“I had cooperated. I could not have refused. I was smitten with her, half in love but also afraid, because in my… — Paul Theroux Copy Share Image
Breaking up: It's so easy to return their possessions, but so hard to get our brain cells back. — Cathy Guisewite Copy Share Image
Many of the things that bring delight should not be owned. They are more enjoyed if another's, than if yours; the first… — Baltasar Gracian Copy Share Image
In health, in the bustle of living, it was easy to believe in heaven and a life to come. But when the… — Henry Handel Richardson Copy Share Image
A man is a beggar who only lives to the useful, and, however he may serve as a pin or rivet in… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I soon came to understand that drink, tobacco and prostitutes were all great means if dissipating (even for a few moments) my… — Osamu Dazai Copy Share Image
See the things you want as already yours. Think of them as yours, as belonging to you, as already in your possession. — Robert Collier Copy Share Image
In all worldly things that a man pursues with the greatest eagerness he finds not half the pleasure in the possession that… — Robert South Copy Share Image
Engineering is not merely knowing and being knowledgeable, like a walking encyclopedia; engineering is not merely analysis; engineering is not merely the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If only it were possible to love without injury – fidelity isn’t enough: I had been faithful to Anne and yet I… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
Men are tied up to their families and possessions more helplessly than in a prison. There is an occasion for the prisoner… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Of the two powers, the two categories that take possession of us when we enter the world (from where?), space is by… — Stanislaw Lem 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
Grace in women has more effect than beauty. We sometimes see a certain fine self-possession, an habitual voluptuousness of character, which reposes… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
The cold hand of history, which is for ever robbing us of some of our oldest and best cherished stories, points rigidly… — H. A. Guerber Copy Share Image
We humans, once we have become emotionally invested in a homeplace, a prized personal possession, or, especially, in another person, find it… — Louise J. Kaplan Copy Share Image
Clothes should look as if a woman was born into them. It is a form of possession, this belonging to one another. — Geoffrey Beene Copy Share Image
If a person trains his mind to walk in the spirit, and brings his whole mind to bear upon its operations, and… — Orson Pratt Copy Share Image
The ascent to greatness, however steep and dangerous, may entertain an active spirit with the consciousness and exercise of its own power:… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
...it was always our view that in order to attain this [proletarian revolution] and the other far more important aims of the… — Friedrich Engels Copy Share Image
To the world I may seem very poor, walking penniless and wearing or carrying in my pockets my only material possessions, but… — Peace Pilgrim Copy Share Image
Love isn't actually a feeling at all--it's an illness, a certain condition of body and soul.... Usually it takes possession of someone… — Ivan Turgenev Copy Share Image
The Word says, ‘Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world’ (1 John 2:15). Jesus warned, ‘Beware of… — David Wilkerson Copy Share Image
I understand by this passion the union of desire, friendship, and tenderness, which is inflamed by a single female, which prefers her… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
Peace is truly the complete and undisturbed possession of what is desired. — Maximus the Confessor Copy Share Image
