When a tree, a natural product, is felled, is society put into possession of no greater produce than that of the mere… — Jean-Baptiste Say Copy Share Image
How shocking must thy summons be, O death, to him that is at ease in his possessions! who, counting on long years… — Robert Blair Copy Share Image
Architecture is the triumph of human imagination over materials, methods, and men, to put man into possession of his own earth — Frank Lloyd Wright Copy Share Image
If every man possessed everything he wanted, and no one had the power to interfere with such possession; or if no man… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
Academic work is one of those fields which contain a pearl so precious that it is worth while to sell all our… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
Sheep, cattle, men-servants were all possessions to be sold as it pleased their masters. It were a good thing were it still… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
There is no substitute for skill. It is the priceless possession of every great artist in every field of endeavor. It is… — Paul LePaul Copy Share Image
The attitude of saints toward their possessions most assuredly signifies whether they continue to preserve their self life or whether they have… — Watchman Nee Copy Share Image
Keep both heart and hand in your own possession, till you see good reason to part with them; and if such an… — Anne Bronte Copy Share Image
You wake up in the morning, and your purse is magically filled with twenty-four hours of un-manufactured tissue of the universe of… — Arnold Bennett Copy Share Image
One... gets an impression that civilization is something which was imposed on a resisting majority by a minority which understood how to… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
People with advantages are loath to believe that they just happen to be people with advantages. They come readily to define themselves… — C. Wright Mills Copy Share Image
Attainment is followed by neglect, possession by disgust, and the malicious remark of the Greek epigrammatist on marriage may be applied to… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
In the U.K. - correct me if I'm wrong - there is a legal definition of 'not being in possession of yourself'… — Timothy Morton 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
The darkness which clings to every personality is the door into the unconscious and the gateway of dreams, from which those two… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
Your ideal possession candidate's a thirteen-year-old recently orphaned schizophrenic girl three days away from her period on her way to see the… — Glen Duncan Copy Share Image
When I am with you, we stay up all night.When youre not here, I cant go to sleep.Praise God for those two… — Rumi Copy Share Image
The glory of a workman, still more of a master workman, that he does his work well, ought to be his most… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
You pressure, you want possession, you want to attack. Some teams can't or don't pass the ball. What are you playing for?… — Xavi Copy Share Image
The archetypal No. 10 is a skillful player who is more interested in being in possession than tracking to get the ball back. — Glenn Murray Copy Share Image
Do not help the quick moneymakers who have delusions about taking possession of classics by smearing them with paint. — Frank Capra Copy Share Image
The possession of a great many things, even the best of things, tends to blind one to the real value of anything. — Holbrook Jackson Copy Share Image
An abundance mentality springs from internal security, not from external rankings, comparisons, opinions, possessions, or associations. — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
My Helmut Lang leather pants are my most treasured possession - I've worn them almost every day for two years, and they… — Jessica Hart Copy Share Image
Only dead mathematics can be taught where the attitude of competition prevails: living mathematics must always be a communal possession. — Mary Everest Boole Copy Share Image
“If my heart is set on pursuing real treasures, my mind must be fixed solely on the privilege of enjoying them and… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
Possession of a program with unique analytic capabilities puts a scientist in as much of a priveleged position to make new discoveries… — Heinz Pagels Copy Share Image
Simplicity is the only thing that sufficiently reorients our lives so that possessions can be genuinely enjoyed without destroying us. — Richard J. Foster Copy Share Image
Earthly possessions dazzle our eyes and delude us into thinking that they can provide security and freedom from anxiety. Yet all the… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
The truth is, our civilization is not Christian; it is a tragic compound of great ideal and fearful practice, of loving charity… — Alan Paton Copy Share Image
Happier of happy though I be, like them I cannot take possession of the sky, mount with a thoughtless impulse, and wheel… — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
Revelation may not need the help of reason, but man does, even when in possession of revelation. Reason may be described as… — William Gilmore Simms Copy Share Image
“The magic of sex is it's acquisition without the burden of possession. No matter how many women you take home, there's never… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
When the times comes that you'll have to leave me .can u please promise to tell me first? So I can take… — Nix Copy Share Image
Wherever there is possession of marks, there is fraud ; wherever there is no-possession of no-marks, there is no fraud. Hence the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“His forty-third year. His small time's end. His time- Who saw Infinity through the countless cracks In the blank skin of things,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
May we look upon our treasure, the furniture of our houses, and our garments, and try to discover whether the seeds of… — John Woolman Copy Share Image
A successful person realizes his personal responsibility for self-motivation. He starts with himself because he possesses the key to his own ignition… — Kemmons Wilson Copy Share Image
Perhaps the great American Republic, whose interests lie in the Pacific and who has no hand in the spoliation of Africa, may… — Jose Rizal Copy Share Image
