An appreciation for high fashion does not preclude possession of common sense. — Tasha Alexander Copy Share Image
Now that we have everything we need, we discover that there is almost nothing that we have that we want — John Cage Copy Share Image
“Whether it is big or small, the size of a poor man’s yard incessantly reminds him that he is poor.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
“Male territorial insanity yields only to another male. What a difference the possession of a penis makes!” — Marilyn French Copy Share Image
“If knowledge was power I had under my possession the entire school” — Joanne Harris Copy Share Image
There are different kinds of love, but they all have the same aim: possession — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
Cheerfulness is like money well expended in charity; the more we dispense of it, the greater our possession. — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
The difference between a good defensive team and a bad defensive team is as little as three possessions — Brad Stevens Copy Share Image
When Joseph received the revelation that we have in our possession concerning the [baptism of the] dead, the subject was opened to… — Brigham Young Copy Share Image
“When I hear that "Possession is the grave of love," I remember that a religion may begin with the resurrection.” — F.H. Bradley Copy Share Image
He was persuaded he could know no happiness but in the society of one with whom he could for ever indulge the… — Horace Walpole Copy Share Image
Self-realization is the knowing in all parts of body, mind, and soul that you are now in possession of the kingdom of… — Paramahansa Yogananda Copy Share Image
“Possession of the box conferred a kind of power on the wielder--which was that anyone, confronted with the hypnotic glass eye, would… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
So there is nothing to be proud of these worldly possessions. What you are to be proud of, or to be conscious… — Nirmala Srivastava Copy Share Image
A society in which men recognize no check upon their freedom soon becomes a society where freedom is the possession of only… — Learned Hand Copy Share Image
In every art the desire to practice it precedes both the full ability to do so and the possession of something worthwhile… — Phyllis Bentley Copy Share Image
Fundamentalists believe that we don't believe in anything. In their view of the world, they are in possession of absolute certainties, while… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
Christ came to give us a justifying righteousness, and He also came to make us holy — not chiefly for the purpose… — Thomas Chalmers Copy Share Image
Few men survey themselves with so much severity as not to admit prejudices in their own favour, which an artful flatterer may… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Exorcists always need to distinguish demonic possessions from mental or psychiatric disorders, and they use three symptoms to identify people as possessed.… — Gerard Verschuuren Copy Share Image
We call upon people everywhere to work for peace, to forget the quiet comfort of their homes, to leave behind their fears… — Petra Kelly Copy Share Image
Government is not reason; it is not eloquent; it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master.… — George Washington Copy Share Image
Ever since childhood I have scorned the commonplace limits so often set upon human ambition. Possessions, outward success, publicity, luxury - to… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
A clever general... avoids an army when its spirit is keen, but attacks it when it is sluggish and inclined to return.… — Sun Tzu Copy Share Image
In the first place, Cranford is in possession of the Amazons; all the holders of houses above a certain rent are women.… — Elizabeth Gaskell Copy Share Image
For some nights I slept profoundly; but still every morning I felt the same lassitude, and a languor weighed upon me all… — Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu Copy Share Image
It must not be supposed that happiness will demand many or great possessions; for self-sufficiency does not depend on excessive abundance, nor… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Imagine discovering a continent so vast that it may have no end to its dimensions. Imagine a new world with more resources… — John Perry Barlow Copy Share Image
To have faith requires courage, the ability to take a risk, the readiness even to accept pain and disappointment. Whoever insists on… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
“A system of justice does not need to pursue retribution. If the purpose of drug sentencing is to prevent harm, all we… — Daniel Waterman Copy Share Image
The conversation of most middle-class Americans, we are told, revolves around consumption: what to buy, what was just bought, where to eat,… — Brennan Manning Copy Share Image
“He had been violently confused by her real presence in the opposite inaccessible corner. For months he had been possessed by the… — A. S. Byatt Copy Share Image
Imagine a world, in which your entire possession is one raspberry, and you give it to your friend. — Gerda Weissmann Klein Copy Share Image
Peace is truly the complete and undisturbed possession of what is desired. — Maximus the Confessor Copy Share Image
There are men whom you will never dislodge from an opinion, except by taking possession of it yourself. — Augustus William Hare Copy Share Image
“You want to be free. You also want to be mine. You can't be both.” — Nenia Campbell Copy Share Image
These possessions of a simpleton being the three I choose and cherish: to care, to be fair, to be humble. — Laozi Copy Share Image
Possession isn't nine-tenths of the law. It's nine-tenths of the problem. — John Lennon Copy Share Image