Those who know New York City primarily through tourism or mass culture may think of us natives as possessing certain shared characteristics,… — Jonathan Dee Copy Share Image
Destitute of the fire of God, nothing else counts; possessing fire, nothing else matters. — Samuel Chadwick Copy Share Image
It is evident that the right of acquiring and possessing property, and having it protected, is one of the natural, inherent, and… — William Paterson Copy Share Image
Perhaps we will one day be able at least to admit of a God possessing sufficient majesty and expansiveness to transcend the… — Ian Tattersall Copy Share Image
Thirty or forty proprietors, with incomes answering to between one thousand and five thousand a year, would create a much more effectual… — Thomas Malthus Copy Share Image
Everybody is different and I think that we live in a material world. But for me, possessing things is not that interesting.… — Nicolas Berggruen Copy Share Image
Loud speech, profusion of words, and possessing skillfulness in expounding scriptures are merely for the enjoyment of the learned. They do not… — Adi Shankara Copy Share Image
The central problem of management is how spontaneous interaction of people within a firm, each possessing only bits of knowledge, can bring… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
The main consideration with those who, possessing some capital, propose to emigrate as the means of improving their condition, is, the society… — Charles Sturt Copy Share Image
Surrounded by all the members of my dear family, enjoying the affection of numerous friends, who have never abandoned me, and possessing… — John James Audubon Copy Share Image
The Present, the Present is all thou hast For thy sure possessing; Like the patriarch's angel hold it fast Till it gives… — John Greenleaf Whittier Copy Share Image
...the incontestable truth is that America has been built up by optimists, not by pessimists, but by men possessing courage, confidence in… — B. C. Forbes Copy Share Image
God, possessing supreme and infinite wisdom, acts in the most perfect manner, not only metaphysically, but also morally speaking, and ... with… — Gottfried Leibniz Copy Share Image
Buying, possessing, accumulating--this is not worldliness. But doing this in the love of it, with no love of God paramount--doing it so… — Robert Herrick Copy Share Image
There is always the fear of self-righteousness possessing us, the fear of arrogating to ourselves a superiority that we do not possess. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Every being in the universe is an expression of the Tao. It springs into existence, unconscious, perfect, free, takes on a physical… — Laozi Copy Share Image
All in all, I think that out of all musical genres, the world of metal is the most escapist one. Metal is… — Tuomas Holopainen Copy Share Image
There is a Western world. There is America. There is Great Britain and Germany and France and Russia and China and other… — Ehud Olmert Copy Share Image
Giving birth and nourishing, Bearing yet not possessing, Working yet not taking credit, Leading yet not dominating, This is the Primal Virtue. — Laozi Copy Share Image
The brain is a complex biological organ possessing immense computational capability: it constructs our sensory experience, regulates our thoughts and emotions, and… — Eric Kandel Copy Share Image
Wisdom lies not in possessing knowledge - which quickly becomes outdated - but in perpetually seeking it. — Paul Johnson Copy Share Image
The only freedom worth possessing is that which gives enlargement to a people's energy, intellect, and virtues. — William Ellery Channing Copy Share Image
Science and art are only too often a superior kind of dope, possessing this advantage over booze and morphia: that they can… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Evil denotes the lack of good. Not every absence of good is an evil, for absence may be taken either in a… — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
This integrative action in virtue of which the nervous system unifies from separate organs an animal possessing solidarity, an individual, is the… — Charles Scott Sherrington Copy Share Image
