It is a terrible thing to be happy! How pleased we are with it! How all-sufficient we think it! How, being in… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Obscenity is our name for the uneasiness which upsets the physical state associated with self-possession, with the possession of a recognized and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In the knowledge of truth, what really matters is the possession of it, not the impulse under which it was sought. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The idea of having no limits, either through education or money or possessions or power, is radically alien to everything the Bible… — Roger E. Olson Copy Share Image
“If you haven’t figured it out yet, an absolutely certain way to lose something as quickly as possible is to forget the… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity is a greater. Possession pampers the mind; privation trains and strengthens it. — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
He who does not at some time, with definite determination consent to the terribleness of life, or even exalt in it, never… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
It is said, that the thing you possess is worth more than two you may have in the future. The one is… — Jean de La Fontaine Copy Share Image
We urgently need an end to these false assurances, to the sugar coating of unpalatable facts. It is the public that is… — Rachel Carson Copy Share Image
It is a grand old name, that of gentleman, and has been recognized as a rank and power in all stages of… — Samuel Smiles Copy Share Image
To understand political power right, and derive it from its original, we must consider, what state all men are naturally in, and… — John Locke Copy Share Image
Just what is the civil law? What neither influence can affect, nor power break, nor money corrupt: were it to be suppressed… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
If yon wish to be like the gods on earth, to be free in the realms of the dead, pluck not the… — Friedrich Schiller Copy Share Image
I spent most of the eighties, most of my life, riding around in somebody else's car, in possession of, or ingested of,… — Iggy Pop Copy Share Image
At the final day the Savior will not ask about the nature of our callings. He will not inquire about our material… — Joseph B. Wirthlin Copy Share Image
[My father] had a massive middle-age breakdown. And left the family. And then it just completely fell apart. And my mother was… — Bryan Cranston Copy Share Image
Taking photographs can assuage the itch for possession sparked by the beauty of a place; our anxiety over losing a precious scene… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
One of the main point of contention is whether or not Keith Scott was in possession of a gun. We still don't… — Chris Hayes Copy Share Image
Too often, a vast collection of possessions ends up possessing its owner. The asset I most value, aside from health, is interesting,… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
Take to the study of the law. Possession is nine points of it, which thou hast of me. Self-possession is the tenth... — R.D. Blackmore Copy Share Image
“A man’s life is not qualified by how much wealth, power, pleasure or control he has, but by the values of godliness… — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
The gratification of wealth is not found in mere possession or in lavish expenditure, but in its wise application. — Miguel de Cervantes Copy Share Image
The Diary of Samuel Sewall,' 'The Diary of John Winthrop,' these are easy for anyone to get their hands on. This was… — Robert Eggers Copy Share Image
Well, they had a lot of the things they found in his possession. They had the map, you know, that marked the… — Henry Wade Copy Share Image
Letting go gives us freedom, and freedom is the only condition for happiness. If, in our heart, we still cling to anything… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A man's contentment is in his mind, not in the extent of his possessions. Alexander the Great, with all the world at… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
Marriage...is the union of two people of different sexes with a view to the mutual possession of each other's sexual attributes for… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
At last the best of artisans ordained that that creature to whom He had been able to give nothing proper to himself… — Giovanni Pico della Mirandola Copy Share Image
Considered now as a possession, one may define culture as the residuum of a large body of useless knowledge that has been… — Albert J. Nock Copy Share Image
My old trainer used to tell us not to blast, but to caress the ball whenever we took possession. If the ball… — Ian Holloway Copy Share Image
From a poor man, poor in Time, I was suddenly lifted up into a vast revenue; I could see no end of… — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
When I was 7, my proudest possession would have been my bookshelf 'cause I had alphabetized all of the books on my bookshelf. — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
My desire was not to pass any island without taking possession, so that, one having been taken, the same may be said… — Christopher Columbus Copy Share Image
Let me out," Harry said again. "No," Dumbledore repeated. "If you don't - if you keep me in here - if you… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Make wisdom your provision for the journey from youth to old age, for it is a more certain support than all other… — Bias of Priene Copy Share Image
“Most people take health at face value. Quite often people understand that health is the most valuable possession only after they become… — Eraldo Banovac Copy Share Image
Of course, I like to have possession. I like attacking football. But there is no attacking football if you don't defend well… — Javi Gracia Copy Share Image
Meeting and talking to the artist adds a special element to collecting contemporary art that makes the work an irreplaceable treasure rather… — Ernest West Basden Copy Share Image
It's always irked me that they always say the white receiver has great hands or runs great routes or is a possession… — Cris Collinsworth Copy Share Image
Art is not the possession of the few who are recognized writers, painters, musicians; it is the authentic expression of any and… — John Dewey Copy Share Image