“But soon I loved her completely and wished to possess her, own her, absorb her, eat her. I wanted her in my… — Ian McEwan Copy Share Image
Never be too busy for the people you love. Never allow pursuits or possessions to become bigger priorities than your relationships. Love… — Dave Willis Copy Share Image
Our daughters are the most precious of our treasures, the dearest possessions of our homes and the objects of our most watchful… — Margaret Elizabeth Sangster Copy Share Image
From the the protection of different and unequal faculties of acquiring property, the possession of different degrees and kinds of property immediately… — James Madison Copy Share Image
My notion of art is very maximalist and souped-up: I love spectacle, overload, magic materials, magic words, incantation and litany, incarnation and… — Joyelle McSweeney Copy Share Image
Watching too much TV can triple our hunger for more possessions, while reducing our personal contentment by about 5 percent for every… — David Niven Copy Share Image
Providence has given to the French the empire of the land, to the English that of the sea, to the Germans that… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
I understood . . . that those who desired salvation should act like the trustee who, though having control over great possessions,… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Even if no learning to speak of was involved in locking my mental term onto doorknobs, it is odd to say that… — David Papineau 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
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
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
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
I understand by this passion the union of desire, friendship, and tenderness, which is inflamed by a single female, which prefers her… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
Achieving goals is a creative process. The first step in the creation of your primary goal takes place in your conscious mind.… — Bob Proctor Copy Share Image
It is among the less privileged groups relatively new to leisure and consumption that the zest for possessions retains something of its… — David Riesman Copy Share Image
The possession of muscular strength and the courage to use it in contests with other men for physical supremacy does not necessarily… — Jack Johnson Copy Share Image
The reduction of the earth to an object simply for human's use/ possession is unthinkable in most traditional cultures... the earth belongs… — Thomas Berry Copy Share Image
To paraphrase Jane Austen, it is a truth universally acknowledged that a married man in possession of a vast fortune must be… — Bruce Feirstein Copy Share Image
We are told that the possession of nuclear weapons - in some cases even the testing of these weapons - is essential… — Joseph Rotblat Copy Share Image
If you want to be called a dwarf you must be in immediate possession of a battle axe cause otherwise your just… — Ralphie May Copy Share Image
Kate Daniels, trained negotiator. When in possession of some valuable information, give it away to the first sexy man you see with… — Ilona Andrews Copy Share Image
Those in possession of absolute power can not only prophesy and make their prophecies come true, but they can also lie and… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
Reality prior to my language exists as an unthinkable thought. . . . life precedes love, bodily matter precedes the body, and… — Clarice Lispector Copy Share Image
If no other knowledge deserves to be called useful but that which helps to enlarge our possessions or to raise our station… — Thomas Bulfinch Copy Share Image
Faculty X is a sense of reality of other places and other times, and it is the possession of it—fragmentary and uncertain… — Colin Wilson Copy Share Image
I have commenced my auspicious reign and am in quiet possession of the Presidential Mansion... this winter I intend to do something… — Julia Gardiner Tyler Copy Share Image
Adolescence is when the very worst and best impulses in the human soul struggle against each other for possession. — G. Stanley Hall Copy Share Image
For just a few dollars registration, you got temporary possession of a good piece of land. Live on it for five years,… — Charles R. Morris Copy Share Image
“Human beings had two basic orientations: HAVING and BEING HAVING: seeks to acquire, posses things even people BEING: focuses on the experience;… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
The most empowering relationships are those in which each partner lifts the other to a higher possession of their own being. — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share Image
Human beings do metamorphose. They change their identity constantly. However, each new identity thrives on the delusion that it was always in… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
I can no longer think of anything but you. In spite of myself, my imagination carries me to you. I grasp you,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Voluntary simplicity has more to do with the state of mind than a person's physical surroundings and possessions. — Duane Elgin Copy Share Image
As the most recently arrived to earthly life, children can seem in lingering possession of some heavenly lidless eye. — Lorrie Moore Copy Share Image
Memory is the most transient of all possessions. And when it goes, it leaves as few traces as stars that have disappeared. — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
The art of walking is at once suggestive of the dignity of man. Progressive motion alone implies power, but in almost every… — Henry Theodore Tuckerman Copy Share Image
The more we desire for that which is superfluous, the more we meet with difficulties; our strength and possessions are spent in… — Maimonides Copy Share Image
The way to misuse our possessions is to use them as an insurance against the morrow. Anxiety is always directed to the… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
