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
“Lust for possession and greed has ravaged the soul of humanity like a great cancer, metastasizing throughout society in the form of… — Bryant McGill Copy Share Image
When we marry, we are authorized to take possession of the other person, body and soul. — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
Love fills everything. It cannot be desired because it is an end in itself. It cannot betray because it has nothing to… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
Animals are in possession of themselves; their soul is in possession of their body. But they have no right to their life,… — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Copy Share Image
How many thousands ... earnestly seeking what they do not want, while they neglect the real blessings in their possession -- I… — Mary Wortley Montagu Copy Share Image
The trite objects of human efforts-possessions, superficial success, luxury-have always seemed contemptible to me. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
“Whoever possessed knowledge not only had power over the changeable passions of people, but also power over their thinking, over their minds,… — Peter Prange Copy Share Image
“Whether it is big or small, the size of a poor man’s yard incessantly reminds him that he is poor.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
We had put almost all of our possessions in storage, which was a metaphor for being twenty, as were so many things. — Lorrie Moore Copy Share Image
If you overesteem great men, people become powerless. If you overvalue possessions, people begin to steal. The Master leads by emptying people's… — Laozi Copy Share Image
Love is influenced by no consideration, recognizes no restraints of reason, and is of the same nature as death, that assails alike… — Miguel de Cervantes Copy Share Image
The perfection of wisdom, and the end of true philosophy is to proportion our wants to our possessions, our ambitions to our… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“You want to be free. You also want to be mine. You can't be both.” — Nenia Campbell Copy Share Image
If I have put the case of science at all correctly, the reader will have recognised that modern science does much more… — Karl Pearson Copy Share Image
He who hopes in God trusts God, Whom he never sees, to bring him to the possession of things that are beyond… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
We will stand by our friends and administer a stinging rebuke to men or parties who are either indifferent, negligent, or hostile,… — Samuel Gompers Copy Share Image
I understood . . . that those who desired salvation should act like the trustee who, though having control over great possessions,… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Sadly, as with so much about history's heroes, it's the spotting of potential fame that's the difficulty, whether it's publishing their poems,… — Alan Coren Copy Share Image
If every man possessed everything he wanted, and no one had the power to interfere with such possession; or if no man… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
Every right implies a responsibility; Every opportunity, an obligation, Every possession, a duty. — John D. Rockefeller Copy Share Image
He exulted in the possession of himself once more; he realized how much of the delight of the world he had lost… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
Individualism, the love of enterprise, and the pride in personal freedom, have been deemed by Americans not only as their choicest, but… — James Bryce Copy Share Image
To the King, one must give his possessions and his life; but honour is a possession of soul, and the soul is… — Pedro Calderon de la Barca Copy Share Image
