Possess Quotes
1275 quotes by 914 authors
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A day so happy. Fog lifted early. I worked in the garden. Hummingbirds were stopping over honeysuckle flowers. There was no thing on earth I…
— Czeslaw Milosz
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May there not be methods of using explosive energy incomparably more intense than anything heretofore discovered? Might not a bomb no bigger than an orange…
— Winston Churchill
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The time of business does not differ with me from the time of prayer; and in the noise and clatter of my kitchen, while several…
— Brother Lawrence
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We believe that we know something about the things themselves when we speak of trees, colors, snow, and flowers; and yet we possess nothing but…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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While we allow the inhabitants of imaginary remote corners the authenticity of savages or sufferers, we rarely suppose them to possess the authenticity of complex,…
— Eva Hoffman
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We will ensure that associates continue to possess unsurpassed product knowledge and maintain their dedication to customer service and respect for their colleagues and for…
— Arthur Blank
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I've come to the frightening conclusion that I am the decisive element in the classroom. It's my personal approach that creates the climate. It's my…
— Haim Ginott
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Suicide is a privilege of man which deity does not possess.
— Pliny the Elder
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Happiness, whether consisting in pleasure or virtue, or both, is more often found with those who are highly cultivated in their minds and in their…
— Aristotle
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Truly, this earth is a trophy cup for the industrious man. And this rightly so, in the service of natural selection. He who does not…
— Adolf Hitler
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This pride of race is a quality which the German, fundamentally, does not possess. The reason for this is that for these last three centuries…
— Adolf Hitler
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Soldiers must possess integrity in order to build trust and confidence in themselves, our leadership, and the American public. Among the things I've learned during…
— Glen E. Morrell
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God gave me my money. I believe the power to make money is a gift from God . to be developed and used to the…
— John D. Rockefeller
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Rich people should consider that they are only trustees for what they possess, and should show their wealth to be more in doing good than…
— Joseph Hall
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To have little is to possess.
— Laozi
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The only true voyage of discovery, . . . would be not to visit strange lands but to possess other eyes.
— Marcel Proust
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Possess purity in an eminent degree, and jealously preserve this fragrant flower. I earnestly desire to see you shine by the brilliancy of this virtue;…
— Paul of the Cross
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There are people who possess not so much genius as a certain talent for perceiving the desires of the century, or even of the decade,…
— Georg C. Lichtenberg
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To possess taste, one must have some soul.
— Luc de Clapiers
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I have always held the religion of Muhammad in high estimation because of its wonderful vitality. It is the only religion which appears to me…
— George Bernard Shaw
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