Possessing them physically as one would possess a potted…

Possessing them physically as one would possess a potted plant, a painting, or a Porsche. Owning, as it were, this individual.

— Ted Bundy

What we seek, at the deepest level, is inwardly to resemble, rather than physically to possess, the objects and places that touch us through…

— Alain de Botton

...the incontestable truth is that America has been built up by optimists, not by pessimists, but by men possessing courage, confidence in the nation's…

— B. C. Forbes

The Present, the Present is all thou hast For thy sure possessing; Like the patriarch's angel hold it fast Till it gives its blessing.

— John Greenleaf Whittier

Surrounded by all the members of my dear family, enjoying the affection of numerous friends, who have never abandoned me, and possessing a sufficient…

— John James Audubon

The main consideration with those who, possessing some capital, propose to emigrate as the means of improving their condition, is, the society likely to…

— Charles Sturt

The central problem of management is how spontaneous interaction of people within a firm, each possessing only bits of knowledge, can bring about the…

— Friedrich August von Hayek

Loud speech, profusion of words, and possessing skillfulness in expounding scriptures are merely for the enjoyment of the learned. They do not lead to…

— Adi Shankara

Everybody is different and I think that we live in a material world. But for me, possessing things is not that interesting. Living in…

— Nicolas Berggruen

Thirty or forty proprietors, with incomes answering to between one thousand and five thousand a year, would create a much more effectual demand for…

— Thomas Malthus

“no one worth knowing can be quite known, no one worth possessing can be quite possessed—but”

— William Landay

Perhaps we will one day be able at least to admit of a God possessing sufficient majesty and expansiveness to transcend the limits of…

— Ian Tattersall

It is evident that the right of acquiring and possessing property, and having it protected, is one of the natural, inherent, and unalienable rights…

— William Paterson

Destitute of the fire of God, nothing else counts; possessing fire, nothing else matters.

— Samuel Chadwick

Those who know New York City primarily through tourism or mass culture may think of us natives as possessing certain shared characteristics, not all…

— Jonathan Dee