Give a man secure possession of a bleak rock, and he will turn it into a garden; give him nine years' lease… — Arthur Young Copy Share Image
It should be remembered that the foundation of the social contract is property; and its first condition, that every one should be… — Jean-Baptiste Rousseau Copy Share Image
Love, in the eyes of the world, is either a carnal appetite or a vague fancy, which possession extinguishes or absence destroys.… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
I am 10 years in this league. The physical possession of a ring doesn't make me feel like more or less of… — Avery Bradley Copy Share Image
Wine, like the rising sun, possession gains, And drives the mist of dullness from the brains, The gloomy vapor from the spirit… — George Crabbe Copy Share Image
The feeling of satiety, almost inseparable from large possessions, is a surer cause of misery than ungratified desires. — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
“You win,” he panted. His fingers tightened on her hips as he shoved her back into the wall and kept her there.… — Airicka Phoenix Copy Share Image
A clean and sensitive conscience, a steady and scrupulous integrity in small things as well as large, is the most valuable of… — Henry Van Dyke Copy Share Image
Sex is difficult, yes. But they are difficult things with which we have been charged...If you only recognize this and manage out… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
If I make a decision it is a possession. I take pride in it, I tend to defend it and not listen… — Paul Gleason Copy Share Image
Plasticity, then, in the wide sense of the word, means the possession of a structure weak enough to yield to an influence,… — William James Copy Share Image
The darkness which clings to every personality is the door into the unconscious and the gateway of dreams, from which those two… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
Even if no learning to speak of was involved in locking my mental term onto doorknobs, it is odd to say that… — David Papineau Copy Share Image
Attainment is followed by neglect, possession by disgust, and the malicious remark of the Greek epigrammatist on marriage may be applied to… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
People with advantages are loath to believe that they just happen to be people with advantages. They come readily to define themselves… — C. Wright Mills Copy Share Image
In the U.K. - correct me if I'm wrong - there is a legal definition of 'not being in possession of yourself'… — Timothy Morton 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
The whole idea of the pursuit of goods and possessions has completely corrupted the human experience, along with religion, which I think… — George Carlin Copy Share Image
We set no special value on the possession of a virtue until we percieve that it is entirely lacking in our adversary. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The whole message of the piece was that possessions are transient. You don't know if you are going to be able to… — J.H. Wyman Copy Share Image
But feeling is so different from knowing. My common sense tells me all you can say, but there are times when common… — Lucy Maud Montgomery Copy Share Image
I was a little nervous backstage. But I had this book, Gandhi. I just read his quotes, closed my eyes and focused… — Nafisa Joseph Copy Share Image
“He who is controlled by objects Loses possession of his inner self: If he no longer values himself, How can he value… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
Praise the Lord, O England's Jerusalem: and Netherland's Zion, praise ye the Lord! He hath secured your gates, and blessed your possessions… — Peter Stuyvesant Copy Share Image
In particular, it is absurd to hope to banish envy of other people's possessions or fortunes, if only because the spirit of… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
I tend to look out for things with a resonance to my youth - artists or objects that seemed romantic all those… — Nicholas Haslam Copy Share Image
This is the truth as I see it, my dear, Out in the wind and the rain: They who have nothing have… — Madison Cawein Copy Share Image
Of all the things which wisdom provides to make us entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship. — Epicurus Copy Share Image
“A man may be in as just possession of truth as of a City, and yet be forced to surrender it -… — A.S. Byatt Copy Share Image
At no time are we ever in such complete possession of a journey, down to its last nook and cranny, as when… — Yukio Mishima Copy Share Image
I just try to play as hard as I can every possession. If you're aware and you're high-energy, the ball will eventually… — Jeremy Lin Copy Share Image
We should teach our children nothing which they shall ever need to unlearn; we should strive to transmit to them the best… — Felix Adler Copy Share Image
Remember our words, then, and whatever is your aim let virtue be the condition of the attainment of your aim, and know… — Plato Copy Share Image
I can't even drive a car. I don't have a driver's license. I have a rented apartment in New York. That's it.… — Lady Gaga Copy Share Image
When you live alone, your furnishings, your possessions, are always confronting you with the thinness of your existence. — Zoë Heller Copy Share Image
Character isn't inherited. One builds it daily by the way one thinks and acts, thought by thought, action by action. If one… — Helen Gahagan Douglas Copy Share Image
“You would not believe what skill, power and ability your total intelligence possesses until you lose your balance.” — Bryant McGill Copy Share Image
If I look at who I am as a person and where my interests lie, I figured that going from Tommy End… — Aleister Black Copy Share Image
OWE, v. To have (and to hold) a debt. The word formerly signified not indebtedness, but possession; it meant "own," and in… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
If all my possessions were taken from me with one exception, I would choose to keep the power of communication, for by… — Daniel Webster Copy Share Image
