. . . this life is a perpetual chequer-work of good and evil, pleasure and pain. When in possession of what we… — Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sevigne Copy Share Image
Jeffersonian Democracy simply meant the possession of the federal government by the agrarian masses led by an aristocracy of slave-owning masses. — Charles A. Beard Copy Share Image
Material success may result in the accumulation of possessions: but only spiritual success will enable you to enjoy them. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
To take a single step beyond the boundaries specially drawn around the powers of Congress is to take possession of a boundless… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Genuine mental health would involve a balanced interplay of both modes of experience, a way of life in which one's identification with… — Fritjof Capra Copy Share Image
In the daily lives of most men and women, fear plays a greater part than hope: they are more filled with the… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
There are many persons of whom it may be said that they have no other possession in the world but their character,… — Samuel Smiles Copy Share Image
How can they be delivered from the life of self, who are not willing to abandon all their possessions? How can they… — Jeanne Marie Bouvier de la Motte Guyon Copy Share Image
“The bounded is loathed by its possessor. The same dull round even of a universe would soon become a mill with complicated… — William Blake Copy Share Image
The history of science knows scores of instances where an investigator was in the possession of all the important facts for a… — Ernst Mayr Copy Share Image
A good many causes tend to make good masters and mistresses quite as rare as good servants.... The large and rapid fortunes… — Fanny Kemble Copy Share Image
A road that perhaps more than any other leads to self atrophy is undedicated money. — E. Stanley Jones Copy Share Image
I had a constant fascination with the darkside. It is another world, bordering on insanity, and demonic possession, or what I thought… — Glenn Hughes Copy Share Image
Possession means to sit astride the world Instead of having it astride of you. — Charles Kingsley Copy Share Image
There is not an acre of ground on the globe that is in possession of its rightful owner, or that has not… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Guard your integrity as if it's your most precious leadership possession, because that is what it is. — David Cottrell Copy Share Image
We cannot live in peace without Law. And though law cannot be perfect, it may be just if it is written in… — David Mamet Copy Share Image
Painting seems to be to the eye what dancing is to the limbs. When that has educated the frame to self-possession, to… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Despite the amount of suffering, pain, misery, sorrow and travail which can exist in life, the reason for existence is the same… — L. Ron Hubbard Copy Share Image
It is extraordinary how the house and the simplest possessions of someone who has been left become so quickly sordid. . .… — Coleman Dowell Copy Share Image
“Love is not possession, it is acceptance of everything without intention. Fear is not possession, it is acceptance of everything without mention.… — James C. Emlund Copy Share Image
Every little possession and every little detail can help you win a game or that possession. — Jose Calderon Copy Share Image
Money is power, and rare are the heads that can withstand the possession of great power. — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
The sight of a wedding always has a disturbing effect on young girls; at such moments a mysterious sense of solidarity with… — Stefan Zweig Copy Share Image
It is in solitude that we discover that being is more important than having and that we are worth more than the… — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
