The only ideals allowed are healthy ones - those everyone may aspire to, or comfortably imagine oneself possessing. — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
Next to possessing genius one's self is the power of appreciating it in others. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
[Prudence] replaces [strength] by saving the man who has the misfortune of not possessing it from most occasions when it's needed. — Nicolas Chamfort Copy Share Image
Possessing them physically as one would possess a potted plant, a painting or a Porsche. Owing, as it were, this individual. — Ted Bundy Copy Share Image
Oh, what a power is motherhood, possessing a potent spell. Love, Light, Blessings — Euripides Copy Share Image
“I admit--no one worth knowing can be quite known, no one worth possessing can be quite possessed-” — William Landay Copy Share Image
There is nothing wrong with men possessing riches. The wrong comes when riches possess men. — Billy Graham Copy Share Image
Possessing them physically as one would possess a potted plant, a painting, or a Porsche. Owning, as it were, this individual. — Ted Bundy Copy Share Image
... men, accustomed to think of men as possessing sex attributes and other things besides, are accustomed to think of women as… — Mary Corinna Putnam Jacobi Copy Share Image
Letters were first invented for consoling such solitary wretches as myself. Having lost the substantial pleasures of seeing and possessing you, I… — Heloise Copy Share Image
Freedom is really not about possessing anything, but is actually being without; without hatred, without clinging, violence, greed, and so on. Losing… — Francis Fern Copy Share Image
Perhaps Vanderbilt's most important role in the interest of our free society is to give the world educated men and women of… — Joe B Wyatt Copy Share Image
Not perhaps until later life, until the follies, passions, and selfishness of youth have died out, do we . . . recognize… — Dinah Maria Murlock Craik Copy Share Image
La possession de ce qu'on aime est une joie plus grande encore que l'amour. Possessing what one loves is an even greater… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
Dubai,I think is a big bore - a city deliberately built to appeal to tourism, and only built for that purpose, and… — Arthur Frommer Copy Share Image
For a photographer, sharks are a stirring subject, possessing a perfect blend of grace and power. They have been sculpted by evolution… — Brian Skerry Copy Share Image
Optimism is a tonic. Pessimism is poison. Admittedly, every businessman must be realistic. He must gather facts, analyze them candidly and strive… — B. C. Forbes Copy Share Image
Nothing raises the price of a blessing like its removal; whereas it was its continuance which should have taught us its value.… — Hannah More Copy Share Image
Government, possessing the power to create and issue currency and credit as money and enjoying the right to withdraw both currency and… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Ordinarily, even when people become religious, they go on thinking in terms of having - possessing heaven or possessing the pleasures of… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
The legislatures will have better means of information. They can discover the danger at a distance; and possessing all the organs of… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
But the most deplorable effect of all, is that diminution of attachment and reverence, which steals into the hearts of the people,… — James Madison Copy Share Image
While alcohol ... continues to wreak havoc in America, supported by a $6 billion-a-year alcohol industry advertising campaign extolling the joy of… — Lawrence O'Donnell Copy Share Image
money-making is like a god possessing a priest. He never will leave you, until he has occupied you, wholly changed the order… — Ama Ata Aidoo Copy Share Image
Wherefore also these Kinds [elements] occupied different places even before the universe was organised and generated out of them. Before that time,… — Plato Copy Share Image
“I HAVE to stay here. I simply have to. To be honest, too much of my identity comes from possessing this space.… — Jen Lancaster Copy Share Image
How you see your self determines how the enemy sees you. Consider yourself as a great person, with power and very influential… — Sessah-Odai Sadick Copy Share Image
When I was a young man, I was a baritone, very far from possessing the whole range of the tenor then. — Placido Domingo Copy Share Image
That man is out of reach of harm in this life, who is sure of possessing heaven in the next. This is… — Samuel Willard Copy Share Image
Freedom doesn't mean the absence of all restrictions. It means possessing unshakable conviction in the face of any obstacle. — Daisaku Ikeda Copy Share Image
To be able to dispense with good things is tantamount to possessing them. — Jean-Francois Regnard Copy Share Image
Conceit spoils the finest genius?and the great charm of all power is modesty. — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
Virginia is the place, where, technologically speaking, they will burn people at the stake for possessing such things as toasters. — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
And the more you spend in blessing The poor and lonely and sad, The more of your heart's possessing Returns to you… — John Greenleaf Whittier Copy Share Image
Time, designing slowly, swiftly; Time, destroying slowly, swiftly; Time holding, possessing the earth in its tender indifference. — Martha Ostenso Copy Share Image
I am prepared to sacrifice every so-called privilege I possess in order to have a few rights. — Inez Milholland Copy Share Image
What an immense power over the life is the power of possessing distinct aims. The voice, the dress, the look, the very… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
![“[Prudence] replaces [strength] by saving the man who has the misfortune of not possessing it from most occasions when it's needed.” quote by Nicolas Chamfort](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/76a/nicolas-chamfort-2263_he-man_prudence-replaces-strength-by-saving-the_2778179.jpg)
![“Wherefore also these Kinds [elements] occupied different places even before the universe was organised and generated out of them. Before that time, in truth, all these were in a state devoid of reason or measure, but when the work of setting in order this Universe was being undertaken, fire and…” quote by Plato](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/2ce/plato-103_absence_wherefore-also-these-kinds-elements-occu_2651162.jpg)
