Among the wealthy, compassionate men claim the richest wealth, For material wealth is possessed by even contemptible men. Find and follow the… — Thiruvalluvar Copy Share Image
I think a good role model has to be sexy. Real, empowered, self-possessed women are sexy. When you're really in control of… — Amanda Palmer Copy Share Image
Aunt Mimi possessed a horror of silence, which she battled with endless chat. The Typhoid Mary of the Telephone started her calls… — Rita Mae Brown Copy Share Image
For one thing, I want gesture-any kind of gesture, all kinds of gesture-gentle or brutal, joyous or tragic; the gesture of space… — Elaine de Kooning Copy Share Image
“Jesus expressed intense anger toward those who where immoral, such as the self-righteous Pharisees, but he never suggested that they were demonized.… — Gregory A. Boyd Copy Share Image
Let us be done with the notion that religion is confined to petty pieties and small constraints. All too often people who… — A. Powell Davies Copy Share Image
We truly possess only what we are able to renounce; otherwise, we are simply possessed by our possessions. — Sydney J. Harris Copy Share Image
There was about all the Romans a heroic tone peculiar to ancient life. Their virtues were great and noble, and these virtues… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
The Chinese had gunpowder, but it didn't occur to them to put it in a gun. They possessed the compass but didn't… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
A deep sense of sin, a humble willingness to be saved in God's way, a teachable readiness to give up our own… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Some of the gold possessed by the Romans is doubtless mixed with what we now possess; and some small part of it… — William Stanley Jevons Copy Share Image
Yet it was impossible for me to say to people, 'Speak louder, shout, for I am deaf.' Ah, how could I possibly… — Ludwig van Beethoven Copy Share Image
If we justify war, it is because all peoples always justify the traits of which they find themselves possessed, not because war… — Ruth Benedict Copy Share Image
The star of the unconquered will, He rises in my breast, Serene, and resolute, and still, And calm, and self-possessed. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
Central planning, judicial activism, and the nanny state all presume vastly more knowledge than any elite have ever possessed. — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
To lose a friend is the greatest of all evils, but endeavour rather to rejoice that you possessed him than to mourn… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
The barbarians, who possessed no books, no secular knowledge, no education, except in the schools of the clergy, and who had scarcely… — Lord Acton Copy Share Image
Art Modell was a visionary, a deal-maker and a friend. And he possessed a marvelous sense of humor. — Steve Tisch Copy Share Image
You see, we need instruction on how to possess money without being possessed by money. We need help to learn how to… — Richard J. Foster Copy Share Image
All the objects pursued by the multitude not only bring no remedy that tends to preserve our being, but even act as… — Baruch Spinoza Copy Share Image
Obstinacy standing alone is the weakest of all things in one whose mind is not possessed by wisdom. — Aeschylus Copy Share Image
Forget your sadness, anger, grudges, and hatred. Let them pass like smoke caught in the breeze. You should not deviate from the… — Masaaki Hatsumi Copy Share Image
I got on a Dostoyevsky kick right after college. I started with 'Crime and Punishment,' went on to 'The Possessed' and then… — Charlie Trotter Copy Share Image
One possessed a thousand and three women (in Spain alone), the other only one. But it is multiplicity that is impoverished, whilethe… — Denis de Rougemont Copy Share Image
In the same manner if any nation wasted part of its wealth, or lost part of its trade, it could not retain… — David Ricardo Copy Share Image
