Possess Quotes

1275 Possess quotes by 914 unique authors

Because the regime is captive to its own lies, it must falsify everything. It falsifies the past. It falsifies the present, and it falsifies the… — Vaclav Havel
If we possess nothing, God will allow us to have plenty. — Aiden Wilson Tozer
I like people who possess either deep mastery or deep empathy, but not as much as I like those who possess both. — Sarah Manguso
Each of us have things and thoughts and descriptions of an amazing universe in our possession that kings in the 17th Century would have gone… — Kary Mullis
All in all, I think that out of all musical genres, the world of metal is the most escapist one. Metal is also music for… — Tuomas Holopainen
The cloud shadows of midnight possess their own repose... — Percy Bysshe Shelley
The knowledge which we have acquired ought not to resemble a great shop without order, and without an inventory; we ought to know what we… — Gottfried Leibniz
There is a rhythm in life, a certain beauty which operates by a variation of lights and shadows, happiness alternating with sorrow, content with discontent,… — Louis Bromfield
Our knowledge of what the richer than ourselves possess, and the poor do not, has never been more widespread. Therefore, envy, which is wanting what… — John Fowles
We are possessed by the things we possess. When I like an object, I always give it to someone. It isn't generosity-it's only because I… — Jean-Paul Sartre
The H-bomb rather favors small nations that doesn't as yet possess it; they feel slightly more free to jostle other nations, having discovered that a… — Elwyn Brooks White
Enjoy what thou has inherited from thy sires if thou wouldn't really possess it. What we employ and use is never an oppressive burden; what… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
That virtue we appreciate is as much ours as another s. We see so much only as we possess. — Henry David Thoreau
I knew I wanted to be used by God in big ways. I always prayed He would trust me enough to use me to make… — Kay Robertson
The time is not far off when many nations in many parts of the world of many political shades and commitments will possess nuclear or… — John F. Kennedy
We cannot love others as others unless we possess suficient self-love, a love we learn from being loved in infancy. — Judith Viorst
To generalize is to be an idiot. To particularize is the alone distinction of merit. General knowledge are those knowledge that idiots possess. — William Blake
Humor simultaneously wounds and heals, indicts and pardons, diminishes and enlarges; it constitutes inner growth at the expense of outer gain, and those who possess… — Louis Kronenberger
Many of the rites of passage, those rituals of growing up found in our society, are in the form of such comic, practical joking affairs--which… — Ralph Ellison
What I am going to write is the last of what I have to say. I will say that literature is the only consciousness we… — John Cheever
Few are humble, for it takes a self-esteem few possess. — Robert Breault
The truth is that no horizon is especially interesting by itself, by virtue of its peculiar content, and that any horizon, wide or narrow, brilliant… — Jose Ortega y Gasset
It is disastrous to own more of anything than you can possess, and it is one of the most fundamental laws of human nature that… — Joseph Wood Krutch
It is one thing to lack a heart and another to possess eyes and a just imagination. — George Santayana
Good is not good, unless A thousand it possess, But doth waste with greediness. — John Donne

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