“I am the rightful ruler of this world And now that I, too, have awakened, like my dragons, I have come to… — Nenia Campbell Copy Share Image
We had put almost all of our possessions in storage, which was a metaphor for being twenty, as were so many things. — Lorrie Moore Copy Share Image
I used to lie down on the grass and draw the blades as they grew - until every square foot of meadow,… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
If the egotist is weak, his egotism is worthless. If the egotist is strong, acute, full of distinctive character, his egotism is… — Alexander Smith Copy Share Image
The possession of a camera can inspire something akin to lust. And like all credible forms of lust, it cannot be satisfied. — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
One whose knowledge is confined to books and whose wealth is in the possession of others, can use neither his knowledge nor… — Chanakya Copy Share Image
The demand for liberty is a demand for power, either for possession of powers of action not already possessed or for retention… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
The candle-buds opened their wide white flowers…Their scent spilled out into the air and took possession of the island. — William Golding Copy Share Image
I put a lot of emphasis on how to treat people. The reason for this is simple. The real success of our… — Mary Kay Ash Copy Share Image
“Here Carlyle had come, here George Eliot had progressed through the bookshelves. Roland could see her black silk skirts, her velvet trains,… — A.S. Byatt Copy Share Image
If I make a decision it is a possession. I take pride in it, I tend to defend it and not listen… — Paul Gleason Copy Share Image
Fear arises through identification with form, whether it be a material possession, a physical body, a social role, a self-image, a thought,… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
The genocidal culture's image of woman as object and victim is paralleled by contemporary representations that continually show the Earth as a… — Jane Caputi Copy Share Image
I discovered Einstein said the same thing about his celebrated theories of relativity that writers say about their work when he said… — E. L. Doctorow Copy Share Image
Sex is difficult, yes. But they are difficult things with which we have been charged...If you only recognize this and manage out… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
Plasticity, then, in the wide sense of the word, means the possession of a structure weak enough to yield to an influence,… — William James Copy Share Image
I had a career before the Stern show, on Mad TV. I was on the first two seasons of that and I… — Artie Lange Copy Share Image
“To be alone, but to be pierced through with a kingly joy, now and then, as I believe I am, is a… — Sebastian Barry Copy Share Image
The history of science knows scores of instances where an investigator was in the possession of all the important facts for a… — Ernst Mayr Copy Share Image
Just a small-scale cult of personality, maybe raise a geodetic dome out in western Massachusetts and make people wear jumpsuits and give… — John Hodgman Copy Share Image
Prostitutes are the inevitable product of a society that places ultimate importance on money, possessions, and competition. — Jane Fonda Copy Share Image
This is a matter of freedom. If you don't have many possessions then you don't need to work all your life like… — Jose Mujica Copy Share Image
Actually no person owns anything. All belongs to God, but while man is on earth he has the God-given right of possession. — Charles L. Allen Copy Share Image
Today it is not a matter of ‘conserving’ the present or returning to a recent past that has failed, but rather of… — Guillaume Faye Copy Share Image
“Here, in Egypt, the morning of Alexander’s adventure ends. Henceforth he is divided; Alexandria is his first possession and he is no… — William Bolitho Copy Share Image
You might say living in a monastery cuts down the commutation time. That alone gives you a couple extra hours a day… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
With the spread of conformity and image-driven superficiality, the allure of an individuated woman in full possession of herself and her powers… — Betsy Prioleau Copy Share Image
The key is to maintain an evenness. Try to play one possession at a time, regardless of what happened on the last… — Brad Stevens Copy Share Image
“Whoever possessed knowledge not only had power over the changeable passions of people, but also power over their thinking, over their minds,… — Peter Prange Copy Share Image
In the twilight of life, God will not judge us on our earthly possessions and human success, but rather on how much… — John of the Cross Copy Share Image
We envy those whose possessions or achievements are a reflection on our own. They are our neighbors and equals. It is they,… — Helmut Schoeck Copy Share Image
All our pleasures and possessions are consigned to oblivion, but the legacy we leave for Christ will endure forever. — David Jeremiah Copy Share Image
The second corruption of the state is oligarchy (oligos = few), in which the military elite is narrowed down to a few… — Robert Payne Copy Share Image
This is the most intimate relationship between literature and its readers: they treat the text as a part of themselves, as a… — Ryszard Kapuscinski Copy Share Image
One's own self or material goods, which has more worth? Loss (of self) or possession (of goods), which is the greater evil?… — Laozi Copy Share Image
The possession of a library, or the free use of it, no more constitutes learning, than the possession of wealth constitutes generosity. — Samuel Smiles Copy Share Image
the principal sources of human misery may fairly be said to lie in the over-possession, under-possession, and the unwise use of economic… — Georgia Harkness Copy Share Image
Possession, it is true, crowns exertion with rest; but it is only in the illusions of fancy that it has power to… — Wilhelm von Humboldt Copy Share Image
“the springs of human joy are almost always poisoned by possessiveness; and the joy of possession is restricted by the object possessed… — Isha Schwaller de Lubicz Copy Share Image
It is open to every man to choose the direction of his striving; and also every man may draw comfort from Lessing's… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
