It is not knowledge, but the act of learning, not possession but the act of getting there, which grants the greatest enjoyment.… — Carl Friedrich Gauss Copy Share Image
Our chief comforts often produce our greatest anxieties, and the increase in our possessions is but an inlet to new disquietudes. — Oliver Goldsmith 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
I feel like each possession is a battle and you never want to lose a battle. — Draymond Green Copy Share Image
Every strong conviction ends by taking possession of us; it overcomes and absorbs us, and tears us ruthlessly from everything else. Has… — L. E. Maxwell Copy Share Image
Passion is passion. It's a sort of madness and possession of what you do or what you think. This is the difference… — Manolo Blahnik Copy Share Image
Every man judges his own happiness and satisfaction with life in terms of his possession or lack of possession of those things… — Meir Kahane Copy Share Image
In an overly materialistic world, prosperity is unfortunately and invariably associated with hoards of money and countless possessions. Yet to the truly… — Ernie J Zelinski Copy Share Image
Every American wants MORE & MORE of the world and why not, you only live once. But the mistake made in America… — Allen Ginsberg Copy Share Image
He who sees his heir in his own child, carries his eye over hopes and possessions lying far beyond his gravestone, viewing… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
Basically everything I've done in art, I was in possession of when I was 20 years old. I use a waste retrieval… — Edward Ruscha Copy Share Image
Actually no person owns anything. All belongs to God, but while man is on earth he has the God-given right of possession. — Charles L. Allen Copy Share Image
A new, a vast, and a powerful language is developed for the future use of analysis, in which to wield its truths… — Ada Lovelace Copy Share Image
You know that I love you." And despite herself, Coraline nodded. It was true. The other mother loved her. But she loved… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Although, I admit, I desire, Occasionally, some backtalk From the mute sky, I can't honestly complain: A certain minor light may still… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
There is a common belief that under modern conditions peace cannot be assured except on the basis of an equal balance of… — Pope John XXIII Copy Share Image
One finds fortunes built on slave labor, indentured labor, prison labor, immigrant labor, female labor, child labor, and scab labor - backed… — Michael Parenti Copy Share Image
I should like to be the landscape which I am contemplating, I should like this sky, this quiet water to think themselves… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
Moshe Sluhovsky's fascinating study links spirit possession, exorcism, and mystical practice in early modern Europe. Women and men, healers and priestly exorcisers… — Natalie Zemon Davis Copy Share Image
To be a success in advertising you must want to fill other people with a passion for possession. — Bernice Fitz-Gibbon Copy Share Image
Note, to-day, an instructive, curious spectacle and conflict. Science, (twin, in its fields, of Democracy in its)—Science, testing absolutely all thoughts, all… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
