The art of walking is at once suggestive of the dignity of man. Progressive motion alone implies power, but in almost every… — Henry Theodore Tuckerman Copy Share Image
We think of our land and water and human resources not as static and sterile possessions but as life giving assets to… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The roots of addiction can be seen in our search for happiness in something outside of our self, be it drugs, relationships,… — Lee L Jampolsky Copy Share Image
you've always been living on prospects; for my part, I'd rather have a mole-hill in possession than a mountain in prospect. — Maria Edgeworth Copy Share Image
Our desires always increase with our possessions. The knowledge that something remains yet unenjoyed impairs our enjoyment of the good before us. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
In truth, laws are always useful to those with possessions and harmful to those who have nothing; from which it follows that… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
We only begin to realize the value of our possessions when we commence to do good to others with them. No earthly… — Joseph Cook Copy Share Image
Each member of the community gives himself to it at the instant of its constitution, just as he actually is, himself and… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
Freedom is neither a legal invention nor a philosophical conquest, the cherished possession of civilizations more valid than others because they alone… — Claude Levi-Strauss Copy Share Image
“And even knowing that to possess that scent he must pay the terrible price of losing it again, the very possession and… — Patrick Süskind Copy Share Image
The people who have wealth and the people who earn money are going to be a little reluctant to part with it,… — Dinesh D'Souza Copy Share Image
“The joke is this impersonal possession. It doesn’t have anyone’s signature. It was given to me—but you didn’t make it up; it… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
Our present stress on growth and productivity is, I believe, intimately related to the decline in rootedness. Faced with loneliness and vulnerability… — Paul L Wachtel Copy Share Image
“See the things that you want as already yours. Know that they will come to you at need. Then let them come.… — Rhonda Byrne Copy Share Image
The massacres are the result of a policy which, as far as can be ascertained, has been entertained for some considerable time… — James Bryce Copy Share Image
Once a person gave his talent to the world, the world put a stamp upon it. The talent was not a personal… — Daphne du Maurier Copy Share Image
Take possession of the air, submit the elements, penetrate the last redoubts of nature, make space retreat, make death retreat. — Romain Rolland Copy Share Image
Penalties against possession of a drug should not be more damaging to an individual than the use of the drug itself — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
Such is the power of imagination, that even a chimerical pleasure in expectation affects us more than a solid pleasure in possession. — Henry Home, Lord Kames Copy Share Image
Love is not a possession but a growth. The heart is a lamp with just oil enough to burn for an hour,… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
Trying to be happy by accumulating possessions is like trying to satisfy hunger by taping sandwiches all over your body — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Poetry is the universal possession of mankind, revealing itself everywhere, and at all times, in hundreds and hundreds of men. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
It appears that ordinary men take wives because possession is not possible without marriage, and that ordinary women accept husbands because marriage… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
Faith will become vision, hope will become possession, but the love of Jesus Christ that is stronger than death endures forever. In… — Brennan Manning 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
They self-inflict punishment on their own broken lives, put their faith in their possessions, in their jobs, or their wives. — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
I have come slowly into possession of such powers as I have. I receive the opinions of my day. I do not… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
Nobody can fight properly and boldly for the faith if he clings to a fear of being stripped of earthly possessions. — Peter Damian Copy Share Image
Each of us will eventually give away all our earthly possessions. How we choose to do so, however, is a reflection of… — Charles Stanley Copy Share Image
“... the Possession Diet. It's fast. It works. It introduces you to new, healthier foods. And it's almost never fatal.” — Chris Dolley Copy Share Image
We grant God the possession of all the qualities of mind except the one that keeps the others healthy; that watches over… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Russia does not have in its possession any trustworthy data that supports the existence of nuclear weapons or any weapons of mass… — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
The English, a spirited nation, claim the empire of the sea; the French, a calmer nation, claim that of the air. — Louis XVIII of France Copy Share Image
When one has children one has no privacy. They take it for granted that what is yours is theirs, personal things and… — Ruth Rendell 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
It is disastrous to own more of anything than you can possess, and it is one of the most fundamental laws of… — Joseph Wood Krutch Copy Share Image
Become detached from your ego, become detached from your possessions. Become simply detached from every possible source of attachment. — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
We go on multiplying our conveniences only to multiply our cares. We increase our possessions only to the enlargement of our anxieties. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The use of sea and air is common to all; neither can a title to the ocean belong to any people or… — Anonymous 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
