Possess Quotes

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It is with art as with love: How can a man of the world,with all his distractions, keep the inwardness which an artist must possess… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
To praise princes for virtues they do not possess is to insult them without fear of consequences. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Life is a gift, not to possess, but to share. — Henri Nouwen
A thought experiment courtesy of the Stoics. If you are tired of everything you possess, imagine that you have lost all these things. — Jenny Offill
Intelligence gathered by this and other governments leaves no doubt that the Iraq regime continues to possess and conceal some of the most lethal weapons… — George W. Bush
To understand is to possess the thing understood, first by sympathy and then by intelligence. — Henri Frederic Amiel
Tobacco has not yet been fully tried before the bar of science. But the tribunal has been prepared and the gathering of evidence has begun… — John Harvey Kellogg
It is not suicide; it is martyrdom in the name of God. I consider this type of martyrdom operation as an indication of the justice… — Yusuf al-Qaradawi
One who has accumulated virtue will certainly also possess eloquence; but he who has eloquence doe not necessarily possess virtue. — Confucius
Democracy, taken in its narrower, purely political, sense, suffers from the fact that those in economic and political power possess the means for molding public… — Albert Einstein
Every person who will learn the right way, and who will then continue diligently to follow that right way, is absolutely certain in time to… — Joseph Franklin Rutherford
Now, there are a very large number of bodily movements, having their source in our nervous system, that do not possess the character of conscious… — Wilhelm Wundt
Men have their virtues and their vices, their heroisms and their perversities; men are neither wholly good nor wholly bad, but possess and practice all… — Napoleon Bonaparte
Mathematicians may flatter themselves that they possess new ideas which mere human language is as yet unable to express. Let them make the effort to… — James Clerk Maxwell
Possessing them physically as one would possess a potted plant, a painting, or a Porsche. Owning, as it were, this individual. — Ted Bundy
It is true that people are sometimes hit by adversities beyond their control. But those so affected are better helped when they are awakened to… — Nathaniel Branden
What we don't understand we don't possess. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Iraq both poses a continuing threat to the national security of the United States and international peace and security in the Persian Gulf region and… — Hillary Clinton
If our Trade be taxed, why not our Lands, or Produce in short, everything we possess? They tax us without having legal representation. — Samuel Adams
The first step in a fascist movement is the combination under an energetic leader of a number of men who possess more than the average… — Bertrand Russell
If welfare and equality are to be primary aims of law, some people must necessarily possess a greater power of coercion in order to force… — Tibor R. Machan
Our possessions are a trust from God. What we clutch tightly, we lose. What we place in His hands, we will possess. — Phil Callaway
I believe that each of us can make a difference. That what is wrong can be made right. That people possess the basic wisdom and… — Hubert H. Humphrey
It is true that zeal is the soul of the virtues, but most certainly, Monsieur, it must be according to knowledge, as Saint Paul says;… — Vincent de Paul
We must be full reservoirs in order to let our water spill out without becoming empty, and we must possess the spirit with which we… — Vincent de Paul

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