy Share Image
But it is not the rich man only who is under the dominion of things; they too are slaves who, having no… — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
A bloody and complete victory has sometimes yielded no more than the possession of the field and the loss of ten thousand… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image