If a person trains his mind to walk in the spirit, and brings his whole mind to bear upon its operations, and… — Orson Pratt Copy Share Image
If a person claims that he really loves someone, evidence is asked from him. And that evidence is the giving away of… — Shams Tabrizi Copy Share Image
Every other sect supposes itself in possession of the truth, and that those who differ are so far in the wrong. Like… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Evil is nothing but a word, an objectification where no objectification is necessary. Cast aside this notion of some external agency as… — Steven Erikson Copy Share Image
The excellence of metallic money in free circulation consists in the fact that it renders impossible the abuse of the power of… — Faustino Ballve Copy Share Image
The time has come to recognize that the U.S. will continue to exercise unprecedented power in a world where international rules are… — Stephen Harper Copy Share Image
I am interested in the way that we look at a given landscape and take possession of it in our blood and… — N. Scott Momaday Copy Share Image
In an overly materialistic world, prosperity is unfortunately and invariably associated with hoards of money and countless possessions. Yet to the truly… — Ernie J Zelinski Copy Share Image
Transiency is stamped on all our possessions, occupations, and delights. We have the hunger for eternity in our souls, the thought of… — Alexander MacLaren Copy Share Image
It is true that the aristocracies seem to have abused their monopoly of legal knowledge and at all events their exclusive possession… — Henry James Sumner Maine Copy Share Image
She didn't want soft and gentle. She needed his rough possession, claiming her, branding her, taking her in a firestorm of heat… — Christine Feehan Copy Share Image
The fact is that those who do not see themselves but who see others, who fail to grasp of themselves but who… — Zhuangzi Copy Share Image
What is this you call property? It cannot be the earth, for the land is our mother, nourishing all her children, beasts,… — Massasoit Copy Share Image
When the unwelcome little unborn shall have seen the light my brain will be lightened, and I shall have a clearer mind.… — Julia Ward Howe Copy Share Image
It is only by the abolition of the State, by the conquest of perfect liberty by the individual, by free agreement, association,… — Peter Kropotkin Copy Share Image
“It should have really ticked me off—the conceit of it, the more than a hint of possession, the presumption that he could… — Karen Chance Copy Share Image
Society, civilized society at least, is never very ready to believe anything to the detriment of those who are both rich and… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I wanted to visit the Capitol of our country, the center of our great civilization that stands like the sun in the… — Marietta Holley Copy Share Image
A conventional ‘success’ story is one where, with each next, the protagonist has more money, more respect, and more possessions. I’d like… — Po Bronson Copy Share Image
“When you keep thinking about sense objects, attachment comes. Attachment breeds desire, the lust of possession that burns to anger. Anger clouds… — Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa Copy Share Image
the pleasure of possession, whether we possess trinkets, or offspring - or possibly books, or prints, or chessmen, or postage stamps -… — Agnes Repplier Copy Share Image
Peace is only possible if men cease to place their happiness in the possession of things "which cannot be shared," and if… — Julien Benda Copy Share Image
The one-eyed man will be King in the country of the blind only if he arrives there in full possession of his… — Angela Carter Copy Share Image
A man that advances in spiritual and in temporal matters at the same time, minding to keep the spiritual first, will not… — Jedediah M. Grant Copy Share Image
She began to see that character is a better possession than money, rank, intellect, or beauty, and to feel that if greatness… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Whatever. I just won’t have Elena hurt, is all. Or the little red-headed witch.” “Ah, yes, sweet Bonnie. I wouldn’t mind one… — L.J. Smith Copy Share Image
“They did go on so, don't you think, those Victorian poets, they took themselves so horribly seriously?' he said, pushing the lift… — A.S. Byatt Copy Share Image
I cannot remember a time when I was not in love with them--with the books themselves, cover and binding and the paper… — Eudora Welty Copy Share Image
It is a little remarkable, that - though disinclined to talk overmuch of myself and my affairs at the fireside, and to… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
Let us ask the Lord for the grace to take these things seriously. He came to fight for our salvation. He won… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
We are living in a highly organized state of socialism. The state is all; the individual is of importance only as he… — Bernard Baruch Copy Share Image
In response to the advocacy of groups like Mothers Against Drunk Driving, most states adopted tougher laws to punish drunk driving. Numerous… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
It was our belief that the love of possessions is a weakness to be overcome. . . . Children must early learn… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A lot of people don't think about it, but the Bible has every horror element that you can imagine. It's got the… — Marilyn Manson Copy Share Image
Nothing tends so much to the advancement of knowledge as the application of a new instrument. The native intellectual powers of men… — Humphry Davy Copy Share Image
Avoid duplicity, that is, do not let your heart be divided between attachment to God and attachment to earthly things, 'You cannot… — John of Kronstadt Copy Share Image
There is no doubt that . Saddam Hussein has reinvigorated his weapons programs. Reports indicate that biological, chemical and nuclear programs continue… — Bob Graham Copy Share Image
The first freedom is to be in possession of yourself - to own yourself, to not be subject to the will of… — Kerry James Marshall Copy Share Image
When happiness is actually in possession, the thought of evil can no more acquire the feeling of reality than the thought of… — William James Copy Share Image
“For a women to wear the clothes that a man had bought her was to feel his touch with every waking moment.… — Liz Fielding Copy Share Image
