Possessing faith is not convenient. You still have to live it. — Francoise Mallet-Joris Copy Share Image
Politics is the business of getting power and privilege without possessing merit — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
To be able to dispense with good things is tantamount to possessing them. — Jean-Francois Regnard 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
Possessing by letting go of things was a secret of ownership unknown to youth. — Yukio Mishima Copy Share Image
Destitute of the fire of God, nothing else counts; possessing fire, nothing else matters. — Samuel Chadwick Copy Share Image
Possessing what we still were unpossessed by, Possessed by what we now no more possessed. — Robert Frost 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
“Perhaps a sense of possessing needs to come before a sense of genuine sharing.” — Stephen R. Covey 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
Nations are less disposed to make revolutions in proportion as personal property is augmented and distributed among them, and as the number… — Alexis de Tocqueville 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
Poetry is a natural energy resource of our country. It has no energy crisis, possessing a potential that will last as long… — Richard Eberhart 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
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
“Obsessing about things isn’t good for you. It’s a form of possessing things and at some level of awareness; we possess nothing.… — Art Hochberg Copy Share Image
There is a difference between happiness, the supreme good, and the final end or goal toward which our actions ought to tend.… — Rene Descartes 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
It is a truism that the structure of a society is basically determined by its technology. Not in an absolute sense-there may… — Poul Anderson Copy Share Image
Remember also: beyond the restless flowing electricity of life is the ultimate reality- The Void. Your own awareness, not formed into anything… — Timothy Leary Copy Share Image
Here is a writer possessing the greatest talent: that of fully inhabiting the lives of others. Spargo conjures up these two as… — Andrew Sean Greer Copy Share Image
If it be admitted that a man, possessing absolute power, may misuse that power by wronging his adversaries, why should a majority… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
The aspect of the venerable mansion has always affected me like a human countenance, bearing the traces not merely of outward storm… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
A prayerful life is the key to possessing gratitude. We often take for granted the people who most deserve our gratitude. Let… — Thomas S. Monson Copy Share Image
What really drives the battle against law enforcement and punishment is not a commitment to treatment, but the widely held view that,… — John P. Walters Copy Share Image
“Always beneath or above concrete events, I remain a prisoner of this alternative: the world as a real object that dominates me… — Michel Leiris 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
“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
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
The body is there because the mind seeks desires through the body; desires cannot be fulfilled without the body. You can be… — Rajneesh 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
The further limits of our being plunge, it seems to me, into an altogether other dimension of existence from the sensible and… — William James 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