Possess Quotes

1275 Possess quotes by 914 unique authors

What, in fact, is a novel but a universe in which action is endowed with form, where final words are pronounced, where people possess one… — Albert Camus
What is it we all seek for in an election? To answer its real purposes, you must first possess the means of knowing the fitness… — Edmund Burke
What evil is there in seeing a man possess a woman? Why, the beasts would be more free than we! — Pietro Aretino
The background reveals the true being and state of being of the man or thing. If I do not possess the background, I make the… — Juan Ramon Jimenez
History leaves no doubt that among of the most regrettable crimes committed by human beings have been committed by those human beings who thought of… — Wendell Berry
To be excited and at the same time satisfied; to desire and possess -that has been described somewhere as the wise man's idea of heaven. — Alec Waugh
A revolution requires of its leaders a record of unbroken infallibility; if they do not possess it, they are expected to invent it. — Murray Kempton
Like grain in a time of famine, the immense resources which the nation does in fact possess go not to the child in the greatest… — Jonathan Kozol
Rather than be asked to abandon one's own heritage and to adapt to the mores of the new country, one was expected to possess a… — Rudolf Arnheim
It seems inconceivable that a species of human could possess fully modern language and not be fully modern in all other ways, too. For this… — Richard Leakey
The passion for art is, as for believers, very religious. It unites people, its message is of common humanity. Art has become my religion -… — Francois Pinault
Persius has justly observed, that knowledge is nothing to him who is not known by others to possess it: to the scholar himself it is… — Samuel Johnson
I believe that I possess this value: to serve Jesus. I am less at peace than if my goal would be to attain a professorship… — Albert Schweitzer
The problem is not that America does not have energy. The problem is that our government - alone among the governments of the world -… — Jim Talent
However you arrive at the ability to ignore self-doubt - if you can acquire it or possess it or find it or discover it -… — Dwight Yoakam
You are not what you think you are, but WHAT YOU THINK, the thoughts that habitually possess your mind, that is what you are — Claude M. Bristol
There are many who say they want to be victorious Christians, but few are willing to endure the discipline necessary to make one a good… — Vance Havner
I am the owner of my choices. I am the source for the perspectives I choose to hold regardless of how aware I am of… — Mary Anne Radmacher
During World War II, the Nazis put their victims into gas chambers and then incinerated them in ovens. While the Nazis took their victims to… — David Krieger
I am sure that instinctively we wish to be everything, to possess it-why cut the rose or marry the man, otherwise? — Ella Maillart
Only when one is able to grasp wideness can one possess it. — Ella Maillart
I didn't know box office was a thing you could possess but I don't have it. I go up for lovely roles and people with… — Olivia Williams
The individual in the ordinary circumstances of living may feel more unreal than real; in a literal sense, more dead than alive; precariously differentiated from… — R. D. Laing
All things in nature work silently. They come into being and possess nothing. They fulfill their function and make no claim. All things alike do… — Laozi
To possess money is very well; it may be a valuable servant; to be possessed by it is to be possessed by the devil, and… — Tryon Edwards

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