To possess money is very well; it may be a valuable servant; to be possessed by it is to be possessed by… — Tryon Edwards Copy Share Image
Mankind, by the perverse depravity of their nature, esteem that which they have most desired as of no value the moment it… — Francois Fenelon Copy Share Image
Man has existed for about a million years. He has possessed writing for about 6,000 years, agriculture somewhat longer, but perhaps not… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The fact that your voice, amplified to the degree where it reaches from one end of the country to the other, does… — Edward R. Murrow Copy Share Image
Some of the worst abuses of government force in recent years were precipitated by technical and victimless gun-law violations. For example, the… — Dave Kopel Copy Share Image
The fame of the rich man dies with him; the fame of the treasure, and not of the man who possessed it,… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
No punishment has ever possessed enough power of deterrence to prevent the commission of crimes. On the contrary, whatever the punishment, once… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
The priest is Christ's slave, and Christ himself took the form of a slave and became obedient to death. So the priest… — Arthur Middleton Copy Share Image
Of the various executive abilities, no one excited more anxious concern than that of placing the interests of our fellow-citizens in the… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The teachers tried everything, even pleading, but Tomas was in the habit of addressing them only in Latin, a language he spoke… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon Copy Share Image
We have long possessed the art of war and the science of war, which have been evolved in the minutest detail. — Fredrik Bajer Copy Share Image
I'd like to learn how to cook. I've hauled around this big, old, heavy Martha Stewart cookbook in my suitcase to Cape… — Mamie Gummer Copy Share Image
Will without intellect is the most vulgar and common thing in the world, possessed by every blockhead, who, in the gratification of… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
The soul of man is divided into three parts, intelligence, reason, and passion. Intelligence and passion are possessed by other animals, but… — Pythagoras Copy Share Image
And Archimedes, as he was washing, thought of a manner of computing the proportion of gold in King Hiero's crown by seeing… — Plutarch Copy Share Image
Everyone is possessed with an irresistible desire to know his relationship to the Infinite. — David O. McKay Copy Share Image
The people, when they have been unchecked, have been as unjust, tyrannical, brutal, barbarous, and cruel, as any king or senate possessed… — John Adams Copy Share Image
The basis of good manners is self-reliance. Necessity is the law of all who are not self-possessed. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
All the strength and force of man comes from his faith in things unseen. He who believes is strong; he who doubts… — James Freeman Clarke Copy Share Image
Henry Kissinger is possessed of a truly superior intelligence, in addition to which he has two qualities which, unfortunately, many great men… — Mohammed Reza Pahlavi Copy Share Image
People who have lived through a war know that as it approaches, an at first secret, unacknowledged, elation begins, as if an… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
“Humans are the only race who are continuously either possessed by or obsessed for various energies!” ” — Ramana Pemmaraju Copy Share Image
The most sublime courage I have ever witnessed has been among that class too poor to know they possessed it, and too… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Do not talk about giftedness, inborn talents! One can assume great men of all kinds who were very little gifted. They acquired… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
