There is something about the Himalayas not possessed by the Alps, something unseen and unknown, a charm that pervades every hour spent… — Frank Smythe Copy Share Image
Dare to conceive of greater things for yourself. Dare to see yourself as strong, confident, successful, and possessed of the patience and… — Eric Butterworth Copy Share Image
“It is not real," he whispered. "This place is only a thought that has grabbed hold of you. It cannot harm you.… — Rita Murphy Copy Share Image
Paul Simon once said that a songwriter's supreme challenge was being complex and simple at the same time-writing songs with lasting depth… — Paul Zollo Copy Share Image
Chopin's rubato possessed an unshakeable emotional logic. It always justified itself by a strengthening or weakening melodic line, by exaggeration or affectation. — Karol Mikuli Copy Share Image
I love working with Liev [Schreiber]. I've known him for a long time. I just think he is a master. Few actors… — Peter Jacobson Copy Share Image
Britain, which in the years immediately before this war was rapidly losing such democratic virtues as it possessed, is now being bombed… — J. B. Priestley Copy Share Image
The object of ambition, unlike that of love, never being wholly possessed, ambition is the more durable passion of the two. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
“Although she showed no visible signs of being possessed, I could no longer deny this as a possibility. I” — Bella Forrest Copy Share Image
Those who have accomplished the greatest results are those...who never grow excited or lose self-control, but are always calm, self-possessed, patient and… — Booker T. Washington Copy Share Image
Truly, whoever possesses little is that much less possessed: praised be a little poverty! — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The great secret possessed by the great men of all ages was their ability to contact and release the powers of their… — Joseph Murphy Copy Share Image
Washington possessed the superb self-confidence that comes only to men whose inner life is faint, for the inner life is full of… — William E. Woodward Copy Share Image
To crave for happiness in this world is simply to be possessed by a spirit of revolt. What right have we to… — Henrik Ibsen Copy Share Image
“One of the most painful realizations in life, is to all of a sudden discover that you had possessed things all along,… — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
I think of painting as possessed by a structure... but a structure born of the flow of color feeling. — Jules Olitski Copy Share Image
You want to know the biggest illusion about success? That it's like a pinnacle to be climbed, a thing to be possessed,… — Tony Robbins Copy Share Image
Ownership of thought depends on the thinker not subordinating himself to a 'ruling thought'. This is particularly difficult, argues Stirner, ... for… — John Carroll Copy Share Image
You can play anyone if you're open enough. It's a form of possession. Each time you work on something, you allow yourself… — Stephen Lang Copy Share Image
Wealth and rank are what men desire, but unless they be obtained in the right way they may not be possessed. Poverty… — Confucius Copy Share Image
In the height of thy prosperity expect adversity, but fear it not. If it come not, thou art the more sweetly possessed… — Francis Quarles Copy Share Image
I think Whitman more than any other poet possessed the gift of revealing to others the beauty of everything around us, the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We are possessed by the things we possess. When I like an object, I always give it to someone. It isn't generosity-it's… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
I was born on the 24th of September 1755 in the county of Fauquier, at that time one of the frontier counties… — John Marshall Copy Share Image
It is a grand thing to see a man thoroughly possessed with one master-passion. Such a man is sure to be strong,… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
In the period after the Second World War, there were still leaders in Europe who represented weak countries, but possessed a sense… — Henry A. Kissinger Copy Share Image
We must not cast away riches which can benefit our neighbor. Possessions were made to be possessed; goods are called goods because… — Clement of Alexandria Copy Share Image
This man (FreddieMercury) truly possessed the greatest voice in the history of rock. Journalists, culture experts and analysts have already made several… — Brian May Copy Share Image
It is to labor, and to labor only, that man owes everything possessed of exchangeable value. Labor is the talisman that has… — John Ramsay McCulloch Copy Share Image
Mary properly bore the name of Virgin, and possessed to the full all the attributes of purity. She was a virgin in… — Gregory Palamas Copy Share Image
It is often to be observed, that as in digging for precious metals in the mines, much earthly rubbish has first to… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
Harvey was not content merely to gather knowledge; he digested and arranged it under the guidance of the faculties which compare and… — William Harvey Copy Share Image
Phronimos, possessing practical wisdom . But the only virtue special to a ruler is practical wisdom; all the others must be possessed,… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Françoise could not help taking a surreptitious glance at Xavière: she gave a start of amazement. Xavière was no longer watching, her… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
The Church has been and now is unalterably opposed to gambling in any form whatever. It is opposed to any game of… — Heber J. Grant Copy Share Image
During the last quarter of a century all the authority associated with the function of spiritual guidance ... has seeped down into… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
Possessed with a full confidence of the certain success which British valor must gain over such enemies, I have led you up… — James Wolfe Copy Share Image
Nations are possessed with an insane ambition to perpetuate the memory of themselves by the amount of hammered stone they leave. What… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
And in that moment I possessed and lost the whole world and everything in it and was left with the feeling and… — Ann Rinaldi Copy Share Image
Possessed, as are all the fair daughters of Eve, of an hereditary propensity, transmitted to them undiminished through succeeding generations, to be… — Maria Edgeworth Copy Share Image