Cities Quote by Apollonius of Tyana

Less possessing-less possessed. More possessing-more possessed. More possessed-less accessed. Less possessed-more accessed.

— Mikhail Naimy

“ἀθάνατοι θνητοί, θνητοὶ ἀθάντατοι, ζῶντες τὸν ἐκείνων θάνατον, τὸν δὲ ἐκείνων βίον τεθνεῶτες (Mortals are immortals and immortals are mortals, the one living the others' death and dying the others' life.)”

— Heraclitus

“No one worth possessing can quite be possessed”

— Sara Teasdale

For one thing, I want gesture-any kind of gesture, all kinds of gesture-gentle or brutal, joyous or tragic; the gesture of space soaring, sinking,…

— Elaine de Kooning

No one worth possessing can be quite possessed.

— Sara Teasdale

The main consideration with those who, possessing some capital, propose to emigrate as the means of improving their condition, is, the society likely to…

— Charles Sturt

The central problem of management is how spontaneous interaction of people within a firm, each possessing only bits of knowledge, can bring about the…

— Friedrich August von Hayek

Loud speech, profusion of words, and possessing skillfulness in expounding scriptures are merely for the enjoyment of the learned. They do not lead to…

— Adi Shankara

Everybody is different and I think that we live in a material world. But for me, possessing things is not that interesting. Living in…

— Nicolas Berggruen

Thirty or forty proprietors, with incomes answering to between one thousand and five thousand a year, would create a much more effectual demand for…

— Thomas Malthus

“no one worth knowing can be quite known, no one worth possessing can be quite possessed—but”

— William Landay

Perhaps we will one day be able at least to admit of a God possessing sufficient majesty and expansiveness to transcend the limits of…

— Ian Tattersall

It is evident that the right of acquiring and possessing property, and having it protected, is one of the natural, inherent, and unalienable rights…

— William Paterson

Destitute of the fire of God, nothing else counts; possessing fire, nothing else matters.

— Samuel Chadwick

Those who know New York City primarily through tourism or mass culture may think of us natives as possessing certain shared characteristics, not all…

— Jonathan Dee