Possess Quotes

1275 Possess quotes by 914 unique authors

I think a responsibility comes with notoriety, but I never think of it as power. It's more like something you hold, like grains of sand.… — Diana Ross
Oh, bird of my soul, fly away now, For I possess a hundred fortified towers. — Unknown Author
Throughout human history, the apostles of purity, those who have claimed to possess a total explanation, have wrought havoc among mere mixed-up human beings. — Salman Rushdie
People think of Latina women as being fiery and fierce, which is usually true. But I think the quality that so many Latinas possess is… — Zoe Saldana
Knowledge is not eating, and we cannot expect to devour and possess what we mean. Knowledge is recognition of something absent; it is a salutation,… — George Santayana
Generosity is nothing else than a craze to possess. All which I abandon, all which I give, I enjoy in a higher manner through the… — Jean-Paul Sartre
A language presupposes that all the individual users possess the organs. — Ferdinand de Saussure
Nothing truly convincing - which would possess thoroughness, vigor, and skill - has been written against the ancients as yet; especially not against their poetry. — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
With people of limited ability modesty is merely honesty. But with those who possess great talent it is hypocrisy. — Arthur Schopenhauer
The highest proof of the spirit is love. Love the eternal thing which can already on earth possess as it really is. — Albert Schweitzer
This world was not created piecemeal. Africa was born no later and no earlier than any other geographical area on this globe. Africans, no more… — Haile Selassie
Some people possess talent, others are possessed by it. When that happens, a talent becomes a curse. — Rod Serling
We have evidence that Iran makes a reactor to possess nuclear weapons. — Ariel Sharon
There is no more defiant denial of one man's ability to possess one woman exclusively than the prostitute who refuses to redeemed. — Gail Sheehy
The great majority of men, especially in France, both desire and possess a fashionable woman, much in the way one might own a fine horse… — Stendhal
I strongly believe that the Second Amendment creates an individual right to possess and use guns for purposes of both hunting and self-defense. — Cass Sunstein
Even after they had stopped modeling for Playboy and had settled down with other men to raise families of their own, Hugh Hefner still considered… — Gay Talese
I adore wearing gems, but not because they are mine. You can't possess radiance, you can only admire it. — Elizabeth Taylor
Whatever talents I possess may suddenly diminish or suddenly increase. I can with ease become an ordinary fool. I may be one now. But it… — Dylan Thomas
We succeed in enterprises which demand the positive qualities we possess, but we excel in those which can also make use of our defects. — Alexis de Tocqueville
The Second Amendment does protect the right to people to possess weapons for self-defense in the home. That's what the Supreme Court said. — Laurence Tribe
Never say a humorous thing to a man who does not possess humor. He will always use it in evidence against you. — Herbert Beerbohm Tree
Those who are possessed by nothing possess everything. — Morihei Ueshiba
We have the insight and the tools to identify and bring to fruition the dormant talent that our artists possess. Favored Nations will be branded… — Steve Vai
To be rich nowadays merely means to possess a large number of poor objects. — Raoul Vaneigem

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