My desire was not to pass any island without taking possession, so that, one having been taken, the same may be said… — Christopher Columbus Copy Share Image
“Most people take health at face value. Quite often people understand that health is the most valuable possession only after they become… — Eraldo Banovac Copy Share Image
Let me out," Harry said again. "No," Dumbledore repeated. "If you don't - if you keep me in here - if you… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Make wisdom your provision for the journey from youth to old age, for it is a more certain support than all other… — Bias of Priene Copy Share Image
Meeting and talking to the artist adds a special element to collecting contemporary art that makes the work an irreplaceable treasure rather… — Ernest West Basden Copy Share Image
Of course, I like to have possession. I like attacking football. But there is no attacking football if you don't defend well… — Javi Gracia Copy Share Image
Multiple personality disorder and possession are not necessarily mutually incompatible disorders. There's some evidence that you can have both. — M. Scott Peck Copy Share Image
The belief that there is only one truth and that oneself is in possession of it seems to me the deepest root… — Max Born Copy Share Image
Hawks favor war on the grounds that Saddam Hussein is reckless, tyrannical and instinctively aggressive, and that if he comes into possession… — Charles Krauthammer Copy Share Image
The desert came into view ... sand and palm trees, a way of life that revolved around human beings without possessions or… — Hanan al-Shaykh Copy Share Image
In the daily lives of most men and women, fear plays a greater part than hope: they are more filled with the… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
We will stand by our friends and administer a stinging rebuke to men or parties who are either indifferent, negligent, or hostile,… — Samuel Gompers Copy Share Image
“We should not fear the fragility of truth, for it creates openness to correction, learning, and growth. It fosters empathy, making inquiry,… — Erik Pevernagie Copy Share Image
But if thought is to become the possession of many, not the privilege of the few, we must have done with fear.… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
So research is a terribly imperfect science, and you learn an awful lot more after you've published a book, because people keep… — Simon Winchester Copy Share Image
Everything you have, whether it's money or stuff, is an obligation. It is as much your duty to care for and nurture… — Brad Warner Copy Share Image
Instead of being lost in your thinking, when you awaken you recognize yourself as the awareness behind it. Thinking then ceases to… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
I quickly learned that you don't have to be incarcerated by suffering, and that, in spite of the dysfunctional nature of your… — Sufjan Stevens Copy Share Image
All one can really leave one's children is what's inside their heads. Education, in other words, and not earthly possessions, is the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
My religion is my most precious possession. Except for it, I could easily have become excessively occupied with industry. Sharing responsibility for… — George W. Romney Copy Share Image
Every day is lost in which we do not learn something useful. Man has no nobler or more valuable possession than time. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I was interested with exploring the idea of who gets to be in possession of the land - how it's sometimes impossible… — Dee Rees Copy Share Image
He who hopes in God trusts God, Whom he never sees, to bring him to the possession of things that are beyond… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
A nation has a soul, a spiritual principle. One is in the past, the other in the present. One is the possession… — Ernest Renan Copy Share Image
My goal has always been to help people help themselves. Your body is your most priceless possession; you've go to take care… — Jack LaLanne Copy Share Image
Every reader has found charms by which to secure possession of a page that, by magic, becomes as if never read before,… — Alberto Manguel Copy Share Image
Life is not to be bought with heaps of gold; Not all Apollo's Pythian treasures hold, Or Troy once held, in peace… — Homer Copy Share Image
“If there had been any doubt in her mind that John hadn't placed some emotional claim on her, then it was gone… — Lora Leigh Copy Share Image
Perhaps middle-age is, or should be, a period of shedding shells; the shell of ambition, the shell of material accumulations and possessions,… — Anne Morrow Lindbergh Copy Share Image
It is not easy for a person to do any great harm when his tenure of office is short, whereas long possession… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Even when we're keeping possession, I don't want to see the ball move slowly. What does that mean? When we pass it,… — Angelos Postecoglou Copy Share Image
“Power is lost or won, never created or destroyed. Power is a visitor to, not a possession of, those it empowers.” — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
You can never love anyone to your own detriment. That is not love, that is possession, control, fear, or a combination of… — Iyanla Vanzant Copy Share Image
When you coach Russ Smith, you have a nervous breakdown on every possession. He's not from a different country. He's from a… — Rick Pitino Copy Share Image
Experience teaches us that it is much easier to prevent an enemy from posting themselves than it is to dislodge them after… — George Washington Copy Share Image
Being and having in our society teaches us how to take possession of things, when it should rather initiate us in the… — Gabriel Marcel Copy Share Image
“Renee's self-possession, her ability to possess other selves, is a measure of the weakness of her husband, his inability to stop his… — Greil Marcus Copy Share Image
A good many men and women want to get possession of secrets just as spendthrifts want to get money-for circulation. — George D. Prentice Copy Share Image
You cannot all abandon your possessions, but at least you can change your attitude about them. All getting separates you from others;… — Francis of Assisi Copy Share Image
To the King, one must give his possessions and his life; but honour is a possession of soul, and the soul is… — Pedro Calderon de la Barca Copy Share Image
