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
The will is a beast of burden. If God mounts it, it wishes and goes as God wills; if Satan mounts it,… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
To reach satisfaction in all desire its possession in nothing, To come to the knowledge of all desire the knowledge of nothing.… — John of the Cross Copy Share Image
“As it recurred again and again, it set me thinking of what my architect's books say about the custom in early times… — Robert W. Chambers Copy Share Image
Love is not a possession but a growth. The heart is a lamp with just oil enough to burn for an hour,… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
Memory is the most transient of all possessions. And when it goes, it leaves as few traces as stars that have disappeared. — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
My most precious possession is a 13.5-feet-long fishing rod, made by an American firm called Loomis. — John Rocha Copy Share Image
Meek wifehood is no part of my profession; / I am your friend, but never your possession. — Vera Brittain Copy Share Image
In the 1990s - the period of the greatest escalation of the drug war - nearly 80 percent of the increase in… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
I hear Republicans and Libertarians and so forth talking about property rights, but they stop talking about property rights as soon as… — Ward Churchill 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
Every man is rich or poor according to the proportion between his desires and his enjoyments; any enlargement of wishes is therefore… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Human beings do metamorphose. They change their identity constantly. However, each new identity thrives on the delusion that it was always in… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
What do you suppose makes all men look back to the time of childhood with so much regret (if their childhood has… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
I've had many more thousands of books in my possession than my shelves at home would indicate. At one time, I tried… — Lewis Buzbee Copy Share Image
Possessions of this world have not been for the exclusive use by such or such category of individuals. — African Spir Copy Share Image
There are perhaps only one or two things in the world which are not far more charming in desire than they are… — Anna Brackett Copy Share Image
The possession of power over others is inherently destructive both to the possessor of the power and to those over whom it… — George Davis Herron Copy Share Image
When he tries to extend his power over objects, those objects gain control of him. He who is controlled by objects loses… — Zhuangzi Copy Share Image
...we feel that our honor and safety require that Ft. Sumter should be in our possession at the very earliest moment. — Francis Wilkinson Pickens Copy Share Image
Present global culture is a kind of arrogant newcomer. It arrives on the planetary stage following four and a half billion years… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
A bloody and complete victory has sometimes yielded no more than the possession of the field and the loss of ten thousand… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
Nothing fires the warrior’s heart more with courage than to find himself and his comrades at the point of annihilation, at the… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
