Possess Quotes

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Many expressions that are in common usage, and sometimes the structure of language itself, reveal the fact that people don't know who they are. You… — Eckhart Tolle
If you possess a library and a garden, you have everything you need. (translation from the French) Si vous possedez une bibliotheque et un jardin,… — Marcus Tullius Cicero
There are few virtues that the Poles do not possess and there are few errors they have ever avoided. — Winston Churchill
Those who create beauty are also they who possess it. — Elbert Hubbard
Due to his own original special nature, the Jew cannot possess a religious institution, if for no other reason because he lacks idealism in any… — Adolf Hitler
Our responsibility as Christians makes us tremble. The northern hemisphere, the developed area of the world, the 20% who possess 80% of the world's resources,… — HÃ©lder CÃ¢mara
The first thing that a person finds in life and the last to which he holds out his hand, and the most precious that he… — Adolph Kolping
It is by the path of love, which is charity, that God draws near to man, and man to God. But where charity is not… — Albertus Magnus
In a polity, each citizen is to possess his own arms, which are not supplied or owned by the state. — Aristotle
Besides the advantage of being armed, which the Americans possess over the people of almost every other nation, the existence of subordinate governments, to which… — James Madison
You cannot impart what you do not possess. — Howard G. Hendricks
Every Hindu boy and girl should possess sound Samskrit learning. — Mahatma Gandhi
But the saints are never the kind of killjoy spinster aunts who go in for faultfinding and lack all sense of humor. (Nor should the… — Hans Urs von Balthasar
The 'environmental crisis' has happened because the human household or economy is in conflict at almost every point with the household of nature. We have… — Wendell Berry
... hitherto we have been permitted to seek beauty only in the morally good - a fact which sufficiently accounts for our having found so… — Friedrich Nietzsche
Let the American youth never forget, that they possess a noble inheritance, bought by the toils, and sufferings, and blood of their ancestors; and capacity,… — Joseph Story
The State governments possess inherent advantages, which will ever give them an influence and ascendancy over the National Government, and will for ever preclude the… — Alexander Hamilton
The state governments have a full superintendence and control over the immense mass of local interests of their respective states, which connect themselves with the… — Joseph Story
I am unable to conceive that the state legislatures which must feel so many motives to watch, and which possess so many means of counteracting… — James Madison
It may be considered as an objection inherent in the principle, that as every appeal to the people would carry an implication of some defect… — James Madison
The means ought to be proportioned to the end; the persons from whose agency the attainment of any end is expected ought to possess the… — Alexander Hamilton
It is an unquestionable truth, that the body of the people in every country desire sincerely its prosperity. But it is equally unquestionable that they… — Alexander Hamilton
Fewer and fewer Americans possess objects that have a patina, old furniture, grandparents pots and pans - the used things, warm with generations of human… — Susan Sontag
Our country may be likened to a new house. We lack many things, but we possess the most precious of all - liberty! — James Monroe
The power confided in me will be used to hold, occupy and possess the property and places belonging to the government, and to collect the… — Abraham Lincoln

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