How could there be any question of acquiring or possessing, when the one thing needful for a man is to become -… — Antoine de Saint-Exupery Copy Share Image
Guns in America have an atavistic force. Possessing them, or the act of not possessing them, is an identity that seems to… — Michael Wolff Copy Share Image
The goods of Fortune, even such as they really are, still need taste to enjoy them. It is the enjoying no the… — Michelangelo Copy Share Image
The grief of childhood is terrible while it lasts, it is so abandoned and so all-possessing. — Gertrude Atherton Copy Share Image
We are eating, using up, and possessing more than we should. That is why a large portion of the human population is… — Jaggi Vasudev 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
“Though free from all sense of possessing, they yet possess all things. "Theirs is the kingdom of heaven.” — A.W. Tozer Copy Share Image
Irrespective of how we physiologically are made, even possessing special weaknesses, we can overcome our sins through the Lord. — Watchman Nee Copy Share Image
The individual can maintain himself in a society definitely organized only through possessing an equally definite mental and moral constitution. This is… — Emile Durkheim Copy Share Image
If human beings are perceived as potentials rather than problems, as possessing strengths instead of weaknesses, as unlimited rather that dull and… — Barbara Bush Copy Share Image
[The human mind] finds more facility in assenting to the self-existence of an invisible cause possessing infinite power, wisdom, and goodness, than… — James Madison Copy Share Image
If then, said I, the question is put to me would I rather have a miserable ape for a grandfather or a… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
True friends are the whole world to one another; and he that is a friend to himself is also a friend to… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
There is no other possibility for possessing certitude with regard to one's life apart from self-abandonmen t, in a continuous crescendo, into… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
Industry is not only the instrument of improvement, but the foundation of pleasure. He who is a stranger to it may possess,… — Robert Blair Copy Share Image
That the equalization of property exercises an influence on political society was clearly understood even by some of the old legislators. Laws… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
A modern factory reaches perhaps almost the limit of horror. Everybody in it is constantly harassed and kept on edge by the… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
“The capacity to be alone is the capacity to love. It may look paradoxical to you, but it's not. It is an… — Osho 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
I got sick and tired of a joyless existence, and so have thought a lot in the past few years about how… — M. J. Ryan Copy Share Image
He is a wise man who seeks by every legitimate means to make all the money he can honestly, for money can… — B. C. Forbes Copy Share Image
Imagine craving absolutely nothing from the world. Imagine cutting the invisible strings that so painfully bind us: what would that be like?… — Dzigar Kongtrul Rinpoche Copy Share Image
We may remark in passing that to be blind and beloved may, in this world where nothing is perfect, be among the… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
What is it to be a gentleman? Is it to be honest, to be gentle, to be generous, to be brave, to… — William Makepeace Thackeray 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
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
Since this life is God's and cannot die, it follows that everyone born anew into possessing this life is said to have… — Watchman Nee Copy Share Image
[On Paris:] A city never entirely known, yet which gives you the feeling of intimacy, of possessing it intimately. — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
PLENIPOTENTIARY, adj. Having full power. A Minister Plenipotentiary is a diplomatist possessing absolute authority on condition that he never exert it. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
“no one worth knowing can be quite known, no one worth possessing can be quite possessed—but” — William Landay Copy Share Image
A horse will never tire of a rider who possesses both tact and sensitivity because he will never be pushed beyond his… — Nuno Oliveira Copy Share Image
Too often, a vast collection of possessions ends up possessing its owner. The asset I most value, aside from health, is interesting,… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
Wisdom lies not in possessing knowledge - which quickly becomes outdated - but in perpetually seeking it. — Paul Johnson Copy Share Image
Knowledge is a public good and increases in value as the number of people possessing it increases. — John Wilbanks 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
It is time to tax and regulate marijuana like alcohol. It is time to end the arrests of so many people and… — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
We forget that every good that is worth possessing must be paid for in strokes of daily effort. — William James Copy Share Image
From 1836, down to last year, there is no proof of the Government having any confidence in the duration of peace, or… — Richard Cobden Copy Share Image
A successful person realizes his personal responsibility for self-motivation. He starts with himself because he possesses the key to his own ignition… — Kemmons Wilson Copy Share Image
Nations, like individuals in a state of nature, are equal and independent, possessing certain rights and owing certain duties to each other. — Millard Fillmore Copy Share Image
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