Possess Quotes
1275 Possess quotes by 914 unique authors
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Much male fear of feminism is the fear that, in becoming whole human beings, women will cease to mother men, to provide the breast, the…
— Adrienne Rich
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God's chief way of acting is by persuasion and patience and long-suffering, not by coercion and stark confrontation. He acts by gentle solicitation and by…
— Howard W. Hunter
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Each one of us will travel a different road during this life. Each progresses at a different rate. Temptations that trouble your brother may not…
— Joseph B. Wirthlin
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Not to share one’s goods with the poor is to rob them and to deprive them of life. It is not our goods that we…
— Pope Francis
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Does a rake deserve to possess anything of worth, since he chases everything in skirts and then imagines he can successfully hide his shame by…
— Christine de Pizan
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Once a man criticized my desire for knowledge by saying that it was not fitting for a woman to possess learning because there was so…
— Christine de Pizan
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Experience has taught me to believe that, these human beans are the most insidious enemies man, with a tendency to corpulence in advanced life, can…
— William Banting
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Sharp nostalgia, infinite and terrible, for what I already possess.
— Juan Ramon Jimenez
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The pith of conversation does not consist in exhibiting your own superior knowledge on matters of small consequence, but in enlarging, improving and correcting the…
— Walter Scott
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It's harder to empathize with those who appear to possess more power, status, or resources.
— Marshall B. Rosenberg
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Reconciliation is a deep practice that we can do with our listening and our mindful speech. To reconcile means to bring peace and happiness to…
— Nhat Hanh
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If you would be a better teacher, teach by the spirit. That is the thing that gives strength and power, meaning and life, to our…
— A. Theodore Tuttle
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The ability to write compelling emails may be the single most useful talent an organizer can possess.
— Bill McKibben
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The Church as a divine society possess an internal principle of life which is capable of assimilating the most diverse materials and imprinting her own…
— Christopher Dawson
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What we experience in various and specific milieux, I have noted, is often caused by structural changes. Accordingly, to understand the changes of many personal…
— C. Wright Mills
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Soul or Intelligence destined to possess the sense of Identity.
— Helen Vendler
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The way to deeper knowledge of God is through the lonely valleys of soul poverty and abnegation of all things. The blessed ones who possess…
— Aiden Wilson Tozer
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I still lack to a considerable degree that naturally superior kind of manner that I would dearly like to possess.
— Heinrich Himmler
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Iraq is not the only nation in the world to possess weapons of mass destruction, but it is the only nation with a leader who…
— Tom Daschle
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What a man does not understand, he does not possess.
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Since no daily responses are given from heaven, and the Scriptures are the only record in which God has been pleased to consign His truth…
— John Calvin
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No man can survey himself without forthwith turning his thoughts towards the God in whom he lives and moves; because it is perfectly obvious, that…
— John Calvin
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Wherever I go it will be well with me, for it was well with me here, not on account of the place, but of my…
— Epictetus
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Consider whether fulfillment of the goal you have chosen will constitute success. What is success? If you possess health and wealth, but have trouble with…
— Paramahansa Yogananda
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Success is not rightly measured by the worldly standards of wealth, prestige and power. None of these bestow happiness unless they are rightly used. To…
— Paramahansa Yogananda
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