Slander lives upon succession, For ever housed where it gets possession. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
A man may be in as just possession of the truth as of a city, and yet be forced to surrender. — Thomas Browne Copy Share Image
No longer possessed by possessions, we may become open enough to become possessed by God. — David Adam Copy Share Image
In the West many Christians have an abundance of material possessions, yet they live in a backslidden state. — Brother Yun Copy Share Image
For a creative writer possession of the 'truth' is less important than emotional sincerity. — George Orwell Copy Share Image
For anyone who wants to tell me time of possession doesn't matter, you're a moron. It matters. — Mark Schlereth Copy Share Image
Possession; a psychological state in which an individual's normal personality is replaced by another. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The earth is the general and equal possession of all humanity and therefore cannot be the property of individuals. — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
The whole idea of the pursuit of goods and possessions has completely corrupted the human experience, along with religion, which I think… — George Carlin Copy Share Image
We set no special value on the possession of a virtue until we percieve that it is entirely lacking in our adversary. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The whole message of the piece was that possessions are transient. You don't know if you are going to be able to… — J.H. Wyman Copy Share Image
The feeling of satiety, almost inseparable from large possessions, is a surer cause of misery than ungratified desires. — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
“You win,” he panted. His fingers tightened on her hips as he shoved her back into the wall and kept her there.… — Airicka Phoenix Copy Share Image
Wine, like the rising sun, possession gains, And drives the mist of dullness from the brains, The gloomy vapor from the spirit… — George Crabbe Copy Share Image
Love, in the eyes of the world, is either a carnal appetite or a vague fancy, which possession extinguishes or absence destroys.… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Humanity is not without answers or solutions regarding how to liberate itself from scenarios that invariably end with mass exterminations. Tools such… — Aberjhani Copy Share Image
Mankind has failed miserably in its effort to devise a rational system of government. [...] The art of government is the exclusive… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
I don’t think there is any mystery to understanding the passionate feelings people have for guns. Nobody really believes it’s about maintaining… — Alec Wilkinson Copy Share Image
In evaluating the way in which ball possessions are gained during the course of a game, we find that 60 to 80… — Ralph Miller Copy Share Image
These Souls with great Material Possessions were allowed this because of Past Good Works in their Previous Life, but now feel there… — Mary Todd Lincoln Copy Share Image
My hold on the past and the future is precarious and my possession of my own time is always postponed until a… — Maurice Merleau-Ponty Copy Share Image
Spirituality points, always, beyond: beyond the ordinary, beyond possession, beyond the narrow confines of the self, and - above all - beyond… — Ernest Kurtz Copy Share Image
To be in love involves the most irresistible conviction that one will go on being in love until one dies, and that… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
For the poets tell us, don't they, that the melodies they bring us are gathered from rills that run with honey, out… — Plato 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
This modesty in a sect is perhaps a singular instance in the history of mankind, every other sect supposing itself in possession… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
I am grateful for what I am and have. My thanksgiving is perpetual. It is surprising how contented one can be with… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
All the controversialists who have become conscious of the real issue are already saying of our ideal exactly what used to be… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“As it recurred again and again, it set me thinking of what my architect's books say about the custom in early times… — Robert W. Chambers Copy Share Image
Material possessions in themselves are good. We would not survive for long without money, clothing, shelter and food. Yet if we refuse… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
Those in the community who defy authority and 'break the law' seem to enjoy the good life and have everything in the… — Huey Newton Copy Share Image
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